Finished the V1 foundation of BuilderCore! a controlled AI-assisted execution/orchestration system I’ve been building. One of the features I’m happiest with so far: operator approval workflows directly through Telegram. The deeper I get into AI systems, the more I’m realising the real challenge isn’t just generating code or outputs — it’s: - workflow control, - orchestration, - validation, - guardrails, - approval layers, - and preventing systems from drifting away from the actual objective. AI massively increases leverage, but without strong constraints and structured workflows, complexity can spiral surprisingly fast. Still a lot more to build, but hitting the V1 milestone was a big moment for me.

Dropped a new one for you all. Mike from Urban Pulse let me share footage from his security audit. He vibe coded his whole platform using my routing architecture, then hired me and my team to read every line before he opened it up to high ticket clients. We took our time over many hours. We found three holes that I share here. A Google Maps API key that had already been flagged and locked down by Google. A second cryptographic auth layer the AI built on top of Supabase, which already handles all of this for you. A JWT verification step that never checked the issuer, meaning any valid Supabase token from any project on the internet would have passed. This is what real building and shipping looks like in the AI world. Mike built something that used to take a year and a couple hundred grand. He did it solo. Then he paid engineers to audit it before any customer touched it. Copy his move. If you are vibe coding anything you plan to put in front of paying clients, watch this one.

I’m curious how many people here are fully switching over to Claude vs using it as one tool in your AI tool belt. Has Claude become your primary daily driver, or is it more of a specialized tool alongside things like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.? I’d also love to hear, why? What specific strengths are making you lean one way or the other?

Even with AI, Cursor, vibe coding, and modern tooling… building a real product is still hard. People online sometimes make it sound like you can casually prompt your way into production-grade systems overnight, but once you start dealing with: - architecture, - validation, - edge cases, - workflow coordination, - reliability, - testing, - approvals, - and keeping everything maintainable… you realise very quickly why experienced developers are valuable. BuilderCore V1 took weeks of intense work just to reach a controlled foundation stage — and that’s with AI assistance accelerating parts of the process. Honestly, massive respect to developers who were building complex systems before modern AI tooling even existed. AI can massively increase leverage, but it doesn’t magically eliminate engineering difficulty or system complexity.

One experiment I’ve been running is journaling every day. I basically dump everything I can recall I did or thought about during the day into a note. Tasks at work, meeting notes, conversations anything. I let Claude grab this at the end of every day and basically process any insights for me. I find the more open and varied my inputs are the more interesting results I get. I’ve primarily been doing this for content ideas but it’s helped with task management and given useful insights over multiple days with trends and things I’d like to follow through on. Plus I am getting the typical journaling benefits like better retention and presence in my days. Try it out.