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[10/21/2025] Weekly Coaching Cal
AI Developer Accelerator Weekly Support Call - October 21
Meeting Purpose
Key Takeaways
- Claude Code is the most cost-effective coding assistant. Its $100/mo plan is cheaper than Cursor, and Brandon is creating a ShipKit cheat sheet to make its UX feel as natural.
- Use Server Actions for internal logic and APIs for external services. This simplifies development by leveraging Next.js's built-in type safety and authentication, reducing boilerplate.
- To scale a SaaS, first find 2-3 direct customers, then pivot to upstream partners. This strategy leverages existing distribution channels for exponential growth.
- For complex, multi-step agent workflows, pass the full master prompt to each agent. This ensures consistent context and better outputs than trying to optimize prompts for individual tasks.
Topics
AI Development Tools & Cost-Effectiveness
- Claude Code vs. Cursor: Claude Code is the most cost-effective coding assistant. Cost: The $100/mo plan is cheaper than Cursor. Billing: Charges per runtime, not per token. This means using faster models like Haiku can increase output for the same cost. UX: Brandon is creating a ShipKit cheat sheet to make Claude Code's UX feel as natural as Cursor's.
- Playwright MCP Servers: Benefit: Pre-built MCPs are faster and more context-friendly than dynamic code generation. Use Case: They act as reliable tools for development tasks (e.g., scraping, debugging UI) rather than becoming part of the final application.
Project Updates & Wins
- Ty's Interactive Presentation Software: Progress: The V1 presentation software is live and has been significantly enhanced since last week. New Features: Engagement Intelligence: An opt-in system for collecting audience info. Real-time Q&A: Questions appear instantly on the presenter's control screen. AI Chat: An AI assistant answers audience questions based on presentation content. Goal: Build a Zoom app to integrate results directly into calls.
- Paul's SaaS Growth: Opportunity: A major competitor's failure in Australia/New Zealand created a surge of inbound leads. Result: Securing new SaaS contracts >$10k/mo. Action: Transitioning development to Claude Code to reduce costs (a recent bill was $1,200) and accelerate sales.
- Patrick's AI Platform Launch: Project: Launching a new internal platform in one week to aggregate 12+ AI tools built over the last 1.5 years. Challenge: Documenting the entire platform. Patrick will work with Brandon to use ShipKit prompts for this. New Idea: Designing a two-panel AI chat UX with a VS Code-like composer (auto-completion) and a separate response panel.
- Garron's Real Estate AI: Background: A non-coder with 27 years in real estate, previously built a software company to 2,000 subscribers at $1k/yr. Progress: Using ShipKit and Cursor, Garron completed more work in 1.5 days than in the previous month. Goal: Build an AI platform to support coaching clients with real estate conversation frameworks.
Strategic Discussions
- SaaS Customer Acquisition: Strategy: Find 2-3 direct customers, then identify and partner with an "upstream" provider who serves many of your target clients. Resource: Dan Martell's "Software as a Science" (Chapters 3-7) was recommended for its sales and marketing pipeline guidance.
- Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocols: Status: Google's A2A protocol is pre-V1.0, causing slow adoption as companies wait for a stable release. Catalyst: A2A will likely explode when a major player (e.g., OpenAI) adopts it, creating network effects. Risk: A2A could become an invisible utility like HTTP, with value captured by the few who implement it, not the many who use it.
- Complex Agent Workflows: Problem: Generating continuous creative outputs (e.g., video scenes) with a 60-page master prompt. Solution: Pass the full master prompt to each agent, but assign different, sequential tasks. Rationale: This ensures consistent context and better outputs than trying to optimize prompts for individual steps.
Next Steps
- Brandon: Record and release the ShipKit cheat sheet for Claude Code. Create a ShipKit module for sharing custom prompts and agents.
- Paul: Transition development to Claude Code to manage costs. Read "Software as a Science" (Ch. 3-7) to accelerate sales.
- Patrick: Connect with Brandon to use ShipKit prompts for documenting the new AI platform.
- Jake: Use the "AI dad lawyer" prompt to analyze the complex client contract.
- Mitch: Move to Vegas to collaborate with Debris and accelerate the project. Test the "full master prompt" strategy for video generation with Manus and Claude Code.
- Alex (Wilson): Connect with Al on LinkedIn regarding potential job opportunities.
- Garron: Purchase ShipKit to accelerate development of the real estate AI platform.
Action Items
- Fix Q&A/Expert form; enable Q&A submission - WATCH (5 secs)
- Publish Claude Code cheat sheet; record 4-module training in ShipKit - WATCH (5 secs)
- Review Motia.dev vs Trigger.dev; report back to Brandon - WATCH (5 secs)
- Text Brandon re: ShipKit prompts for CI/CD docs; then implement parallel doc generation - WATCH (5 secs)
- Analyze client contract using AI dad lawyer prompt; share findings w/ Brandon - WATCH (5 secs)
- Buy ShipKit; start codifying coaching process into prompt templates - WATCH (5 secs)
- Create channel/process for sharing custom GPTs/prompts w/ community - WATCH (5 secs)
- Contact Al on LinkedIn re: open roles - WATCH (5 secs)
- Test Manus w/ master prompt; then run Claude Code manual run; share results w/ Brandon - WATCH (5 secs)
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[10/21/2025] Weekly Coaching Cal
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