Jess Temporal

"capture more users"... are they pokemon?? 😂 even I can't believe I said that

step away from the tutorials and the pre-made prompts build something with real users and data you can't lose. you'll hit the boundaries yourself, and that teaches you more than anything else

5 things i'm carrying forward after building a real app with AI agents: judgment matters more. set context boundaries. pick the right model. design needs taste. "make it cozy and trustworthy" beats "make it pretty"

17 issues closed, 11 PRs merged, in about 6 hours 👀 one saturday, one squad of bots

i'm not a designer so i build everything functional first, then make it pretty "make it pretty" gives you generic. define what you want and the tools work better. that's taste

If you thought your job as developer was to just write code you were doing it wrong. Code was NEVER the objective. It was always a tool to solve problems: for yourself or other people. Be obsessed with solving problems no matter what tool you have and you’ll be okay.

when you're building something new there's no documentation to lean on AI doesn't remove your responsibility for the decisions. if anything it makes it matter more

new blog post 🎉 I built an AI squad and had my most productive Saturday ever so I usually wait a few weeks before trying a new AI tool, but after watching @atmoio's video like 6 times I caved and installed Grok Bot on a friday night 😅 Here’s the story 👇 jtemporal.com/i-built-my-... 1/6

the @bot quota went FAST 😭 two things helped, I asked Dorothea to keep the bots' chatter terse, and @poteto (one of the Grok bot devs) pointed out that routines can eat your tokens. bots LOVE making routines so I keep an eye on them 5/6

new blog post 🎉 I built an AI squad and had my most productive Saturday ever so I usually wait a few weeks before trying a new AI tool, but after watching @atmoio's video like 6 times I caved and installed Grok Bot on a friday night 😅 Here’s the story 👇 jtemporal.com/i-built-my-... 1/6

I built 6 bots: Dorothea (chief of staff), Em (eng manager), Dottie (dev), Queenie (QA), Francis (CMO), and Iggy (infra) and yeah they all start with the first letter of what they do, I have a problem 😂 3/6

new blog post 🎉 I built an AI squad and had my most productive Saturday ever so I usually wait a few weeks before trying a new AI tool, but after watching @atmoio's video like 6 times I caved and installed Grok Bot on a friday night 😅 Here’s the story 👇 jtemporal.com/i-built-my-... 1/6

the real reason an AI deleted my database? i got comfortable and stopped questioning what it suggested. the tool didn't change, i did

i don't use the same AI model for everything boring well-defined tasks go to copilot as issues. lighter model for quick iterations, heavier one when precision matters more than speed

"what should i use?" is too vague to ask an AI i gave it all my constraints instead and it turned into a real trade-off conversation, the kind you'd have with a colleague

i built a squad of 6 AI bots and let them run my side project 🤖 meet the whole team 👇

some of my stack wasn't up for debate. auth0, fastapi, minimal js and css, i already knew what i wanted handing those to AI would've just added noise. it's not all-or-nothing

every important decision goes into a markdown file next to the code, in my own words it forced me to understand how my own app worked. and more importantly, AI can go back to it too #coding #ai #buildinpublic #aiagents

one chat per feature. billing in one, AI extraction in another, launch strategy in its own it's not about being tidy. everything in one chat and it gets slow, confused, and starts burning tokens re-summarizing #coding #ai #buildinpublic #aiagents

New video is out! 🎉 so I installed #GrokBot last friday night and then had the most productive saturday I've had all year 😅 built a lil squad of 6 bots and somehow closed 17 issues and merged 11 PRs in just one project in about 6 hours 👀 link to the video in the next one, come say hi ☺️