I’m not big on identities, but I am extremely proud to be American. This is true every day, but especially today—I firmly believe this is the greatest country ever on Earth. The American miracle stands alone in world history. I believe in techno-capitalism. We should encourage

Happy 4th! Proud and blessed to be born in this great county where opportunity is abundant to anyone who puts in the work. I’m moving to Austin tomorrow for Gauntlet AI to become the best AI engineer I can be. 1000+ hours of building over 10 weeks — time to get after it!

Introducing FotoFun, the AI native, browser based photoshop alternative that is free, open-source, and fully extensible. Check it out! Gauntlet AI

This week, our first in-person project Gauntlet AI, is a team effort! We decided to bring a Cursor-like editing experience to 2D game assets and animations, using Spine2D as our base instead of just generating sprites. Thanks to my team members: Mitch Forest Zaqir

We built a tool to help game developers generate body part assets for Spline characters with live animation previews. Built for Gauntlet AI project 4 in a team of 4 with Mitch Forest Trevor Slaton akgauntlet

this is insane 🤯 Zaqir & Mitch Forest are building cursor for image editing one prompt added an orange hat to the hamster

BIG news! The $3B OpenAI Windsurf acquisition fell through and the team might be going to Google DeepMind instead to work on "agentic" coding. Will Google try to compete with Cursor now?

The One Big Beautiful Bill just turned the best tax break in America into an absolute monster. - $15 MILLION of tax-free gains. - Sell in just 3 years. - More companies qualify If you’re building a startup, this changes everything. Let’s walk through the new QSBS rules:

This week in Gauntlet AI: trying to remake catan with a non-cheating AI that uses Monte Carlo simulations to find the best moves to whoop up on you

Teaching my little AI about different initial placement strategies is actually more fun than playing catan

🧠Subject is building fast and thinking carefully about how AI shapes learning. They set a high bar for engineering.    We’re glad they chose to bring Gauntlet engineers into that effort.

AI engineering is easy in a greenfield project. But what about a legacy codebase with 1m+ lines of code, tons of techcnial debt, poor architecture, and PHP versions from years ago? This week in Gauntlet AI we are finding out

I love Claude Code’s 5 hr usage reset periods. I go all out, hit the limit, take a nice walk/break, then jump back in for another hard session in the paint. I'm on Cursor's $200/mo plan as well and burned thru all of my tokens within 3 days and am now stuck on auto...

complexity first, simplicity second people say “keep it simple,” but most approach it backwards. they start from simple, then add on complexity without seeing the whole. that’s how you end up with frankenstein products: clean-looking components awkwardly stitched together, held

Creating greenfield apps with AI is easy. But how does it do with 1M+ lines of code, ancient tooling, tightly coupled monoliths. This week in Gauntlet AI I transformed SuiteCRM into a modern, performant CRM for software sales. Check it out!

I have good news. Yes, the land is moving in an illiberal direction. It’s disorderly anarcho-nationalism and anarcho-communism in America. And disturbingly ordered nationalist communism in China. Businessmen are now randomly murdered in the USA and randomly expropriated in the

(you can't optimize for complex functions but u can certainly antioptimize for them by voluntarily minimizing randomness in your life...)