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This is an insight for founders too:. Spend more time on your idea so you don't build the wrong thing. So many fuckers think they are smarter than they are & just dream up an idea. Countless entrepreneurs dig their grave with terrible ideas.

Secret to AI Coding:. Plan using the BEST (Opus 4 or Gemini 2.5 Pro) MODEL with extreme thinking. Execution should be done by the most CHEAPEST (Sonnet 4 or Gemini 2.5 Flash) MODEL.

Gemini CLI is good for learning a codebase. Just ask this:. > Give me line-by-line breakdown of the below script. And it'll break it down by the line. Kinda crazy. You can learn anything with a patient AI teacher.

This is why most AI SaaS have Discords and Slack channels open for customers to ask questions. Hard earned customer insights (sharpening evals) has become a MOAT.

Evals is the answer behind successful AI SaaS. Talking to your customers has become essential since. 100s of unique business use-cases. = 100s of unique evals

Love the idea of Product-Anthropic fit:. "Are people internally using the new models and tools on a regular basis?". This is the question Claude team asks itself.

Its not that bad imo. It didn't complete one simple project & it'll only get better in <2-4 weeks imo. Claude Code can't charge so much if Gemini actually gets good. I love this intense battle as consumers (in this case, developers) win.

I asked ChatGPT to do a Deep Research for me. And lo & behold, it quotes back my own blog at me. Funny!

Gemini CLI sucks hard. It fucked up my well-done UI for no reason to the point of no return lmao.

Claude Code for free. Google is being so generous lmao. No better time to build. Lets goooooo!!!.

Best take I've read about Claude Code, which automates 90% of high-level coding. The last 10% will happen in 2026. When the AI costs are $1,000-$2,500 per month, you will obviously get automated. Software engineers are fucked. Only 10x engineers will be hired from now on.

Money makes many things simpler. Deepseek R1 (new) is objectively a great model but it is so slow, its unusable. Meanwhile, you can use Gemini 2.5 for free & fast so it wins. Speed matters & money brings speed. Lesson: Make more money.

The current flow that I love:. 1. Gemini 2.5 Pro - For debugging and finding bugs.2. Grok 3 - For fast edits. Both have their own GPUs so both are incredibly fast. Gemini for ideas & Grok for edit mode. What a freaking combination. Blows my mind every time it finds a nasty bug.

Today, my first video went out of Gemini 2.5 Pro token limit. It was at 1.2 million tokens. So I had to use End timing to reduce token count. I swear ai .dev interface is bonkers.

I take it back. It only works on smaller tasks and the UX isn't nailed. They are using a shite model for it but the idea is amazing & it'll be the best thing in the world in <6 months to 1 year with better models. We'll code like we use apps now. On mobile.

AI Agents require you to have thought of second-order and third-order consequences. If you make a lot of turns with AI, then you suck at second-order and third-order consequences. TIL I am a first-order thinker lmao.

Gattaca.

Google's Jules is absolutely brilliant. You just give it a task; it goes and does it. 60 daily tasks are free so you can use it now as much as you want. I can't think of more than 5 per day but I'm only coding little stuff.

How Claude Code works explained:

This is a bad UX. "Thinking. " isn't as useful unless you can see seconds besides it.