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Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 14h

If your only moat is speed, you aren't building something durable.

Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 1d

Vibe coding has mostly replaced no-code tools.

The next question: does it replace the rest of software engineering?

If you read X, you’d think yes.
If you’ve actually shipped software, you know better.

Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 2d

Use AI as much as you want, but you own whatever it creates. You are the author, AI is the assistant.

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Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 6d

If you’re entire job is sending emails and going to meetings you are ngmi.

Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 7d

AI is leveling the technical field. The next wave of builders will win on context, trust, and access.

Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 7d

You don’t need a new model. You need a reason for someone to say, “Yeah, let’s pilot that next week.”

The irony?
Most technical founders start with code and chase customers.
The ones with industry reach start with customers and never touch code until they've validated the need.

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Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 7d

The real edge isn’t in prompt engineering, it’s in people engineering.
Who trusts you? Who picks up when you call?

If you’ve spent a decade in logistics, healthcare, insurance, you already have a company waiting to happen.

You know the pain points, the politics, and the budget holders.

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Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone’s chasing the next breakthrough in AI capabilities.
But that’s not where the moat is.

Every builder has access to the same models, same APIs, same speed of improvement.

What they don’t all have is distribution.

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Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 8d

AI reflects your input. Feed it vague input, and expect refined chaos in return. Let's focus on clearer thinking, not better models.

Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 8d

Let's normalize finding time for family and hobbies and still being a startup founder. Life is for living.

Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 13d

When using an AI tool, people will generally wait up to 5 seconds for results without switching to another task. Anything longer belongs in the background. Respect the difference and present your UX accordingly. #buildinpublic

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Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 14d

Foundational models will handle 80% of the work. The last 20%, the domain-specific specialization, is where trust and defensibility live. That’s where startups win.

Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 16d

AI isn’t here to take your job. It’s here to free you from trading hours for dollars. Abundance is possible, if you’re willing to lean in.

Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 17d

Forward deployed engineers aren’t just the future, they’re already here.
devplan.com gives modern engineers the context, clarity, and structured prompts to go from business intent to working code without the game of telephone. #buildinpublic

Devplan

Next generation product development planning.

www.devplan.com

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Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 20d

I think forward deployed engineers are going to be more and more common.

Not because they are better developers, but because they collapse the gap between what customers need and what gets built.

Context + ownership > tickets + handoffs.
#softwaredevelopment

Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 22d

Day 1: I'll just use ChatGPT for this PRD.

Day 47: Playing document detective across Notion, Asana, Trello, Jira, Monday, Slack, and Email, wondering what decisions were made and which version actually shipped.

Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 24d

ChatGPT is great for quick PRDs & brainstorming

Until chaos hits.
❌ Inconsistent docs
❌ Missing context
❌ Scattered copy/paste output

We're building devplan.com to give specs the structure + speed + context needed for today's AI workflows.

Devplan

Next generation product development planning.

www.devplan.com

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Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 26d

That last 20% is why we are building devplan.com
We feed in your company’s product docs, code, and workflows so the AI isn’t guessing. The result: specs, user stories, and tasks that are specific to your product and codebase, not generic boilerplate. #buildinpublic

Devplan

Next generation product development planning.

www.devplan.com

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Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 26d

Foundational models get you 80% of the way, but the last 20% is where accuracy and usefulness actually lives and that comes from context and specialization.

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Chris Bee @chrisbeecto.bsky.social · 27d

Why open ecosystems will win in the AI era:
- Agents need to talk to each other across platforms.
- Federated APIs = secure data sharing.
- Metadata standards = easy coordination.
- Protocols like MCP/A2A = common language.

The customer benefit: a single view of knowledge, not 10 partial ones.