91: Up & to the Right  ## Metadata - Author: [[Mostly Technical]] - Full Title: 91: Up & to the Right - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/744f81eb-3891-4aed-8e16-3b8f696b7422 ## Document Notes ## Highlights - **Responding to Real-Name Haters** - Ian Landsman shared a story about encountering a hateful comment using someone's real name on YouTube. - He decided to respond to discourage mean comments and defend his show. Transcript: Ian Landsman Anyway, welcome back to Barely Technical, which, you know, a lot of people, a lot of people got a problem with the amount of technicality on the show. We had some haters. We haven't had some haters. What's the deal? We got a drive by hater. So here's the deal. Here's the deal. Listen, you don't have to care about my kids. That's fine. But to go out of your way to create a YouTube account, to then come and leave a comment that says we literally don't care about your kids. You have made an enemy for life. I am now I am now your enemy. So I don't know. I don't know what's going through these people's heads when they when they come on a show that is free, that has chapters that you can use to skip ahead and leave these comments. I mean, somebody just is not having a great day. But anyway, that's my enemy for life now. Aaron Francis You dug deeper than I did. So I didn't realize it was an actual fake account. It was a newly made account, you think. Ian Landsman Here's the insane part. Here's the insane part. They used their real name and easily identifiable like a profile photo yes it had a made a brand new account under their under their christian name to come on and say something mean and I'm like so here's here's part of here's part of my calculus if it's like a anon or a troll like somebody that i can't tell who it is just kind of like ignore them block them if it's on twitter You know i you know whatever on youtube just kind of you know make a snarky reply or something hide them from my channel if it's my channel but when it's somebody who uses their real name It's like okay do you want to engage here and also i i don't want people to think that they can get away with just saying mean things. So I'm going to respond. And so I did. And yeah, it was like, come on, man. Aaron Francis What's going through your head here? It's also weird because it's like, we don't care about your kids, get more technical. But it feels like, have you ever listened to this show? Because we don't really go super technical that often. We've been more technical lately than we have been in a long time. Yes, and you and I are both getting complaints from our spouses. Ian Landsman It's too technical. Yes, there you go. Aaron Francis So I don't know. It's weird. Whatever, man. I'm like, we haven't talked about code in a while. And we've been talking about code a lot in the last month or two. So I don't know. Very weird. Ian Landsman Perks of being online. God, you know, there's got to be a better way. Let me tell you, it might have been this morning. Aaron Francis I popped over to Twitter. Yeah, you did. I was on the mostly technical account because I don't have my account there anymore. But whatever, mostly technical, I retweet and like people, whatever. Keep the interaction up with the fans. And that account doesn't follow anybody except for you, me, and Producer Dave. Like there's no – it doesn't follow anybody else. So it's like generic-y feed, right? And it is freaking insane, man. It's rough out there. It is insane. It's not totally generic because it's bootstrapper stuff and tech stuff so it's like it's figured out like you know what it should be based on i guess our posts or whatever and i'm like It is just crazy it's like here's how i lost 72 pounds in 24 hours and like here's a post from aaron francis and then here's like you know some other insane thing and then it's like oh adam Wathen post something and then it's like some other here's a street fight yeah it's freaking crazy and then another thing i've really realized as i've been working on outro um this really Hit me hard this weekend so i was working on outro coding some stuff and i was like not being on twitter is like a huge level up like a huge level up because seeing the constant forget the Like beheadings, whatever, that stuff just makes you feel bad about the world. But whatever. Ian Landsman Just, you know, forget the beheadings, forget the murders, like that's not even what I'm talking about. Aaron Francis Forget Mecca, Hitler and the crazy Hitler, whatever. Let's just put all that stuff aside. Just the getting fed to like everybody doing their awesome stuff and you be like ah can i really do stuff that awesome i don't know even though most of the time they don't even ship the thing That they think is awesome or they're claiming is awesome whatever right they're not they're not shipping shit but it's just like the constant barrage of look at the awesome thing look How much money i made in three minutes with no work look at all that stuff just being exposed to all that stuff it really hit me this weekend that like not being exposed to that, I feel like It's helped me so much in how much work I've got done on outro because I'm just doing the shit I want to do. You're just doing work. I'm just doing work and I'm not worried about who's interested in it. I'm not worried about what they think about it. I'm not worried about like, I'm not being exposed to these people I don't even care about being like i'm doing this amazing thing that looks awesome and you're and people are saying ian Why are you doing this you know that this already exists ([Time 0:09:30](https://share.snipd.com/snip/edd6f375-8542-45ea-b799-f12276919880)) - **Logging Off Improves Productivity** - Constant exposure to social media's curated successes harms productivity and well-being. - Aaron Francis finds logging off social media boosts his work focus and mental clarity. Transcript: Aaron Francis But whatever, mostly technical, I retweet and like people, whatever. Keep the interaction up with the fans. And that account doesn't follow anybody except for you, me, and Producer Dave. Like there's no – it doesn't follow anybody else. So it's like generic-y feed, right? And it is freaking insane, man. It's rough out there. It is insane. It's not totally generic because it's bootstrapper stuff and tech stuff so it's like it's figured out like you know what it should be based on i guess our posts or whatever and i'm like It is just crazy it's like here's how i lost 72 pounds in 24 hours and like here's a post from aaron francis and then here's like you know some other insane thing and then it's like oh adam Wathen post something and then it's like some other here's a street fight yeah it's freaking crazy and then another thing i've really realized as i've been working on outro um this really Hit me hard this weekend so i was working on outro coding some stuff and i was like not being on twitter is like a huge level up like a huge level up because seeing the constant forget the Like beheadings, whatever, that stuff just makes you feel bad about the world. But whatever. Ian Landsman Just, you know, forget the beheadings, forget the murders, like that's not even what I'm talking about. Aaron Francis Forget Mecca, Hitler and the crazy Hitler, whatever. Let's just put all that stuff aside. Just the getting fed to like everybody doing their awesome stuff and you be like ah can i really do stuff that awesome i don't know even though most of the time they don't even ship the thing That they think is awesome or they're claiming is awesome whatever right they're not they're not shipping shit but it's just like the constant barrage of look at the awesome thing look How much money i made in three minutes with no work look at all that stuff just being exposed to all that stuff it really hit me this weekend that like not being exposed to that, I feel like It's helped me so much in how much work I've got done on outro because I'm just doing the shit I want to do. You're just doing work. I'm just doing work and I'm not worried about who's interested in it. ([Time 0:12:11](https://share.snipd.com/snip/33ebc2a6-e8b7-4d8a-86b3-90761d4f4333)) - **Use Social Media Strategically** - To regain control, reduce social media usage by only posting updates without engaging in negative interactions. - Use social media strategically to broadcast work and ignore distracting habit-driven scrolling. Transcript: Ian Landsman Reach that point, that will count as logging off to me. That would be my log off. That would be my, I don't even. Aaron Francis Frankly, that would be. Can you get there quicker? Ian Landsman That would be my, like, I don't even have the client. I don't even have the Twitter. I don't even log into Twitter. I just have an api where i just write something i you know i go into buffer and write stuff and when it goes out it goes out and that's fine i mean i think that that would be the way to do it i mean Aaron Francis That would that would be a lot of way for sure you could do like you know it's off your phone uh it's only on desktop like when you're working you might check in on it sometimes to like, because For what you did post, you do want to interact with those people commenting or whatever. I think that's all seems reasonable. But that's different than like you're using it. You're interacting. You're fighting the trolls. You know, you're reading the stuff that makes you sad. Like all that stuff is if you're more focused on just, yeah, this is what I'm up to or thoughts I have about things. This is what I'm posting. I reply to those posts and people who comment on them. But that's kind of where I'm leaving it. I mean, there's a reason those guys do that. Right. Ian Landsman Like, and there's, yeah, they made it. They're out. ([Time 0:19:13](https://share.snipd.com/snip/944c30f3-338a-47ab-a5f8-66dbfaec3613)) - **'Think Hard' Boosts AI Quality** - In programming AI tools, telling them to "think hard" or "ultra think" greatly improves output. - Aaron Francis upgraded to an expensive plan to use 'ultra think' for better results consistently. Transcript: Aaron Francis And it does a lot better. It's a lot better with ultra think. Ian Landsman This is the stupidest timeline that we have to tell the super intelligent beings. Yeah. Can you think about this one for me? Like, no, really? Like, think about it. But yeah, it actually does. It does make a difference. So last week, you're pretty down on on clod you're like i tried it once you know you throw it through my hands so stupid i want to walk away so now that you know to how to make it think what are Aaron Francis We thinking so now i'm a big clod guy uh guy now we get them all eventually yeah you'll see how big a clod guy i'm in a second here. But what really turned me on to it too was I'm redoing the HelpSpot website. And again, because I don't really like how, whatever. I took a way out swing with it and it was too far out. So now we're dialing it back in with some different ideas, whatever. I like where it's going. I clean slated it with cloud code. I was like, let me just try clean slate. It did a good job with like the first pass on it. And I was like, this is cool. So now I rebuilt a big chunk of it when Cloud Code did a very good job for the most part. And definitely for like that type of thing where I'm like interacting back and forth directly a lot. Like Cloud Code is definitely better than Codex because Codex is like your whatever. You don't see it. It's off doing stuff for like 10 minutes, right? So that was good. And being in your native environment is nice. It's definitely nice than having to like set up a new environment and keep that working the same way your local environment works, just like another environment, whatever, especially Your PHP, which they don't handle natively, blah, blah, blah. Oh, I'm liking the cloud code. We're trying to cloud code with the Userscape developers on HelpSpot. Just this morning we had our cloud code call. They're going to get the $200 plans. They're going to spend lots of money on AI now. They're going to try the cloud code. Yeah, so we're going deeper on the cloud code. For the outro stuff I still like Codex because I like that it's like, hey, it's bedtime. I'm going to tell it to go do some stuff. Hey, I'm walking out the door. I'm going to tell it to go do some stuff. So like for the side project, like go off and code stuff and I'm not going to be here to ([Time 0:28:33](https://share.snipd.com/snip/a654e229-f276-485d-befb-f3cefa653776)) - **AI Boosts Productivity Despite Studies** - The study claiming AI slows programmers misses AI's benefits in reducing writer's block and generating scaffolding code. - Aaron Francis sees AI as massively increasing work done by handling tedious tasks automatically. Transcript: Ian Landsman It's easy. I think it's easy, one, to get distracted, right? So Cloud Code is thinking and you're like, well, let me just pop over to Twitter or let me go make a coffee or something. The like the down times I think can end up being longer. Something that I have observed but not really found myself doing is like the doom loop where it's like, no, fix it. No, fix it. No, no, no, no, no, fix it. And so I don't know if any of these, you know, study participants got caught in the doom loop. But if you get caught in the doom loop, you're going to waste a ton of time versus just like reading it and writing it yourself and be like okay i'm just gonna go do this part kill this conversation And start over um so i don't know i'm not i'm not terribly surprised um i think i think we may be at peak ai hype right now interesting i think i think i've seen a couple stories come out where Companies are walking back some of their generative AI implementations. They are hiring and or rehiring people to come clean up some of the mess it made. Some of the promises of, you know, frontline customer support, that sort of thing are starting to fall pretty flat after implementation. And I am by no means an AI doomer or skeptic. I use it all day, every day, and I love it. But I think the promises have been greatly oversold. And there are a ton of promises, but the ones that were being sold are not quite accurate. Aaron Francis Interesting. It's not the take I thought you might have on the second half. Ian Landsman I want to hear your take, but before I do that, I'll pay some bills. Do it. So I want to hear your take on AI, but folks, you're going to have to listen to some beautiful, wonderful sponsors in the middle brought to you as always by Bento, the email service provider That I use through this wonderful newsletter that I've been telling you about. Bento is the delightful, simply refreshing, delightful. You know it. You love it. It's bentonow.com used by me for both marketing and transactional emails. So check them out at bentonow.com. And also brought to you by Laravel Nightwatch. 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Aaron Francis So what it seemed to be measuring was, well, first of all, it's like, you know, a very specialized programmer doing a very specialized task because it was like the open source maintainers And working on their open source project, which I get, I don't know, in the real world, I feel like at least I'm taking this from a small business perspective, a little less so than from Big corporate cog programmer who's like responsible for a single class, right? And they know that class, they dream about the class, like that's all they do. Maybe it's more applicable to them but uh which is fine like okay fix this bug maybe you were slightly slower fixing the bug with the ai than without it i mean that's probably even potentially Accurate but it's like when you're focused down so narrowly but you're missing the little bit broader picture like the forest for the trees and all that stuff. Because the part that's amazing to me is all the times where like you're working on something and all the files it builds for you and you didn't have to manually build those 10 files. Like there's so feature development, things like that. There's like the writer's block. I mean, the number one thing for me is the writer's block, like where I would have gone off and done something else and not even come back to this thing that day. But instead I send the A off to do it and I come back half an hour later and now all the worst parts are done. And yeah, it didn't do it perfect. I have to tweak them. But now I am now still working on it when before I would have been, it would have been zero work getting done. And now there is work getting done. It's a massive, a hundred percent increase, work. So from the small company bootstrapper, you're doing a lot of things without a lot of time. There's no way this is accurate. Now, again, that's not what they were measuring. So my beef is more with the idea of people just taking this number and be like, look, see, all your developers are stupid because it's not making you any money. It's not saving you any time. It's clearly wrong, in my opinion, on that picture. ([Time 0:31:55](https://share.snipd.com/snip/1f75646d-3dec-4cbd-9caa-578947f85db2)) - **Humans Lead, AI Assists In Coding** - AI empowers developers by acting as a skilled assistant, not replacing human judgment. - Humans guide and review AI, ensuring reliable, maintainable software. Transcript: Aaron Francis Whatever, we have our back office tool at Userscape, which is like our store. We're not like always in the store, you know? So like we don't remember how stuff works or what it's doing in there. So like, yeah, the AI is going to remember because you can just ask it, hey, how does this thing work? And it's going to tell you how that thing works, right? And then you can go adjust it or do whatever. So massive potential for increased productivity there, I think. But also not eliminating the people. So this is where we definitely agree on that, I think, is like you are now the ringleader of this awesome group of monkeys who can go out and do stuff for you, but we still need your human Brain to figure out what they should be doing and all that kind of stuff. And if they're doing a good job and where they're not doing a good job for you to step in, all that kind of stuff. Ian Landsman So I think it has the ability to make senior engineers a lot faster. And I think it also has the ability to make beginners a lot slower. Aaron Francis Potentially when you go down those paths. Ian Landsman Yeah, I think like, you know, I don't want to be in the self-reported I'm fast category because that's what all these people in the study were. But I certainly feel that, right? I feel like I'm a lot faster with this. But I think one of the reasons I am faster is because I can say like, I can give it better guidelines and say, do this thing this way. Laravel has these methods, use them. And then when it comes back and it's like, hey, I implemented this, you know, thing in this crazy way. I'm like, no, that's wrong. Like, here's, here's the docs page, go look at that and fix it. And it's like, oh, wow, you're absolutely right. And I think a lot of that just relies on the knowledge that we've accumulated over, whatever, 20 years. So I don't know. I think it's still, I'm still going to use it. I still believe I'm faster, but I don't know that that is true for everyone. Aaron Francis Yeah, I mean, there's just stuff that's like, I mean, this weekend, I think I did a blue sky post about this where i was like i told codex to do something while i left my house and it did it And i came back and it was perfect and i just merged it in 200 lines of code so like i mean 200 lines of code would have taken me hours or an hour right i mean it's 200 lines of code like it's it Was 10 files or whatever it was it's a lot code. And it was not even like a new thing. It was like a going into existing stuff, moving things around. You know, it's like you have to sit and think about this stuff. Right. So like it's ([Time 0:36:56](https://share.snipd.com/snip/ece3b650-19ed-46ac-ba3b-309f3aedbb75)) - **Email Marketing Drives Sales** - Use email campaigns to convert interested subscribers by providing value and then gentle selling. - Don’t fear unsubscribes; they clear out uninterested contacts so your list stays focused and effective. Transcript: Ian Landsman However obviously kelsey did all of this you you but i'm the boss so i get all the credit right none of the blame maybe she'll be the boss someday then she can take oh she'll be right now you're Taking the credit she'll she'll be the for sure. She's kind of the boss already. Yes. So we set up a big email campaign that's like to people that haven't purchased. They're on the list. They haven't purchased. Value, value, value, sell, sell, sell. And it worked. It did great. Yes. Very, very encouraging to see that there are still things we can do to move the needle. So yeah, the sales in the past two weeks have been very encouraging. I think it's a combo of sending all those emails and doing a lot more regular YouTube videos, which we need to save for next week, the YouTube, because I had lunch with a very smart guy who's Very into YouTube. Um, and I think I need to change my whole strategy, but we got to talk about that. Okay. We got to talk about that next week. That's the start of the episode stuff. Yeah. That's, that's a lot. Um, add it to outro.fm, but yeah, hopefully by next week. Emails, emails work. It just freaking works. So we'll add this as a regular you know uh i'm trying there's like part of me that has to get over what i would want and what is good for the business you know like if i if i am getting three or Four emails that are like hey you signed up for this but you didn't buy it i'm like yeah i didn't buy it you're right that's why I didn't buy it. I think it just like makes sense that if people sign up, they're interested. And if they don't want to hear about it, they can unsubscribe. Like, there's a link at the bottom to unsubscribe. And if you already bought it, we're not sending you an email. So it's like, what are these people on the list for? Like, what good are they? What good are they to me if not to market to them to buy the thing? So, yeah. And one, you know, one mental buffer I have is I have no idea how many people are on the list. I have no idea how many people have unsubscribed as a result of this campaign. Right. I do not care. Yeah. Don't care. Aaron Francis That's not the metric. That's not the metric. Ian Landsman I'm not gathering freeloaders just to have a bigger number, which in fact, a bigger number means I just pay more. Like, why do I need a big email list that I'm paying to carry around if not to market to them? Aaron Francis Why do you think I'm ([Time 0:48:55](https://share.snipd.com/snip/cb5b7a06-24ef-4200-864b-ccb78daa7e09)) - **Telegram Bot for Speaker ID** - Ian Landsman built a Telegram bot that sends podcast audio clips and transcripts for easy speaker identification. - He approves speaker names via Telegram buttons or replies, streamlining transcript management on his website. Transcript: Aaron Francis I saw the video. Ian Landsman You have some crazy Rube Goldberg machine. Pejorative. Okay. First of all. All right. So here's the situation.'ve got this i've got this mac studio right that's just ripping through ffmpeg stuff um this is all in pursuit of um getting this new home for aaron francis launched The new aaron francis.com which will do a better job of um sort of like acting as an entity instead of just like a personal like little side website, right? Part of that process is pulling down podcasts that I've been on, including mostly technical, where I pull it down off of YouTube. So the studio, the Mac studio uses YTDLP, which rips it off of YouTube, unless you're the law enforcement listening, in which case it doesn't do that at all. So it pulls it off of YouTube and then it encodes it and puts it on to Cloudflare R2. Love Cloudflare. Y'all go buy the stock. Do it. Then one of the other things it does is it sends it off to 11 labs, uh, to do the transcription, which is just somehow flawless. It's unbelievably good. Um, and part of what 11 labs does is it diarizes it. So it, it, um, it identifies speakers, right? So the transcript will come back and I'll say speaker zero said, good morning. Speaker one said, Hey Ian, how's it going? Speaker zero. And it just like does that an hour, right? I'm putting these transcripts. I'm putting these transcripts on my website. And I want, and this includes like database school. This includes every guest episode I've ever been on. It's just a lot of great context and content for who Aaron Francis is. So that belongs on AaronFrancis.com. I got to identify these speakers because it would be royal, royally embarrassing to ship it with speaker zero and speaker one. Like, come on. What am I an idiot? So no, that's not the try hard way. So, um, the problem is like, I have to give these people names. And so what I'm doing, what I have done is I find like the, I find the longest paragraph that, you know, each speaker has spoken. So as I pull down the transcript and I do a little cleanup, cause it's a wonky JSON format. As I'm doing that, I figure out what's the longest paragraph that each speaker spoke. Um, and I take that and it comes with timestamps from 11. So I take that and I put it off into this little, you know, this little holding table. It's like, hey, this transcript has these two speakers. Here's the text and here's the start and end times of each speaker. Then another process wakes up and takes the audio. This is great. No, this is good. It takes the audio from the podcast. So the audio and the video have been split. They both live on Cloudflare. It pulls the audio down, and it uses FFmpeg to chop out that paragraph that I identified, right? Speaker Zero said, this is talking about a slip and slide from minute one to three, right? Aaron Francis You're not doing every paragraph, though. No, no, no. You're just doing one the longest part. Ian Landsman I just needed a long chunk of text. Baseline, yeah, okay. Yeah, so it pulls down the audio, slices out that chunk of text. So I have now like a, I think I maxed it out at like a 10 or 20 second clip, right? So now I have a 10 or 20 second MP3 clip, right? This is good. No, this is normal. This is good. It's normal. And then and then what it does. So like now it's in the database. Right. What am I going to do? Well, I'm not going to log into Table Plus every day and be like, OK, well, let me like see. Let me go find that. That would be crazy. Play. What a stupid person that would be. So instead, it sends me a message through Telegram. It sends me a message through Telegram with the MP3 attached and the text of the clip. So if I just know if it's like, hey, Ian, how are we doing this morning? It's obvious. So it sends me the MP3, the text, and then two buttons. One says Ian, one says Aaron, because those are, you know, the podcasts I'm on mostly, it's you and me. And then I can hit those buttons and it will mark in the database that Ian or Aaron said it, and it will transfer that back to the transcript. If I'm on a guest podcast or we have a guest on this podcast, I can just hold down the message and hit reply. So in Telegram, you can reply to an individual message versus just put a piece of text in the chat. So if I reply to that individual message with the name like Caleb Porzio, that was a guest we've had on a bunch of times. So I did that a bunch this weekend, Caleb Porzio. Then in the database, it'll say, all right, I noticed you didn't hit either of the buttons. Instead, I got this reply. That is the speaker's name. And now on the website, it just says, you know, Aaron, Ian, Caleb, Aaron, Ian, Caleb. And it looks beautiful. And it's like, I'm not tethered to, I'm not tethered to the process. It's nothing. I don't have to check anything else. I get a message. I have it on my computer. I get a message that's like, Hey, who said this? And I look at it and I said, oh, Ian said that. Boom, done. And so now I can like finish this podcast. Producer Dave's going to edit it. It's going to go live tomorrow. My process will pick up the fact that there's a new podcast. It'll pull it down. It'll get the video, strip the audio, find the speakers and send me a message. So I'll be at lunch tomorrow and I'll get a telegram that said, who said this? And I'll say, I that was yesterday. That one was Ian. It's beautiful. It's pretty cool. Amazing. See, it's pretty cool. Aaron Francis I don't always agree with your crazy little things you do here, but I do love, first of all, that you're, you're refocusing your crazy little offshoots into business productivity. Like this is like a fun little side adventure, but useful for what you're, it's indirectionally correct with where you're going. Correct. And I like that now there's going to be a database of stuff I've said that I could potentially access labeled as Ian, which will be cool. And yeah, ([Time 1:01:23](https://share.snipd.com/snip/bad8154b-e861-4540-8077-6ed0ee7bb31d)) - **Personal Software as Life OS** - Building a personal software hub simplifies adding new automations and processes seamlessly. - Ian Landsman uses his system as a 'life OS' to reduce friction for new tasks and improve productivity. Transcript: Ian Landsman Each tweet. Aaron Francis I feel like you've got to launch, forget all this other stuff. No, Ian. Ian Landsman Creator Man Webpages, Inc. Aaron Francis Creator Man Webpages. It's a good name. It's a good name. Creator Man Webpages. They do all this stuff. We automate your transcription of your podcast and your Twitter bookmarks. This is like a whole thing. It's a whole constructed system here. Ian Landsman I know. There's something in here, and I don't know if it's Creator Man Webpages, Inc., there's something in here where it's like there there's you can get a lot out of building personal software So like now I have this um basically I have this container like I have this this entity this being where I can say like I need I need to do this or I need to automate this or I need to like, you Know, process this. I have a place. Like I have a place where I can just go and it can just work into the system. And it's the activation energy or like the overwhelm of, hey, I have a new thing that needs to be automated. God freaking, am I going to set up a whole new application and get it deployed? And like, no, I'm just going to like write a new command in this thing that I already have. This is like my life OS. It just functions as AaronFrancis.com. But I have this place where I can put all of this stuff that makes my life better. So I think there's ([Time 1:15:43](https://share.snipd.com/snip/7a769a75-19ce-416c-8659-748c3cae3531))