Topics for this week:

• Divs Design Web

• Short Growth

• Vibe Coding Freebies

• Monthly Goals

• All the Upgrades

Divs Design Web

I didn’t expect AI to be right about this one, but it was.

I’ve been meaning to update the Divs Design website for a while now, but I didn’t think it’d take that long.

Have Gemini generate a new page, update the images and make sure the links all make sense and it’s good to go.

GPT put the website update item at 2 days.

And it’s been a little longer than that.

To be fair, I haven’t had a ton of time to work on it, but it’s taken more than a few hours to update.

Now I think it’s about there.

Shippable.

Needing to edit some new images, ask for design advice, update sales copy and tweak the layout and order and offers has led to quite a bit of back and forth with multiple AIs before getting to “good enough”.

But I think it’s finally there. For now.

I’m pivoting from Webflow this time around because I don’t think I need it for a landing page like this.

AI can handle the fancy animations at this point and I’m finally moving beyond the “high end productized web design service” trend.

So Vercel is good enough to ship with.

I also was trying to force some sort of competitive SEO term into divs.design and had no idea what I was doing so I clunkily forced the term “web design package” in there as unnaturally as possible.

SEO can be important for something like this but not a term like that.

Leading to a few reasons to redesign this page.

And it’s just about there.

I should be switching it over to use the proper domain next week.

More Divs to come.

Short Growth

So far so good on the shorts strategy.

There’s enough AI news happening that it’s pretty easy to just talk about a new update quickly and be done for the day.

Stilled divided on the right strategy though.

It only takes a few minutes to successfully record and post 1 video to TikTok, which then automatically turns into a post on YouTube Shorts, Instagram and LinkedIn, but I still managed to miss an upload yesterday for Thanksgiving.

Got sidetracked on Wednesday when I was supposed to be pre-recording a bunch for the rest of a busy weekend.

So I may use both strategies depending on travel, holidays and whatever else is going on that week.

But this TikTok approach is much more manageable and seems to be producing decent results.

In the last week alone, TikTok has produced:

• 37 Followers

• 295 Likes

• 9889 Views

A few of those same videos have over 1000 views just by being reposted to YouTube.

And I haven’t even checked Instagram or LinkedIn stats to be honest.

Really I’ve only been looking for notifications about comments and so far the only comments have been on TikTok.

But a handful of shorts are leading to noticeable uptick in activity which is cool to see.

22 subscribers to YouTube in the last 7 days which is a decent bump.

Now just need to consistently do that for the next 6 months and I may have a following in the 5 or 6 digits.

Seems easy enough…

Vibe Coding Freebies

At the time I made this video, I had only heard about Gemini 3’s release so I thought it’d be fun to go through a bunch of different ways to start vibe coding.

Cursor has been my main tool for a while, but I know there are a ton of options these days.

Even crazier is that basically all of them are free to use within limits.

So I listed all the ones that I’ve seen or heard about.

I haven’t used them all myself but I’ve talked to people that have or read about them online.

I may end up downloading them all trying them out at some point.

But the list includes:

• Lovable

• Replit

• AI Studio

• Cursor

• Trae

• Windsurf

• Kiro

• Antigravity

• VS Code (with extensions)

• GitHub Copilot (for VS Code)

• Cline (for VS Code)

Not an exhaustive list, but all have free options to spin up a project and use AI to help with coding.

Insane.

Personally I’ve used:

• AI Studio - in the browser, generating code with Gemini 2.5 Pro

• Cursor - weekly if not daily since around October of 2024?

• VS Code - for the last 10 years, this was the only option (I may have used Intellij for a bit in there and Eclipse from time to time because I had to)

• Cline - plugged it into VS Code to see how it worked but Cursor was too convenient

• Replit and Lovable - popped into both of these to see how they worked when they first came out, but quickly realized they were not for me because I’ve been in VS for the last 10 years and I needed more access to all the code

What’s really crazy with all this is that all of the access to this is free.

Meaning it would be easy (and slightly painful) to continually move one project between all of these tools, using up the free usage tier, then moving on to the next free usage tier, rotating until one of them reset for the month.

It’s a great time to be someone interested in code.

I talk a little more about it in the video if you want to check it out below:

Monthly Goals

The mythical “$10k per month” has become the goal standard for hustle bros everywhere.

The vehicle changes but the mantra stays the same.

It’s sounds simple enough - build something that makes $10k per month in recurring revenue and your foundation is set.

A few clients here, a few projects there, $2000 and $3000 at a time, and you’re at $10,000 per month.

Or a bunch of small monthly payments.

350 people paying $29 per month is $10,150.

Or a combination of big and small.

Only 175 community members or courses sold, and a couple service contracts to fill in the remaining $5000 for the month.

Then rinse, repeat, attract, and maintain for the next month.

Or another approach, one big contract that averages out to $10,000 per month.

$200,000 divided into 12 months, after taxes, is about $10,800 per month.

Lots of ways to get to $10k per month.

And most likely it will involve doing things you don’t want to do.

Just a matter of balancing what you want more.

Most hustle bros are starting from scratch so the big contracts aren’t really an option out of the gate.

But given the opportunity I’m sure it would be something they would also recommend.

Lots of ways to set the foundation, lots of numbers to consider.

Maybe more on this soon…

All the Upgrades

The last 2 weeks in AI have been one of the bigger stretches in a while.

It started with Grok 4.1 on Monday, Gemini 3 Pro the next day, followed by GPT 5.1 Pro, then Nano Banana Pro, and finally wrapped up with Anthropic releasing Opus 4.5 on Monday of this week.

And right now, Gemini 3 has taken the lead on LMArena at the moment, but for text only.

Opus 4.5 is the top spot for WebDev and so far it seems like Opus is super solid for building websites.

Gemini 3 did a great job as well, it built the initial version of https://divs-design-web.vercel.app/ for me, but Opus really improved the section that highlights Wave:

And GPT Pro is a slow deep thinker but it’s not available in the API yet so it’s not being ranked.

But it was crazy to see all these releases happening with the span of a week.

Gemini 3 had been rumored for a while so I’m sure all the other frontier model providers were planning to remain competitive.

I’m curious how far ahead everyone else knows each other’s planned release dates because I can’t imagine the crunch to hit the deadlines determined by your rivals.

Supposedly “966” is becoming the norm in the AI race, working 9am to 6pm 6 days a week, and maybe getting to rest on Sunday.

So hopefully some of those devs are getting a chance to take a break if they want.

But seems like a pretty big jump in processing power in the AI space in general last week over the course of 5 releases.

AI isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

I haven’t pushed these models nearly as much as I’d like to with the holidays and travel and all, but I’m thankful for their work, thankful that I somewhat understand what they’re working, and thankful to take things a little easier this week with Thanksgiving.

Looking forward to stress testing AI much more next week.

Hopefully you got to take it easy and enjoy the holiday this week in the US.

Thankful for you reading too!

And that’s it for this week. 5 major releases in about a week. Hard to beat that.

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