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What I love and hate about building with AI platforms

I've built 64 projects across 61 hackathons and competitions. These are the things that made me want to keep building, and the things that drove me crazy.

Gemini and Gemma

What I love and hate about Gemini and Gemma

What I loved

Native audio was fast enough that interrupting it felt natural.

What I hated

It fabricated citations routinely, even inside valid structured output.

GitLab

What I love and hate about GitLab

What I loved

Orbit traced one small code change to consequences I had not opened yet.

What I hated

Quiet traps appeared once I used real data.

I've built with a lot more

AWS · OpenAI · Anthropic · Google Cloud · Reddit · Arm · Slack · Elastic · UiPath · RevenueCat · Auth0 · Zerve · DataHub · DigitalOcean · Vercel · Splunk · Backblaze · Yelp · and 20 more

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