Chris Goodmacher

7/ Final point: The bar to start has never been lower. The bar to finish is where it's always been. Most people asking me how to start don't need a guide. They need to feel permission. Consider this it.

6/ One more thing: don't quit your day job. You can make real progress in a few hours a week while still employed. Two caveats: check your employment agreement for IP and moonlighting clauses, and don't build anything that competes at all with your employer. Not worth it.

1/ A friend texted me asking if I knew anyone he could talk to about getting started building with AI. The honest answer: he doesn't need anyone. Just Claude. Here are a few questions I've gotten lately — and what I tell people.

Honest @claudeai feedback: the upgrade that would make me a happier Claude user isn't a smarter model. It's search that actually works across my past threads. Months of context buried in old chats, can't find it, end up re-pasting — burning tokens on stuff you already have.

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I've stopped using Claude entirely All codex now Much more precise, no random regressions, perfect for building software that actually needs to work It's kind of autistic tho

Listened to @Benioff on @theallinpod describe his dream tool: something that routes AI requests to the right model based on complexity so you're not burning frontier tokens on simple tasks. He's describing @OpenRouter. It exists. Why isn't Salesforce using it?

Claude for planning, writing, design, and code review Codex for engineering

We put AI in everything but I'm still manually typing a 6-digit code 40 times a day

@fireflies_ai - blank loading screen on the meetings page over here, can't see anything. Status page looks clean. Anyone else seeing this?

@lkr 4.6 seems so objectively better. I wonder what happened with 4.7

me after fully switching back to 4.6

Rolled back from Claude 4.7 to 4.6. Tool-use judgment feels off and I've caught it making obvious errors. Don't trust it the same way. Anyone else seeing the same, or has it improved since launch?

@haridigresses @VCBrags Pretty incredible track record

Four out of my first 12 angel investments (two seed, two series A) crossed $100m in revenue 😈. In total, those companies are now doing >$2.5b in revenue. Cc @VCBrags

@Jason I'm in

We started an AI founder twitter group... reply with "I'm in" if you're a founder and want to be added

Why does every customer support system make you type your question into a chatbot, connect you to a human, and then the human asks "what's your question?" You already have it. It's right there. On the screen.

@helen_min Claude Opus > Gemini Pro all day for me (at least for right now). I also need projects - and Gemini doesn't have those or I'd try using it more

@cgoodmac I switched to Gemini Pro, and I might stay here???

The Claude outage forced me back to ChatGPT this evening. The gap is not subtle.