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AI Developer Accelerator — Coaching Call - August 11th
AI Developer Accelerator — Coaching Call - August 11
Meeting Purpose
Key Takeaways
- Chief of Staff (CoS) Architecture: Multiple members are adopting a CoS model, shifting from reactive assistant use to a proactive coordinator that manages tasks, prioritizes work, and initiates agent sessions, freeing up human time for high-level decisions.
- Enterprise Adoption Strategy: Overcoming developer skepticism requires proving ROI with direct performance comparisons (e.g., agentic vs. traditional dev delivery) and enforcing governance via mandatory skills and plugins, not just rules.
- Convex.dev for Real-time Apps: Convex.dev is being considered for a carpool app to replace Supabase. Its native real-time sync simplifies architecture, but indexing queries is critical to manage costs and prevent bill shock.
- New Business Models: AI enables new models like Juan's low-cost ($1.5k) AI photo booth, which may pivot from VC funding to a distribution partnership with event venues.
Topics
AI Agent Architectures
- Problem: Managing multiple AI assistants becomes a bottleneck, consuming more time coordinating agents than doing the work itself.
- Solution → Chief of Staff (CoS) Model:
- Coordinator (CoS Agent): Manages tasks, priorities, and agent coordination.
- Executor (Code Agent): Performs the actual work (e.g., coding, writing).
- Human Role: Becomes a high-level decision-maker, approving plans and providing direction.
- Patrick: Uses Cowork (CoS) and Claude Code (Executor) communicating via a local Git repo. Cowork monitors Teams, calendar, email, and Jira to provide daily briefings and prompt Claude Code sessions.
- Paul: Uses a similar CoS model, requiring human approval for key decisions to prevent overwhelming noise from multiple agent activities.
- Ty: Also shifting to a CoS model, focusing on seeing only problems that require human intervention.
- Ryan: Setting up "Hermes" as a "Digital Personal Assistant" to handle administrative tasks (e.g., scheduling, calls), freeing up time for creative work.
Enterprise Adoption & ROI
- Challenge: Overcoming developer skepticism and proving ROI for AI tools in an enterprise setting.
- Strategies:
- Direct Performance Comparison: Prove ROI by having an agentic-aided developer and a traditional developer swap projects. The agentic developer's 3x faster delivery provides undeniable proof of performance.
- Governance via Skills: Enforce enterprise standards and tech stacks through mandatory skills and plugins, not just rules.
- "Living Specifications": Reframe prototypes as "living specifications" by embedding functional spec data as comments in the HTML output. This allows a code agent to use the output as a direct blueprint for building a real application.
- ROI Measurement: Focus on the value of the end deliverable ("solution per token"), not proxy metrics like lines of code or token consumption, which are easily gamed.
Project Updates & Technical Deep Dives
- Family History Project: Built a web app from WhatsApp group chats to visualize family trees, locations, and birthdays. The app updates daily and is editable by family members.
- AI Golf Coach: Analyzes Garmin watch data and shot outcomes to provide swing coaching. Identified patterns like poor shots after waiting >5 minutes or making fun of others.
- Carpool App Rewrite: Considering a rewrite to Convex.dev from Supabase for its native real-time sync.
- Rationale: To support 300+ concurrent clients (e.g., at school dismissal) without managing complex socket subscriptions.
- Bastian's Advice: Use Convex's WorkOS integration for multi-tenancy and index queries to manage costs.
- Book Automation Workflow: An agent process converts raw manuscripts into four outputs: paperback, hardback, e-book, and audiobook.
- Paul:
- Hardware Cost: ~$1,500 (mini PCs, mirror booth).
- Funding Strategy: Exploring a pivot from VC to a distribution partnership with event venues, offering them a revenue cut.
Next Steps
- mdcatc: Decide on the Convex.dev rewrite for the Carpool app.
- Juan: Connect with Paul to discuss funding strategies and with Ty to explore distribution models for the photo booth.
- Ryan: Share the completed animated video with the group next week.
- Scott: Demonstrate the new Cursor/VS Code replacement tool at the next meeting.
Action Items
- Draft Claude style templates for Chief of Staff + Claude Code - WATCH (5 secs)
- Decide this week: rewrite Carpool app to Convex.dev - WATCH (5 secs)
- Schedule 1:1 w/ Paul re: funding/distribution - WATCH (5 secs)
- DM Ty re: mirror booth distribution/licensing - WATCH (5 secs)
- Share 1-min animated video w/ group next week - WATCH (5 secs)
- DM Patrick re: Hermes setup/memory tips - WATCH (5 secs)
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