Fireship

Cursor

negative

“A cursor, $20. Claude Max, $100. GPT Pro, another 100. Gemini Ultra, another 100.”

OpenHands

strongly positive

“Amazing, but building apps as a human became outdated in Q2 2026 after the release of Open Hands, which is an open-source tool that allows you to fire yourself.”

Ruby on Rails

first cited September 2026 · positive

“And this one's personal for me because Rails was my first framework and launched my career in software development, which ultimately led to me creating this fire ship channel.”

Kubernetes

first cited September 2026

“Earlier this month, while I was migrating my WordPress blog to Kubernetes, the board of directors at Automattic, the company behind other companies like wordpress.com, Tumblr, and WooCommerce, that has two T's in its name for its founder Matt, they tried to pull an open AI and fire their founder out of nowhere.”

Open Code

first cited October 2026

“I added their skill to open code in about 5 minutes so my agent can route each developer request to a coding model or internal tool and pull out the repo file path and function names.”

“I used it to resurrect one of my beloved side projects, and the orchestrator had Claude code build the API and Codex make the front end.”

Claude Code

“I used it to resurrect one of my beloved side projects, and the orchestrator had Claude code build the API and Codex make the front end.”

Lovable

positive

“Lately, I've been wanting to make the world a better place, so I use Lovable's AI development platform to build my own predictions market, which lets you gamble away your life savings on things like future video topics or how many scam Altman jokes I'll make this month.”

webpack

negative

“Now, I've used many different terrible plugin systems in my days like in WordPress and Webpack, but this paper from Deep Seek is easily the most elaborate justification I've ever seen for a plugin system.”

Blacksmith

strongly positive

“So to help me build cool stuff, I'm using Blacksmith, the sponsor of today's video. It's a drop-in replacement for GitHub runners that lets you run your GitHub actions twice as fast while costing 75% less.”

Gemini

negative

“A cursor, $20. Claude Max, $100. GPT Pro, another 100. Gemini Ultra, another 100.”

Claude Max subscription ($100/month tier)

negative

“A cursor, $20. Claude Max, $100. GPT Pro, another 100. Gemini Ultra, another 100.”

Pareto Router

positive

“Because Rust is a notoriously easy language, I used Pareto Router to route every request to cheaper coding models that could still cargo build, but I eventually ended up splurging for some fancier models for the UI, the dedicated image and speech endpoints to generate a few especially attractive profiles to seed the community and get the matches flowing.”

“But if you're still eating billions of tokens per day, then you need to know about Headroom, which is a context compression layer for AI agents.”

“For this one-shot prompt, I'm using V4 Pro with the max settings, but one thing to keep in mind is that you can point any different model to this harness.”

“I happen to have $20 sitting on my Deep Seek account, so let's find out if it can build a production version of Horse Tender.”

Soul

negative

“Just a couple months ago, back in July, I had GPT Soul generate an exploded view of a mechanical watch. And the end result was a pile of useless garbage.”

“Luckily, there's a self-hostable solution to this called Nine Router, which is an AI tool that sits between your AI tools and dozens of different model providers through one local endpoint.”

OpenRouter

strongly positive

“My startup still hasn't been able to raise a seed round, so I used OpenRouter to rewrite the entire codebase in Rust to attract more investors.”

Fable 5.1

Mixed — said both good and bad

“Now, after playing that for a while, I went back to check on my Fable prompt, which still wasn't done, but eventually it did finish at some point in the far future.”

Ollama

strongly positive

“Or you can use Ollama and do everything locally. I've talked about this tool many other times on the channel, and essentially, it's like Docker for large language models.”

Hyperagent

first cited September 2026 · strongly positive

“This got pretty chaotic fast, so I put a team of Hyper Agent agents in the channel, all running around the clock on the cheapest Chinese models money can buy.”

Mobbin

strongly positive

“I've been using Mobbin for over 5 years now because it provides highly detailed breakdowns of every screen in thousands of popular web and mobile apps.”

WordPress

cited in 2 videos

“Earlier this month, while I was migrating my WordPress blog to Kubernetes, the board of directors at Automattic, the company behind other companies like wordpress.com, Tumblr, and WooCommerce, that has two T's in its name for its founder Matt, they tried to pull an open AI and fire their founder out of nowhere.”

Railway

strongly positive

“The lesson here might be to be careful which companies you trust, which is why I host all of my projects on Railway, the sponsor of today's video.”