4d • General discussion
12/1/2025 - Weekly Coaching Call Recording
Meeting Purpose
Key Takeaways
- New Tools for AI Devs: SpecStory (VS Code extension) saves AI chat logs to Markdown, enabling AI-driven documentation and course creation. Warp Drive syncs terminal sessions to a cloud disk for persistent knowledge bases.
- AI-Powered Productized Services: Ryan is building an AI app to scale his social media management service from 2–3 to 20–30 clients, using Claude and Zapier to automate content creation and approvals.
- Future of UI/UX: Glenn Marcus (Click Consulting) predicts traditional UIs will be replaced by AgentOS and contextual widgets within 5 years, prompting a pivot from mobile development to AI agents and backends.
- Enterprise AI Security: For corporate systems like ERPs, use Claude for Financial Services for its built-in audit trails and data isolation. Start with read-only permissions and use sandboxes like E2B to mitigate risk.
Topics
New Tools & Workflows
- SpecStory Extension: A VS Code extension that saves AI chat logs to Markdown. Use Case: Patrick Chouinard used it to export a SpecKit project's chat log, then fed the log to Claude 4.5 to generate training materials on spec-driven development.
- Warp Drive Feature: A cloud disk that syncs terminal sessions, creating a persistent, collaborative knowledge base for AI agents.
- Kaiya Project: Ty Wells is building a personal assistant (Jessica) using Daniel Miser's Kaiya project structure to automate tasks.
AI-Powered Projects & Services
- ShipKit Studio (Ty Wells): A web GUI for the ShipKit CLI, built using ShipKit. Features: Logo generation (DALL-E), wireframe editing, and a database schema builder. Goal: Automate live app deployment to E2B from the GUI.
- Daily Briefing Agent (Patrick Chouinard): A ground-up build using Gemini CLI. Workflow: Parallel search agents → Analyze agent synthesizes results → Create Dashboard agent generates HTML. Next Step: Use Cloud Code to build the web scaffolding (Supabase backend, navigation) around the pre-built prompt logic.
- Social Media Automation (Ryan): Building an AI app to scale a productized service. Goal: Manage 20–30 clients (vs. 2–3) at £700–£1000/mo. Tech: Claude and Zapier for content generation and client approvals.
Strategic Pivots & Future Trends
- Glenn Marcus (Click Consulting): Pivoting from mobile development to AI. Rationale: Predicts traditional UIs will be replaced by AgentOS and contextual widgets within 5 years.
- Brandon Hancock: Stressed the importance of building public "awareness" (e.g., via YouTube) to maintain market value during industry shifts.
Technical Deep Dives
- Large-Scale Real Estate Data (Lan): Problem: Analyzing 50M+ annual MLS records for market trends. Initial Analysis: Use Excel/Copilot for small datasets. For large files, use Python's pandas library. Production Architecture: Postgres with the PostGIS extension for efficient geospatial queries.
- Enterprise AI & Security (David): Problem: Connecting AI agents to corporate ERPs (NetSuite, QuickBooks). Solution: Use Claude for Financial Services for its built-in audit trails and data isolation. Start with read-only permissions and use sandboxes like E2B to mitigate risk.
- PostHog Analytics (Prem): Problem: Filtering out local development traffic from analytics. Solution: Use one PostHog project and filter dashboards by URL (e.g., current URL does not contain "localhost").
Next Steps
- Brandon Hancock: Publish YouTube video on developer resources. Fix missing "Generate Transcript Deep Dive" video.
- Patrick Chouinard: Share ShipKit Studio with the community repo.
- Scott Rippey: Post "Skills vs. MCPs" article to the Discord community.
- Ryan: Review resources on productized services and the Gemini API.
- Lan: Explore Postgres with PostGIS for the real estate project.
- David: Investigate Claude for Financial Services for enterprise use cases.
Action Items
- Install SpecStory VS Code extension - WATCH (5 secs)
- Schedule 1:1 w/ Brandon re: MCP + Gemini CLI - WATCH (5 secs)
- Report Cloud Code usage/score to Brandon - WATCH (5 secs)
- Add ShipKit++ section to community repo - WATCH (5 secs)
- Join ShipKit community - WATCH (5 secs)
- Post skills/MCPs/agents article in ShipKit Discord - WATCH (5 secs)
- Send images to Claude alongside text descriptions - WATCH (5 secs)
- Evaluate Gemini API for video processing (chunking + FFMPEG) - WATCH (5 secs)
- Define MLS analysis outputs; then build local agents to convert TXT→CSV, filter by lat/long, track IDs - WATCH (5 secs)
- Set up Supabase + PostGIS; seed MLS data - WATCH (5 secs)
- Build read-only NetSuite MCP; then implement NetSuite agents - WATCH (5 secs)
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