Chris Asher

Sharing AI finds, agency life, stuff I build, and the occasional dumb joke.
Building &

[Federico Sciuca @federico_sciuca]

HOLD ON!!

OpenAI's Codex Micro shipped today at $230.

13 keys, a knob, a joystick, RGB. Every bit of that is commodity. I priced the BOM at ~$12:

• RP2040-Zero — $3
• 13× Outemu Crystal — $2.50
• 13× SK6812 MINI-E — $2
• EC11 encoder — $0.40
• Thumbstick — $1
• Wire — $1
• 70g PETG — $1.50

(AliExpress pricing. ~$48 if you buy retail in the US.)

But there's one feature you can't clone with parts: the keys light up to show what your agents are doing.

That isn't hardware. That's ~50 lines of Python and a Claude Code hook:

PreToolUse → amber (waiting on you)
PostToolUse → green
Notification → red
Stop → blue fade

Theirs only speaks Codex.

Mine will speak Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI — whatever ships next.

The $230 is the enclosure. The moat is a shell script.

Building it in public.

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

the @OpenAI #codexMicro is the biggest piece of crap I think I've ever seen
@sama must be coming up with his business ideas with @ChatGPTapp
#productSlop
https://t.co/wIknVWKiDs

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

@jade_defi I don't think AI can genuinely create good acting because what I'm seeing here is acting and it's not good acting. How am I supposed to care?

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

State of development 2026

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

oh, there's a new update for @cursor_ai

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

#VibeCoding seems to be all the rage at the moment. Is my hot take that it's the Schrodinger's cat of bullshit code.
#aicode #dev #FutureOfTech #FutureOfWork
https://t.co/7wz1xuPWJO

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

I'm not sure if GPT-5 is actually that aligned with humans. Here is what happened with my test this morning
#OpenAI @sama #ai #GPT5 #GPT
https://t.co/pieiNUgdF4

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

I wrote a post on my blog Digital Dev Diary about ditching Google for AI-powered research with Perplexity. This tweet is written via ChatGPT’s Agent Mode. Check it out: https://t.co/Wzh7xTvXea #AI #ChatGPT #AgentMode #Perplexity

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

Can you sense my frustration?? This is what Vibe coding looks like with Chachi PT sometimes
#vibecoding #ChatGPT #BeKindAlways

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

@ChatGPTapp users, try the following prompt and tell me it's not more that you expected...
"Tell me about me. Give me the longest list and detailed insights as to who I am"

#mindblown #aiknows #ChatGPT #imanopenbook

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

I couldn't decide which @JonHammOnline poster was better - Roger Hammjet?
The only reason I picked Jon Hamm was because the first image that was generated kind of looked like him, so I thought I'd better lean into it.

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

@RetropunkAI @LumaLabsAI @Kling_ai @higgsfield_ai @runwayml @midjourney @AIatMeta That's trippy as. I just tried using Llama for image generation, and it doesn't look as photo-real as this, even when I asked it.

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

@mreflow It's crazy, I can't wait to try it out!

[The AI Colony @TheAIColony]

The 20 most creative and iconic ads you've ever seen:

1. Sam - looking for a graphic designer

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

Just rolled out my first project using @Laravel Cashier with @stripe for subscriptions and have never actually used the Stripe hosted checkout. But my god, what an easy implementation.
#easyecommerce #anotherAISaaS #stripe #laravel

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

Using the term "low budget" might be my new favourite image prompt in @OpenAI @ChatGPTapp image generation #ChatGPT4o #imagegeneration #chatgptprompts

[Chris Asher @ThePodcastChris]

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@JimNorton Those click cuts are amazing.

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