@ianlandsman.com Severance. Succession. Silo. The Studio. Just few recent shows that are great (and all start with S). And the only TV you watch is SURVIVOR??!!

What's a good alternative to Apple News+? Looking for healthy mix of sources from across the spectrum. Major publications. Personalization. Great mobile app. I'd pay for one aggregator, don't love paying for individual news outlets.

Latest episode is out! We chatted about the @transistor.fm team retreat in Banff. @justinjackson.ca's vibe coded apps. @briancasel.com's workshop results + Builder Methods Pro subscribers! HOW DO YOU MANAGE ALL THE INBOUND MESSAGES? panelpodcast.com/20

I'm speaking most text now with Wisprflow, but it still trips up: - I start speaking mid-sentence, but it still capitalizes first letter. - Dictating "underscore" or "colon" types those words out. - It makes bullet lists when I don't want one and fails to when I do.

We're live! Come hang

Spec-driven development in the real world needs 3 things to actually work (and be adopted). This is how we move from vibe coding to actually shipping.

Getting closer to release of Agent OS 2.0... Docs are being drafted in the codebase so that Claude can analyze our latest product flows and ensure our docs cover them accurately and completely. Multiple passes to make it simpler, more user friendly for newcomers.

On my private podcast, "What's next?", I post walk-and-talk episodes on behind the scenes of building my business and laying out... "What's next?" I dropped a double episode today: Part 1: First MRR! Part 2: My plan to scale YouTube Subscribe for free: ripple.fm/private-podc...

Wireless charging stopped working on iPhone 15 Pro after upgrading to iOS 26. Anyone else?

Figuring out this puzzle is the biggest opportunity in my business right now: I want to 3x my video content output. And reduce my time spent on production. Without sacrificing quality. It's possible.

I want the best parts of Claude & ChatGPT: Memories, Projects, Artifacts, Chat... And the writing features of any good markdown editor... In one tool.

Update: I might hate Discord a bit less now that I opened one for first members... Easy API. Very customizeable. Menus actually less chaotic than Slack's. Discord has threads now. All positives 👍 (could do without the gamer UI noise though)

The launch week to-do list: Lifting a plane off the ground (with passengers) while you're still bolting on the wings.

Working on the app behind buildermethods.com is a breathe of fresh air. My recent projects (Agent OS, Instrumental Components) must work for me *and* others to build on them. That "buildability" factor easily 10x's time & complexity to ship. But this project is all mine :) (the backend at least)

Orchestrating subagents for every phase of development using Agent OS 2.0. Sharing more details on this in tomorrow's workshop.

Perfect day for a stroll around the city.

Liking Marp for markdown-based slides presentations. Just the right balance of simplicity to create decks (markdown) and design control (HTML, CSS). My go-to from now on.

I'm constantly flipping between tasking AI with building big complex features or quick iterative tasks. Big stuff: - Spec-driven w/ Agent OS - Claude Code - Opus (slow but smart) - Let it cook. Autonomous. Iterative stuff: - Cursor - Sonnet (fast, smart enough) - Collaborative.

I'm writing today's newsletter about this. Interesting angle on it (work in progress).

My Apple "How much I care meter": Thinner iPhone: 0% Orange iPhone: 1% Liquid Glass: 0% Better cameras: 1% Better battery: 1% AirPods translation: 2% Block spam texts & calls for good: 1000% (if it works)

Today's project: Using Shortwave's AI assistant to analyze all my survey responses and collect questions for the Builder Methods workshop on Tuesday.

The Panel is on today! @ianlandsman.com joining @justinjackson.ca and I for a game of "let's trade businesses for a day". Join us in the chat! Going live 30 mins from now. www.youtube.com/live/c57WWiU...

Posted a job to find a video editor. I have 100s of candidates. Trying out ChatGPT Operator agent to review them all and narrow down a short list. Impressed so far!

Deciding on v1 pricing is so hard. All future pricing decisions are anchored off of whatever number you pick first.

The tradeoffs when choosing a chat space for a paid membership: Slack: Preferred UX. But can't automate onboarding/offboarding synced with membership. Also capped history. Discord: Best for integrated onboarding/offboarding. But that UX 🙄 Anything else: Too uncommon for people to adopt.

Do Discord haters (like me) ever come around on it? Or is the kinda thing that you either love or hate (forever).

"Who it's for" This is who my workshop is for next week. And who I'm building Builder Methods for. Just getting started.

Agent OS 2.0 coming along... This version *compiles* your commands and agents into your project. This injects your coding standards, workflows, patterns, so that your agent is all trained up and ready to rock. It works in "Claude Code mode" (uses subagents) or "Any CLI mode" (no subagents).

Is this the beginning of a swell of switchers from Claude Code to Codex CLI? Once Codex (and other CLIs) add sub-agents support, the swell will become a wave. Biggest missing piece imo.

It's opening day for the sweats, hoody and slippers.

This keyboards market is interesting. Pretty diverse playing field. No dominant winners. Lots of variation in products and customer preferences. A lot of creative expression.

A pattern I'm using for every project: 1. Describe my proposed idea/strategy. 2. Ask AI to give me clarifying questions, numbered, with suggested assumptions. 3. I reply to each with a simple "yes" or course correction. 4. THEN we build.

You switched from the Apple Keyboard to something better. Which one and why do you like it better?

Here's what writing looks like for me now.

1 hour from now, we're back on the mics for a live recording of The Panel. Come hang! Checking our notes... - first revenue! - kids leaving the nest - effort vs. outcomes - Open source product has traction. Now what? - ...

The days of rigid role separation—"designer", "frontend dev", "backend dev"—are over. Today's reality is fluid: designers code, developers need UX context, and features get built across all layers simultaneously. How Agent OS 2.0 will solve this... 🧵

Instead of cold emailing a busy person to ask to "pick their brain", try inviting them on your podcast or youtube. Most are willing, regardless of audience size. Plus you'll get their best, not a rushed 1-line response (or nothing). Don't have one? Start one.

Hey Rails friends. I'm trying an experiment. Can you help me send this out to our industry friends? "A week of Hotwire Office Hours, so you can finally tweak your Hotwire-based app." Part group training, part accountability, part hangout with friends. Details soon👇 hotwiresupport.pascal.works

I'm hosting the live workshop & discussion on the Realities of Building with AI. Current tooling, workflows, and what's changing... First 50 seats are half off (25 left). Sept 16. 2pm ET. Recording available. buildermethods.com/workshops/bu...

A lot of super power when you have marketing chops + software chops. That super power is now within reach for anyone. The bar has never been lower.

2 requests for Claude Code's 5-hour limit: 1. At least finish the task or clean up half-written code before cutting off! 2. Let me queue or schedule tasks for it to pick up when the next 5-hour window starts.

With Builder Methods, I'm leaning into ways to use my software skills to power a non-SaaS business model. Tooling and agents to help me with content creation, audience research, surveys, registrations, sales, segmentation... 🤓

Sneak peek at creating a spec using Agent OS 2.0. Planning, researching, writing, verifying accuracy. Designed to setup Claude Code for successful implementation.

You're gonna want to say you've been there since issue #1 of my Builder Briefing newsletter. Sending it today. There's still time. Subscribe 👇

A key concept in Claude Code: Your main agent relays instructions & responses to/from the subagents—you don't interact with subagents directly. So it's all about managing what context each agent needs to have (and what they shouldn't). This is key to consistency.

Agent OS 2.0 will include (customizeable) workflows for feature development, with status reports.

I'm ~70% into building a new product using Agent OS + Claude Code. It's been a huge learning experience into how agents behave, how to steer them, and make them more predictable. It's crazy how fast the tooling and best practices are changing—and how unsettled they are.

Subagents in Claude Code are huge deal. It's one of the biggest reasons for Anthropic's lock-in on the developers market (despite their increasingly aggressive token limits). If other CLI agents want to compete, they should add subagents support.

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Are you using a CLI coding agent that's not Claude Code as your daily driver? Which one and why?