No sales page could describe what actually happens in this community. I have been here since pretty much the beginning, and I upgraded to VIP the moment I saw the folder structure system. Not because it was new to me, (I had been doing something similar already.) But the way Jake explained it, the language he put to something I had been feeling but could not articulate, that was the moment I knew I just needed to see where this thing goes. What has happened since has genuinely blown me away! Not just the value Jake and the team bring, which is real and consistent. But the way the community has come together in a way that no sales page could ever describe and honestly, no one would have predicted. Here is what I know now that I did not know then: Premium is where the concepts stop being concepts. The Foundation stuff is good. It gives you the map. But Premium is where you actually learn to drive. Worked examples, production-grade templates, real-world depth. The difference between knowing how something works and knowing how to make it work for you. VIP is something different entirely. I have been in a lot of communities. A lot. And I have paid a lot of money to be in some of them. We are talking well over ten times the cost of a full year of VIP. And I did not get out of those what I get out of this. Most of them have one of two problems: either the value only exists when the founder is in the room, or the “inner circle” is just a room full of people performing expertise at each other. VIP here is neither of those things. What actually happens is a group of people who are genuinely good at different things, sitting in a room together, looking at what you are building and telling you what they actually see. No gatekeeping. No pretending. Just, “here is what I notice, here is what I would check, here is what worked when I tried something similar. Someone brings a compliance question and the person with the compliance background speaks up. Someone is stuck on positioning and the person who has been through it three times says the thing they actually needed to hear.

came back after a week offline and spent an hour just reading posts. people are shipping. full agent teams, named specialists, live clients. and i'm still on the foundation. but here's the honest version of what's actually happening. i build something. it works. then i look at it and realise it's not what i actually wanted. so i break it and start again. then halfway through the rebuild, a new idea comes in and now i don't know if i should finish what i started or pivot to the thing that's clearly better. i've rebuilt the same system three times in a month. and the worst part.. each version was better than the last. so was the rebuilding wrong? or is that just what building actually looks like before it locks in? genuinely asking because i can't tell if this is a me problem or if everyone here is quietly doing the same thing and just posting the final version.

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***A note before you read: this post talks about losing a parent to drug overdose, addiction, and some of the harder parts of growing up through that. If any of this hits close to home, take care of yourself first.*** This is personal, not ai related but feel its important to share. Both @Matthew Creamer and I lost our fathers to drug overdoses. I don't say that for sympathy. I say it because it's the kind of thing that rewires your entire life and I think some of you need to hear that the people building this thing with you know what it feels like to start from somewhere broken. My dad was a good man. I need you to know that before anything else. He was loving, he was present, he was the kind of father who wanted his son to never have to grind through the kind of work he did. He spent his life in construction, the kind that wears your body down year after year, and he always told me he wanted something different for me. He wanted to retire the whole family one day. He wanted to leave a mark on the world and he wanted me to do the same. He just had his demons, and one night when I was 15 they took him from me. A month after my birthday so I was still basically 14 years old and I found him on the couch and that was it. Everything after that moment I had to figure out on my own. I learned how to trim my beard without him standing behind me in the mirror. I learned how to haggle with taxi drivers in countries he never got to see. I broke my heart for the first time and had nobody to call who could tell me what that kind of pain actually means when you're young and don't know who you are yet. I fell into addiction myself somehow escaped after a lot of battles. I joined the Marine Corps and that brought its own tragedies, its own weight. I climbed the tallest mountain in Europe. I walked across the grand sands of the Middle East. I have tasted war and peace, depression and anger, and so much more that I am still learning how to carry.

Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.