At the beginning of June I decided to run an experiment: see if I can replace my $100 Claude subscription with something cheaper – but still keep the…
Read more The Poor Guy* Guide to Fable-level Vibe Coding for $80/month – Dragos RouaPublishing ten apps in four months sounds good. And it is good. It means the bottleneck is no longer building the app. With AI-assisted coding, small utilities, focused…
Read more Introducing App Store Release Agent – Automating my App Store Pipeline – Dragos RouaAt the beginning of June I started a “Claude withdrawal” challenge. The plan was to run MiniMax 3 for a month, to see if I can get the…
Read more Switching from Claude Code to Grok – Same Interface, Different Model – Dragos RouaSt. Francis High School’s robotics team heads to World Championships The team has now qualified for the World Championship for the sixth consecutive year. SF Robotics won the…
Read more St. Francis High School’s robotics team heads to World ChampionshipsThere’s a line from Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code, that’s been quite present in the back of my mind for the past week. Paraphrasing: he doesn’t…
Read more I Write Loops, Not Prompts – Here’s What I Learned – Dragos RouaI’ve been using Claude Code, the Max 5x subscription, which is $100/month for about 5 months now. It is the main cost for my apps, at least for…
Read more Leaving Claude Code (Opus 4.8) Behind – Switching to MiniMax 3 – Dragos RouaAt the start of February 2026 I had one iOS app live in the App Store. As I write this at the end of May, I have ten,…
Read more Vibe Coding for Senior Developers: 6 Lessons | Dragos RouaA few months ago I published a mega prompt that teaches Claude to think with the Assess-Decide-Do framework. I wrote about it on Reddit and the post got…
Read more From One Repo to Three: How ADD Framework Expanded Across the Claude Ecosystem – Dragos RouaIt’s been a good few weeks for Anthropic. The lab is reportedly planning a $10 billion fundraising that would value the company at $350 billion, its CEO caused…
Read more Claude Code gives Anthropic its viral moment | FortuneVienna Elementary School’s Vienna.i.Lab is transforming education by introducing students to AI and advanced technology. David Lee Reynolds, Jr. spent two decades working as a music teacher before…
Read more Why a Fairfax Co. elementary school is teaching kids the ‘how’ behind AI – WTOP NewsIn the late 1960s, a Stanford psychologist named Walter Mischel put preschoolers in a room with a marshmallow. The rules were simple: eat it now, or wait fifteen…
Read more AI Killed the Marshmallow Test: What Happens to Patience?5 years ago I started to learn Korean. All by myself while still living in Portugal and having a full time job. The reason: I was really, really…
Read more How To Win a Hackathon in South Korea – Dragos RouaIn 2025, financial institutions turned pilots into reality with the implementation of generative AI in efforts that are producing tangible returns. FIs are reporting business benefits from the deployment of gen AI, according to Google Cloud’s Sept. 29 released “The ROI…
Read more Banks move gen AI from pilot to profit as coding gains deliver ROII found the agentic hype incredibly ironic. AI agents can do this, AI agents can do that, everywhere agents. And if you’ve been around for a while, you…
Read more AI Agents and Agent Smith: Are We Building The Matrix?Royal Bank of Canada is seeing increased efficiency and output through continued investment and deployment of AI. The $1.1 trillion bank launched RBC Assist for 30,000 employees in this year, Geoffrey Morton, senior director…
Read more RBC to generate up to $1B in enterprise value through AISwedish “vibe-coding” startup Lovable has reached $200 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its total from just four months earlier, co-founder and CEO Anton Osika told attendees…
Read more Lovable’s CEO says the company is targeting enterprise customers as its ARR doubles to $200 million in just four months | FortuneTwo days ago, I flipped the switch. After almost 20 years on WordPress, dragosroua.com now runs as a static site on Cloudflare Pages, built with Astro. But here’s…
Read more Moving From WordPress to Cloudflare Static Pages – Dragos RouaRollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty,…
Read more Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AIThe spreading adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) applications by employers to scan large volumes of resumes that job seekers send is a very public, much discussed aspect of…
Read more How Job Applicants Use Hidden Coding to Dupe AI Analyzing Their ResumesA Meta executive in charge of building the company’s metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to “go 5X faster” according to an internal message…
Read more Meta Tells Its Metaverse Workers to Use AI to ‘Go 5X Faster’
