James Cowling
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James Cowling
@jamescowling.dev
@convex.dev co-founder/CTO. Dropbox storage designer. Distributed systems researcher at MIT. Bad motorcycle mechanic. Database shill.
Convex Chef supports Gemini 2.5 Pro! It's sometimes too verbose and occasionally forgets to call tools but produces way better UIs and seems able to build more fully-featured apps than Claude. Try it out!
April 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
LLMs love writing @convex_dev code so we made an app-builder to let them do it.

Convex Chef: The AI builder that knows backend.

Get cooking...
April 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Ain't no one got time to log in to stuff. Now you can use @convex.dev without an account! Just npm i convex and npx convex dev.
April 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Building an AI agent or need a durable workflow? Day 2 of @convex.dev Vibe Week is dedicated to you.

New agent framework and durable workflow engine ready to go, check out links in the reply.
April 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Day 1 of @convex.dev Vibe Week is a go! Announcing official release of our MCP server folks have been trialing. Check out the vid and the links in the reply. Stay tuned for more tomorrow!
April 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ok this is legitimately cool. Cursor talking to @convex.dev via MCP and figuring out schema improvements based on the rows actually stored in the database, performed in constant time!
March 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Do you like TypeScript? Do you like databases? Do you like neither but just want to build apps using regular old functions?

My @db.cs.cmu.edu talk on TypeScript Stored Procedures for app developers is online now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpgV...
February 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
CMU Databases talk streaming live 4:30EST Monday.

Come learn how every good idea you have was already invented by someone in the 80s and why we should be running typescript functions in our databases.

db.cs.cmu.edu/events/sql-d...
February 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM