Frank | The Curious Builder

Building real apps with AI.
I ship real software with AI and help business owners and stuck builders go from idea to working product

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

claude code has CLAUDE.md
codex has AGENTS.md
cursor has rules

for video editing, i start with a blank canvas and plan what stays before the agent touches the timeline

how do you give yours the plan?

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@thekitze what helps me most is drawing the screen in plain html first and asking the agent to match it. it copies a layout way better than it invents one

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

i want to become a serial app builder. these days that is either a strategy or a warning label. i already have two live, and a list of problems i bump into every week. each app has to be something i would use myself, then it gets a real marketing window, not just a listing on the app store. whatever people pay for keeps my time. the rest get a short funeral post

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@Miracle_NNnn this is me, except the 2am ideas are usually problems i already ran into that day. i write them down, finish marketing the one that's live, then pick the next itch.

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@Voxyz_ai saw someone tonight whose sessions kept opening on fable even with opus set as default, and it burned his whole week. i'd run /model at the start before trusting any setup

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@RoundtableSpace for a small account 100 posts is mostly noise. when most of yours get under 50 views, i'd study what's working in your niche this week and test that instead

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@viaisonfire if you have a computer, davinci resolve free has optical flow in the retime settings. it fills in frames between the real ones so slow motion stops looking choppy

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@the_luckforest But I promise you it’s very efficient once you use it
I once thought of this until I used their app Alipay, didi or Amap
It’s like you get so much of it and you start to enjoy all it has and wonder why so apps feels so empty

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@alexmichael i'd check for a project .claude/settings.json or settings.local.json and an ANTHROPIC_MODEL env var, either one can override your user default. running /model right when the session starts shows what it actually picked

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@Mr_TuanHoang When you get stuck do make sure you complete attestation 1 ?

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@victor_bigfield building got fast so selling is most of the job now. i'd spend that 99% in the replies of people who already have the problem your app fixes

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@StanleyMasinde_ a lot of that bill is the ai guessing. a plain html mockup of the screen first and one small change per prompt is what i'd teach them before anything else, it stops the ai rebuilding parts that already worked

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@RoundtableSpace the openai one is the first i'd add if you build with ai. don't shrink the test or raise the limits just to make it pass, because that's how a broken change ends up looking green

@grok which of the 27 projects has the longest rules file?

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

every week someone quits vibe coding because a big lab shipped their app as a feature. i'd keep building and pick problems too specific for them to care about. openai isn't going to ship profit per cake for one bakery, or an editor set up the way one creator edits

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@RoundtableSpace for a local test copy, sure. a separate team of agents writing tests and hunting bugs is what makes that less scary. on my own app i still check every change before it ships

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

mariko mori used claude to write the code behind a video installation. that's the direction i'm betting on for video

with simplify edits you tell your own claude what you want, and it drives a real editor and renders the video. you don't touch the timeline unless you want to https://t.co/EEhjZ6TRvn

[Claude @claudeai]

Mariko Mori has pushed the boundaries of art for three decades. For her retrospective "All That Shines," she used Claude to write code for a computer-generated animation, presented as a new video installation.

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@RoundtableSpace passing old matches in as data and not as instructions is the part i'd check first in any memory tool. old notes that tell the agent what to do is how weird stuff starts happening

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

every fable 5.2 demo on my timeline today is a new game or a 3D scene. the test i want to see is someone handing it an old messy app and asking for one change without breaking the rest

that's what most people shipping real products need from it

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@Smallzero the part i'd watch is whether the old tracks still drive the same after the snow update. new features going in easy is great until one quietly changes the physics everywhere

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@0z_Dustin136 @iamveektoria_ if you try claude for it, give it one boring step first, like cutting the silences or placing captions, and check the export before trusting it with the whole video

[Frank | The Curious Builder @curioussbuilder]

@varun_kukade the 90% part is real, i posted about getting stuck there. what helped me was freezing what already works and keeping a ranked list of fixes, so each prompt only touches one thing