Still, I'm new here. So hopefully in a month or so I will get to 10% Anyone else feeling the same?

Hello everyone! My name is Bas and I am a 46 year old Dad, Husband, IT Leader, IT Manger, and Engineer by day and an AI engineer, builder and collaborator by night. I have been working with AI for around 3ish years now. I have been “lurking” in the community for a bit and reading comments and interactions, from what I have read I’m really excited to be joining this community. If you ever want to chat just drop me a message and say Hi!

I used to think building meant: get the perfect architecture, then start. Wrong. Costa Rica flipped this: the richest biodiversity wasn't engineered. It emerged from working with the constraints. Altitude, soil, water availability, seasonal cycles. The ecosystem didn't wait for perfect conditions. Same with product. Start with what you can observe. What's the smallest unit you can ship? What feedback does it create? Then scale from signal, not from theory. Co-creating technology and nature means respecting both. Not forcing nature into tech's timeline. Not waiting for nature's perfect window. But building responsively, in rhythm with what's actually there. Your next project doesn't need perfect design docs. It needs one clean principle and the willingness to iterate.

With very little experience a week ago, I created a project outline to brand out the cover images on Instagram profile grid. In less than 30 min, after going through the foundations i had it completed. Claude code executes with just two words and can make as many cover on demand as i wish and output them neatly as PNG files in a folder. Jake - super thanks! I learned so much in less than a week 🙏🙏🙏🙏 See before and after :)

I was today years old when I realized I did not have some of the most important files that you need in the folder structure that Jake teaches. During today's video call with the VIP group, he went on a deep-dive rabbit trail about the ICM folder methodology that he teaches in his foundations course (free). As he was discussing it, I went to check what my root folder looked like and I did not have a Claude.md or context.md file!!! My productivity skyrocketed ever since I implemented his folder strategy over a month ago, but little did I know that I hadn't even implemented it correctly. 🤯 🤯 🤯 This goes to show that massive action beats over planning every time!