First Hire | Sound for Movement

kept by eddie dec 04, 25

A solo music-business owner describes how treating ChatGPT Pro as a first hire over one year replaced most SaaS tools, cut expenses from 33% to 3-5% of revenue, and enabled full-stack development and generative-audio research without coding experience.

Writing Loops, Not Prompts, Explained
Loop engineering means automating repeated prompt steering into verifiable systems to free human attention for judgment and review, using a break-even equation to decide when loops are worth building.
also on ChatGPT Pro, Codex, OpenAI, #ai-coding, #developer-tools
Async Developer Platform
Async Developer Platform launches a low-latency TTS API with voice cloning, 15+ languages, and pricing starting at $0.50/hour, claiming faster response times than ElevenLabs and Cartesia.
also on ElevenLabs, #pricing, #developer-tools
AI's Bundling Moment
As AI model release cadence accelerates to every 42 days, companies like Harvey, Glean, and ElevenLabs are expanding from single workflow tools into broad platforms, reversing the SaaS-era unbundling strategy.
also on ElevenLabs, OpenAI
I built Pinpoint: a daily mini-game for discovering your city
A developer built Pinpoint, a daily place-guessing game using Next.js, Supabase, and LLMs for riddle generation and place automation.
also on Supabase, #startup, Cursor, OpenAI, #ai-coding, #developer-tools
Introducing Supabase Evals
Supabase open-sourced evals, a benchmark testing AI coding agents on real Supabase tasks like schema building and debugging, to measure and improve agent performance across its platform.
also on Supabase, Codex, #ai-coding, #developer-tools