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Feature Vomit

I've been coding using frontier AI tools for a while now. Github Copilot before ChatGPT came out. Cursor when its logo was a cursor. I made a manual context builder tool when pasting into O1 Pro was the best option available. I was an early user of Claude Code. I really like this stuff. But the acceleration since December has been wild. Features that used to take me 3 months take 3 days. In a…

Text editing at the speed of thought

Voice as a UI/UX pattern can finally be good. A couple years ago I built a feature in [Grug Notes](https://GrugNotes.com) where you press and hold, ask for changes to a note, release, and almost instantly the change happens. In the background, we send the audio to the server, the server sends to Groq for a Whisper3 transcription, we shoot that back to the client for display and send it to a fast…

Canoes, Covid, and Code

# The Cost of Doing What You Love I've spent my entire career building a lifestyle business: a canoe-building shop in Hawai'i. My friends and I grew up in Hawai'i, paddled a lot, and canoes were expensive. It seemed like a great way to build a life involving something we all loved. When we started, I ran a canoe paddling website, and my friends competed at a high level. We got a warehouse and old…

Hey Tech, Welcome to Small Business

I have no idea where AI will take the software world. Some say we'll have more software, [malleable software](https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2023/03/25/llm-end-user-programming). Many say the [cost of software will go to zero](https://didierlopes.com/blog/the-cost-of-building-software-is-plummeting-to-zero/). All these things might happen. But as a small business operator, I don't want more…

Blog – January 8, 2025

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