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@toddsaunders this 1000%

I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this..... But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software. I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it. He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code. Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time. His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages. His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything. My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five." Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder. I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.

@duellsy oh what is it? I’ve been going nuts with projects

Solid progress this week for the side hustle - Private beta user onboarded (filed 6 bug reports, all fixed) - Mac app now auto-updates - 🤖 AI Agents became a core persona - iOS app submitted to the App Store Goal: Public beta this week.

@clogwog 😂

what does it all mean?

@Mikeistheworst Any surf journo worth their salt doesn’t get out of bed for anything less than biz class flights and a free wetty.

@lincolneather @WarJessEagle let’s do this with surfing!

this is what I miss about advertising in a way - raw, telling it like it is. Which in turn can make it so much more relatable... need a surf brand to go full Gotcha again... cc: grabbed this image from @WarJessEagle who had a similar sentiment...

@thermalben @swellnet @hollym_thompson @WAtoday @smh hey try being a photographer these days

So Stu from @swellnet tees up exclusive interview with shark attack victim Jack Frost, only to have @hollym_thompson from @WAtoday and @smh lift almost the entire copy, without asking? Righto. ow.ly/CafY50PquHY

@AvidCommentator 🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧

I remember when I was a kid growing up in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, I thought it was weird when a $120k house had a $50-60k HSV in the driveway Fast forward 25 years, now its strange seeing a beat up $2k Camry in the driveway of a $4m+ house Australia is a strange place

@lincolneather in some spaces it’s gonna be a wipeout, others will thrive

If photographers were worried about digital back in the day, they gotta be deadset shitting themselves with AI, and Photoshop + Ai...

@Mbj2042 @TheDriven_io @Tesla 🥺

Tesla is having its best year in Australia to date with an estimated 10,000 deliveries in the current quarter.. ow.ly/RjPN50OAoT5

@TheDriven_io This is insane. Thank fuck for @Tesla.

New report uncovers 500 pages of unseen documents showing how the petrol and diesel car lobby has been undermining Australia's #EV policies ow.ly/e79C50OyKnL

@SawyerMerritt it was going to be so crazy expensive no wonder orders were low

BREAKING: Tesla has announced it will not make the right hand drive Model X in Australia & is cancelling existing orders for that model. No word on other right hand markets. In exchange, Tesla is giving these order holders $2,000 USD towards a new Model 3/Y.

@Tesla Transfer FSD ffs!

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@duellsy grabs napkin

GPT4. Damn. 🔥

@duellsy elaborate my man?

If you’ve already got the data to work with, the time from idea to wow+value with GPT is crazy.

@setc24242 @MinerDeck AGY

@MinerDeck ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ Right now , it would be for HR PLS.AX absolute cash cow ramping on track for 1mil Mt SC6 plus not 1 but 2 BG value adding projects , but considering Brine it would be ASN.AX $265mil AUD MC and the rest is in the pic

If you could only hold a single lithium stock in your portfolio, which one would it be?

@fasc1nate @esaltau

@lincolneather high tide ain’t getting any lower

Just heard that Billabong has sold their Pipeline house, and Quik is to follow (I actually thought they'd already sold it tbh) Oooooooo, so much happening in the off season between sticker changes (BIG ONES!), brand sales and houses...

@ForceyTim @AEMO_Energy @GriffithSaul 2 weeks and our meter gets cut up!

@duellsy @zapier amen

I actually want to pay for @zapier for personal use… but $30AUD is just way too steep as a starting point