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it is your primary job as a founder to find people who care about the problem you’re solving, tell them about your solution, and convert them to get sales. one reliable method that has been working well is to steal engagement from people talking about the…

I’ve been helping SF companies get sales and one of my customers came to me with a cold message that he wasn’t getting any good results with it.

A lot of people have the wrong idea about fundraising.

I’m fortunate to have the opportunity to move to San Francisco last year and build my startup.

Did you know that LinkedIn caps you at 200 connection requests per week?

pg recently retweeted this from when he posted this last year, which made me check out how much lines of code I ship.

I just got accepted into Y Combinator.

On the same day that a popular tech YouTuber Theo published a video about how “open source is the future for tech companies”, Cal.com, one of the most impressive open source projects, just went closed source.

SaaS is the most profitable business model on Earth.1 It’s easy to understand why: build once, sell the same thing again ad infinitum, and don’t suffer any marginal costs on more sales.

Confession: I’ve been using Claude Code to write all my code for me.

I celebrate another revolution around the great big ball of fire today.

Every developer I know has the same frustrating ritual.

This is part of my “AI in SF” series, where I share real AI engineering workflows from San Francisco startups.

This is a part of my “AI in SF” series, where I share real AI engineering workflows of SF startups.

Social media is full of people showing off their perfect little demo apps claiming AI is revolutionary, meanwhile, AI keeps suggesting fixes for files that don’t exist or rewrites working code into broken messes.

Reddit discovered the funniest thing in tech this week, and it shows exactly how broken the AI narrative is.

AI code generation is error-prone.

MCPs are a way for AIs to interact with the outside world.

You know by now that AI can dramatically speed up your development process (when used correctly.)

The first time I encountered Big Tech was at age 15 when I won Google Code In.

Imagine if you could build your own apps and tools just by describing what you want.

Is it just me, or are the code generation LLMs we’re all using not that good?

AI is incredibly powerful, but it needs guidelines.

I recently moved to NYC since I was accepted by the Recurse Center, and today was my first day at their hub.

Last Tuesday at 1 AM, I was debugging a critical production issue in my AI dev tool.

Two days ago, my friend Owen messaged me in a panic.

As a software engineer experimenting with AI for the past 2 years, I’ve tested nearly every AI coding assistant on the market and developed a workflow that consistently delivers results.

Last week, X exploded when a “vibe coder” announced his SaaS was under attack.

In 12 years of my dev career, I’ve spent countless hours battling browser bugs.

Using AI for coding isn’t perfect, but it definitely makes me faster.

I’m not sure if I’m ready for what’s coming next with AI.

Something’s been bugging me about how new devs learn and I need to talk about it.

A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage.

As a content creator in the tech space, I found myself caught in an all-too-familiar trap: endless hours of doomscrolling through social media and news aggregators, trying to stay on top of the latest trends.

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Mark Zuckerberg recently claimed AI will replace mid-level engineers by 2025.

Learning why model redundancy > optimization It started with a frustrating Thursday afternoon.

Last week, my AI coding assistant generated a perfectly-structured code review suggestion.

“Every developer has that one post they almost didn’t write…” For 2025, I decided to get back into technical writing.

A messy experiment that changed how we think about AI code analysis Last week, I watched our AI choke on a React codebase - again.

Last month, I asked Claude to help refactor a React component.

I’ve been running multiple WordPress blogs for my friends and family on my own VPS since ~2012.

At Metric, my latest accounting AI automation startup, we’ve built complex interconnected pipelines that query an LLM with multiple transactions and invoices.

A simple way to implement a “search” feature into your node app is using the database engine to check for presence of tokenized search query.

Vue loads content asynchronously, which means that Google’s crawlers won’t pick up your site for indexing.

Ghost… I tried.

I’ve been looking for a free option for instant RSS to email subscriptions, and while Zapier comes close; the free tier does not support the volume or speed that I require.

I don’t know about you guys, but I always have an annoying time trying to figure out how to make Sequelize work — the documentation seems to have a dearth of examples.

Recently I’ve been noticing a bunch of spam comments all over YouTube — with different text and links, but all leading to one single site: giftcardrebel.co.