I learned to build software the hard way. Then they made it easy. This has made a lot of people very angry. https://xitter.cf/t.co/6tj18QWkn7
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Unless you’re a writer, please stop using AI to write your scripts. If you’re not willing to take the time to write your thoughts down, why should I take the time to listen to them?
Now that we’ve cloned adobe products, can we make better versions of them? Ones that can be completely driven by agents.
Adobe UI has always been awful. Agents can remove these shackles.
Went out of town for lunch with some family. They decided to go thrifting.
I hate shopping, so I’m now sitting at a cafe building out features from my phone and reading my book ❤️
Building a huge time-saving feature for my non-technical cofounder. I built the foundation, then handed her my phone so she could tell Claude how to fine-tune it. She doesn’t know how to code. But she knows how it should work and how to communicate, so why can't she just talk to Claude?
Why couldn’t we hook her Claude up to our codebase? Maybe via Basecamp. For most of her requests, I’m just a middleman passing her card to my Claude. Then I could focus on tasks that require more technical expertise.
Lots to think about.
The internet has too many videos, and I don’t have time to watch even the ones I want.
Grok Bot to the rescue!
It watches the video for me, transcribes it, and tells me the main takeaways.
My business tracks expenses using a custom-built expense tracker via an API.
Claude makes it easy to make API changes with both codebases in context. I made an API change and updated my main codebase at the same time, in the same chat.
How it feels...
This song has been stuck in my head the last hour. Oldie but a goodie.
youtu.be/U9t-slLl30E?si=jgQX…
Claude Code desktop has gotten so damn good! I’m loving this new release.
The economics of our industry are changing fast.
What happens when businesses realize they can reduce their software spend by over 90% by simply directing their engineering team to do so?
If I were still a freelancer, I’d offer this as a service.
Bye bye Beehiiv 👋
I vibe-coded my own newsletter platform:
📧 Campaign management w/ editor
🖥️ Web archives (newsletter.marclou.com)
🔗 API support
🫧 List cleanup, deliverability reports
It took a few prompts with Opus 5.5.
I left Beehiiv because they raised prices for the 3rd time in 2 years.
- My first yearly bill was $1,000.
- My future bill would have been $4,000.
Now I'm using AWS SES + MongoDB, and I will pay less than $300/year.
Newsletter platforms charge per subscriber, when in fact the real cost is the number of emails sent. Subscribers will naturally become inactive, so you end up paying more for something that hurts your deliverability (sending to dormant subscribers = spam trap).
So I've set a cleanup cron job for my newsletter alternative. It marks inactive subs as dormant, sends one last re-engaging email, and stops emailing them. Money saved. Deliverability increased.
I also gain a priceless feature: Freedom. I can change the UI, add features, connect all my apps - anything is possible with just a prompt.
I'm replacing Resend next. I love it, but it's very expensive ($400/mo)
Absolute legend. RIP :’(
“We had to find a way and we did. Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world; there was no choice but to be pioneers.” —Margaret Hamilton
Rest in peace, Margaret. Your trailblazing work leading the development of the on-board flight software for the Apollo spacecraft will forever be remembered. 🫡
ALT Margaret Hamilton poses in a command module mockup in 1969. Credit: MIT Photo Service
I play around with other models, but when it comes to building shit, I stick with Anthropic.
I’m positive I’m missing out by not using other models for building, but Anthropic just fucking works.