Build & Ship AI

Everything doesn't need to be in the cloud. I build private, local-first desktop AI. Real builds, real numbers, real failures.

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

@jeffbullas Probably the main B2B business where we replaced vendor software. We developed a much better version in-house, with huge ROI.

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

@randomrecruiter Better yet - charge a cover

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

This is incredible and Ryan is right.

Imagine in 5 years.

[Ryan Carson @ryancarson]

Take a minute and read this thread.

Then think about where we’ll be a year from now.

Then, five years from now …

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

@ryancarson This is absolute insanity. It opens up huge opportunities with hardware.

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

Every time a top end model comes out, we use it to review each product we have.

This time Fable 5.2 finding issues to fix in all our products.

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

@SimonHoiberg Great video Simon- keep it up.

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@julianharris @MaximeRivest Yes Sonnet 5 wasn't great but Sonnet 5.5 is very good.

Models are getting better and better quickly so it won't be long before we get much closer to frontier with local models.

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@sagelovebars Lack of sleep and technique play a big role.

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@scheemunai I have been saying this to our clients for over a year. AI is the excuse for layoffs - most companies overhired during 2021-2022 and they are using AI to justify.

The best employees using AI are the last to get laid off as they are most productive.

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

Current Accounts 1 Claude $200 and 1 Codex $100 = $300

Big drop from the $800-1,000/mth we were spending. Local AI and Token Efficiency has helped us carve accounts down.

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@NiklausFuller Nothing elite about O’Hare. Go to Etihad 1st class in Abu Dhabi and compare what real elite is.

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

@_curiousben Not one go. Took 6 months and over 1,000 PRs to develop

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

Did a complete redesign of the system that runs our main B2B business. We switched from a legacy vendor we were paying close to $10k a year.

Ours is AI native and does everything we ever wanted. Also built an accounting system from scratch to replace Xero/Quickbooks.

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

@julianharris @MaximeRivest We barely got Sonnet 5 level with Qwen 3.8 Next Flash - are you using a different version?

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

Ran Qwen 3.8 Next Flash locally on a 128gb machine and we were getting 73 t/s on numerous PRs we already merged as a test.

Quality wise, it's a step below Sonnet 5, and pales significantly with Sonnet 5.5

Still a great start.

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

@satellitedown @matt503ea5sf9z5 We just ran local tests on PRs we did to compare and Qwen 3.8 Flash is still below Sonnet 5 (not even close to 5.5) - we used a 4bit version.

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

@Sony91121271 Exactly what we do - we use the CLI exclusively and now mostly CLI through Slack

[Build & Ship AI @buildandshipai]

2 of our sites were affected by a Google ranking swing in the 3rd week of October.

Sales have not been affected since we get a lot of traffic from Bing and LLM's - getting sales through Grok now too.

We weren't penalized - we will just have to wait it out a bit.

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@SimonHoiberg BTW love your videos - much better these days with content.

Your videos a few years back had high production value but I much prefer cold hard facts than production.