Hey peeps. This is for all teh baby promptgrammers out there. When your writting apps, connecting tio backend databases, sending API calls all over the place , and created it all in Cursor or Claude Code, just take a second to stop and think 'Whats that one thing that is bugging me?' Then dive into why it is bugging you. 9 times out of 10 if you think something isnt quite right with your app, then something porobabluy isnt right with your app. I have just done a major bit of refactoring (Using Cursor). I am writting a membership app for a client and its all running fine. calls are being made data is being saved etc. It is just that when i click the save button on recoed, that 'saving' text just stays there for a bit, lets say 1-2 seconds. Its been grabbing my attention for the past few hours so i just dug in asked Cursor what was going on and why it was taking so long. ii have now gone from db writes taking 1.5s down to low tens of milliseconds. The app is so much more responsive and USABLE!! 1,5 secs is a long time to be looking at a record being saved and that time saving is what your client wants, along with the value your app brings. Keep engineering

During lastnights weekly call @Scott Rippey posted a prompt for a Brand Voice Framework. All I can say is WOW!! I ran through it and all its questions. The output is amazing 19 pages of well stuctured information. I would thororly recommend anyone who is thinking about branding to take a look. This was information freely given. One of the cornerstones of the community. Id hat to think how much this would cost if you got a brand specalist to do it for you. @Scott Rippey ball park figure for this kind of branding?

Loved this video from Nate.B.Jones. It discusses the various levels of AI coding. According to the levels I believe i hover around the level 4. Writting specs and reviewing the output. Not really looking at code any more. I am going to have to get better to get to level 5. Not impossible, just a leap of faith. What do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDcgHzCBgmQ

I just spotted this little nugget going into my GitHub. I hadn't spotted it before "git add -A; git commit --trailer "Co-authored-by: Cursor"

Don't be disheartened if a client leaves you. It is business, and sometimes that just happens. It happened to me a few months back. A major client of mine generating a large portion of MRR ended our contract and went off to do the work themselfs. Everyone is learning, us included, all at different levels. The client had been using custom workflows and prompts I developed for them for over a year. We had a great workingh relationship, so when they told me they were going to go their own way and do it themselfs it made perfect sense. They had seen what automation could do for them, and naturaly it looked nice and simple because thats how you provide solutions to clients. Keep it simple. Alas, it turns out it wasnt as simple as they thought. They removed my software as per the licencing terms and reverted to their old manual process. My software solution didn't do all that much. It looked at the suppliers invoices, added the items to stock, then updated prices in various places on their systems. Quite a bit of 'scripting', lots of custom AI Prompts and it all worked well. When they their developers first saw it they said they could 'probably' have done something similar. They hadn't, hence buying my solution. The devs, over a year, had obviously been pushing to do it themselfs and with a change of Head of Department, they took their shot. Two months on they have come back to me enquiring if I would consider working with them again and if the old terms could be reinstated. Of course they can, and whats more I am not going to charge you any more. I will keep the same MRR Everyone has to learn. Me, I'm currently browsing Mac Studios 512GB Memory. the question is do I buy one or do I buy two. I have to put the money somewhere otherwise the taxman will take a portion :) Let your clients go if they want to, dont put up to many barriers to coming back. It pays to be nice. It pays very well.