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Make money, make no mistakes.
Mo@atmoioI’ve spoken to over 50 people 1:1 over the last several months to better understand how they code with AI.
It’s an absolute mess.
Here are the top 8 mistakes I see.
0:00 - Intro 1:19 - Mistake 1: Talking to 2026 models like they’re 2025 models 2:43 - Mistake 2: Devising funky…
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How I make launch videos with AI
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- September 2026 · 41
- Cursor's prompt for improving your agent harnesspostx.comCursor shares a prompt shaped by lessons from improving its agent harness.
- Make money, make no mistakes.postx.comStart with public data that identifies businesses with an immediate, specific need.
- Eight mistakes people make coding with AIpostx.comCheck these eight habits against your workflow before adding another tool or orchestration layer.
- How I make launch videos with AIpostx.comApprove a contact-sheet storyboard before animation, and keep every on-screen product detail grounded in real…
- How I built a $300K ARR consumer app in 8 monthspostx.comProve demand with niche content and a feature mockup before building the full product.
- Inside Cursorarticlecolossus.comTreat recruiting as finding exceptional people, then give owners ambitious work and protect deep work.
- Writing Rust code that's faster than state-of-the-art…articleminimaxir.comSet a true baseline, require a measurable speedup, preserve correctness, and audit the benchmark diff for…
- An All-Night Client Designpostx.comHarshit shares a client design made overnight that the client loved.
- AI Will Expand the Creative Canvaspostx.comSet the terms first: include storytellers in the design, with credit, consent, and compensation.
- How Volatile Are AI Responses? (70K Answer, 28 Day Study)articledetailed.comTrack a small set of actionable prompts over time instead of treating one response as stable.
- Ship Your First App With Claude Codepostx.comWrite the plan before coding, then map every user and what each needs.
- claude.dev — Technical Writing for People Building with…articleclaude.devStart with the article closest to your current bottleneck, then use the category filters to go deeper.
- Thinking in Systems, Shipping in Loopspostx.comPut verification loops, reusable skills, and production observability around agent-generated code.
- Build and Automate With Claudepostx.comA one-hour course on using Claude to build and automate projects.
- Recreating 1906 Market Street in Blenderpostx.comAlex Albert shares a Claude Tag prompt rebuilding 1906 pre-earthquake Market Street in Blender from Sanborn…
- Brooke Joseph on joining OpenAI through an acquired startuppostx.comSkip to 18:54 for computer use explained, then 25:14 for when not to let an agent use your computer.
- Polar for GTM turns an ICP into saved outbound workflowspostx.comOnce a run works, save the workflow and run it again.
- Build a full-stack app with coding agentsvideoyoutube.comKun Chen builds and ships a full-stack app from scratch with a FirstMate-led team of coding agents, covering…
- How I shipped 2,500 PRs last monthpostx.comLauren (poteto) shares a talk, originally meant for Cursor Compile London, on shipping 2,500 PRs to…
- Automating repetitive work at OpenAI with Codexarticledevelopers.openai.comJeremy Lewi describes using Codex and Runme notebooks to plan, execute and document repetitive OpenAI…
- How to Pivot Your SaaS Company in the Age of AIarticlebannerbear.comPick two or three of Jon Yongfook's seven moves, starting with distribution. "If two products have identical…
- Find your writing voice by copying others' stylearticlelongform.asmartbear.comWrite one short piece in the style of a writer you like, copying the style and never the words. Jason Cohen's…
- Short design engineering tips on type and motionarticlecraft.gustavofior.comGustavo Fior's Craft collects short essays and one-line tips on typography, color, layout, motion, sound and…
- Historical awe for the everyday things at homearticleordinaryabundance.comOrdinary Abundance pairs a modern apartment's daily objects, music, light, photography, medicine, plumbing…
- Simon Willison's LLM cliché highlighter hits 38 patternspostx.comPaste an AI draft into Simon Willison's free highlighter before it goes out. It flags sentences that match…
- Cut your AGENTS.md downpostx.comPostHog's Jina Yoon argues AGENTS.md needs subtraction not addition, and gives 3 methods: doctor checks…
- An illustrator's code for playful homepage effectsarticlenoahfarrar.comIllustrator Noah Farrar breaks down the code behind his homepage's interactive moments: dither reveals…
- Use your code-based design system with Magic Patternsarticlelennysworkshops.comA Lenny's Workshop session covers connecting Magic Patterns to Claude Code and Cursor over MCP so agents…
- Get less generic design out of AIarticlelennysnewsletter.comHave the AI generate a random string and base its colors, layout and type on it. Then have a second agent…
- Claude Code builds a Blender restaurant scene unattendedarticlerestaurant-bar.space-z.aispace-z.ai's brief tasks Claude Code with building a photorealistic restaurant and bar unattended for 12+…
- How a Professional Writer Writes With AIvideoyoutube.comBuild context files and style guides before you ask AI to write. That's the part Katie Parrott says makes AI…
- Kenny Damian's six systems for scaling client deliverypostx.comGive each client its own folder and a context.md with their ICP, offer, personas, what works and what…
- Building a $1/month scraper to replace ScrapingBeepostx.comPieter Levels replaces his $249/month Scrapingbee plan with a self-built Playwright scraper on his VPS…
- Inside OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineer Rolearticlenewsletter.eng-leadership.comColin Jarvis, OpenAI's Global Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, describes an FDE org that grew from 2 to…
- Stripe's Kai and the company brain playbookarticlelennysnewsletter.comUse projects to set the default model, tools and access for each team, so a few people who understand the…
- Design details from Honk's live messaging apparticlebenji.orgBenji catalogues Honk's real-time messaging interactions: live typing bubbles, presence animations, emoji…
- How We Built Interfere’s New Websitearticleinterfere.comInterfere's founders detail a week-long sprint on visual identity, code-built homepage graphics, staggered…
- You Cannot Mandate an AI Transformationarticlelg.substack.comPoint AI at a task people hate before anything they're proud of. "A leader cannot mandate enthusiasm. A…
- Six free courses on packaging and selling ideasarticlevisualizevalue.comStart with The Fundamentals of Value, as Jack Butcher says. Then take Build Once, Sell Twice if you're still…
- Building Shared Memory for AI Agents in Notionarticlenotion.comNotion's Hesham Salman describes Lore, an open-source shared memory system storing agent knowledge as Notion…
- How our agents build on-brand pages with design.mdarticlevercel.comRewrite your last ten corrections as rules you can check by looking, and keep them in one design.md file…
- August 2026 · 8
- The Modern App Starter Checklistarticleburcs.devburcs.dev lays out a 14-phase Cloudflare app checklist covering domain setup, data stores, staging, auth…
- The Claude Code Guide for Startupsarticleclaude.comConnect Claude to the tools your team already works in, and only automate what you can check. Anthropic's…
- Teach coding agents your design taste with rulesarticleemilkowal.skiEmil Kowalski packages design taste into skill files with strict rules for easing, duration, and typography…
- Why accountability wins in AI servicespostx.comSell what the agent can do, with a qualified person who owns the outcome. Yaman's line: "Accountability is…
- Tell your agent to mine your conversationspostx.comHave your agent read your past conversations and tell you how you work, including what you're bad at.
- Orwell's rules for writing with LLMspostx.comEdit every AI draft against Orwell's six rules before it goes out. Cut every word you can, and swap passive…
- Learn faster than the default pace allowsarticlesive.rsThe standard pace is built so anyone can keep up. Derek Sivers' teacher covered a full semester of Berklee…
- An agent that saves cool sites to Notionpostx.comLet an agent run the filing so you can fix its mistakes in plain language later. Brian Lovin's agent dedupes…
- July 2026 · 6
- The Anatomy of an Agent Harnessarticlelangchain.comVivek Trivedy of LangChain defines agent as model plus harness, then walks through core components…
- Matt Van Horn on the agent-first workflowpostx.comHave the agent write itself a plan.md before every project. Make each run save what it learned to a markdown…
- Anthropic Workshop: Build Agents That Run for Hoursvideoyoutube.comAsh Prabaker and Andrew Wilson argue self-evaluation is a trap, structured handoffs beat context compaction…
- See how Gumroad's AI operations agent runs dailyarticlegumclaw.github.ioGive every job the same loop: read the policy and memory, check facts against live sources, do the work…
- How one founder runs his company with agentsvideoyoutube.comSet up a 9am production watchdog that summarizes what every paying customer did yesterday, with a link to see…
- Jason Liu's Codex setup for Slack and emailpostx.comAsk the agent to check your email, Slack and Linear on a schedule and tell you what to do first. Jason Liu…
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