Alright. I'm out on a walk. It's Sunday. Leon's down for a nap. Caroline is glued to her laptop, and I just wanted to share this feeling that we're both having that and I'm I'm gonna speak for Caroline, but I'm pretty sure she feels exactly like this.
Speaker 1:We have not been this excited about business and work. For me personally, in and I'm not kidding, seventeen years. I remember in 2009 when I came up with my I wear your shirt idea, which you don't know what that is. It was just this, like, social media influencer thing before that existed, wore a T shirt every day for a company, made a video, created content, all that stuff on a daily basis. I remember so distinctly getting out of bed every morning, and I could barely sleep for, like, five hours because I was so excited.
Speaker 1:I would spring out of bed. I would throw on my shirt of the day, and I would just, like, get to work making things. And I had, like, a little flip camera, you remember what that is. And I was posting photos on Flickr with, like, a little point and shoot digital camera. And, like, it was all so rudimentary, but it was also new.
Speaker 1:Like, no one was really doing this, and it felt, like, so exciting. And then fast forward to this year and maybe even, you know, to a good bit a little bit last year when we found Lovable, and we started building kind of no code tools where you could just prompt through a chat box, it literally felt like a game changer for us because we're not developers. We've always had to hire developers. Caroline, I would say, is like a world class designer, but I'm not a great designer. I'm a decent designer.
Speaker 1:And it felt like it just, like, opened up this world for us. Then in December, when Anthropic dropped their, Opus 4.6 model in Claude, this is when it felt like it was a huge turning point for development using AI. And I've I definitely followed a few developers and, you know, unfortunately, got back on Twitter a little bit, not because I necessarily wanted to, but just because it's kind of, like, the most fun social network for me when it comes to business content. I find Instagram to be just kind of, like it's a little bit too showy. Like, it's not enough of, like, the real day to day thing that's going on, at least what I could find.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it doesn't really matter here or there. The point is, like, I just have been so excited, and I've watched people be so impressed with the work that it could do. And, really, it was like this past week or two, we have gotten into clogged code, and me specifically have gotten into it. I am not a developer, those of you who do not know. I do not know how to write code.
Speaker 1:I don't know anything about code. And I was always so afraid of plug code and especially, like, working in the terminal, which I still don't do because I cannot do it. But they have Mac app now, and it reduced all the friction and fear for me of, like, I'm just gonna break things. I don't know what I'm doing. It's gonna feel too hard.
Speaker 1:Whereas, like, it's just literally, like, chatting with Claude or GPT or whatever, but it's, like, actually doing things. And kind of one of the craziest things that it has done is, number one, it's, like, made my to do list a million miles long because now I have, like, 12 projects that I'm juggling because I have so many ideas, and I can actually bring them to life. And it's unbelievable. But the other thing that it's done is it's showed me that, like, some tools are just really better than others. And as much as we like Lovable and I think it has its place for, like, very quickly getting, like, prototypes up and dashboards up, Cloud Code is really better at building actually functioning tools and solving real problems with those tools and actually making them work.
Speaker 1:And, you know, that may change with Levelable because I know they use Cloud Opus' model in Levelable, but it's not the main model, so it kinda, like, bounces around. But I just I don't know. I'll give you a couple examples. So, you know, I was working on, well, kind of the first thing that I did when I opened up Cloud Code is I was like, I I just have this, you know, random idea that I wanna build, and, it's this little, like, expense sheet, and I just wanna do it in, a bento box grid. So it's, these little grids, and instead of seeing your expenses in, like, a, you know, row and column kind of view, I wanna see them as, like, big boxes for big expenses and small boxes for small expenses.
Speaker 1:And literally in about an hour, it knocked us out. And it was just working perfectly, and it looked pretty good. And, like, I just felt so good about how quickly it did it. And then I was like, okay. Well, let me do something that's, like, a little bit more challenging where I wanted to ask it if it could build, basically a good content engine for Teachery because Teachery has never had a blog.
Speaker 1:I mean, it kind of has it for once or twice in its thirteen year existence, but, like, it just has, like, never kept up with I've never kept up with creating the content because it's just been so difficult to do. And I really do feel like, you know, a couple years ago, I would have said, absolutely, you can't have AI write content. It sounds like crap. But nowadays, it's pretty hard to write a blog post to yourself that is better than what kind of a Claude, you know, or any of these other other models can write. And I'm not saying that's the right thing to do, but I'm just saying, like, I think that content is changing.
Speaker 1:I think the way we create content is changing, and so that's, I think, a little tougher for another discussion. But, anyway, let me get back to the project. So I basically asked Claude Code, hey. I want to build Teachery blog up, but, like, I don't have the time to do it. Hiring a freelancer to write the articles and do the research, I've done that before.
Speaker 1:It takes so long, and I have to do this whole review process. And, like, I don't even know if what they're doing is the right thing to do, But I do trust that these tools have so much knowledge that it makes sense that they can do them faster. And I was just like, can you put together a plan and, like, I want you to do everything, and I want you to be and how to be as automated as possible. And I kid you not, it literally for an hour worked by itself. I think it asked me two clarifying questions to start, and then it just went to work.
Speaker 1:And I just kinda, like, watched it, and I would check-in every once in was like, are you still working? And I was like, yep. Blah blah blah. I'm still working. And it came back, and it basically, like, put together this whole plan and it said, you know, I'm gonna write over a thousand articles, which sounds ridiculous because why would it do that?
Speaker 1:But basically, what it wants to do is just, like, own as much of the market as possible for people that are searching for things, which as I started to, like, read through its full response, was like, oh, this actually really makes sense. It's kind of like how search is working now because if you go to Google, you're just getting sponsored results anyway. So, like, what does it really matter? But also trying to fill in the gap of, like, us being the results or, like, the AI search result. Anyway, long story made short, essentially, what it did is it built this whole plan.
Speaker 1:It told me that it could automate all of it. It asked me a few things that I wanted to do. And, basically, what it has put together is this full content pipeline where it writes three articles a day. It tells me when it's starting them. I get a telegram message.
Speaker 1:It tells me when it's starting them, tells me what the article is about, what keywords it's going for. It structured it all for AI to search it. It generates images based on our brand style. I had to work a little bit with to get it to look decent. It's still not great, but that's something I could hone over time.
Speaker 1:And then it just publishes them. It literally has figured out, like, the full pipeline through, like, our framer website to the Teachery website to, all this different stuff and, like, just having it work. And what feels amazing about this is, like, I can just message the telegram bot now and I can just say, hey. Are you writing articles today? Because I haven't heard from you.
Speaker 1:And it's like, oh, yeah. Like, I've got them queued up. These are times that they're coming. It's like, you want me to change it so I send you a report in the morning? I'm like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:Send me a report in the morning. And then it changes it and sends me a report in the morning. Then I had a thought of like, oh, I want a weekly report or a daily report actually is what it does. At the end of the day of like, how the blog is doing? Are we getting any traffic?
Speaker 1:And I think like yesterday's report came through and it was 12 visitors. And I'm like, great. We're just getting started. Like, you know, I don't know what it's gonna turn into, but it just feels incredible that, like, this now, this whole kind of, like, blog pipeline is working. And even if the content is not amazing, even if the content is just half good or even a third good, it's more than what I was doing for years.
Speaker 1:And even if it gives us a chance to land one new customer a month, it's well worth the, like, two hours that I spent working with Cloud Code. But I share all this because it's like, we you know, we're we're on the weekend here, and we're, you know, working between Leon's naps, but like we're also finding ourselves where like I'll be watching Leon, like playing with her in the little play area and doing like sit up practice and crawling practice with her and Caroline's like on her laptop and she's like, you know, you know, kind of cramming away doing some stuff and then she's like, okay, I'll watch her. I'm gonna repeat her her bottle and I'm gonna burp her and I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna need to like work on this like other little project that I had an idea for. And it's like the first time that like our laptops have ever like stolen us away from these, like, little quieter moments so that we would have just filled with, like, you know, watching something on TV or scrolling through something on our phone. And it's, instead of consuming anything, we're now just in this, like, holy crap.
Speaker 1:We can create anything kind of feeling that we have not felt in so long. And I just share this because, number one, we're unbelievably excited. And, like, I don't know where 2026 is gonna go for us, but all I know is that, like, the creative output is going to be 10 x because we can just do so much more and we can actually, like, automate more. And I think I might actually bring my own kind of, like, blog slash newsletter back. I think it's just gonna be a newsletter that kind of, like, lives as a blog if people want it.
Speaker 1:But I just have so many thoughts that I wanna share. And, also, I did one of my other projects that I built was, like, this little content digest thing. And again, like just had ClogCode build this and it took like two hours and like, I love it. It's great. It sends me a message every day with some content ideas.
Speaker 1:I can just reply back with a voice memo. It turns that voice memo into like a couple of tweets, into, an email newsletter, into a LinkedIn post, which I don't need because I'm not gonna use that, but, like, it just did it. Like, it just and it it sounds like me. Like, it's trained on my voice. I've read a whole bunch of articles that I wrote, and it literally sounds like me.
Speaker 1:Like, you probably could not tell because no one reads word for word anything anymore anyway, but at a close glance, there's no em dashes. It doesn't read like AI, and it actually is pretty decent. And I just feel like the output that we can put out is so much greater. And I'm not saying that's necessarily good or bad. And I just think that, like, there's just a tide that's coming of content that none of us have ever seen before, but that's just kind of the nature of the world.
Speaker 1:Like, there was a time when there were no web sites that existed, but then all of a sudden, there were a billion websites on the Internet. And, like, how do you sort through them? You just do and you find a way. And I think that's gonna be the same thing that happens with content. And, you know, sure, like, you know, lower quality content is not gonna be that valuable, but there's always gonna be a room for kind of like decent content that will rise above.
Speaker 1:And then obviously, all the stuff that's like handcrafted amazing content that we all love to read and I still really appreciate, but like we don't have the time to make and it's not really the thing we love to do anyway, that's gonna rise to the top above all the AI created content anyway. But, yeah, I just I don't know. I wanted to share this because of the the level of excitement that we have, the amount of things that we're working on, the amount of ideas that are, like, bubbling up and that we wanna work on, it's it's definitely a good and a bad thing. Like, I I definitely thought this morning, man, I have never wished more that I had a clone of myself that could just work on Teachery . Like, I just wish there was a whole version of me that had the hours in the day to just work on Teachery because there's so much that I now think I can do with Cloud Code because I actually committed my first ever, change to Teachery , you know, actual, like, like, core functioning app.
Speaker 1:I've never done that. I've only ever done it to, like, the marketing site, and, like, I didn't break anything. And I was able to do it through Cloud Code, and it explained everything to me and, like, walked me through it and made sure I didn't break anything. Developer double checked it. It was totally fine.
Speaker 1:Like, this is something I've never been able to do, and I wish I had the time to, like, have a whole other version of me that could take all the ideas that I have and actually, like, bring them to life and just, like, work faster on Teachery . Like, get more things out there, be willing for things to break and not work, and, like, people, might be like, hey, this doesn't work and I'll be okay, well I'll get Claude to fix it and like hopefully in a couple hours it'll be good to go. But like I'm juggling that with all these other ideas with Wayne and then obviously being a dad and trying to be like a present human being in our lives too and I think that's a problem with all this that has to you know be solved and I think that's only going come with a little bit of time and energy and effort of figuring that out but I think we're just trying to ride this excitement wave of just what we can do that we could have never been able to do before, and it just feels amazing. And I guess I'm just leaving this here for you of, like, if you've been intimidated by these tools, my best piece of advice is literally just ask the tool.
Speaker 1:Like, hey. I don't know what I'm doing. Help me get started. Like, just literally help me start doing this and, like, here are the things I want to accomplish. I'm not technical or I don't know how to, you know, write code or I'm not a good designer.
Speaker 1:Like, just literally help me do this thing and walk me through it step by step and, like, you know, treat me like a baby. And that's literally what I've been doing, and it had been working just fine. Now the only thing is, like, we don't have a lot of maps to show that are out in the public, but this has been, like, a couple weeks. Like, I think by the end of this year, we are gonna have a roster of things that we have launched and we have created and we have shared that's 10, twenties, 30 x more than we ever have before. And I think we're gonna be so proud of that.
Speaker 1:And I think some of it will be crap, and that's fine. But I think some of it's gonna be really cool and really interesting. And it's amazing that we live in a time when, like, I don't have to pay a developer $10,000 to bring an idea to life only to find out, like, there wasn't enough of a market there and, like, that's a big loss. And I've done that multiple times and that's really hard to stomach, but it is just kind of the part of what business was like ten years ago, But that's not what business is like now, which is really cool. So I don't know.
Speaker 1:There's a lot there, but I just wanted to share the excitement. Alright. I gotta finish this walk, and I bet Leon's up for a nap. So I do need to go be a dad for a while, and hope you enjoy hearing this.