Max Jean

Max Jean

@maxjean.bsky.social

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Open ai really just killed the vibe People are upset that after months of hype the model is so “meh” Reality is the models are good enough It’s time to build products

I’m shocked that perplexity is overall better than chat gpt pro Price aside I just gravitate to perplexity way more but they *technically* do the same thing the big difference is the UX

I couldn’t imaging going to market and competing with only a resume Regardless of what you do invest in sharing your work online and having a unique point of view

The improvements in a video generation is way more interesting Imagine having an agent produce a weekly 30 min show for you South Park already did this a year ago. quality is really the last hurdle

Took all weekend but the new landing page is up and app is up I took what learned from thumbagents to create the os The goal this week is to record a demo and record some YouTube videos

Knowing a tech stack no longer counts as job security in the age of ai You need to be able to sell, distribute and create or risk having the ai telling you what to do

Cursor + Sonnet 3.5 feels like your favorite free movie site from back in the day Once everybody finds out it gets overwhelmed with traffic and goes offline

Cancelled Devin , after the novelty wore off I realized my productivity actually tanked The killer: I spent more time cleaning up after Devin versus just doing the thing Devin probably makes sense for a legit team where things can get started and picked up by someone else

Is there a good backend as a service out there that is like AWS but not aws lol I just need topics, queues and a nosql database without having to dumpster dive between three tools

The whole workflows vs agents is a red herring. Agents have existed before Claude/open ai , and LLMs were popular. “AI Agents” is just an agent that uses AI in any capacity Very simple.

Using AI I find myself using less third party libraries - it’s easier to write complex utils from scratch - I don’t have to wait on a third party roadmap - Ai doesn’t have to get trained on the docs We may be moving to an era where these bespoke one use libraries aren’t needed

Cursor has raised another $100M. I think they’re going to run away with the #1 AI coding tool title. It’s just better end-to-end. A little tough to get started with though for non-coders

Y’all need to stop trying to convince people to learn how to code At this point coding is like a paint brush. I’m using it to create Some people don’t like it and that’s fine

I hit 2000 subscribers with just 19 videos today. It typically takes 121 videos to reach 1000 subscribers. I've been dogfooding my own product to help build a youtube channel. I could never reach this level of productivity without ai/agents to help almost every step of the way

Okay I’m getting the hang of it now My best review of Devin is it’s “souls like” You’re going to mess up a ton before it starts being marginally useful Just keep it to frontend. It knows react really well

After using Devin for a few days. I get the premise, it makes it easier to get your backlog tasks tackled in parallel But this is worse than “junior” possibly less useful than an intern I spend more time cleaning up AI slop and “teaching” than just getting work done Decent prototype at best

Okay so today I discovered knowledge bases and playbooks with Devin. They kind of buried the lead. You can essentially have it build remote machine automations with code on demand. Full access to any environment you can set up Building web apps and chat is not the point at all