• Alex Standiford

    With all this AI stuff happening, I’m staring at my big fancy desk setup, and can’t help but think “…why do I need this?”

    Really can’t wait to get into my new camper when it warms up – that’s going to be such a great workspace for AI-driven workflows.

  • Alex Standiford

    scooped up a couple Lenovo machines with a Ryzen 5 in ’em. One is going to be a HTPC for my camper, and the other one? Well, that’s gonna be my OpenClaw machine 😎

  • Alex Standiford

    Anyone else frequently saying “Claude use sleep to wait 2 hours and then pick this back up”

    It’s a nice down and dirty way to automatically pause until your usage resets.

  • Alex Standiford

    I used to be the dev crying “but code quality”. The truth it’s, it just doesn’t matter that much, because AI can refactor and organize that tech debt pretty fast. It allows you to iterate and improve the code faster, and that includes bearing down on tech debt

  • Alex Standiford

    It’s been deeply satisfying to see AI leverage PHPNomad to build out so much of my Novatorius infrastructure this week. So cool to see the stuff I’ve been using to build plugins for clients, and Siren, also be completely usable elsewhere without changing context.

  • If AI can build the software, what do I actually sell?

    I had a weird moment this week that stuck with me. I built something in about an hour that would have taken me a month a year ago. Same outcome. Completely legitimate – built to my standards, but in minutes instead of weeks. It was REALLY something to behold, but it genuinely made me sick to my stomach. Depressed, even. The thing that always made me feel protected, writing code, just stopped feeling like protection, and I just watched it evaporate right in front of my face. I’ve been processing this a lot, what it means, and how it changes…

  • Alex Standiford

    Everyone’s talking about the coding upgrades they’re getting from AI, but a big upgrade for me has simply been background research. Today, My AI assistant found:

    1. A qualified lead

    2. A competitor insight

    3. Two great blog post ideas

    4. A great LinkedIn topic

  • Alex Standiford

    THIS IS SO COOL. I set up an AI-infused RSS flow that curates content for me and builds my own newspaper formatted as ePub. It’s like Paper.li but the curation is better and it’s formattated specifically for my e reader.

  • Alex Standiford

    Remember when you watched Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and the dad had these fantastic contraptions that were his own personal devices that were clearly FOR HIM and him only and you thought “Man that’d be so cool!”

    That’s what it feels like to make personal software right now.

  • Alex Standiford

    One of the weirdest things about AI is that it has really…smoothed out my day. It used to be I’d run hot and be dead ass tired by 2PM, so I always front-loaded my coding because I knew I wouldn’t have it in me to start after 1PM.

    Now…I’m just kinda steadily working all day.

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Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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