Baptiste

🇫🇷 French entrepreneur in Dubai 🇦🇪
Founder @LakeDynamics - building web apps & SaaS
Travel ✈️ • Food 🍽️ • Movies 🎬

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Code Review, a new feature for Claude Code.

When a PR opens, Claude dispatches a team of agents to hunt for bugs.

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Cursor now shows you demos, not diffs.

Agents can use the software they build and send you videos of their work.

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

Cursor just got a major upgrade!

Agents can onboard to your codebase, use a cloud computer to make changes, and send you a video demo of their finished work.

The latency of using the remote desktop is smooooth.

[Baptiste @baptistedulac]

@cursor_ai Composer 1.5 is slow right now 😢

[eric zakariasson @ericzakariasson]

and now composer 1.5 is out! i love using this model for subagents

[Baptiste @baptistedulac]

New projects coming in 2026, will my US LLC finally be used ?

[Baptiste @baptistedulac]

@ericzakariasson Very nice ! So I don't necessarily need to make a plan for a small change anymore.

[Baptiste @baptistedulac]

@lesjoiesducode Typescript

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Cursor can now use multiple browsers at once with subagents.

[Baptiste @baptistedulac]

Just tried @GammaApp for AI slides — insanely fast.

Dropped my meeting notes in and got a polished presentation in minutes. Total game-changer for client calls 🤯✨

https://t.co/NBHmOEP8OR

[Baptiste @baptistedulac]

@PhantomStays Great value thank you 🙏!

[Phantom Stays @PhantomStays]

Yesterday I jumped on a call with two software founders based in Dubai 🇦🇪 originally from 🇩🇪, running a US LLC with $200k in monthly biz expenses

They've got this complex setup: Hong Kong holding company layered on top, living tax-free in Dubai, burning $40k every month on software subscriptions and OpenAI credits alone. Smart guys, good revenue.

But here's the problem: they're completely unbanked in the real US system. Everything's running through Mercury (FinTech), zero American credit footprint, just wiring money and using debit for everything.

That $40k/month in software spend? Dead money. No points, no multipliers, nothing.

And that Hong Kong entity? Pure admin bloat. Doesn't give them any tax or operational benefit since they're Dubai residents anyway, just adds paperwork.

We're changing this entire setup, and it's gonna be fast:

🔥 First, we're beginning with an Amex Global switch. He already has an Amex Platinum in Germany. This lets us bypass the whole "no US credit history" problem and open a US Amex Business card setup immediately. No waiting 9-12 months to build credit, we're leveraging his existing Amex relationship to jump straight in.

🔥 That $40k monthly software and OpenAI spend moves onto the Amex Business Gold the second it's approved. At 4x points on software/cloud services, they're now generating 160,000 points every single month. That's two long-haul biz class flights monthly (think Emirates Dubai to Bali) just from software expenses they're already paying. $10k in value, which is essentially 25% back on their $40k spend.

🔥 Simultaneously, we're connecting them with our legal team to provide a real US residential address, not some virtual mail service bullshit. This passes KYC for Chase business banking. They'll deposit $80-100k+ to strengthen the profile, season it for a month, and establish a legitimate high-street banking relationship.

🔥 We advised killing the Hong Kong entity entirely. It's doing nothing for them, and here's the thing: to earn US card rewards, the spend needs to originate from the US LLC anyway. Their Dubai residency already handles tax efficiency at 0%. Why pay for complexity that adds zero value?

The outcome here is wild.

Software spend alone = 160,000 points monthly. That's free business class travel every month, but more importantly, they've transformed their banking from a basic utility into a strategic asset.

That Chase (and their overall US credit) relationship? Positions them for multi-million dollar acquisition loans at low interest rates when they're ready to scale or exit. Anything else they EVER would want to borrow money for, they would have a legit partner. Mercury can't do that. FinTech rails can't do that.

Most founders treat banking like plumbing, just something that needs to work. The sharp ones realize it's an actual growth lever. Credit capacity, lending power, point generation, all of it compounds.

If ur running a US LLC from abroad with serious monthly expenses and ur still on FinTech rails with no credit footprint, you're shoointg urself in the foot.

[Baptiste @baptistedulac]

@ArbieuL Exactement 👍

[Baptiste @baptistedulac]

@Console_buche Full stack dev ici et toujours pas mal de projets

[Baptiste @baptistedulac]

This is how I ship client features 2–3x faster with AI:

1. ChatGPT records client meetings & extracts feature list
2. Auto-create Github issues with @cursor_ai Composer
3. For each issue: plan with Opus 4.5 & implement with Composer or Grok Code
4. Test + iterate

What’s yours?

[Revolut Insider @RevolutInsider]

A first look inside our new Dubai hub 🇦🇪

Fitted with the latest tech, we designed a space so our global talent can work hybrid when they want. Comfortable and collaborative.

Find your place and shape what’s next ➡️ https://t.co/80HyBqO0vb

[@levelsio @levelsio]

If I look at the last 15 years of knowing people in startups, and then seeing who became successful and who didn't, I'm starting to see some general patterns

The people I know who became successful (and very rich) regularly asked for help and feedback, and then applied that feedback very quickly (think minutes) and shipped fast while maintaining their own vision

The people who didn't become successful are the ones who worked on stuff for months/years without asking for help or feedback, or when they did took weeks/months to apply it

So I think the feedback -> implement loop and speed of it is possibly very important

[Baptiste @baptistedulac]

@melvynx Smart 👍

[Melvyn • Builder @melvynx]

i discovered the dumbest AI hack that saves me 3 hours per project

instead of asking AI for "the best" solution i just ask:

> Create a test page with 10 variations of this hero section

then i pick the best one in 30 seconds

why tf did i waste years deciding manually

[Ryan Dahl @rough__sea]

This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.