This week we will have our free office hours from 12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT. This is a place to talk about AI, get free help on projects, see cool new tools and more. These are bi-weekly meetings intended for group members.
Hope to see you there!
Does anyone have any tools they are using? I am a big fan of Understand. I think it's a great tool for when code bases get large enough that reading them is cumbersome. Anyone else got any cool ways to visualize your tools or agents?
https://lnkd.in/p/eXMDKvG6 Cool product from a very smart founder. I think it makes sense to get someone who can know your niche, as there so many things to learn about every single OEM, etc.
The Automotive Playbook is Hyundai specific marketing creative so your dealership doesn't have to look like everything else, either OEM templated slop, or the new fun AI generated slop that is right around the corner.
Keep Building!
Your cover letter monologue prompts arent helping anymore.
"You are a top-performing auto consultant. Follow OEM voice. Think step by step. Consider everything. This is CRITICAL..." Then the actual ask, two lines later.
Turns out the model didn't need the warmup. Today's LLMs reward three things: context, intelligence, brevity. Give it the role, the goal, the format. Skip the altar call.
A 2-line prompt beats a 6-line ritual every time. Same model. Cleaner output.
Stop trying so hard.
Has anyone tried Jev out yet? What has your experience been? What are you using it for?
Every AI vendor pitching your dealership says the same line: "trained on your data."
Most of them aren't.
The piece that actually does that is called RAG. Retrieval-Augmented Generation. Ugly name, simple idea.
Before the AI answers, it goes and reads your stuff first. Your inventory. Your service history. Your pricing. Your policies. Then it answers from that, not from whatever it scraped off the internet in 2023.
No RAG means the chatbot on your site is guessing about your store. Confidently.
So the next time someone demos an AI tool, ask one question: "Where does it get my data before it answers?"
If they can't say, you have your answer.
As we come close to the public launch of the bldrs group, we are welcoming our first NADA 20 group today, DM50. They will have their own space exclusive to the group, as well as access to all the public groups. Let us know about yourself, what you are building, and how we can help. Zach made a great template in Say Hello group
What do you have your AI call you?
I go by Parzival generally but in the Chinese models go by Yo Momma. Whatchu got?
We have chat messaging, and course discussions available here. Let us know what features we should add. We will be making our public announcement of the community shortly.
Someone in a community I’m in asked a good question on a call today: what are you actually using AI for in your personal life? Not work. Personal.
I told them about my dad, Rusty Hendrix
A while back I got him one of those “dad life story” books from TikTok with prompts you fill in, one memory at a time. He actually finished it.
He took what he wrote and had Claude turn it into a real narrative. Then I used NotebookLM to build a podcast-style interview with my voice cloned as the host, his voice cloned through ElevenLabs as the guest.
Now I have 30-minute episodes where I’m interviewing my own dad about his life.
It’s a lot of feelings at once. I learned why he’s scared of tornadoes. I learned why he’s obsessed with critical thinking. Obsessed enough that his first project using Claude was starting his own religion. It’s called thechurchofidontknow.org. I’m not kidding.
He’s headed back to Italy soon, where he lived and served a mission for two years, and he’s been using Claude to have conversations in Italian to knock the rust off. He has it call him “big daddy king.”
Old dogs can learn new tricks. I’m just grateful I get to hear my dad’s life story in his own voice, on my own time, for as long as I want.
That’s the use case nobody brings up on here with the endless “Claude just killed xyz” lead magnet posts. Just getting to know your dad a little better while you still can. Happy Building!