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AI Developer Accelerator — Coaching Call - September 15th
AI Developer Accelerator — Coaching Call - September 15
Meeting Purpose
Key Takeaways
- Agentic Workflows Drive Efficiency: Custom agents (e.g., Patrick's "Beacon" news aggregator, Ty's "UI in reverse" code generator) are automating complex tasks, but this high-volume usage is rapidly consuming token limits.
- Strategic Pivots for Revenue: Juan is shifting from development to sales for his AI photo booth, creating bespoke transformations for high-end venues to secure initial clients.
- Operationalizing AI for Consulting: Rod is exploring a consulting product to help SMBs operationalize AI, focusing on creating custom skills and structured workflows to reduce token waste.
- New Member Onboarding: Lisa, a full-stack engineer, joined to learn about agentic systems and is evaluating development harnesses like Hermes, T3 Stack, and PI.
Topics
Agentic Workflows & Token Management
- Workflow: "Beacon" (research agent) → raw report → "Clara" (contextualization agent) → TTS audio → internal archive (audio + transcript).
- Goal: Create a continuous improvement loop by feeding user feedback from ChatGPT back into the system to refine future briefings.
- Process: Design UI mockups → agent generates code to meet UI contracts → adversarial agent tests the code.
- Rationale: This method was used to build an interactive pitch app for "The Island" platform, which replaces $50k in subscriptions for a Bahamas-based company by consolidating 5-8 services.
- Benefit: The app captures user analytics (clicks, shares) to track engagement, unlike a static slide deck.
- High-volume agentic work is rapidly depleting token limits, even on upgraded plans.
- Example: Ty's UI testing consumed all Astra tokens in two days.
- Mitigation: Patrick's team reduced token use by building a custom "Grille with docs" skill with pre-defined business context, cutting spec-generation questions from 70–80 to 15–20.
Project & Business Updates
- Strategy: Pivot from development to sales to generate revenue.
- Target: High-end venues in San Diego.
- Sales Funnel: Email with bespoke transformation demo → call → in-person demo (using a phone/iPad setup) → final follow-up email.
- Estate Agency Website: A new site with a CRM backend is outranking competitors (e.g., Savills) in local SEO within weeks of launch.
- Hermes Upgrade: Added telephone capability, enabling the agent to make calls.
- Fitness App: Building a multi-platform app (Mac, iPhone, Watch) for personal fitness tracking, including meal logging via image analysis.
- Reinvention: Automating the training and fine-tuning of a 12-year-old shelf recognition project using open-source visual LLMs.
- Benefit: Eliminates the need for expensive third-party vendors and manual image annotation.
Tools & Infrastructure
- Background: Full-stack engineer exploring agentic systems for SMB consulting.
- Goal: Build a new development environment on Fedora and evaluate agent harnesses.
- Hermes: Used for orchestration and daily management; integrates with OpenRouter for model access.
- T3 Code: Recommended for managing multiple Claude/OpenAI subscriptions and isolating dev/staging/prod environments.
- PI: An open-source tool being explored for specialized tasks like code review.
- ccblackbox.app: Ryan is using this open-source, Mac-only IDE for Claude development.
- Strategy: Use cheaper models (e.g., Sonnet, GLM 5.3) for routine tasks and reserve expensive models (e.g., Opus) for complex work.
- GLM 5.3: Noted as a cost-effective alternative to IQ models on OpenRouter.
Next Steps
- Create a landing page for the AI photo booth.
- Develop bespoke transformations for target venues.
- Execute the sales outreach plan.
Action Items
- Expose Beacon Morning Briefing archive via Traefik + Tailscale - WATCH (5 secs)
- Create bespoke image-to-image style for target venue; then email venue director w/ demo + offer free pilot - WATCH (5 secs)
- Build photo booth landing page - WATCH (5 secs)
- Identify and join local country club/venue networks - WATCH (5 secs)
- Prepare portable demo kit (phone + iPad) and pre-recorded demo for venue visits - WATCH (5 secs)
- Evaluate GLM 5.3 on OpenRouter; set Claude benchmarks; run OpenRouter tests - WATCH (5 secs)
- Run ERP launch postmortem w/ team - WATCH (5 secs)
- Evaluate T3 stack, Hermes, OpenRouter; then report back to group - WATCH (5 secs)
- Deploy T3 code servers on Mac Mini + Linux server - WATCH (5 secs)
- Clean up and update personal projects portal - WATCH (5 secs)
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AI Developer Accelerator — Coaching Call - September 15th
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