... guesses. Then guesses again. Same model, same bug. The difference is how much the failure told it. The failures that end debugging loops instead of extending them tend to carry four things: a location down to the expression, expected-versus-got with actual values, identifiers specific enough to search for, and fix hints kept separate from the problem statement (a wrong hint is worse than none, because models weight hints heavily). And there's a billing angle. Every extra turn ... ... more expensive lines you ship it charges you a multiplier on every future debugging session that touches it. What we changed: bare asserts so the test framework's own introspection survives (no exception-eating wrappers), operative values echoed

... clients debug permissions instead of authentication Unsupported HTTP methods return 200 so people debug payloads instead of the method Non-existent endpoints return 200 so monitoring shows everything is fine while users rage Invalid payloads get echoed back in error messages opening doors nobody intended Private APIs allow broad CORS origins because it worked in the browser None of these are hard. None require AI. None require rewriting the system. They re just things nobody notices until production hurts. Curious ...

... what s next, too.) Platforms: we ve spent time with Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Microsoft in the last few weeks. Their roadmaps heavily influence the entire industry. Other builders & events : it s amazing seeing what excites people. SF vs. London is hilariously different. VCs : they see thousands of pitches. Their pattern-recognition is a cheat code if you listen carefully. Customers : sometimes you have to ignore everything above and ground yourself in what the average, non-bubble, person ... ... they re biased toward how we think about Meet-Ting. It would be weird not to build Ting in the direction we think the world is going... So here are my hot takes. Some of them are echoed

... want to block the launch. Basic analytics. DataFast for visitor analytics, and OpenAI dashboard for usage analytics. Launch day and the spike I've launched it in the Show HN section with the following post and additionally echoed it on Reddit in r/SideProject, and my LinkedIn and Twitter pages. The traffic and engagement came fast. Top-line results: 6,000+ visits ~200 users tried it ~80 users signed up $0 at launch by design $60 a month later (one paying ...

... example of how AI can empower creatives and open up space for them to innovate, rather than take away from that. That's always been our vision for bringing AI and creativity together, and we love to hear that echoed in feedback. We launched the first version 3 weeks ago to our closest insiders - the biggest point of feedback was wanting to customize what Indy was finding based on their current focus. You may be a product designer ... ... helping you to learn, grow your network, etc. I am very excited about the idea of everyone having access to a personal assistant for information synthesis not just for opportunities, but for everything. I talk more about the old vs

... PowerPoint. We incorporated it on every asset within hours. Learning (run as a rapid-fire experiment): Karpathy s Cursor for Slides tweet wasn t just hype fuel we treated it as a live copy test. By monitoring how users echoed the phrase in replies, Slack threads, and DMs, we saw message-market fit in real time. Within hours we rolled the analogy into our tagline, hero copy, and comment replies. Result: higher click-through and fewer So what does ...

... luan): @gabe  Thanks a lot for your insights, very delightful! Yes I am sure that ChatGPT will find its companion like Bolt or Cursor soon. Maybe Bolt or Cursor would build their own LLM at some point. Totally echoed you on that. I think second movers should go narrow and go deep. For example, Lovable's target audience is developers, so their app is more flexible for coders to modify and integrate with Supabase, widely useful tool. However EZsite ... ... main customers is SMBs with no coding experience, so we build native built-in database and also allow uer to use their own database like PostGre SQL or Oracle besides Supabase. One core feature we have VS