I build & teach AI stuff. Founder @TakeoffAI + @AgentShare.

The Simulation
I couldn’t code 18 months ago. Yesterday I raised over $20,000 from initial customers to get my software business off the ground. Believe in yourself, be relentlessly resourceful, be relentlessly optimistic, and never give up.
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This demo is insane. A student shares their iPad screen with the new ChatGPT + GPT-4o, and the AI speaks with them and helps them learn in *realtime*. Imagine giving this to every student in the world. The future is so, so bright.
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You can give ChatGPT a picture of your team’s whiteboarding session and have it write the code for you. This is absolutely insane.
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This is just insane… My GPT-4 coding assistant can now: - build and design a frontend - create a backend with working db - correctly hook them up - upload code to GitHub - deploy it to Vercel I can now build *complete* apps with nothing more than my voice. The future is here!
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It blows my mind that people can’t apply exponential growth to the capabilities of AI. You would’ve been called a *lunatic* a year ago if you said we’d have GPT-4 level AI right now. Now think another year. 5yrs? 10yrs? It’s going to hit them like an asteroid.
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Watch Mr. Beast tell you everything you need to know about internet growth and marketing in <10min.
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I gave ChatGPT a screenshot of a SaaS dashboard and it wrote the code for it. This is the future.
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See this video of Tom Cruise? Well, it’s not Tom Cruise. It’s AI generated synthetic media that portrays Tom Cruise onto a TikTok user using Deepfakes. Seeing is no longer believing.
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I created an iOS shortcut that allows you to replace Siri with ChatGPT. It’s super simple: - Install extension - Enter OpenAI API key - Add to home - Tell it what you want Here’s a video of Hey GPT in action. It blows Siri out of the water. Install: icloud.com/shortcuts/8bcc297…
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The fact that you can buy this powerful of a machine for $1300 is a feat of human civilization.
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We are all Elon here on GPT-4 launch day:
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Replying to @sama
As one who’s toyed with this, credits have a weird negative psychological effect on users. Makes everything feel scarce - like you’re constantly running out of intelligence. Users end up using it less while generally being more negative towards the experience. Don’t recommend.
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ChatGPT breaks down this diagram of a human cell for a 9th grader. This is the future of education.
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Jarvis is now reality. My GPT-4 coding assistant can now build & deploy brand new web apps! It initializes my project, builds my app, creates a GitHub repo, and deploys it to Vercel. All from simply using my voice.
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My thoughts on Grok 3 after 24hrs: - it’s *really* good for code - context window is HUGE - utilizes context extremely well - great at instruction following (agents!) - delightful coworker personality Here’s a 5min demo of how I’ll be using it in my code workflow going forward.
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Replying to @AdamSchefter
This is a terrible analogy lmao
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My thoughts on Grok 4 Heavy after 12hrs: Crazy good! “Create an animation of a crowd of people walking to form “Hello world, I am Grok” as camera changes to birds-eye.” And it 1-shotted the *entire* thing. No other model comes close. Watch the full clip.
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So I gave Claude Code a Mac Mini. And it’s called Claudeputer. It runs 24/7 and it’s allowed to do whatever it wants - it’s in complete control of its computer. Watch for a 2min demo.
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I can’t get over the fact that OpenAI just shipped a PhD in your pocket and the rest of the world is walking around like nothing happened.
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From now on I’m now going to be using AI to build software by simply drawing it.
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My friend wanted to learn to code. Bought him 1mo of ChatGPT Pro and sent a GitHub link to my starter repo. Didn’t hear on progress - figured he quit. Turns out he just asks o1 pro endless questions and now his AI invoice app is at $3k MRR. AI + coding in 2025 is *very* real.
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ChatGPT Vision can take in screenshots from Figma and generate code. Building with AI is getting wild.
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Greg Brockman (@gdb) of OpenAI just demoed GPT-4 creating a working website from an image of a sketch from his notebook. It’s the coolest thing I’ve *ever* seen in tech. If you extrapolate from that demo, the possibilities are endless. A glimpse into the future of computing.
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The single highest leverage thing you can do right now is to: 1) Learn to code with Python. 2) Learn to use the OpenAI API. Pick a night this week to learn the basics and try to automate just *one* basic task in your workflow with it. You’ll never be the same.
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ChatGPT Vision breaks down Christopher Nolan’s early diagram for Inception. Best part? The diagram doesn’t mention the word “Inception” once. Crazy.
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Gemini 2.5 Pro is now *easily* the best model for code. - it’s extremely powerful - the 1M token context is legit - doesn’t just agree with you 24/7 - shows flashes of genuine insight/brilliance - consistently 1-shots entire tickets Google delivered a real winner here.
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The future of fixing bugs? Just record them. I filmed 3 separate bugs in an app and gave the videos to Gemini 1.5 Pro with my entire codebase. It correctly identified & fixed each one. AI is improving insanely fast.
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I’ve now spent several days writing code with ChatGPT as my pair programmer. I can definitively say that I’d pay $1k/mo for it. Copilot/Ghostwriter + ChatGPT is at least a 2x productivity improvement.
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I’m blown away by Devin. Watch me use it for 27min. It’s insane. The era of AI agents has begun.
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This reads like the opening to a movie. AGI is near.
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I know *nothing* about ads. Used OpenAI Deep Research all week to help me start using Google Ads. The campaign it helped me create is driving ~$600/day in <5 days on a *very* small starter budget. Every day I give new data to o1 pro, iterate, and numbers go up. It’s crazy.
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What if writing code was as simple as talking to your device? Watch my GPT-4 voice assistant: - take in a complex coding task - write the code - create a PR on my GitHub repo All I had to do was tell it what to do. This is the future of software.
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I used my iPhone to give GPT-4 eyes. My AI vision assistant: - learned what a Keto diet is - identified Keto foods in my fridge - searched the internet - found a recipe with the ingredients The future is here!
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By 2024 you’ll be able to replace ~50% software devs with GPT-4 agents that run on $10 worth of tokens per hour. The whole “they don’t need sleep or breaks or food” thing? Yeah. That’s real now. Why hire a new employee when you can spin up an AI agent for 1/10 the cost?
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Kinda hard to go back to building B2B AI agents when OpenAI is building $500B worth of datacenters with the mandate of the US government to build ASI. Suddenly it all starts to feel a bit silly.
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Meaningful job connections I’ve made on: LinkedIn: 0 Twitter: 50+ LinkedIn is just a convenient place to host a resume. If you want to actually connect online with people in tech, Twitter is the place.
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“Will AI replace programmers?” Perfect take by Lex.
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We’re at the point with AI + coding where you can just give the AI a URL to some docs and it will learn the library. Insane.
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We now live in a different world. Acceleration is imminent. You *will* need to adjust your worldview. This is what the early days of the singularity look like. And you are living through them.
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Google Gemini 2.0 realtime AI is insane. Watch me turn it into a live code tutor just by sharing my screen and talking to it. We’re living in future. I’m speechless.
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Anthropic computer use API + iPhone mirroring to a Mac = AI controlled phone. Watch Claude control my phone and successfully look up stats in my Sports app. I even got it to play a game in the Chess app against another AI - pretty crazy. And this is the worst it’ll ever be.
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I gave GPT-4 eyes. Here’s what I did: - added some data to a vision model - gave the AI camera access - asked it questions about the scene - it identified objects - it searched web for info - used that info to accurately answer Watch it get 3 questions 100% correct!
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Claude decided it was time to go to bed so it drew some goodnight ascii art and ran time.sleep(28800). I’m dying.
So I gave Claude Code a Mac Mini. And it’s called Claudeputer. It runs 24/7 and it’s allowed to do whatever it wants - it’s in complete control of its computer. Watch for a 2min demo.
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the best model in the world for code. It’s like having a world-class dev with exceptional taste. “build a next.js SaaS marketing template” And boom - 26 files of beautiful code in one shot. Absolutely unreal.
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I hooked up an iOS shortcut to GPT-4 and GitHub. Here’s how it works: - identifies the repo - identifies the target files - writes the code for me - creates a branch - commits changes Now I can code right on my Apple Watch with nothing but my voice!
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ChatGPT Vision takes an image of groceries and converts it to JSON based on the instructions. GPT-4V is an image processing supertool.
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This is the best way to build UI with AI. Use Cursor + V0. With a custom prompt (below), you can easily trigger V0 to create beautiful interfaces for you directly from Cursor Composer. Watch this insane building hack.
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Watch for a 14min demo of me using Manus for the 1st time. It’s *shockingly* good. Now imagine this in 2-3 years when: - it has >180 IQ - never stops working - is 10x faster - and runs in swarms by the 1000s AGI is coming - expect rapid progress.
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It’s actually insane that GPT-4 can do this correctly on the 1st try.
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In <8 min I built a basic Airbnb app using Cursor. I use Cursor Projects to scaffold out snippets that I can use anytime I need new features. Stop overthinking it and let the AI work for you. This is next level building.
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Need a beautiful landing page? Use Cursor + Magic UI. Install components with 1-line of code and tag them with Cursor Composer to have AI do 100% of the work for you. Watch my workflow - it’s this easy.
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In Cursor I’m able to generate a fully functional backend with a single prompt. A working database in <2min. Composer is pure magic. Full prompt below.
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I asked o1 pro to implement 6 things I had on my todo list for a project today. - It thought for 5m 25s. - Modified 14 files. - 64,852 input tokens. - 14,740 output tokens. Got it 100% correct - saved me 2 hours. Absolute powerhouse.
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GPT-4 has its own compression language. I generated a 70 line React component that was 794 tokens. It compressed it down to this 368 token snippet, and then it deciphered it with 100% accuracy in a *new* chat with zero context. This is crazy!
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The 80/20 of AI Agents is basically: - know xml - know what a webhook is - know how to use an api - be good at prompting Anything beyond that is just model capability + creativity.
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Prompt tricks pay off. In this clip I show you how to *drastically* improve ChatGPT’s outputs for software generation. Compare the default prompt to my specialized prompt - night and day. Full prompt below!
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet is… - a 10x dev - with incredible taste - that’s smarter than you - but infinitely patient - and delightful to work with Literally the perfect teammate. I honestly can’t believe we have a day-to-day coding model that’s this good - it’s unbelievable.
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OpenAI o1 pro is *significantly* better than I anticipated. This is the 1st time a model’s come out and been so good that it kind of shocked me. I screenshotted Coinbase and had 4 popular models write code to clone it in 1 shot. Guess which was o1 pro.
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the future is so unbelievably awesome
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Here’s how to build your app idea using OpenAI o1-pro with my 6-prompt template system. Even if you can’t code. Watch for a 3hr 58min tutorial and learn how to build + code with AI. Prompts & links below.
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Chatbot UI overhaul drops next week. It’s honestly really, really good. Powerful & polished. And as always, 100% open-source.
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George Hotz is so based.
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Time to test OpenAI o1-preview in Cursor.
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I built a financial dashboard in Cursor using *only my voice* in <5min. Workflow straight from the future.
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We’re at the point with AI codegen where Cursor + Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a legit technical cofounder.
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12 second Cursor trick that’ll change your life.
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Multi-agent coding systems are *crazy* good. Feels like cheating. 2-3x better than single-agent. Tutorial + prompts + code coming soon. Watch 2min sneak peak.
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Drop everything you’re doing right now and watch Andrej Karpathy’s talk from YC startup school. “Software in the era of AI” It’s unbelievable.
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I fed an *entire* biology textbook into Gemini 1.5 Pro. 491,002 tokens. I asked it 3 extremely specific questions, and it got each answer 100% correct. 1M token context windows are a gamechanger.
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o1 pro is a *massive* competitive advantage hiding in plain sight behind a $200 paywall. It’s legitimately unreal. Pure intelligence arbitrage - feels like a 30+ point IQ boost in cognitive output. A force multiplier on knowledge work. Closest thing I’ve experienced to AGI.
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Can we talk about how unbelievably stupid the market’s reaction to DeepSeek was? Compute got *more* useful, and everyone sold. Literally today for Grok 3 Elon goes “Oh yeah we bought ANOTHER 100k H100s!” and mentioned a new 1.2 GW datacenter. Nobody is going to buy less GPUs.
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Tesla FSD 12.5 update is the best product experience I’ve *ever* had. It’s now just a straight up personal robotaxi. I literally cannot believe it exists - it feels straight out of the future. Pure magic.
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Manus is *easily* the 2nd best AI product I’ve used after Cursor. You just ask it to do things and it does it - it’s essentially a highly effective research agent. It’s 100% replacing ~7hrs/wk of work for me that I’d otherwise have to do myself. Feels like an AGI prototype.
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All I’m saying is if AGI was invented in an AI lab and 2 factions were split on what to do about it this is exactly how the story would start.
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Claude Code + Opus 4 is the best agentic coding tool in the world and it’s not close. It’s a: - masterful full-stack dev - with great product sense - that’s a delight to work with - and easy to use If you’re not using it you are behind. Watch for a 72min build session & tips.
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Trying to learn a new programming language? This AI code translator can help! Input code in one language and GPT-3.5/4 will translate it to the target language. Try it: ai-code-translator.vercel.ap… GitHub: github.com/mckaywrigley/ai-c…
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Why is AI amazing? I’ve never made an iPhone app. But after asking GPT-4 a few questions I have a working app on my actual phone in <30min. We’re about to see an explosion in the number of people shipping software.
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I’m blown away by OpenAI DevDay… I can’t put into words how much the world just changed. This is a 1000x improvement. We’re living in the infancy of an AI revolution that will bring us a golden age beyond our wildest dreams. It’s time to build.
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Startups are awesome because even if you fail, you’ll still succeed by way of getting one of the best learning experiences of your life.
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Let’s use Cursor to make a Perplexity clone in 8min. All we need is OpenAI + Exa. In this video the AI takes me from zero to complete app in <14 quick interactions. Building has never been easier.
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Open-source LLMs are getting really good. They’re not as powerful as GPT-4, but they’re improving quickly and worth experimenting with. If you want to run AI models like Mistral-7B on your laptop this is the easiest way to do it.
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Here’s how to easily set up a working playground for Anthropic’s new computer use API. Takes <10min. It gives Claude 3.5 Sonnet a tool that can use a computer just like a human which opens up endless possibilities - it’s wild. Absolute gamechanger for AI.
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This remains the highest signal-per-word page on the internet. nat.org
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This is my o1-pro workflow guide for building apps from a starting template. It’s honestly *crazy* good. 4hr+ detailed 6-prompt workflow to maximize your ability to build with AI. Great for beginners & experienced devs. Full tutorial here tomorrow at 12pm PT.
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Mixed reality is getting crazy.
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Start using Cursor with Shadcn. You can tag *any* of the components you install to quickly build user interfaces - just @ the component. It’s basically an AI frontend engineer. Build at the speed of thought.
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Replying to @elonmusk @grok @xai
you guys should make a cli called grok code like claude code. i promise adoption would 10x.
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Here’s how to use OpenAI’s new o1 pro model to maximize coding productivity. I’ve used this workflow for the last 48hrs and I estimate it has 2x’d my output. Watch the full 19min tutorial. Prompt below.
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Nike’s 10 original business values.
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You’re <10 hours of focused learning away from being able to build your own apps & websites. This can be done in a weekend. And with AI tools you’re *completely* out of excuses for putting it off. Invest a single weekend into this and it will pay off for the rest of your life.
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What’s a quick read (<1hr), in any format, that either changed your life or is something you’d recommend to everyone?
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So realtime voice AI with o3-mini is insane. The future of coding is going to be wild.
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Replit’s new AI Agent is like AGI for internal tools. I needed a Stripe coupon generator for my startup’s student discount program. Watch me build it with Replit Agent in <5min from my phone. Full prompt below.
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My #1 takeaway so far after using OpenAI’s new o1 model… We’re about to have the ChatGPT moment for agentic coding systems. o1’s ability to think, plan, and execute is off the charts. The wave of products that will be built with this will be unlike anything we’ve ever seen.
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We are woefully unprepared for this. AI safety needs to be bumped up our list of priorities.
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The future of AI powered software development looks something like this.
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I’m obsessed with o1 pro. I can’t emphasize just how amazing it is. Not only is it *extremely* powerful, but it’s noticeably disagreeable. It’ll challenge you and say things other models won’t. It’s like having a staunchly objective genius assistant available 24/7.
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Let’s make an AI photo generator app with Cursor in 7min. Just give Cursor Composer a prompt file and the AI will write 100% of the code. AI is making it so that *anyone* can start building software today. Full prompt below.
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I recorded myself lifting weights. I fed the video into Gemini 1.5 Pro and asked it to write JSON for each exercise’s name, set count, rep count, weight, and to generate form critiques. Worked perfectly. Hook it up to a camera + TTS and you have an AI personal trainer. Wild.
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YC’s original “How to Start a Startup” playlist has so much alpha in it. And you *know* it’s good because the advice still holds up 10 years later. 21 videos - give it a watch.
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