Finished polishing a new feature activation dialog for my fashion diary app, with some nice little animations highlighting features users haven’t tried yet. It triggers after a few uses and is configurable for different actions, like linking clothing, adding photos, or measuring garments.
I generally get cabs when I arrive in Dublin Airport. Experience is usually pretty good. Pretty much the only time I do this..
It doesn’t even occur to me to take a taxi flying into DC. I walk right past the line almost without noticing it.
Then I stand for 5 -10 minutes waiting for a rideshare when there’s literally a dozen taxis sitting there ready to go.
I have no idea what the relative pricing is anymore. Am I just wasting time for no good reason?
Another feature I shipped this morning. Outfit analytics. When you link outfits to your wardrobe, it allows me to not only show similar outfits, but give stats on what you are wearing/not.
I really liked the way the weekly activity slider that @dimagroshev made for day rise feels so I decided to make a version for my fashion diary.
A good example of AI-generated UI copy slop. I asked Codex to build a feature explainer that appears after a certain amount of usage. It sprinkled in a bunch of unnecessary text: “1/4,” “Discover changes,” “Illustrative example,” “From linked text.” Easy to fix, but you have to be watching for it.
Insert drivers vs passengers work metaphor. Basically ownership and outcome performance are things you want humans to drive. I.e someone with agency standing over the quality of the thing being shipped.
The thing with working with ai is that you can keep telling them to do something, tighten this writing, improve the style, make it better...
..and no matter how rounds you do, they will keep doing it until the result is absolute garbage.
they never push back that I could but it doesn't seem like a good idea. it's like the opposite of capable human who would just tell you no, you're being dumb, what you actually want is...
(i know I could prompt this this way, but the human bias/the tools kind of just expect you to command them what you want, not really trying to understand what the purpose is, and push back on when the task no longer makes sense)
Big part of the reason I still use Astra/Sol is codex works well with my mobile workflows. I have it chat with Claude/Opus etc but I don’t feel the need to change my whole stack every month to stay at the bleeding edge.
OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs face a growing challenge: Better models aren't necessarily attracting more usage. A 10-point intelligence advantage now earns just 20% more developer traffic, down from nearly 69% in late 2025.
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Features I shipped one handed as a busy dad with a demanding job using @expo & RN for my fashion side project:
1)~12× cheaper AI clothing previews same quality switching to open model.
2) Used batching for further cost savings.
3) Faster onboarding with parallel previews
4) Clothes recognised, matched & named on iPhone using local model.
5) Private voice notes → live text
6) Similar Looks model.
7) Onboarded more users to TF.
Basically this. All of the alpha is in private group chats these days.
I think many creators will create a gated community as a way to filter out AI bots and AI-generated comments and preserve their actual community.
Basically just recreate social media again but less open, with an identity wall or paywall.
It's unfortunate but the comment sections on my friends and favorite creators' posts are walls of pointless AI slop or AI-generated rage bait arguments.
💯 agree with this take. Don’t be taken in by takes that lack nuance on X. Software isn’t dead.
Saying software is dead because anyone can build it is like saying photography is dead now that everyone in the world has a camera in their pocket
Not only is it not dead it's the beginning of the Kodak Brownie moment for software, and we will see an absolute explosion of it
It will be the first generation for who building software will feel no different than using it. This is crazy!
The quality and bar of what we expect from our everyday apps will be raised dramatically, we'll have personal software, we'll have disposable software, and agents will be the foundation for most of it
Tech has always been chaotic and evolving, the people who have been able to adapt and move in front of new opportunities have always excelled, this is nothing new, I'm seeing it now and we'll see it 10 years from now
Find the opportunities in the chaose and disruption, there are countless of them
While I don’t like Adobes predatory behavior around subscription’s, I’m also not a fan of engagement farming slop ware that doesn’t respect my time. Hope these replacements get much better, but right now they haven’t earned the attention they are getting on X.
Here’s what the hybrid approach looks like in my fashion diary app. A wardrobe mixing photos of your actual clothes with AI-generated previews extracted from outfit photos. The goal is to make logging effortless while encouraging users to gradually replace AI placeholders with real photos.
Been building a hybrid system for my fashion diary app: encourage users to photograph their actual clothes, but give them AI-generated placeholders based on the outfit photos they log.
Sometimes the source crop is unclear, like this dress watch, so I’m adding the ability to steer regeneration with a text prompt.
These use cases sound great on paper, but assume people know what to search for and that workflows are simple enough not to get janky.
One lesson from working on Facebook Graph Search: most people struggle to articulate structured queries like “posts from friends living in Boston.”
We eventually distilled much of this into buttons and pre-canned queries.
A big % of tech people don't get it
Normies won't ask "build me software"
They will ask "I have this photo and I want to manually edit it" and it will spin up a Photoshop clone
They will ask "I need to know if sales are going up or down this quarter from all different ecommerce platforms we use" and it will spin up an analytics dashboard connecting all APIs with scheduled crons that keeps it up to date forever
They already do!
They won't know they're building software because their AI app/agent will do it for them
And then they'll stop using most regular software!
Even Star Trek’s holodeck and ship computers needed trained engineers to make them sing.
Software engineers aren’t going anywhere. What’s disappearing are venture-scale returns for ZIRP-era software businesses like PagerDuty.
The easy money days are over.
I'd call this a bubble in a bubble
Tech people somehow still think normies are not spinning up personal software already
They're not doing it in Claude Code in a terminal like tech people for sure
But their AI chat app is already doing it for them without them even realizing they're building personal software, like generating PDF reports, full web app dashboards and even entire web apps
That will keep getting more advanced and soon ChatGPT will just spin up a Photoshop clone (but ofc only if they need it, preferring to just do their photo edits for them)
Everyone will mostly use personal ephemeral software inside AI chat apps I think
Some software moats will remain like social media (community), ecommerce (think like Shopify and Stripe), etc but they will just be used by AI to build the personal software with
So maybe that's the point here, become a tool agents use to solve their user's problems and charge agents for it (like many are saying)

















