Creative Catalyst · Entrepreneur · Product + Strategy Leader. Saul IRL The Nerd Collective • Stealth Toy Startup
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Toys have been losing kids to screens for years. We think that's a winnable fight.
I'm excited to introduce MODO — a new startup building a new generation of toys good enough to actually compete with screens.
Our first toy is a car I've spent the last year working on. Incredibly challenging.
gomodo.io/
Did anyone else find Astra to be great at first then degrade in quality? Almost felt like it got throttled.
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I find myself using Claude less these days because the way it speaks has just become insufferable
Like it’s constantly trying to showcase how smart/sophisticated it is, rather than actually communicating a point across
The verbose and overly technical outputs from Opus are a real threat to Anthropic right now. While a seemingly innocuous problem which might just be "annoying" it's slowing down workflows in real ways. When an AI can't communicate effectively everything starts getting messy.
It's been weeks and there hasn't been much effort to try to fix it. Many are using this as an opportunity to go check out Astra (including myself).
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Guys, I need your feedback 📣
What's your #1 biggest struggle or painpoint about your daily AI experience with Claude, Codex, Cursor, etc. ?
Can be anything from missing context to not liking the font.
Asking for a friend 👀
The single biggest driver of progress for my wok is momentum. As soon as I lose it, things stall out.
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The more I think about this, the more @every looks like a preview of how product development might work when software is cheap.
Their products often start as something they need themselves. If it spreads across the team, they put it in front of readers. Cora, Sparkle, Spiral and Monologue all came out of that loop.
The product becomes a way to find out whether the same problem shows up elsewhere too.
I wrote about why I think more of us can work this way now:
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Customer Zero is a very good name for a way of building that suddenly got much cheaper.
Full credit to @dharmesh for the phrase. He calls himself Customer Zero for YouSpot. He’s building it around a problem he has himself, using it in his actual work, and sharing what he learns as he goes.
That’s very close to where I landed while building Beam.
Your own problem can be enough to start the investigation. You still have to find out who else has it.
I wrote about why I’m changing my mind about this:
Today I ordered my second custom PCB. A year ago, I hardly knew what a PCB was.
It started when I struggled to get an Upwork contractor to deliver prototype electronics for an AI car I was working on. So, like many other times in my career, I decided to just figure it out myself.
Using AI, I had a working prototype in a couple of days. Not just the code or the layout, something I could actually touch and play with. Wow, I was hooked. All of a sudden my options were endless. I no longer had to rely on others to build the things in my head. It was (and is) intoxicating. So I pushed hard, building dozens of things over the last year - here are a few:
🚗 An AI-powered toy car
📊 Custom analytics dashboards for clients
📸 A private Instagram replacement for just friends and family
👩💻 A production app used by hundreds
🔡 An AI-powered CMS where you just type the changes you need
📡 A communications device that lets you text loved ones without cell service
🎹 A modular kids synth
Then the tools themselves became the project. I was outgrowing the AI tools out there, so I started building my own:
🧠 A memory system so the AI always has my context
👨💻 A custom terminal to manage 50+ AI sessions in parallel
👯♂️ A system for multiple AI agents to work together
🔄 A framework template to automate any process with AI
💬 A multi-user AI chat interface for collaborating with coworkers
I have 15+ years across UX, design, marketing, technology, product management, sales, and entrepreneurship. All of that let me move lightning fast across verticals.
But the real shift became clear when I tried onboarding others and showing them my workflows. The projects weren't the thing I'd built this year. The skill was: knowing how to structure work for an AI. Where the limits are. Where human input is crucial. How to break a complex project into smaller AI-driven tasks. There is both an art and a science to it.
Like many, I'm also terrified by what AI means for my industry and our world. The uncertainty is really tough. We're all still figuring out how to operate in this new reality. Right now, I'm choosing to focus on the incredible things it's enabling me to do.
That second PCB? It's for the off-grid messenger above. A year ago that path simply didn't exist for me. That's what this year has really been — AI opening doors I didn't know were there. I can't wait to see the friendships, adventures, and projects on the other side of the next one.
hashtag#AI hashtag#CareerPivot
*Written by me, edited by an AI - also I like em dashes*
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Excited to announce Claude for Open Source ❤️
We're giving 6 months of free Claude Max 20x to open source maintainers and core contributors.
If you maintain a popular project or contribute across open source, please apply!
claude.com/contact-sales/cla…
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Software engineering changed more in the last 3 months than the preceeding 30 years.
Everything about running a software company needs to be rethought from first principles.
