Alex | Building AI apps

2026 Goals: 🚀 Launch 3+ AI services 🤖 Max AI automation 💳 10+ recurring users 👨‍👩‍👧 Quality time w/ kids 🏥 Health checks + Swim 2x/wk 🤝 Value friends & new challenges 2025 was a wild ride, but I’m giving my best to keep moving forward! 📈

Vibe coding is just how we are going to be programming in the future. It’s a new skill to be developed. I think the skill of a PM is increasingly important. You can be a PM with multiple engineers that work nonstop.

Hacking away at the Minna Hackathon 2025!! #minnahack25 #traefriendstokyo #creatorlabo

Don't outsource your thinking to LLMs.

"Just show up" Probably the best advice out there for getting anything in life.

Love this:

@distantgradient Don’t they use Google now for search after Bing’s API was announced to be discontinued? Was this with search?

Proof that ChatGPT Plus is secretly Google-powered - “hidden page” experiment 1. I coined a nonsense word. 2. I then put it on a page not linked anywhere. 3. Forced Google to index it via Search Console; left all other engines unaware. 4. Asked ChatGPT Plus to define the term → it quoted my hidden page verbatim. 5. Ran the same query in Bing, DDG, Yandex → no results

working on mediocre things is a disrespect to life. being risk averse is a disrespect to life. waking up and doing things that are not your life’s work is a disrespect to life. not taking a swing at pursuing the biggest opportunity in front of your eyes is a disrespect to life

Architecture design and product management is the new hot skill. Anyone with AI can code. Not many can guide multiple AI agents towards business value.

Cursor is all you need

trying a new setup: putting all of my company docs into markdown files within a git repo. they'll be source controlled and available whenever. - Service ideas - Member profiles - Cultural values Will use @cursor_ai to reference with ease when making PRDs. Or anything really.

Billion dollar opportunity: -Programmers get to work with beautiful tools like a Macbook, VSCode/Cursor, and Linear. -Business people are doomed to ugly-as-f**k tools like Salesforce, Excel, and Quickbooks. -Business people care about the tools they use, too. Don't you agree?

Had Claude Code Github integration create a share section on my blog on alexweberk.com. It got confused generating for Astro: tried to use astro-icon in a tsx file, but after pointing that out, fixed it well. Awesome!

@garrytan They watched West World too many times

Surprise Claude 4 doesn't have a memory yet. Would be a major self-own to cede that to the other model companies. There is something *extremely* powerful about an agent that knows *you* and your motivations, and what you are working towards always. o3+memory was a huge unlock!

Generating AstroJS is so much better using Gemini-2.5 Pro compared to Claude 4 Sonnet on Cursor.

@SawyerMerritt At least he tried. Immense respect.

OPINION: I think Elon is realizing that, despite the promises made by the new administration and a Republican-controlled Congress—and all the campaign platforms they ran on—the current incentive structures and entrenched special interests in government make it nearly impossible to enact any meaningful, long-term changes to address the many big issues we face. So while DOGE will continue to do its thing and do great work, as Elon has said, it seems he's mainly now focusing on using his companies to take matters into his own hands and drive us toward a future of sustainable abundance.

@petamber Didn’t know about this one! 🔥

@morningcoder See Disclosure from Grok in EU.

Bing Search API is being deprecated in August, which I think is quite a big deal.

@petamber You’re right. Claude’s using Brave; are there others?

@morningcoder Large LLM Cos use Brave Search API (battle tested by best AI researches around). Can also use for straight web search use cases.

I used to think that my parents were stupid to miss the dot-com boom. Like, how can you not capitalize on such a huge opportunity? And then I totally missed the iPhone App opportunity pass right in front of my eyes. Opportunities are like surfing waves; you have to be trying to ride one to ride any that come your way.