collinschaafsma
@CollinSchaafsma
Engineering leader and entrepreneur
Too many engineers grind away for hours when stuck on a problem. But stepping away—especially for a walk outside—can work wonders. Fresh air, movement, blood flow, and a change of scenery help your brain reset. Try it next time your stuck.
Step 1: Raise $15M Step 2: Burn it to generate $8.3M Step 3: Multiply by 12 and call it $100M ARR Step 4: Tweet it Step 5: Raise $200M Still no users Still no profit Welcome to the new economy
i've been moving more of my apps to biome, and i've really enjoyed it. but recently I moved an app to biome with ultracite.ai from @haydenbleasel and I'm really loving it. start your next app with it.
ai-sdk v5 is worth the upgrade. So much more ctrl. Hat tip to the @aisdk team!
Not good! Not good at all.
Absolutely infuriating. 3 million acres of public land. Teddy is rolling over in his grave…
Stitch -> Figma -> v0 is not a bad way to prototype fast.
Short on time, bad weather, insert another excuse not to ride outside today. But getting it done with @GoZwift and watching the amazing @runwayml demo!
Get sleep and exercise - take care of yourself
Y Combinator's pocket guide:
Idea for @grok and X… let me describe what I don’t want to see in my timeline. Simple plain English. “No AI, no politics, no someone telling everyone else that what they do for a living is about to be replaced, no advice from people who haven’t done the thing they’re advising…
one of the benefits I have recently noticed more when working in a well maintained monorepo, is you have much more available context to provide the LLMs. another unlock is having your docs app in the monorepo. LLMs are great at creating md files when they can look at the code/…
Remember buy vs build debates 6 months ago. Yeah, those have changed.
I’m always nice to the LLMs. I’ll tell em great job, or have you considered this… etc. I’m also nice to FSD in my car when it makes good decisions, I’ll say things like, nice work! Cause, you never know.
love claude, stoked on 3.7 sonnet, used it this afternoon, could feel the difference from 3.5. a little confused on Claude Code CLI though... is it just for people that don't use Cursor? The DX of Cursor in agent mode is far superior to the Claude Code CLI demo I just watched...
llms.txt and MCP feels like the beginning of the AI internet protocol stack. As these conventions proliferate, the network gets more powerful and intelligent, and a lot more applications become possible.
Some days you gotta tell the cursor agent to “continue” more than others.