The weekly newsletter for founders and builders using AI to ship faster—practical tactics, tools, and real-world lessons from Alex Finn.
i'm addicted to this free AI tool
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My productivity has been bananas the last week. I'm getting so much more high-quality output from AI. And most of it comes down to just 1 new tool and 1 prompt. So if you'd also like to improve your productivity, here are 3 of my 𝕏 posts that will help you. 1. This tool made me 100x more productive It's called Herdr. It's a free, open-source tool to manage all your AI agents in one place. I'm so addicted that I even built my own version that lives in World of Warcraft so I can prompt while I play. 2. Everything you need to master in 2026 to get rich: You don't need to master all 16 at once. But if you only pick one, make it the last one on the list. 3. How I plan big features with ChatGPT 6 Astra Before I build out a big feature, I have Astra ask me as many questions as it needs to plan it out. Sometimes that's 100+ questions. But by the end, the plan is so detailed it can basically build the whole thing by itself. Here's my full workflow along with the prompt. Reply and tell me which one you're starting with. Keep shipping, Alex P.S. ChatGPT 6 Astra is by far the best model I've ever used. I've basically spent 12 hours a day on it since it dropped. Which is why last week I ran a full ChatGPT 6 Astra bootcamp inside the Vibe Coding Academy, where I went through everything I learned and covered Herdr too. That recording is in the Live Calls classroom right now. Click here to join 780+ builders in Vibe Coding Academy and watch the full ChatGPT 6 Astra bootcamp. |
Ship/It Weekly
The weekly newsletter for founders and builders using AI to ship faster—practical tactics, tools, and real-world lessons from Alex Finn.
Anthropic recently gave me early access to a mystery model. They didn't tell me the name. I was sure it had to be Fable 5.5 or Fable 6, because it was such a massive leap over what I was getting from Fable. It was Claude Opus 5.5. It's smarter than Fable and ChatGPT 6 Astra, faster, and cheaper. I’ve been using it for everything from reviewing code to building games and coming up with new projects. When they took my access away before launch, I legitimately felt sad. That's how much I'd been...
Grok Bot came out a month ago and I haven't stopped using it since. Not because it does anything the other agents can't. It's because it's the only one that doesn't make you configure it first. You open it, and it's already working. If you've never opened it, here's what you’ll be looking at: An app that looks like iMessage With a list of bots down the left you message like people And each one runs its own computer in the cloud, not on yours There's a mobile app too, which Hermes doesn't...
There's a whole genre of AI videos I can't stand… The ones where the creator tells you to set up an army of 50 sub agents, drops a GitHub repo underneath it, and calls it a starter kit. I hate them because they always end the same way... You open it You can't work out what any of the 50 agents do You end up running none Or you run them all, and it cripples your performance and skyrockets your costs It might feel really tempting to use all 50 agents. It might feel like you all of a sudden are...