Bethany Crystal
@bethanymarz
Teaching people how to build and making learning apps with Build First at buildfirst.ai.
my AI is trying *so hard* to make sure i am not going to develop psychosis on this 3 workshop-day
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TFW you are googling yourself looking for a blog post you wrote last year and instead you find an event for a related event this year that you're already hosting (but forgot to add to your calendar)
lol WHOOPS
also hey i'm speaking at NYU startup school again this September!
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Psst! I'm leading a VERY SPEEDY workshop on Tuesday for an incredible group of women builders, AI Snack Club. It's all about how to set up a personal OS to power your business.
We're gonna show you how to get started at layer 0 in just 45 min. Tune in virtually here (April 14 at 1pm ET)
RSVPs just crossed 300+ so I g...
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Decided to turn this into a thing
Building with the Bard: Remix Shakespeare with Claude Code over Breakfast!
luma.com/vjihrr24
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"all four crew members are now out of integrity"
how sad, just as i was starting to feel good about the state of things... 😜
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warning: if you piss me off enough, i might just show up
1 - prospective client expresses extreme interest in my offerings
2 - client ghosts me
3 - i get annoyed
4 - i get invited to client's office from an unrelated source
5 - i cowork from client's office all day
6 - i text client casually that i'm hanging around
7...
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oooooh i just had my first scoping call for a custom software buildout for a prospective client... 😳
Keep your fingers crossed for me!
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bespoke software is the consulting of the AI age
i am talking supabase SQL migrations and pull requests and merges with a colleague who's building an app with me and has NEVER BUILT ANYTHING BEFORE and it's so incredible to see it
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Yesterday i decided to use The Complete Works of WIlliam Shakespeare as the starting source material to teach someone Claude Code
This is what I built
punk-shakespeare.vercel.app
Should i make it a miniapp on Farcaster next???
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Live demo of the new website for the Manhattan 75 block association (now built on Claude Code! Not by me!) 👏👏
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my favorite part about the 1-1 in person AI tutoring that I now do is that it is ironically the SLOWEST part of my day
what a luxury, really, to just sit next to another human and make something with them at the speed of human understanding
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