Look Claude Code on the desktop app is great and all, but no matter how much I pull up my hoodie and crack a mountain dew code red while using it, I still don't feel like a 90's hacker, so back to the terminal it is

Just took my toddler in a Waymo for the first time. He acknowledged the lack of a driver but was otherwise not particularly impressed. The youth these days, man…

I can’t believe I just traveled into this insane winter weather with both my kids! Really harrowing stuff. It was in the 50s in SF! I had to wear a jacket! Anyway grateful to be back in San Diego where it’s 72.

Amazon has been steadily increasing their AI offerings for sellers. They rolled out a video creation tool last year that wasn’t great but could passably give you the kind of 8-10 second clips that you need to run certain ad types (the quality of the videos isn’t particularly

This week on the ol' Substackerooni, I finally figure out that instead of having AI vibe code me an inventory management application, I should just tell AI to figure out when I need to order more inventory and let me know

Today's post is all about taking the tedious, repetitive work I do for my business and making Claude Code do it instead. open.substack.com/pub/theautomat…

Today's post is a quick look at how Shortcut has been deeply helpful to me as a small business owner, and some thoughts on AI tools replacing professional services: theautomatedoperator.substack.com/p/shortcutai-i…

I don’t want the model to think I’m dumb though

In this week's post, I finally find a way to use a web browsing agent productively - filling out a long, horribly form that I used to have to do by hand 20-30 times in a row. open.substack.com/pub/theautomat…

Governor of Mississippi with the most thoughtful take on data center construction wasn’t on my bingo card for this year. Disagree with him blaming the far left for something that pretty clearly cuts across the aisle, but otherwise no notes.

swyx I see people at Anthropic who didn't necessarily start that way getting better at it. Part of it is being surrounded by others who are AGI-pilled + watching how they push the models. But ultimately... 1. Ask yourself: what if the exponential actually continues 2. Take a task and

A funny quirk of Nano Banana 2 2 - it can make patterns that tile horizontally but not vertically. I've been trying to get a print pattern that's bigger than it can generate by having it create an image that lines up seamlessly from the top edge to the bottom edge, and it just

No, agents are not coming only for coding. Let me explain why. Most people using AI today are still mostly chatting with LLMs. Indeed, this is how I use GPT-5.4 Pro in legal work. Ask a legal research question, get a comprehensive (and correct) answer with sources. Starting

Adding Claude to my Mercury account to read transactions... might as well just give him a debit, right?