We are getting closer and closer to the day that AI will be doing all the coding.

With some huge updates, LLMs aren’t slowing down anytime soon.

Feel the AGI.

Topics for this week:

• Wave User Management

• Content Engine

• The First Two Years

• One Max and One Pro

• More Pros

Wave User Management

Payments are still on hold for Wave at the moment.

Video uploads took priority last week, and this week more advanced user requirements are rolling in.

A normal user can log into the app and start browsing through everything right away.

But we put some guardrails in for anyone that tries to sign up as the “Venue” account option instead of a user.

Can’t have random people signing up as a Venue owner and creating whatever made up venues they want.

Which is a good we had that block from the beginning because a random email address from China did in fact try to sign up as a venue owner, despite Wave only releasing and existing in the US.

But right now the Venue account review process is manual.

Basically we’re expecting someone to sign up as a Venue account and I go into the database and flip their status to active to allow them to continue setting up their account.

This manual process has happened a few times now in the last couple weeks, so it’s starting to make sense to add in a way to allow admins to make that change instead.

Not only does it save me time, but it’s a nice impression when a Wave admin is sitting at that Venue with the owner and they can mark them approved right there in person.

So luckily this feature should be a quick solution:

• Have Claude (or maybe Gemini 3…) whip up a new “User Approval” or “User Management” screen

• Let Gemini or GPT implement the validation and hooks to the database

Since the app release cycle is kind of lengthy, I’ll probably include a handful of small wins and bug fixes to make the effort worthwhile.

If it didn’t take up to a full day for Apple to review new app releases, I would rather go the micro-release route, but since I end up having to wait, it makes more sense to wait on a few things at once.

So a new “User Management” screen and a few other tweaks are on the list for next week.

Minor Wave update coming soon.

Content Engine

It’s finally started.

Only a couple weeks late from when I mentioned it.

I have setup and activated the Blotato repurposing automation.

For 3 accounts for now.

Every hour, one new TikTok post will eventually find it’s way to YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels and LinkedIn.

There are options for even more platforms, but that’s plenty to start with.

Despite having just set up this system, I’m still caught off guard when I see the posts on other accounts.

It’s great when automations work.

And the math adds up quickly.

I posted 6 TikTok videos this week.

But with the automation, those 6 posts became 24 posts for shorts alone.

Gary Vee would be proud.

Almost the amount he recommends posting in a single day.

On top of that, I managed to post 2 long form YouTube videos this week, and I may have a 3rd ready to go soon.

YouTube is still processing the data, but it’s looking like just this activity alone is already showing a growth spike, which is great to see.

More content and growth to come.

Looking forward to getting this content posting system properly warmed up so I can get the content producing system online and funneling into it eventually.

The growth engine has started.

The First Two Years

Listening to enough podcasts and YouTube videos, I’ve heard plenty of reoccurring themes.

The line that caught me the other day was effectively “throw away the first 2 years of entrepreneurship”.

The first few years are about learning.

Alex Hormozi and Chris Williamson call it “The Lonely Chapter” where you’ve stopped doing what you used to do, but you aren’t good enough to be recognized for the new thing you’re doing.

According to GPT, there’s plenty of VC terms to describe this period as well:

• “The Wilderness Phase”

• “Zero-to-One Desert”

• “Pre-Product-Market-Fit Hell”

All of these talk about the early stages of building where you’re not sure if what you’re building will even work at all.

It can be a long and challenging time but it’s very common for anyone straying off the beaten path.

As I look back at my two years on this path, I can see the bigger pattern.

After a lot of projects, podcasts, courses and cohorts, I’ve gotten a good feeling for what’s working and what isn’t.

Still a lot of work to do, but the path is becoming clearer.

So I can throw away the last two years in terms of building a massive product, but keep the last two years for having built a foundation and learned a ton.

Sounds like I’m right on track.

One Max and One Pro

OpenAI had to keep up with the big releases this week, and certainly did their part.

Last week they released GPT-5.1 which I didn’t even end up mentioning.

It didn’t feel like a huge upgrade to GPT-5 to be honest, but it does seem very quick to respond and still follows complicated instructions very well.

This week though, they pushed GPT-5.1 Pro, which sounds really promising.

Apparently it’s much slower, but is a much smarter “brain”.

Some highlights:

“…solving problems people thought were out of bounds for today’s AI systems.” is quite a quote.

And this video from Theo talks about how GPT-5.1 Pro was able to solve a hacking puzzle completely on it’s own, which is actually kind of insane:

Sounds like it took it about 45 minutes, but it came up with the proper solution.

I have not seen any model be able to solve puzzles anything close to that yet, so I’ll be anxious to test this out myself.

I’ve had access for a couple days but haven’t gotten to do more than ask it how to come up with a quick approach to automate image-based social media posts.

It did create a multiple step implementation for how to get started and how to evolve the automation which was quite impressive.

But I’ll be anxious to give it some code and see what it does.

And of course they also released GPT-5.1-Codex-Max right before Pro went live.

Codex is there cloud-based model that’s good for coding in the background on it’s own.

Sounds like it can work on a single task for up to 24 hours which is super surprising that it can keep focused for that long without wandering off into hallucination land.

I have a number of projects to let it async code for me so I’ll giving this some work to do while I work on other things.

Lots more testing to do with GPT-5.1 Pro and GPT-5.1-Codex-Max.

But if that weren’t enough…

More Pros

Gemini 2.5 Pro only officially released earlier this year but it feels like it’s been much longer than that.

I’ve slammed 100,000s of lines of code into it to figure out problems and come up with new solutions and architectures, and overall it’s served as my primary coding engine.

And this week Gemini 3.0 Pro officially released - the next big version.

Previews from last week have been really impressive, and again, I haven’t had a chance to really push it with additional 100,000s of lines of code yet, but it did pretty impressively produce a working n8n workflow when I gave it the same request of automating image-based social media posts.

And it do so considerably faster than GPT-5.1 Pro.

Beyond that I haven’t been able to do too much else so I’ll be anxious to do some coding with it as well.

But generally people have been excited.

Landing pages and games seem to be the go-to choices so far.

Being able to build video games so reliably really highlights how well it’s handling complexity because video games are incredibly complex to build.

Lots of potential here.

And if that weren’t enough, Google also release Nano Banana Pro this week.

It, too, is mind-blowing:

And this guy:

Casually adding 14 characters into one image.

So much potential, maybe too much potential.

Many things to test, looking forward to building with all these new pro models.

You can try out both of Google’s new models at aistudio.google.com (Gemini 3.0 Pro for free, but Nano Banana Pro requires a paid API key).

Time to get back to work, lots of coding and recording to do!

And that’s it for this week. Big updates with Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-5.1 Pro and GPT-5.1-Codex-Max.

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