Method · MoneyThe speaker's current writing process: start a voice chat with Claude, pitch a rough topic, and rant out everything in your head. The last thing he says is: 'Now organize this outline into a structure like other videos that I've done before.' He goes back and forth with Claude on the structure, and by the end of a car ride has a full outline ready to go. He runs the same feedback loop on the hook and every section after it. His Claude project is loaded with a best practices guide, a stack of old scripts, and a style guide, which is why the output comes back good. Even then, he still edits like a maniac, and every edit goes back into the Claude project: he asks Claude to compare the generated version against the edited version so every next draft sounds more like him.
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Recommendation · SocialTake one thing that you normally would just say in a sentence and put it into story form. If someone at work asks 'hey, how you doing?' or 'how was your weekend?', tell a short story instead of just saying it was good. Almost never does someone say 'hey, tell me a story' — instead your opportunities look like someone asking how your weekend was. Learning to do this more often will have a huge benefit in so many areas.
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Recommendation · SocialAfter exchanging numbers and agreeing to meet up, pivot the conversation toward the date: talk about what you're going to do together. The coach models asking what she's into, what she's up to this weekend, whether she's been to a place, whether she likes sushi, and suggesting 'We should go there this weekend,' then locking in logistics: 'What are you up to Saturday and Sunday? Let's meet up there. We could either get a bite to eat or a drink or a mocktail.' Even when a woman throws her number and IG at you, continuing geography talk instead of date talk means you could have gone way further and locked in a date for later that night.
Coach Kyle · How to Talk to Women in Public: Real Infield Breakdown
Recommendation · MindThe creator advises that you cannot expect confidence in big moments without practicing in small ones, that you have to put in the reps, and that you should practice not with the most important person you see but with the next person you see. An easy starting point is saying one extra sentence than you normally would, which as a habit reportedly produces fast results.
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AnecdoteGabriel Chua describes creating an automation that reviews a Slack channel every half hour, reading comments and suggestions, replying to them, and categorizing them as compliments, bug reports, or feature requests. For fixable bug reports or feature requests, the automation spins a new thread in a work tree to address the issue, opens a PR, and requests Dom to review and approve it within 24 hours, reminding him if he doesn't. This was motivated by wanting to give user feedback from a macOS translation app demo the attention it deserved.
AI Engineer · Cooking with Codex — Charlie Guo & Gabriel Chua, OpenAI
RecommendationTake an app shot (e.g., of a Slack brainstorm or conversation) and hand it to Codex rather than re-typing or re-explaining the context. Pressing the command key twice triggers an app shot that captures all on-screen context including Slack conversations and brainstorming. App-shotting content into Codex and saying 'go figure it out' works 90+ percent of the time.
AI Engineer · Cooking with Codex — Charlie Guo & Gabriel Chua, OpenAI
Method · SocialIn the closing sequence, first ask what she's up to right now, then state the thing you're considering doing without asking for her thoughts. If she's down, she might respond with enthusiasm; if she's not free, she'll reveal it indirectly (e.g., her dad is waiting), in which case don't ask her for the coffee or tea.
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Coach Kyle · A Realistic Approach at a Mall (Infield)
Recommendation · MoneyKent C. Dodds recommends validating that the problem exists and is interesting before building a solution. In the pre-launch era with no users and no metrics, the Mom Test comes in handy. With AI you can prototype things really quickly to validate problems. After validating, build a simple solution and see if people resonate with it; watch people use your software, and if you can't get anybody to try it out, that's a signal. You want to find something important enough that somebody wants to try it out.
AI Engineer · Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering (Part 2) — Kent C. Dodds, EpicProduct.engineer
Recommendation · MoneySet online evals to run continuously against new incoming traces in production. If evals are expensive or you have high traffic, set the sampling rate to evaluate only a percentage of traffic — e.g., 1% — which still gives a whole bunch of eval data without breaking your budget.
AI Engineer · From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 101 — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Recommendation · MoneyBuilding one big mega evaluator that checks everything at once is a nightmare to calibrate — when a 'God evaluator' says fail, you can't tell which of the five dimensions failed. Split evaluations into one evaluator per dimension; the combination of multiple focused evals gives a richer picture than any single eval ever could.
AI Engineer · From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 101 — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Method · MoneyTo add observability to an agent app, ask the coding agent to add observability with Arize AX to the application (the speaker asked: 'Can you add observability with Arize AX to this application? You've got secrets in .env.local already.'); to get observability out of an application you only need to turn on tracing — tell the app you're using Arize, provide your API key and endpoint, and send the traces it already generates to your endpoint; implementing observability in an OpenAI Agents SDK app is simpler than expected because the SDK is already instrumented with OpenInference; after adding observability, restart the app and run a query to verify traces are flowing, and to verify tracing is configured, check your .env.local file for the tracing project name and look for that project in the
Commercial context: The creator presents this as their own offering and directs viewers to get it.
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AI Engineer · From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 201 — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Method · MoneyTo have the agent analyze your traces, ask it to pull your traces and look for things that are going wrong ('Can you pull my traces and look for things that are going wrong?'); to fix a specific problem found in traces, ask the agent about that problem in particular and whether it can fix it ('What about that problem in particular? Can you fix that problem in particular?'); after the agent fixes the problem, verify the fix by re-running the failing query and checking the traces show correct input, output, and response; throughout the demo the speaker never touched the code — all he did was say 'look for problems' and 'fix that problem in particular'.
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AI Engineer · From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 201 — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Recommendation · MoneyAnother way to verify verifier quality is to train on data filtered by it: hold the number of training examples constant (3K or 9K trajectories) and filter them by whether the verifier judged them as passed. When doing SFT, train only on successful trajectories (where the verifier marked them true).
AI Engineer · Your LLM Judge Is a Confident Liar: Building Better Verifiers — Browserbase
Recommendation · MoneyCharles Frye recommends speculative decoding as a key technique: take a separate model (the speculator) to guess the next couple of tokens, pass them through the target model, and grade them in parallel — turning decodes into tiny prefills. With rejection sampling applied, the target model's output is guaranteed to be the same as sequential decoding, up to numerics. As you improve the quality of the speculator and the number of tokens it can guess in a row, you get a basically linear speedup in decode throughput.
Also discussed by Dan (speaker, name from Q&A) on Y Combinator, Y Combinator (unclassified source — not counted until classified). Not counted as independent sources.
AI Engineer · What Is an Inference Engine, Anyway? — Charles Frye, Modal
Recommendation · MoneyCharles Frye recommends CUDA graph capture as a key technique for reducing CPU-side launch overhead: track all kernels in the model forward path, turn them into one big DAG of operations, and launch them from a single graph instead of launching each kernel individually. This turns per-kernel CPU launch work into a single CPU-side decision of which graph to launch, relaxing constraints in the model forward pass.
AI Engineer · What Is an Inference Engine, Anyway? — Charles Frye, Modal
Recommendation · MoneyBlaine Billingsley recommends staying vigilant about keeping your system small — the bigger things get, the more likely you won't be able to guarantee their success. Make sure your product solves one thing absolutely perfectly at small scale before cautiously expanding, verifying it doesn't fail at each step up.
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MethodDr Ghayas Issa advises that at any suspicion of differentiation syndrome, give high-dose steroids: dexamethasone 10 milligrams twice a day for three days, regardless of whether symptoms improve, because the goal is to prevent the syndrome from recurring. A dose of steroids can be diagnostic — patients often feel 100% better with the first dose, confirming you're on the right track. Because differentiation syndrome can be deadly, it is better to err on the side of giving steroids than to wait to confirm the diagnosis and risk it being too late to correct.
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Research To Practice · Acute Myeloid Leukemia — An Interview with Dr Ghayas Issa on the Role of Menin Inhibitors
MethodDr Ghayas Issa outlines the evaluation for suspected differentiation syndrome: check the blood count for an increase in white count (sometimes associated with differentiation); look at whether leukemia cells are turning into normal cells; a chest x-ray may be done because pleural or pericardial effusions can occur; an echo may be performed if there is a pericardial effusion; and kidney function should be evaluated.
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Research To Practice · Acute Myeloid Leukemia — An Interview with Dr Ghayas Issa on the Role of Menin Inhibitors
MethodDr Ghayas Issa describes the workup for suspected differentiation syndrome: check blood counts for an increase in white count (sometimes associated with differentiation) and look for leukemia cells turning into normal cells; obtain a chest x-ray because pleural or pericardial effusions can occur; perform an echocardiogram if there is a pericardial effusion; and check kidney function.
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Research To Practice · Acute Myeloid Leukemia — An Interview with Dr Ghayas Issa on the Role of Menin Inhibitors
Method · MoneyArmand describes the call structure he taught SDRs: an opener, then when the prospect says no, leading into a 'problem proposition' that leads with the problem before the solution (illustrated by his Carta example about CFOs finding it ridiculous to pay lawyers to issue stock options). For the spreadsheet objection, he used the 'Mr. Miyagi method' of agreeing with the prospect and selling a test drive. He reports that these three things got SDRs good on the phones, moving cost per appointment from $50 to $200 and meetings per SDR from four to eight.
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30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · #606 - How To Build An Elite Outbound Sales Team (Get Reps Dialing Fast)
