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Self-taught mobile engineer with 10+ years of experience. I broke into the industry by building apps on my own, and that builder mentality has never left me. These days, I'm channeling it into my own products, currently working on Texly, an AI-powered app that helps you cut through the noise and get more out of the news you read. Always happy to connect with other indie builders.

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I don't code. I just shipped a native macOS app in 2 days.

I'm what you might call a gringo vibe coder.

No dev degree. No traditional background. Just me, Cursor, Claude, and AI... figuring things out together.

Rick Rubin said it best: "In the past, for music, you had to go to the conservatory and study for years... then when punk rock came along... if you had something to say, you could say it." He calls vibe coding the punk rock of coding.

Gemini 3.0 is crazy good at creating slides

Just tried asking Gemini 3.0 to create a pitch deck for MindPal, and the result was mind-blowing!

Full slides: https://www.tella.tv/video/mindp...

Claude by Anthropicp/claudefmerian

4mo ago

Poll: Did Anthropic win the AI coding race?

Last week, @Gemini 3. Today, @Claude by Anthropic Opus 4.5.

Embraced by the community on X, did Anthropic win the AI coding race?

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