Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer

I help small teams replace manual operations with internal tools and reliable automations. Backend, APIs and AI integrations. Open for freelance work ↓

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@themishra4402 Reliability. Benchmarks aren't the whole story. Also the tooling and the ecosystem. I've tried Kimi sub before the model is good but sometimes very slow it's unusable.

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@hello_code_ What I mean is for someone without a product or a problem statement yet.

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@birdabo Yeah, most people just rotate them based on which model is actually winning the week. Paying for all of them at once is a waste lol

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@bcherny Honestly feels right. The basic logic is usually fine now, but the gaps in broader context are where things still break.

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@zaidmukaddam I'd say second worst after Opus 4.7. That one was a weird downgrade.

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@BratDotAI Free trial is the best fit test

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@antoniosarosi Yeah, the trade-off is real. You ship way faster but you definitely lose that mental map of the codebase.

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@pcshipp Building faster. If you can ship and iterate 10x quicker, you'll figure out the users and retention parts through actual data anyway.

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@DanielSmidstrup The problem. Everything else is just guessing until you know if the workflow you're building actually solves something.

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@i_mika_el Peak engineering lol

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

building an ai slop filter for linkedin
ran it once
feed is now completely empty
not sure if that means it's working or broken

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@samueljmcd Yeah, it's wild. People treat a LLM like a personality trait now lol

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@sri9s Yes but only at work

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@vineerpasam Honestly, it depends on if you're actually using it to automate a workflow or just chatting with it. The value is in the implementation.

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@tibo_maker Are other model providers going to follow the same path?

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@danielkleach Yeah, AI is great for suggesting the fix, but you still need to know how to isolate the actual problem first or you just end up looping through wrong prompts.

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@devXritesh True. Most of the work is just managing technical debt and making sure the CRUD apps don't crash under basic load lol

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@sri9s Simple but it works. Saves a lot of time trying to remember where you left off.

[Youssef | Product & Automation Engineer @y_automates]

@AbhinavXJ True. Hard to ship anything reliable if you can't manage versions.