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Building AI/dev experiments in public.
Currently: Locwars + an AI decision-mapping tool. Writing the weekly “Could I..?” series.

[rich @RichDevLab]

I’m starting a weekly “Could I..?” series.

One question. One experiment. Public notes, code, mistakes and results.

Mostly AI, dev tools, games, automation and data.

[rich @RichDevLab]

@CastAsHuman https://t.co/pETT34fvPG

[leo 🐾 @synthwavedd]

I don't know about everyone else, but this does not sound encouraging

Still within the realm of possibility that 5.6 only launches in the US

[rich @RichDevLab]

Seeing a lot of 20-user apps with Postgres, queues, and k8s. For most SaaS, SQLite in prod is fine.

[rich @RichDevLab]

I can't wait to see my timeline full of people trying to charge $19.99 for 20 lines of markdown

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The tool I use most has no landing page.
Just a janky internal flow that saves me hours every week.
Still more useful than half the polished stuff I almost shipped.

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@rlakhnyuk the part people skip is that spending on creators and ads forces clarity fast

if a paid click lands and nobody buys, your offer or page is the problem, not your motivation

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@thsottiaux @adonis_singh cheeky

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how have I only just seen this cool little Codex addition?

lovely bit of UI interaction

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@Tech_girlll because now you're debugging the prompt and the code path at the same time

this is why vibe coding doesn't replace traditional knowledge of patterns, proper implementation etc.

[rich @RichDevLab]

great to see this finally confirmed

set phasers to fast mode, reset inc

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Ola. The Codex team is investigating issues where some accounts are seeing faster usage draining than intended. We believe this is related to some abuse & fraud prevention mechanisms that we have that might be overflagging.

Stay tuned.

[rich @RichDevLab]

@kylegawley i've seen this a few times where the first version was early, not wrong. infra gets cheaper, habits change, then the same idea suddenly works

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@tibo_maker this is why plain text launch posts fall flat, they tell me what shipped but not why i should care. auto-picking the most impactful thing is the smart bit

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@jturntdev my issue isn't even the delay by itself, it's that 'ai for everyone' sounds a bit hollow if frontier access is basically invite only

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@itsolelehmann i agree, but the tricky part is knowing what actually made it work

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@sharyph_ this is clean

subagents being context-isolated is the bit most people miss, otherwise the main agent starts dragging old newsletter context into everything

[rich @RichDevLab]

generalists are set up insanely well right now

if you can think across:
- tech
- business
- people

and connect things fast, that's a goldmine

[rich @RichDevLab]

@Road_Kill11 i'd add ci too

it still assumes one clean human change moving through a line. with agents you get a pile of partial edits, and the hard part becomes proving what is actually safe to merge

[rich @RichDevLab]

@zats oh this is really cool

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@zdogmode feels useful for structure, risky for voice

once every post starts using the same wording and cadence people can tell even if they can't name why

[rich @RichDevLab]

@kylezantos i'd take this just so people can say 'agents' and not mean 4 completely different things

once you know whether someone builds this stuff or just tried it once, the whole thread gets way less wobbly