Chris Goodmacher

Co-Founder, @uprisemoney - embedded tax and advisory for SMBs (Product Hunt #1 Personal Finance app 2022)

Ex: employee/eng #2 @justworks (1st PM)

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Still feels true

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Claude for planning, writing, design, and code review

Codex for engineering

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@nickgraynews @msg @cathrynlavery @clayhebert @Blakeeastman @runsonai This seems like such an awesome way to learn and make friends. I want to start something like this in West Hollywood

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7/ Final point:

The bar to start has never been lower. The bar to finish is where it's always been.

Most people asking me how to start don't need a guide. They need to feel permission. Consider this it.

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1/ A friend texted me asking if I knew anyone he could talk to about getting started building with AI.

The honest answer: he doesn't need anyone. Just Claude.

Here are a few questions I've gotten lately — and what I tell people.

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6/ One more thing: don't quit your day job.

You can make real progress in a few hours a week while still employed.

Two caveats: check your employment agreement for IP and moonlighting clauses, and don't build anything that competes at all with your employer. Not worth it.

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Honest @claudeai feedback: the upgrade that would make me a happier Claude user isn't a smarter model. It's search that actually works across my past threads.

Months of context buried in old chats, can't find it, end up re-pasting — burning tokens on stuff you already have.

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@vchennai2 https://t.co/xMz9qtBh5K

[Chris Goodmacher @cgoodmac]

Claude for planning, writing, design, and code review

Codex for engineering

[Chris Goodmacher @cgoodmac]

Listened to @Benioff on @theallinpod describe his dream tool: something that routes AI requests to the right model based on complexity so you're not burning frontier tokens on simple tasks. He's describing @OpenRouter. It exists. Why isn't Salesforce using it?

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Claude for planning, writing, design, and code review

Codex for engineering

[Chris Goodmacher @cgoodmac]

We put AI in everything but I'm still manually typing a 6-digit code 40 times a day

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@fireflies_ai - blank loading screen on the meetings page over here, can't see anything. Status page looks clean. Anyone else seeing this?

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@lkr 4.6 seems so objectively better. I wonder what happened with 4.7

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Rolled back from Claude 4.7 to 4.6. Tool-use judgment feels off and I've caught it making obvious errors. Don't trust it the same way. Anyone else seeing the same, or has it improved since launch?

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@haridigresses @VCBrags Pretty incredible track record

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@Jason I'm in

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Why does every customer support system make you type your question into a chatbot, connect you to a human, and then the human asks "what's your question?" You already have it. It's right there. On the screen.