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Last week, Factory gave us a masterclass in how to launch a product in a crowded space. While every major AI company and their aunt already has a CLI coding agent, all I kept hearing about was Factory and their Droid agents. So, it is just another CLI coding agent or is there some sauce…

I recently worked with a company to help their marketing team set up a custom competitive intelligence system. They’re in a hyper-competitive space and with new AI products sprouting up in their industry every day, the list of companies they keep tabs on is multiplying. While the overall project is part of a larger build…

Every week, 700 million people fire up ChatGPT and send more than 18 billion messages. That’s about 10% of the world’s adults, collectively talking to a chatbot at a rate of 29,000 messages per second. The question is: what on earth are they talking about? OpenAI and a team of economists recently released a fascinating…

I’ve spent the last year deep in the trenches with every major AI coding tool. I’ve built everything from simple MVPs to complex agents, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the tools change, but the patterns remain consistent. I’ve already written deep-dive guides on some of these tools – Claude Code, Amp…

I first tried out Amp Code a few months ago around the same time I started getting into Claude Code. Claude had just announced a feature where I could use my existing monthly subscription instead of paying for extra API costs, so I didn’t give Amp a fair shake. Over the last couple of weeks,…

I was talking to a VC fund recently about their investment process. Part of their due diligence is doing thorough and deep research about the market, competition, even the founders, for every startup pitch they receive. They use OpenAI’s Deep Research for the core research (Claude and Gemini have these features too) but there’s still…

I have been a heavy user of Claude Code since it came out (and recently Amp Code). As someone who builds agents for a living, I’ve always wondered what makes it so good. So I decided to try and reverse engineer it. It turns out building a coding agent is surprisingly straightforward once you understand…

Do you remember that Will Smith eating Spaghetti video that was generated by AI. The first one in 2023, despite its glitchiness, was fascinating to see. A simple text prompt resulting in something that could possibly be a video. Two years later we have Sora’s mesmerizing 60-second clips and Veo 3’s photorealistic sequences. We have…

There’s been a lot of talk about context engineering recently and at first glance it sounds like just another Silicon Valley buzzword. We had prompt engineering which sounded like a fancy way of telling an AI what it should do, and now context engineering which sounds like an even fancier way of saying prompt engineering.…

Ah yes, another Claude Code convert. Welcome. We have much to discuss. Claude Code is a CLI (Command Line Interface) that uses Anthropic’s latest models, Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1, to generate code for you. You give it instructions in your terminal, and the built-in coding agent with its tools executes those commands. If you’ve…