Ryan Irelan

@sintax77 Not sure if you’re still in the area but: trailroots.com/austin-trails for some day hikes. We have great trails in and around the city limits.

Come on, y'all - we're headed for Texas! New feature length video is out now. 🍿🍔youtu.be/IHH4SXgLuPA

@IanLandsman being old

Code was often a poor moat and it’s an even worse one now. What’s your moat?

Straight from @Shopify's latest partner briefing: - AI agents are pulling the first ~6,000 characters of your product descriptions as their source of truth. - Meta descriptions, SEO titles, theme presentation logic, none of it gets touched. - If your product data isn't structured for AI discovery, it just doesn't show up.

@asmartbear @harishnkumar Every project I run has a “contrarian stakeholder” agent that just sits around waiting to review ideas/plans/roadmaps and give critical feedback. It’s not always correct but it can be jarring enough to be helpful.

@harishnkumar Yeah I've tried that and it can work really well. Because you're not expecting the AI to have the right ideas, but rather just to sling questions at you. Would be nice to have a good prompt for it.

This is very helpful. I have been doing a version of this playing the devil's advocate with AI as the thought partner. I can refine it using ideas from here. Thanks for this.

Built something for @craftquest_io to handle this but Stripe support could be better!

@mattstauffer Technical background bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are building a platform realized they have the velocity of small team at their disposal they could not otherwise not pull off without significant $ investment.

I have been noticing that the people I trust (who aren't just AI hype bois) who are claiming AI productivity boosts are often: - Entrepreneurs - Technical background - More ideas than time to implement - Always doing 20 things at once - Often ADHD 🤣 - Seldom full-time coders

@IanLandsman I like the term counselors. I call them SMEs and I call one up for each discipline. Except the contrarian stakeholder. They stand alone.

On my 3rd pass with the counselors on tricky authorization stuff. Each pass they find more edge cases.

@mattstauffer The vim mode is the way, especially when setting up multiple agents.

Claude Code CLI is goated but typing large amounts of text in the CLI is not. Pro tips: - option-left & option-right navigate by word - ctrl-c delete all - ctrl-w cut back a word, ctrl-k cut to end of line, ctrl-u cut to start of line, ctrl-y paste - ctrl-g go into vim mode

@mattstauffer @IanLandsman @aarondfrancis I thought it said dig. 😆 Also works?

@IanLandsman @aarondfrancis

Claude Code made key sections of my launch video for me (quoted) In this specific chunk, I had Claude write out a fake terminal interaction using ANSI codes so I could time it out to the music and create the ANSI explosion effect! There are a couple other tricks here too 1/

The Claude Code agent teams feels very comfortable to me. Like the days of, you know, running teams.

@gregcangialosi Likewise, man. 🙏

@ryanirelan Great to see your name often! Miss you brother!

I’m getting a lot of “XYZ has posted on X for the first time in a while” notifications lately. Anyone else? There are so many people who no longer come around here anymore who used to absolutely rip on this app with me (I get there are many factors that are subjective). Reading and taking it all in is one thing, I and I get it, maybe this isn’t your place to engage, and well, it’s certainly changed quite a bit. I chilled for a bit myself over the years, and I too have lived many lives since 2007. But some of my old school twitter accounts are people who still have MAJOR leadership roles in AI, tech and comms, and are not active, at all, on X. I hope you’re at least reading! Personally, in the last year I can honestly say that I’ve learned almost EVERYTHING I know about AI, what’s happening NOW, and where the future is going, on X, than any other platform or media property out there. Curate your feed and dial into the signal (yes you must power through the noise for a bit, and there will always be noise). If any of my old schoolers are out there, get back in the game, it’s worth it. You can thank me later. Also, please say hello and drop me a DM, I don’t bite and would love to hear from you if you are out there 😎

@wesbos I've had this with CraftQuest.io. It's the app they're using to manage their finances mis-labeling the transaction. It's not actually what the bank statement will say.

WTF - someone is using my domain in their debit card transaction descriptors. Anyone ever seen this? I don't own physical hardware, sell things for $14.99, nor do I accept debit cards at all.

@aarondfrancis Ahhhh my nightmares! :D

@ryanirelan 1 month?? 😅😅

Love this and so well executed. But as a fellow video-based educator for constantly changing software tools... What's the half life of AI tools right now? 3 months? 6 months?

Students learn better when they can see their progress. That's not a new idea. But applying it to debugging—where everything is abstract—took some creativity. Here's how I made invisible work visible. ryanirelan.com/2026/01/11/tea…

@StateFarm Trying to get update on a claim status for an accident involving one of your customers. One week, no updates. I tried calling this morning, but the system says "due to unforeseen circumstances" they can't transfer me and hang up. I can't talk to a human at all.

Join @ryanirelan and Sprig creator @ben_pylo tomorrow at 12 Noon EDT for a Sprig Q&A livestream. Ben will cover some new features in Sprig, teach how to build an infinite scroll, and answer your questions! buff.ly/2CNfEIF #craftcms

Craft 5.3 is out! Here's a short video on what's new in Craft 5.3: buff.ly/3WDBYxd Or, re-watch last week's livestream with our commentary: buff.ly/3Yuxr2H #craftcms

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