Alan Pinstein (@apinstein) profile picture

Serial Entrepreneur. Product guy. Systems thinker. Trying to live in the future. Mild AI psychosis. Try DriveTone with your EV!

Joined May 2008
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DriveTone v1.5 beta is out - now it’s even easier to get real engine sounds while you drive your EV. Calibration is now automatic, delays have been fixed, and app is much more robust to GPS uncertainty. If you tried before and it didn’t work well, please try again! testflight.apple.com/join/H6…
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I have an OpenAI reset expiring tomorrow. It’s been interesting spinning up a bunch of chats just to burn my tokens to see what I can do. I’m actually having trouble using them all since the model six family came out in 6.1. I haven’t really been hitting limits anymore on the 20x pro plan. I’m also blown away by how much you can do with these models. It’s some things that I would just never even bother doing. You can just get done overnight for almost no tokens.
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This is a great project for hosting & sharing mini-projects! I use Charming for my Litter Robot Sentry: charm.ing/templates/apinstei… and you can, too!
Everyone in AI is building for everyone else in AI. We're building for your group chat. Introducing Charming ✨ Personal apps for us normies. Make an app for your book club, a meal planner for your family, go wild (it's free!) Build in Claude/ChatGPT, share like a Google Doc
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I got bored of my EV sounding like a fridge.
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Boardy has been so great for networking! I've met tons of interesting other founders & had great biz dev contacts. Excited to be able to use iMessage instead of WhatsApp!
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Hardening AI plan outputs by forcing "brief-back" conversations until the brief-back makes sense to the plan creator works really well. I've been using this (along with my basic plan review skills) a lot lately, the plan improvements are drastic.
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Gave my daughter a test drive of the EV virtual sounds app last night. She posted this to her socials…. she’s throwing shade my way with that overlay. I feel judged :)
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Ok who has an EV and thinks fake engine sounds while driving are actually fun? I need 10 beta testers for my new app EVibes: testflight.apple.com/join/H6… Even I’m a little surprised how well it works!
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This is finally ready for testing... and it's actually really fun. If you have an EV and want to try out some fun interactive sportscar sounds (inside the cabin only), LMK!
Working on a toy app to make awesome sounds as I drive my EV. Built the AI a diagnostic log so it can visualize the internals of the engine simulation and fix its own bugs...
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I made a silly, useful thing. If you have a Litter Robot, you probably know why you need this. And it's free! Enjoy. charm.ing/apinstein/litter-s…
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Working on a toy app to make awesome sounds as I drive my EV. Built the AI a diagnostic log so it can visualize the internals of the engine simulation and fix its own bugs...
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Wow! TIL you can instruct Codex to delegate complex work to a smarter model just with a prompt.
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Alan Pinstein retweeted
Replying to @thatguybg
Very cool. I think what you’re reaching for is what architect Christopher Alexander called a “pattern language,” which is the foundational idea behind my Encyclopedia of Agentic Coding Patterns: aipatternbook.com
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Loving OpenAI 5.6 models! Gave Terra x-high a shot at fixing a bug 5.5 high couldn’t after many attempts and advice from me. Terra nailed it first try. Seems faster as well! Gonna be using those resets…
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Wow @mercury is really impressive. Turnkey banking, expense cards, invoicing, accounting & Stripe integration, it keeps doing things I didn't expect it to. Has made spinning up a modern biz incredibly easy!
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Claude tries so hard to be lazy. Must be trained on lots of real human PR's... Claude: "You're right, but that's a bit more work, I've noted that for a future refactor." And now here I am, having "pep talks" with an AI. Sigh.
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Alan Pinstein retweeted
living near your friends is one of the best life upgrades you can make excited to launch our partnership with @livenearfriends that paves a way for anyone to create a friend compound using new missing-middle laws and our new infill design system @typefive
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I just tried for the first time where you discuss a product feature for 30m+ and let the AI summarize & make a spec from it. Worked incredibly well, so much better than trying to chat/prompt from scratch...
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