Ryan Carson
@ryancarson
CEO, Founder, Developer 🛠️ Built and sold 3 startups
.@clairevo just released her interview with me on “How I AI” Ep 5. We unpacked my 3-step AI coding workflow, using @cursor_ai to ship faster, and the playbook that’s helping me build solo. If you’re scaling code—or a whole company—give it a listen and let me know what you…
Episode 5 of How I AI is how I learned I was using Cursor all wrong. My friend @ryancarson shows us the way with his genius 3-step AI coding workflow. If you’re trying to build bigger projects (or even whole companies!) this one is for you. You’ll learn how to: - use 3…
There’s truth here. It’s this new nuanced skill that can only be learnt (learned? see I didn’t ask ai) where you figure out when it’s faster to delegate reading.
asking chatgpt for 30 minutes just saved me 3 minutes of reading the docs
When you don’t have any tasks on your list (yeah, I know, that’s never), what are some things you currently think about? I’ll go first: 1. Big thing. Can’t share till Aug. Can’t wait to tell y’all. 2. Dad stuff. Am I putting my boys first? 3. Husband stuff. Am I putting in…
CLI agents are the power tool
Agent controlling tmux to test itself is magical
This is me in 2005 building my first app and startup. It was a PHP web app that I taught myself how to code using O'Reilly books. It sent large files that you couldn't email and it was B2C. We let our users send five files for free and then after that they had to pay…
Building solo? Shared a bunch of helpful tips in this interview 👇🏻
You can now build and run a serious company solo because of how powerful AI tools and workflows are ....if you know how to use them @ryancarson joins us this week to show us how he's building a one-person start-up You'll want to watch this one twice to get all the good bits
This should be a super valuable session
Rethinking RAG from first principles for agents with @beyang and @Sourcegraph Rather than requiring a general retrieval engine that infers an optimal context ranking for a broad set of user tasks, agents can effectively take advantage of a much simpler but broader suite of…
"If you’re painting (even your very first painting) you are a painter. Consequently if you create a program, by hand or with the aid of an agent, you are a programmer." - Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask
It is time for us to invite vibe-coders into our programming communities. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/20/the-…
My current dev setup using Ghostty (by @mitchellh) with no IDE. How do you code? Would love to see screenshots! The columns in my screenshot: 1. gitui 2. @AmpCode 3. @AmpCode 4. npm run dev BTW, one delightful feature with Ghostty is "Quick Terminal". You hit ⌘+` and a…
Prediction: I think a large number of leading-edge devs will stop using IDEs in the next 12 months. I've always used an IDE because I like the UI, but I find that for agentic coding, there's now a huge amount of cruft in the IDE UI that just slows me down and slows the agent…
An entertaining and cautionary tale about why it's so important to plan and collaborate with your AI before you actually let it write code
I guess I can post this now that the dust has settled. So one of my favorite things to do is give my coding agents more and more permissions and freedom, just to see how far I can push their productivity without going too far off the rails. It's a delicate balance. I haven't…
I guess I can post this now that the dust has settled. So one of my favorite things to do is give my coding agents more and more permissions and freedom, just to see how far I can push their productivity without going too far off the rails. It's a delicate balance. I haven't…