Don’t Blink

12 months ago I built a fake bus payment app so I wouldn't feel guilty about getting on the bus without paying. Last week I shipped a mobile app, web app, and dashboard that runs my entire business.

I went back and dug up my first mention of chatGPT (before it was “capital C”).Funny to see how casual I was about it. I had no idea that was an inflection point for human history and my entire career.

For months I was using it for dumb stuff. Date ideas for my girlfriend (none of which I used). Asking it to be my business coach. My therapist. Showed me how to respond to emails better. It was a fun toy. But by messing around with a toy you learn what the buttons do.

That shitty bus app I made? I built it with a janky version of Cursor and Wispr Flow and I was so proud of myself.

Then 3 months ago we hit another big shift. At the end of 2025 tech twitter was going wild over this new AI model from Anthropic called Claude Sonnet 4.5. If that means nothing to you just know its just a super duper smart AI model.

I now pay $100/mo for Claude Code and in 45 days I made a mobile app, web app, and full dashboard that helps me run my business 20x faster.

My workforce costs me $200/mo. Not $400,000/yr for 4 employees. $200 a month. That’s nuts.

Saying "I don't have funding" is no longer an excuse. There's people buying $700 Mac Minis and spinning up fully autonomous AI employees with open source tools (openclaw). The rate at which things are moving is mind boggling.

While I've been heads down figuring out how to use all these cool new toys, I forget how much I know. I get excited talking about this stuff around my friends outside the SF tech bubble. I end up firing off 6 ways they can use AI to save them thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some of them have even asked me to help them implement it into their own business.

A lot of people latch on to the doomsday narrative that AI is going to take all our jobs. I don't think that's true. But I do think the people who learn how to use these tools are going to run laps around the people who don't.

Things are moving so fast and it’s such a fun time to figure out how to use these tools. The move right now isn't to use AI to avoid doing work. It's to learn how to use it to do more with less.

Don’t blink, you might miss a lot.

Let’s have some fun.

You’re Awesome,

Jared

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Things Worth Clicking

I am going to switch it up and share my favorite AI tools for this post.

• Voice dictation -WisprFlow: the best and most integrated tool out there.

• Building websites - v0 or Lovable: helps me spin up websites and landing pages for myself and clients that I work with. When prompted and used correctly, it makes beautiful websites, dashboards, and anything you need

• Note Taking - Granola

• Business Automations - n8n

• Chat, Coding, and Building - Claude

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