Bethany Crystal
@bethanymarz
Teaching people how to build and making learning apps with Build First at buildfirst.ai.
if i share this prompt with 300 high school students, how many do you think will know that NotebookLM can do this for them instantly?
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getting worried that working with AI on these razor-thin time margins is going to make it impossible for me to ever work with humans again
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More happy people building stuff ☺️
Popped the Claude Code cherry with about 20 creative design professionals in Brooklyn tonight
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PS - Thank you @y8t! 😵💫
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I deployed my first mini app last week to a client with real users from 20 companies and I have been triaging bug fixes and questions from users for the first time in my life. It’s wild.
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Been thinking about some of the uniquely human "glitches" that are getting in the way of human adoption of AI.
I wrote this reflection today on three big ones I keep coming across:
1. The Emotional Glitch
Why we still need a human "nod of recognition" to actually ship things
2. The Social Glitch
Why it’s getting ha...
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i have no idea how to live demo my personal OS so i just decided to create a "presenter view" that replaces all client names and details with harry potter references
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Last Friday I sat down with an emergent small business owner who’s starting a small agency in NYC. We spent 3 hours together to build the MVP of just the core functionality for his business.
It was his first time in Claude Code: first time installing any libraries, first time in the terminal. He told me many times he ...
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it's actually nuts that it's easier and faster for me to build someone and admin dashboard view vs. just respond to their email with the details hand-picked in line
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OK i need some contingency planning help
Tomorrow I'm running a 3-hour AI hackathon for an entire company from a luxury resort in the Dominican Republic that seems to prioritizes VACATION MODE over VIBE CODING MODE in their wifi speed
(go figure...)
In the event that tomorrow is a COMPLETE bust and no one can get a...
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Casual 7am airport talk:
Him: So where are you heading?
Me: To teach a corporate AI workshop in the DR.
Him: No way! I’m going to OpenAI! They want to talk to my company
Me: Ugh, don’t sell to them
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9:48pm
The night before my 8am flight to the Dominican Republic (FOR A PAID WORK TRIP!!)
I’ve been so stressed about the deliverables for this all-hands AI hackathon that it took until this minute when I actually got excited about my destination hehe
🏝️🌞
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