Hey! I'm working on @RevenueCat's paywalls nowadays, and I am always looking to chat with users about what they like, don't like, or want. If you use our paywalls—or don't because of reasons—connect with me and let me know. It helps me make a better product for YOU.

Vacation with kids and land is a lot of work, but I'll have a beer with my Homie-steaders anyway

Join millions who have switched to Grok.

We use staging environments and clones for a reason. Be more principled and intentional in your processes and treat the AI like a junior contractor who gives Zero F's about your business. You'll be better off for it.

Should not be a hot take—but probably is…. If you used an agentic ai on a production instance of a database and it dropped tables or otherwise deleted data, you should be more ashamed and less angry.

Hey all! New here, so I figured I'd introduce myself. I'm Jacob. I'm a generalist but iOS+Swift is my comfort zone. I spent a little over 5 years working for Dave Ramsey on various apps and tools, did consulting for a while, and now I'm starting a new gig at RevenueCat in 2 weeks.

Big news! I'm joining @joshdholtz and @RevenueCat on the Monetization team!. Fired up!!. 🔥☝️

What I've learned about AI as a pair programmer is that it rabbit trails worse than a developer with ADD. It does well if you don't muddy the water with too many details about goals or "why" something should happened. Just that it should do x and you'd like to use y apis.

I've been opposed to "vibe coding" to date, but I'll be honest… I wasn't aware of the rails we could put the AI on to get more reliable output. So now I feel a bit behind. Who's willing to give me some pointed resources to catch me up on how to use AI as a pair programmer?.

The vibe coder with some technical ability is the spoon. Far more effective than the layman. But the ladle, that's the Staff + engineer who knows when to ask AI for something instead of vibing. It's the right tool at the right time, instead of some tool all the time.

The vibe coder with no understanding of the space is the fork. You can get some syrup in your mouth and it tastes great, so you keep dipping your fork and moving along. Eventually you realize that it's not working so well.

Fork-fulls of syrup. That's what my daughter just said—quite excitedly—at breakfast. It's funny where my brain goes when my kids say things. At first I thought of our striving in general and the book of Ecclesiastes. Then I got to thinking about AI and Vibe Coding.

It's fun to see the articles you don't expect to get a lot of love in a newsletter like this. Also, X should really just delete that account. I haven't been able to sign into it in years 😅.

Setting up some infrastructure for a small side project that will handle some image processing. Any AWS pros care to look at this diagram and tell me if I'm doing anything dumb?.

You can just use the dashboard and admin tools I'll write to do it all. Just plug and play. I'll also add android and web UI components at a later date as well. (Though you're welcome to help out!) Check it out.

I remember working with someone who regularly wore a shirt that said "You are not the user" He was right… So I'm starting an open source UIaaS library (iOS for now) to make it easy to gather user feedback on ideas BEFORE you start developing them.

So this was a blast. Fired up for Deep Dish Swift!.

I'm excited to do this. Thanks for having me!.

I read an article recently on how to use an LLM to flesh out an app idea. I'm not an AI user in my day-to-day, but this has been a blast so far. In the article, he said it should take 15 minutes, but I suppose my app idea is too complicated, because it's been days 😅.