the AI app tech stack is basically solved. nextjs, vercel, convex, clerk, stripe, tailwind. pick your models, ship. what's not solved is the layer underneath your agents. where does context live between sessions? how does cursor's memory stay separate from claude code's memory when they're both working the same repo? the stack gets you to demo day. scoped persistent memory is what gets you past it.

The most dangerous thing you can do right now is NOT use the latest AI tools. Period. Every day a new company is laying off thousands of people who don't know how to use the most modern AI tools If I were in the 9-5 world right now, this is every step I'd take: 1. Download Claude Code and build your first app using Opus 5.5. Learn how to implement a front end and database (I’d use nextJS and Convex). AI can teach you all of this 2. Download Grok Bot. Tell the agent about your entire life. Career, goals, and ambitions. Ask it which agents it can build and which workflows it can implement to get you closer to those goals. This is called reverse prompting. 3. Anytime you're about to do work manually, do it in Grok Bot instead. Tell Grok the task you need to do then ask it how it can do the task for you. You'll be surprised by how much of your work you can automate 4. Feed Astra 6 Max your hardest problems. Make sure you hit the rate limit on it EVERY single week 5. Constantly look at your limits in all your AI plans. If you're ever not above 50% on your limits, get angry that you're not burning enough tokens. 6. Start creating content and building a platform. Resumes no longer matter. Companies dont look at them anymore. They check your platform. What you talk about, what you’re passionate about, how you educate others, who follows you. This matters 100x more than anything else when getting hired right now. If you do these 6 things you are in excellent position to not only be safe in your career, but also dominate those that don't pick up these skills.

Love the tastefulness with which anthropic ships. Main reason I got excited about 'headless' for the web is that any given page could take whatever whimsical or unique shape you wanted. With AI, there's no excuse not to push the design frontier. This is @nextjs at its finest:

6 months ago, I started building an internal customer insights tool at Together AI. It pulls in our sales calls, slack channels, & support tickets and turns them into searchable customer insights. Today, I'm open sourcing it. Introducing Open Customer Insights. We use it internally to: ◆ search across customer conversations ◆ surface daily structured insights ◆ track top feature requests in one place ◆ generate monthly reports on specific topics It's become a tool that several people at Together use to keep up with and stay close to our customers. We use it through the web UI or the MCP server. The tech stack is: ◆ @bunjavascript for packages, scripts, & tests ◆ @aisdk for managing model calls & tool calling ◆ @nextjs for the web app and dashboard ◆ @convex for the database, vector search, & crons ◆ @clerk for user auth & MCP auth ◆ @togethercompute for open models & embeddings It also integrates with @Gong_io for calls, @usepylon for support tickets, @ExaAILabs for company enrichment, & @SlackHQ for channels. The code is available here: I hope it's useful to other teams that want to aggregate their customer data & get insights from it! Customize it however you'd like for your team.

some things I'm working on this week on agents: - reviewing @mattzcarey's PR for postgres backed sessions (so you can use Think with planetscale etc) - reviewing @whoiskatrin's PR for reusable browser sessions in an agent - hardening subagents prepping for the new starter kit (multi chat/agent tools/etc) - polishing up the "skills" story (should we just let you import/use them freely?) - working on filed bugs, those are usually straightforward - thinking about devx (should we build a nextjs/tstart type framework on top of Think?) should be a chonky release, let's aim for friday.

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