Mitchell Wright

@_renatov They trained on top of an open source model, so it's way cheaper for them to serve. The idea is it's like 5% of the cost of Opus 4.6 to run, but you get close enough on the quality that it will be attractive for people.

First let me say that I admire the hell out of Cursor for wanting to compete against OAI and Anthropic. But.. Am i missing something on their new model? Seems like their performance still doesn't beat them and the "cost being cheaper" is really just them subsidizing it right? Did they accomplish anything here?

No. My workflow is a set of skills that are pretty specific about what I want to do. My flow is basically: 1. Ask me a ton of questions (using the idea of design trees from The Design of Design) 2. Take all that information and write a PRD 3. Break the PRD down into issues (using the idea of "tracer code" or vertical slices from The Pragmatic Programmer) 4. Implement using Red/green test driven development I haven't tried gstack so maybe it's amazing, but I find my process works really well

@mitchellbwright @jessethanley @JesseSchoberg @Ryan_Holdaway Have you tried the gstack?

I really dislike and actively avoid the LARP prompting method of: YOU ARE AN EXPERT [whatever] YOU ARE GREAT AT X … You are almost always more efficient just asking the model to do the thing.

@jessethanley @JesseSchoberg @Ryan_Holdaway @_renatov your LARPing prompts might not be the most effective

@JesseSchoberg You don't have to agree but you might get better results if you do agree with me 😄

@jessethanley @jarredsumner turbopuffer is so cool

@jarredsumner Can you try something different turbopuffer.com/blog/object-st…

i still want bun to have a builtin job queue api with redis & postgres backends

@cathrynlavery @every Love seeing this open source contributor arc for you Cathryn!

Shipped 3 things yesterday on top of @every Proof editor: • Centered page layout so shared docs look like pages • Formatting toolbar so non-technical people can edit • A skill so agents can create + share docs with my team easily I ❤️ open-source. (sent PR for these + skill is below)

@utahman_22 @_renatov me tonight

@_renatov @mitchellbwright I will be there to witness this 😅

Announcements are always a strange thing. Mostly because... I wonder if anyone actually paying attention. (or cares) But TL;DR, I recently stepped down from building Parallel. 3 years in, just under $1M in ARR, but it was time to make an adjustment. I've recently stepped into the world of roofing. (didn't realize i'd be saying the word 'square' 1000x a day) And eager to talk to anyone you know that works in Roofing. Please make any and all intros! :)

@_renatov 🫡 done. take good care of him

@mitchellbwright Yes that would be awesome!

@swyxio this interaction is so painful it's almost endearing. but not quite

@Casey cc @_renatov @theHankTaylor @Ryan_Holdaway @TrevMcKendrick

there are only two circumstances wherein a grown man should call another grown man 'buddy'; 1. if you want to fight 2. if you want to condescend, before you fight

@NicholasBardy @swyx langfuse.com/blog/joining-c…

@swyx What are "category leader open source projects"? Examples of stuff that has sold recently?

btw if you can build a category leader open source project in ai engineering right now the market acquihire rate is ~$10-$100m per ai engineer. you do not need to figure out a business model, you do not need GTM, you do not need funding. just build things clankers want.

@swyxio @aiDotEngineer 👀

@KevinEspiritu I appreciated your take. It was so bad

@mitchellbwright I'm sad I had to look that up

The Burger War videos are MUCH deeper than you think... As more CEOs drop their bite videos, a rich tapestry forms across the internet, each thread leaving clues about the company behind the camera... As Marshall McLuhan said, "The medium is the message."...and some of these guys just handed you their whole brand on a plate... Take Gold Star, who make a tired quip at the "product" line from the original McDonald's video, and do it a week late. Sloppy. They also happen to be the least known burger chain in the fray. Coincidence? I think not... Freddy's felt like a dude who actually eats there. Genuine. Rawdogged the burger in his truck. Still late to the trend but showed menu variety, which Freddy's is known for P Terry's was scrappy and self-aware. He knows he doesn't need to win the internet...he already won Austin, Texas Wendy's was iffy. A little mean. A CEO that couldn't match his brand's sharp, edgy persona online. A sign they may have lost their way... Burger King was trying too hard. Too obvious, too easy. Classic tryhard move. This is a company that's been chasing relevance for 20 years and can't quite catch it and their video proves it McDonald's was the most revealing of all... Robotic, but...authentically so? You have to respect a CEO who full-sends his autistic spreadsheet brain personality to the masses for 200+ videos until one pops off. Also first to market with the concept. Reason they're #1 The Burger War videos are proxies for culture, leadership, and how fast a company moves

@kenwheeler I used it today and it was kind of janky. Better results with the Tailscale

what plan, my $200/mo plan motherfucker?

@_renatov For Reddit, @pxue is your man

Anyone you can send my way that does reddit marketing/FB group marketing?

@codyschneiderxx generator

I just had Claude Code build me a Facebook ad generator that can make 100+ on-brand ad variations in minutes for $0. And I made a full Notion document guide for you. It includes: 1. How to use Claude to find the pain points and desired outcomes of your ICP 2. How to use these pain points and outcomes to write ad copy variations 3. How to build a Facebook ad template entirely with code (just like the ones you see) 4. How focus Claude Code’s design so the ad feels “on-brand” 5. How to export the Facebook ads as PNGs in a zip file 6. How to bulk upload them to a Facebook ad set 7. How to use an AI data analyst to track the success of these ads Everything above is just API calls and Claude Code doing the work for you. You just come up with the ideas and polish the outputs. Like and comment "generator" and I'll send the Notion document to you

@theHankTaylor @nickgraynews @zenorocha Can confirm as an attendee that it was a great time and these were good activities

Since I was careful to only invite people I could verify are good b2b devtool marketers (small niche haha), there were two main things that went well for the content side of things: 1. mini AMAs - would bring a random person to the front of the room and have 5-10 minutes of questions. I had a couple questions in the bank for every guest so I could get it started. Everyone there was vetted as a great marketer so this was pretty low risk. I warned them all I would do this and that part of being a marketing leader is learning to speak on the fly in front of others and this is a safe room to practice and be bad etc etc. 2. round table of peers. I grouped people by their specific type of marketing (product & content marketing, demand gen & growth, etc) and the prompt was to go around the table and discuss each person's biggest problem they have right now. Marketers often lack peers in their org at startups, so was great to see people connecting on problems and those who'd solved helping each other Also since not everybody skis we did it at a resort with a fantastic spa and restaurants (and solid wifi and coworking room)

SendGrid is disabling their webhooks for 3 weeks 😭 I loved using the SendGrid API but this is untenable When will Cloudflare do emails please??

@swyxio 🙏events are brutal

@swyxio was gonna say, doing it at breakeven for the first year seems good right?