Fabio Franchino

One of the things I learned writing on social networks is: asking for answers in the post just doesn't work. People answer/reply because they want to according to the post, not because the author asks for an answer (like "and you, what do you think?") 🤷🏻

SQL has no secrets anymore... thanks, ChatGPT 🤷🏻

Saying "don't use AI because you'll lose your thinking ability" is like saying "don't use the digital address book because you'll lose your memory ability."

I can't help but do it

Read a book in the traditional way, page by page (on paper, possibly). Then, ask ChatGPT for a summary of the same book. After that, challenge both it and yourself on what you grasp further, to learn more and gain different perspectives, and possibly pursue further reading. It's powerful.

Time for another personal software. WhatsApp allows exporting the full chat with someone. I wanted to gain some insights from a time perspective. I ran @bolt.new, and after a few minutes, I had what I needed to play with. The speed of having an idea, making it, and then moving on is impressive.

Yes we can ask ChatGPT a bullet list of important insights from an entire book, but reading a book is a means to deeply learn and fix to our memory such insights.

I'm soft-launching a little project used privately by several clients so far. It's the first project I created with 100% AI assistance. I barely typed some characters, pretty much all the code has been written not by me, but by the AI. deckserve.com

Startup idea: an AI Agent that will analyze and assess for you the coming huge wave of AI Agent platforms!

At some point, there'll be tools that will easily allow regular people to fine-tune LLM models that will be plugged in somewhere, and that will generate any kind of competition (and markets) you can imagine.

I have the same repulsion when reading "RIP software dev" as well as "Vibe coding is a joke" 🤷🏻

I now use ChatGPT for search all the time. And I pay for it $20/month. Something I don't know I would do for Google back then, to be honest.

I now find myself using Google search only to verify chatgpt results, when in doubt.

If you want to write on social media, just write, it'll be awful at the beginning, then, you'll find your way, aside from metrics, you'll feel good.

In a world where producing a quantity of text is no longer an effort, I start to value much more short (but dense in meaning) text.

I find it somewhat ironic; maybe software can survive AI. What about Stack Overflow?

Who is going to develop a dedicated and specialised fundation LLM model able to select between LLM models?

All the demos of an AI-based search tool are: finding a restaurant, booking a hotel, or a flight. 🤔

I don't really know why I ignored @obsidian.md ... definitely a mistake.

I thought it was a joke. It's all real 😂

The next big thing will be a marketplace of MCP servers with unified auth and billing.

I want a writing tool that contains all my writings, notes, ideas, drafts, and, aside helping writing, fixing, also proactively suggest and propose and stimulate me.

The o3 image analysis capability is insane, we should really stop publishing personal images on the web.

Progress on this little tool connected with Google Slides...

MCP is underhyped

There's no more release' day strategy

One of the best not so popular benefits of using ai code assistance? Helping you to tune yourself again on code base you worked a while ago

Wondering why all the tech-optimist ppl and Trump supporters, are pretty silent these days 🤷

Picturing the data flow is a very valuable and important skill.

9 out of 10 onboarding flow in tools are annoying. 10 out of 10 are useless.

Feeling addicted to OpenAI Deep Research

I heavily underestimate the usefulness of the deep research tool on day to day job.

The Ghibli trend of the new 4o image generation capability is minimizing the real impact of such capability.

Last time I opened VSCode (the original one)? I really don't know 🤷🏻

Today I had my first true vibe-coding session. Feeling good 😊

The future will be meta-products, non-end-user focused, breedable-oriented "digital things."

I envision tools open to ideas

It might be counterintuitive but there isn't a better time to learn or improve in coding skills. If you're in doubt, do yourself a favour: do it!

Vibe coding is declarative programming at its extreme

Honestly thrilled by the Computer Use OpenAI model release

Developing an LLM-native software is all about trade-offs

The challenge of the moment while working with LLMs: a solid *automatic* way to "choose" between models, in particular between reasoner and non-reasoner models, in order to have speed for simple task, and quality for more complex one.

This year rich ppl will become embarrassingly richer.

When, after the third cold message, they tell me that "*maybe* I missed their last message," I can't help but reply, but I won't.

After 24 hours, still trying to wrap my head around this, without success. 😨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCs...

I've never replied to cold emails/messages whose final purpose was to sell something. I've always replied to cold emails/messages whose final purpose wasn't to sell something.

The benefit of this period of time is how easy it is to spot false progressives turned publicly far-right.