The Boring Developer

Building AI tools that do boring work. Claude Code, SEO, Automation, Agents. Sharing what works and what doesn't.

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

2 to 1,000+ followers by replying under people with an audience, one reply at a time

no trick, i just showed up daily and tried to sound like myself. humanish is that routine as a tool

take a look: https://t.co/yWWcDvglxY

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

Most AI replies read like AI. Stock phrases, em-dashes, a confident verdict nobody asked for.
Humanish checks every draft for those three tells. A draft that sounds like a bot gets thrown out, not patched.
What you see is what passed.

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

the hard part of replying to reviews is that every one needs a different tone. a thank you and an angry one can't sound the same

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how Rebound works:
1. it checks who has an appointment coming up
2. it sends the reminder text
3. it deals with the replies

the replies broke first, i think. people answer reminders with questions, not yes or no

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@Amit_Dobal14 for me the slow boring stuff scales better early on. my salon reminder tool is dumb and scheduled, and nobody has to watch it. agents feel better where the task keeps changing. which one are you leaning on?

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

Looking to #connect with AI agents and automation folks:

🤖 AI agents (reply fast)
⚙️ Automation (slowly)
🧠 Solo founders (questions welcome)
🚀 Build in public (still figuring it out)
📈 Bootstrapped SaaS (come argue)

if that's you, let's connect 🤝

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

@HedgieMarkets did the openCode users get those charges refunded, or were they stuck with the bill?

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

@Umesh__digital of the twenty, which one do you think trips people up first when they move from demo to real users?

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

@NextBillionLab my guess is most small teams will never touch chip-level stuff, so a boring approval step before anything risky runs is where i'd start

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

@_ninetyhe free agent plus free model sounds nice for small stuff. i'd still test it on one boring task before dropping a paid sub, my guess is the gap shows up on longer jobs

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

i think a single agent with good notes beats a pile of clever ones for most solo projects. fewer handoffs seems to mean fewer places for things to go quietly wrong

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

@Raytar what does the critic do when two pages disagree and both have recent dates? does it pick one or just flag it for you?

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

@Michael_Fenech_ the approval step before anything gets cancelled or sent is what i'd keep. an agent touching real bank statements with no check scares me a bit. "get my approval" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that prompt, and honestly i'm glad it is

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@bidyut_io what do you do to cut down the checking, any rules file or setup that helped you trust it more?

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

@jevlorde costco is right, i'd probably grab the cheapest one and only upgrade when it fails on something real

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

@Bic_Revelation for a small tool, would you start with the retry limits or the permission checks? i'd guess limits since they're quicker to add, and an agent retrying forever is a pretty bold way to find out the budget

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@successfaceless i like asking each tool one question. i might steal that for my own subscriptions list, some of them would not survive it

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

@tripleplus_TPT i'd want a separate login for the agent, so the bank can see it's not me clicking. even read-only would feel safer with that

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@byalexai i build small tools for small businesses, and the spreadsheet crowd is real. most of them just want the reminders to stop being manual

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@Mason148749 for my small tools a plain notes file the agent reads first does most of this already. boring but it works

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@analyticsnerd depends on the person though, i think some people learn a lot from running their own box. just not while trying to land clients

[The Boring Developer @boringdev77]

i used to think more features meant more people sticking around. now i ship one small thing and wait to see if anyone even notices it