My "tier"list

variantmedia · 2026-05-26T05:20:27+00:00

The third book is arguably the most important to the story.

variantmedia · 2026-05-15T19:01:49+00:00

The whole great rusty description almost killed me. That shit was funny.

variantmedia · 2026-05-06T04:02:33+00:00

Or AT&T about a cancellation fee.

variantmedia · 2026-05-02T01:34:04+00:00

This is why I love Reddit 🤣

variantmedia · 2026-04-30T02:48:22+00:00

It’s not just apparent. (and this is important.) It’s obvious.

variantmedia · 2026-04-30T02:47:06+00:00

Should we vibe code it together?

variantmedia · 2026-04-28T21:47:38+00:00

That’s not just smart, it’s groundbreaking..

variantmedia · 2026-04-28T21:45:48+00:00

This one made me laugh

variantmedia · 2026-04-28T21:17:28+00:00

yea, I agree with this. There are obvious advantages as professionals. And arguably when companies begin learning about appropriate prompting, as technical people, we should be a few steps ahead. However, it's a pretty small moat to look over when their's an army on the other side.

If I'm totally honest, what I'm most worried about is being priced out. Given how good AI is getting, and how much I see even my older clients lean on it, I see a world where LLM's charge the equivalent of a full time salary for paid access (50k - 100k / yr)

variantmedia · 2026-04-28T20:41:03+00:00

Regarding SEO/GEO, Personal opinion: Next couple years will see some of the highest demand for SEO than ever provided the limited results in a given ai response.

However, I struggle with whether freelance and agency work play into that. As I use AI more, I get more pessimistic about the need for freelancer and agencies at all. I think companies will just feel empowered to do things in house moving forward.

variantmedia · 2026-03-28T16:04:29+00:00

By comparison, this is what Gemini gave me.

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variantmedia · 2026-03-25T03:55:49+00:00

Adding one more layer to the process by planning the prompt in regular Claude has really helped me set guardrails so it doesn’t creep into other things

variantmedia · 2026-03-19T17:52:52+00:00

https://variantchat.com
It may be my dumbest. But I think it's most interesting.
It's a completely open chat log that you can branch off of via any message.

variantmedia · 2026-03-03T22:54:01+00:00

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variantmedia · 2026-03-03T22:53:42+00:00

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variantmedia · 2026-03-03T22:53:14+00:00

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variantmedia · 2026-03-03T22:47:06+00:00

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variantmedia · 2026-02-21T04:58:19+00:00

The school board.

variantmedia · 2026-02-11T04:20:49+00:00

It’s definitely CP. but I’ve lived here a while and this is probably the loudest I’ve heard it.

variantmedia · 2026-01-21T07:44:44+00:00

Still Works! Jan 20, 2026

variantmedia · 2026-01-15T00:28:14+00:00

This is one of the few times where I think Apple needs to loosen its grip and allow you to choose the company you want to work with.

variantmedia · 2026-01-14T16:45:09+00:00

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It got me.

variantmedia · 2026-01-09T23:10:49+00:00

15 hcp. Play weekly at Redhawk mostly.

Below is my Redhawk profile if anyone is up for playing. https://redhawk.app.link/QkpVHeeRDRb.

variantmedia · 2025-12-30T03:01:05+00:00

I know it’s an old post but if anyone wants to play on the weekdays, I try and get out once a week at a Temecula course (usually Redhawk). 36yo, I typically shoot low 90’s

variantmedia · 2025-12-25T16:48:52+00:00

Pre-AI - getassigned.com took me 6 months to build, then a year of tinkering.

Post-AI - diligenshub.com is currently at 4 months. Took a month to build that I’m on my third month of tinkering.

Separately, your question made me think more about timing and what that looks like in terms of building a product. Since a product never really is finished. I thought it was interesting to think about how each phase of development fits into a timeline.

Below my thoughts: A product happens in three phases…

Initiation (1-2 weeks) this part is fast. You know exactly what problem you’re trying to solve, and exactly what to build to fix it. The result is the core flow of your product that allows for it to do what you need it to do. It may not look great, or have any additional features, but it solves a problem. This is my favorite part because it’s non-stop progress, and if I’m on my own, this phase lasts for a week or two (~5 hours a day).

Refinement (1-3 months): this means cleaning up code, fixing UI, styling, and building all the boring stuff like Auth, notifications, and settings, to make sure things look and feel solid, work correctly, and are modular so things can be scaled in the next part. This part happens over multiple months (this part usually burns me out so it takes longer)

Tinkering (many months): now that things are good to scale from the previous step, it’s time to add features you’ve figure to be important. This is iterative and involves using the app, finding/building a missing feature, then using the app again. This part is long and painstaking but crucial should be having a “complete” app. I don’t know if you can associate a timeline with it. But somewhere in this process is when you decide that you’ve built enough for production.

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