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of families of tools. One is like we reimagine the software development. I think bold is is there. And I think like a cursor is more like an evolution of what we already have. It's like taking the ID and it's it's amazing and it's uh okay, let's let's adapt tools there like maybe uh Versevio and maybe Replit and and that area and then in the area of uh let's expedite uh let's change uh Let's let's progress with what we already have. You can see Cursor and and uh Kodo. We're different uh but between ourselves, uh cursor and codo, but definitely I think like comparison doesn't And just to set the context, this is not a Twitter demo. You made four million of revenue in four weeks. So this is uh this is actually working. You know, it's not a Yeah. What what do you think that is? Like there's been so many people demoing coding agents on Twitter And then it doesn't really work and then you guys were just like, here you go. It's live. Go use it. pay us for it, you know. Is there anything in the development that was like interesting and maybe how that compares We had no idea, honestly. Like we we've we've been pretty blown away. And and things have just kinda continued to grow faster since then. We're like uh today is week six.

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within the or within the boundaries of the agent, then It's like giving the the cats the cream basically. Uh because the the cat will eat the cream, whatever you whether you like it or not. As long as they can spell it, meaning i if the agent can uh um abuse an API, they will, even if you tell them Not to uh and we've seen it very w nicely with replit and the deleted database. Yeah, uh so it's um it's a very interesting th uh world. That uh uh we believe in things and we on a daily basis Cases get uh get our hypothesis nullified or or proved right um and it's very this because it's moving so fast that the things that I was or I believed I w I w was able to do uh earlier uh are no longer true and vice versa. For instance Every uh engineer or every engineering team in the world right now is using coding Agents because they are so useful, right? Um they're useful until it's a very good thing. They're not unt until there is s some some they're missing some context or

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sixty percent year over year across both Apple's App Store and Google Play. And on iOS s specifically, it's up 80% in April so far, the month that we're in. Total app releases are up one hundred and four percent compared to the same window last year. Apple's Greg Joswiak put it really well. He said the rumors of Apple store's death have been great. Greatly exaggerated, and basically productivity apps are the top five categories. For the first time, utility jumped to number two. This is what I think personally is happening. I think vibe coding is working claw cloud code replit all of these tools have gotten so good that people with ideas and no engineering background are shipping apps right now i believe it truly is the gold rush And the app store is basically benefiting in a huge way. And by the way, if you want to uh learn how to grow and scale your own business and take courses and learn how I personally am vibe coding. I actually have a s a school community called the AI Hustle School Community. There's a link in the description. We talk about uh everything that we're doing with AI to grow and scale our businesses, how we're vibe coding. how we're putting stuff out there, uh you go check it out. Okay. The next thing I want to talk about is OpenAI and Sora. There's actually a huge story about OpenAI right now. Um basically They are discontinuing Sora. We've talked about this…

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sixty percent year over year across both Apple's App Store and Google Play. And on iOS s specifically, it's up 80% in April so far, the month that we're in. Total app releases are up one hundred and four percent compared to the same window last year. Apple's Greg Joswiak put it really well. He said the rumors of Apple store's death have been great. Greatly exaggerated, and basically productivity apps are the top five categories. For the first time, utility jumped to number two. This is what I think personally is happening. I think vibe coding is working claw cloud code replit all of these tools have gotten so good that people with ideas and no engineering background are shipping apps right now i believe it truly is the gold rush And the app store is basically benefiting in a huge way. And by the way, if you want to uh learn how to grow and scale your own business and take courses and learn how I personally am vibe coding. I actually have a s a school community called the AI Hustle School Community. There's a link in the description. We talk about uh everything that we're doing with AI to grow and scale our businesses, how we're vibe coding. how we're putting stuff out there, uh you go check it out. Okay. The next thing I want to talk about is OpenAI and Sora. There's actually a huge story about OpenAI right now. Um basically They are discontinuing Sora. We've talked about this…

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So Andrew's a very curious guy and he gets deep into rabbit holes. So it sounds like what we're gonna learn is a lot about how you're using AI in in your day to day, the the good, the bad, the ugly, uh, and everything in between. Yeah. Let's do it. All right. Let's get into it. I would say I had this crazy moment like so many other people in December of last year where I'd played with Cloud Code and all the AI tools like replit and stuff and they could kind of do stuff. It was interesting, but it wasn't uh it wasn't there yet. And in December of 2025, five, I just literally like I I feel like I started shooting heroin. Um I w started waking up at f three or four in the morning. rolling out of bed with a big smile on my face and literally just sitting in terminal and Claude Code with ten tabs open. Uh and I've been doing that ever since. And my goal um you know i've had a bunch of different things i've been trying to do uh on the productivity side like i was basically trying to build an open claw agent uh before open So I was excited when I was able to do that. But I mostly have been excited as a business person, um, for those of you. you uh the listeners that don't know, I basically buy and start businesses. I mostly start businesses as a hobby for for fun. Um but I

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in a solo getting there. Which is weird, right? Like It is. Like we especially if we work on I know as a lone wolf developer. I kinda like it, but like things should be shareable, right? Especially teams working on the same feature were doing all this like duplicate conversation. conversations in Slack that uh like explaining the code that we're writing locally and like There have been a few stabs at it and Replit kinda does this a little bit, but like by and large. Large. Um you know, typically a project is like I have a slack conversation, I have the linear issue, I have a GitHub issue, maybe there's a century bug. I look at it, I talk about it, maybe I put comments on a doc in Notion. And then I make a branch in my like local VS Code. Um Um and then I write code on it and you know, the outputs in the browser and then like oh wait I have to work on this other thing. So I like Commit it and I put the branch down and then I like go work on, you know, feature B. There's a like you know, there's a bug in in prod oh no, let's fix it. And then I like go back to my feature branch. But it's like, wait, what was I working on? And like what's the progress? And what were the conversations? I was having around this.

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Every single solitary AI product right there, it's a wrapper, which means all it is is just it's a great way to develop a prompt, you know, that's automatic. Automatically hits into ChatGPT and you've built it around a website and it looks like a proprietary product. If ChatGPT or Gemini decide to get involved in your business, you know, let's say you create a bunch of CRMs on AI or whatever it may be or content generator. If they decide to get in your business, you're wiped out in one minute. That's why some of the coding updates that they've mentioned over the last what couple months that Claude and Gemini and and uh Chat GBT are doing that's where companies like Replit and and Lovable they have a problem in their hands. You know, these guys really want to push it. into it. Well, what are you gonna do in lovable? And and I love the product lovable. Um so when you're building that stack, understand it, understand what the foundations are right now, which is again to me I would focus on open AI would be the one because that's the easiest one. Don't commit to anything long-term. And if somebody comes to you and says this is proprietary, nobody else has this, blah, blah, blah. question you ask yourself is what model are you pulling your data from? Where is the API keys? Where are they portaling into? So once you have that understanding, then you can start making better decisions…

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I would submit that the reality is, today, nobody knows. There is again a ton of confusion in this space and definitions even from real leaders. in the space very widely. So here's Darmas Shaw. He's famous for being the CTO of HubSpot. He's also a co-founder of a company called Agents AI, and he gives a very broad definition. Which is just that AI powered software that accomplishes a goal, in his mind qualified. qualifies as an agent. That is super broad. Abjad Masad, who's the CEO of Replit, has a narrower and I think more uh kind of a high bar definition, which is that an agent If you're really talking about true agency in the AI system, the agent should be the one that determines. So in other words, it keeps going until it decides. So I'll kinda use these as two poles in the the same thing. you know, ongoing debate and evolution of discourse around what constitutes an agent, and I'll give you some Examples. Here's one of these first examples. This is AI software that accomplishes a goal, but it does it in a very structured way. So this is just a simple customer service ticket processing. agent takes in a ticket, has to look up some documentation, uses that documentation to try to write a response. If it can't find the documentation, maybe it has to escalate. But this workflow is Something that the AI did not get to decide. This is something that the humans set up because th…

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sixty percent year over year across both Apple's App Store and Google Play. And on iOS s specifically, it's up 80% in April so far, the month that we're in. Total app releases are up one hundred and four percent compared to the same window last year. Apple's Greg Joswiak put it really well. He said the rumors of Apple store's death have been crazy. Greatly exaggerated and basically productivity apps are the top five categories. For the first time, utility jumped to number two. This is what I think personally is happening. I think vibe coding is working cloud cloud code replit all of these tools have gotten so good that people with ideas and no engineering background are shipping apps right now i believe it truly is the gold rush And the app store is basically benefiting in a huge way. And by the way, if you want to uh learn how to grow and scale your own business and take courses and learn how I personally am vibe coding. I actually have a s a school community called the AI Hustle School Community. There's a link in the description. We talk about uh everything that we're doing with AI to grow and scale our businesses, how we're vibe coding. how we're putting stuff out there, uh you go check it out. Okay. The next thing I want to talk about is OpenAI and Sora. There's actually a huge story about OpenAI right now. Um basically They are discontinuing Sora. We've talked about this…

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And it is the exact opposite. Worldwide app releases in Q1 of 2026 are up 60% year over year across both Apple's App Store and Google Play. And on iOS specifically, it's up eighty percent. In April so far, the month that we're in, total app releases are up a hundred and four percent compared to the same window last year. Here. Apple's Greg Joswiak put it really well. He said the rumors of Apple store's death have been greatly exaggerated, and basically productivity apps are the top five categories for the first time. This is what I think personally is happening. I think vibe coding is working. Claud Claud Code, Replit, all of these tools have gotten so good that people with ideas and no engineering background are shipping apps. Right now I believe it truly is the gold rush and the app store is basically benefiting in a huge way. And by the way, if you want to uh learn how to grow and scale your own business and take courses and learn how I personally am vibe coding. I actually have a school community called the AA Hustle School Community. There's a link in the description. We talk about uh everything that we're doing with AI to grow and scale our businesses, how we're vibe coding, how we're putting stuff out there. Uh you go check it out. Okay, the next thing I want to talk about. is OpenAI and Sora. There's actually a huge story about OpenAI right now. Basically, they are dis…

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Move one document type from A to B using a robot. Yeah, okay, let's create that one little thing, that micro step that's meaningful. but easy. And I think what we did was we tried a lot of different things. Oh my God, did we try a lot of different things? I think what's different about scaling an AI company today versus a software company is we could try things without a user interface very easily. because we did we were we wanted to be autonomous. We didn't want users logging in. So that made our story a little easier. Now with things like Replit and Lovable. Like if you're creating a true software company, not an AI company, you can create prototypes, functioning prototypes that store data, that have authentication, that look production ready and try things. And I think what we've lost in product management is that go fast and break things concept. which is we do a lot of interviews. We, you know, uh, I think it was Marty Kagan or one of the product management schools. They were like, you know, what problem are you solving? And then you talk to some of these younger products. Project product managers and they're not they're not doing anything. They're just writing notes. And it's like build something. And now that anybody can code, build something. something and and try it and show it and get them to use it and watch them use it. I think a lot of this product management gene…