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"I use Claude every day now to do all sorts of things that are just not related to coding at all and just to do it automatically."
"I just find Codex and Claude are so good at actually giving you ideas for what to build. I'm just like, what should I do to make this better? And it's like, here's 10 ideas."
"I manage context windows even more efficiently by sectioning off which tasks go to which agent"
"The tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, they take that step for you. They can generate the code and then they can run the code themselves and see if it works"
"One was the first thing I wrote on the this is like the first thing I wrote on the internet did very well is this post on what I learned at Airbnb like Medium featured. It went all over the place."
"I've become a huge I have a Tesla and the self I just use self-driving all the time now."
"So I decided I'm going to move to Substack. I'm gonna write every week I tweeted I'm going to experiment with a newsletter, weekly newsletter, see how it goes."
"that was the during AdWords when Google Adwords was a way to monetize your site and so all the ads on the site because most of the articles were about religion were all these religious dating sites."
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"My co-course teacher, Zach, and I have built the entire course in Claude Code."
"I just find Codex and Claude are so good at actually giving you ideas for what to build."
"I use Claude every day now to do all sorts of things that are just not related to coding at all and just to do it automatically."
"With Claude code, that five engineers is like two to three X."
"we use Figma a ton"
"It used to be you just chat GPT for some code and it would spit out some code"
"ChatGPT launched and like they got like insane traction"
"One of the cleverest growth moves you all made was this idea of importing memory from ChatGPT"
"But with AI, it's like you go to ChatGPT, you ask it a question, you get an answer. I get this AI is a mega trend."
"Slack is like a it's a it's a whole maze. There's so many things that play out on Slack"
"It's like syncing stuff between spreadsheets and messaging people on Slack."
"We use Workday"
"The tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, they take that step for you. They can generate the code and then they can run the code themselves and see if it works"
"100% of my code is written by Claude Code. I have not edited a single line by hand since November."
"The tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, they take that step for you. They can generate the code and then they can run the code themselves and see if it works"
"I just find Codex and Claude are so good at actually giving you ideas for what to build. I'm just like, what should I do to make this better? And it's like, here's 10 ideas."
"I can fire up like four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems and by 11:00 a.m. I am wiped out for the day"
"I manage context windows even more efficiently by sectioning off which tasks go to which agent"
"Check it out. I'm a convert open."
"Open Claw is open source, which means you can actually understand what's happening behind the scenes. This is a platonic ideal example of what are good fundamentals of an agent experience."
"You can go into the code, open up deep wiki, and ask, how does it schedule tasks? What's the security?"
"I was still using Cursor for most of my code."
"I launched you get a free year of cursor and lovable and bolt and replet and vzero."
"I launched you get a free year of cursor and lovable and bolt and replet and vzero."
"engineers are using their seven clouds to create all these features"
"So I decided I'm going to move to Substack. I'm gonna write every week I tweeted I'm going to experiment with a newsletter, weekly newsletter, see how it goes."
"I had to work with Stripe and Substack to just like shut them down."
"The first thing I wrote on the internet did very well is this post on what I learned at Airbnb. Like Medium featured it. It went all over the place."
"One was the first thing I wrote on the this is like the first thing I wrote on the internet did very well is this post on what I learned at Airbnb like Medium featured. It went all over the place."
"That was actually pretty transformative. I took this online course at University of Pennsylvania about uh the psychology of happiness and it was basically all the science of what makes you happier and how to be happier and that really had a big impact on me"
"that was the during AdWords when Google Adwords was a way to monetize your site and so all the ads on the site because most of the articles were about religion were all these religious dating sites."
"I've become a huge I have a Tesla and the self I just use self-driving all the time now."
"Everything important you need to learn about humans was written by Shakespeare. Just read Shakespeare. Like that's better than all the customer research."
"thinking in bets by Annie Duke. Those types of things I think are just so tactically helpful in product"
"The first is a book called Joy of Living by a Buddhist monk. I've recommended to people and they've really really enjoyed it"
"this pillow is like it kind of it's full of beads and so you can like naturally shift the height of the pillow while you're sleeping. I think that has changed my life in like the last week"