
Peter Yang
@petergyang • 282,332 subscribers
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"If everyone can build, it's your unique expertise, judgement, distribution, and more that people will pay for." Here’s my new episode with Amol Jain, Replit ⠕'s head of product engineering, about what it takes to turn a vibe-coded product into a real business. Amol shared: → 3 examples of apps built by non-coders that reached six figures → 4 steps to take an AI-built app from prototype to production (security!) → How to find your competitive advantage when code is free Some quotes from Amol: “He built the whole thing end to end in three days. Within the first two months, he was already at $180K+ in revenue.” “At Replit, this internal tool saves us six figures in SaaS costs. More importantly, anytime we want to add a feature, we just do it. We’re not at the mercy of someone else’s roadmap.” “The businesses that survive go beyond code to offer expertise, trust, infrastructure, networks, systems of record, data, physical goods, or services.” 📌 Watch now: Thanks to our sponsors: Riverside: The all-in-one AI studio I use to record and edit my podcast Linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams
Peter Yang104,352 views • 4 days ago

I’m sick of reading AI slop, so today I’m open-sourcing my /no-ai-slop skill that removes 20+ slop patterns from any piece of writing. 📌 Get the free skill here: If you find it useful, please consider starring the repo so more people can find it. Why I built the skill: I use AI to edit my writing because it helps me fix spelling, grammar, and clarity. But even the best models keep producing the same slop that this skill removes: → Binary contrasts: “It’s not X. It’s Y.” → Throat-clearing openers: “Here’s what nobody tells you.” → Fake-profound endings: “The future isn’t coming. It’s already here.” Use this skill responsibly. I always write a first draft manually before iterating with AI on edits and I make sure to do another manual pass at the end as well. That’s in contrast to using AI to automate pumping out slop end-to-end. 📌 Read my full post for more on how I try to use AI responsibly to edit without giving into the dark side:
Peter Yang1,184,578 views • 1 month ago

Today, I’m open-sourcing /fuck-cancer, an AI skill that helps patients and caregivers navigate cancer diagnosis and treatment and advocate for themselves and their loved ones. Here’s what patients and caregivers have told me since I shared my mom’s story: “You have to be a huge patient advocate. Ask questions and push for answers, biopsies, and proper testing.” “I need help navigating difficult conversations and advocating for myself.” “The volume of doctors, documents, and insurance paperwork can quickly become overwhelming.” I built the skill to help with these problems. It creates and updates a practical brief with five sections: 1. Patient and care-team information for easy reference during calls 2. What to do next, limited to three specific actions 3. What we know, separating confirmed facts from what remains unclear 4. Medical terms explained in plain English 5. A care log with recent updates and decisions It builds this brief from documents, and context you provide. When research is needed, it uses trusted sources such as the National Cancer Institute and the ClinicalTrials gov API. I use it with ChatGPT/Codex and Claude Code to prepare for conversations and research. It can save the brief locally as a Markdown file or update a shareable Google Doc so the whole family can work from the same information. 📌 Get the free, open-source skill here: If you find it useful, please ⭐ the repo and share it with someone going through this BS disease.
Peter Yang136,689 views • 9 days ago

A 22-year-old college student who had never coded before built a peptide-tracking mobile app that made $60K in its first month. From Amol Jain: “Cedric got really deep into this community of peptides and GLP-1s. He wanted to build something that helps anyone track their peptide and GLP-1 intake and learn more about these emerging medications. And so he jumped on Replit - again, no exposure to code before - and was able to build a mobile app. After a little bit of testing and experimentation, he was making $60,000 in his first month. It now has tens of thousands of active users and is growing every day.” 📌 Watch the full episode for more examples of vibe-coded apps that became real businesses:
Peter Yang47,894 views • 4 days ago

“The moat is quality over a long period of time." Here's my new episode with Riley Brown, where he showed me how he uses Codex to run his entire content business (1.5M+ followers), including how to: → Create thumbnails, animations, and B-roll → Research and craft winning hooks → Use agents to find content ideas proactively Some quotes from Riley: “I’ll scrape a hundred thumbnails that performed really well and test putting my face on them." (Riley uses Paper to do this) “I’ve never looked at a skill file once. If AI does a bad job, I just tell it to update the skill so it doesn’t make the same mistake again.” “I’ll walk around for 10 minutes speaking all my ideas. When I come back, AI has created 80% of the diagrams I’ll use in my videos.” I’ve admired Riley’s AI tutorials for a long time, so it was fascinating to see his process behind the scenes. 📌 Watch now: Thanks to our sponsors: Google AI Studio: Go from prompt to production fast Riverside: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video
Peter Yang199,467 views • 18 days ago

My last open-source skill, /no-ai-slop, clearly hit a nerve with 4K GitHub stars. Today, I’m introducing /human-review, another free AI skill I think you’ll love. Let’s face it - giving feedback to AI in chat is painful. Asking it to “update the 3rd paragraph” or “update image size to X” is annoying when I just want to edit the text myself or give feedback to AI directly on the page. /human-review opens HTML and Markdown files in a visual editor that lets you: → Edit and format text directly → Resize images → Leave comments for AI like a Google Doc I've been using it to edit PRDs, landing pages, product copy, and much more. The whole review loop runs locally, so your data is safe and nothing is uploaded to the cloud. 📌 Get /human-review for free on GitHub: If you find it useful, please ⭐ the repo so more people can find it. 📌 Read my full post here for more on how I use /human-review:
Peter Yang314,895 views • 29 days ago

Anthropic recently cut Claude Code’s system prompt by 80%. Thariq explains why: “As the models have gotten smarter, they need less direction, fewer constraints, and fewer examples. The examples are constraining it because now it’s like, ‘Oh, you want things like this example.’ If you remove the examples, it can actually be more free-form. All this is to say that you want to trim your context [when a new model is released]. The latest models often need more room to run.” 📌 Watch the full episode here:
Peter Yang339,743 views • 1 month ago

“The only job left is to understand what you don't like, put it into words, and tell the AI.” Here’s my new episode with jason (DevEx at OpenAI) where he showed me how he uses Codex throughout his workday, including how to: → Set up a chief of staff for Slack and email → Turn past sessions into new AI skills → Give long-running projects verifiable goals Some example Codex use cases from Jason: “I want you to read the past week of Slack messages I’ve written and make a skill to figure out how to talk like me.” “Turn this thread into a heartbeat. I want you to check my emails, my Slack, my Linear, and tell me what I need to prioritize.” “Codex can find a booking ticket and check into the flight for me and text me the boarding pass to my phone.” Jason wrote the official OpenAI handbook on how to get the most out of Codex, so don’t miss this episode. 📌 Watch now: Thanks to our sponsors: Riverside: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video Google AI Studio: Build apps with Nano Banana, and more
Peter Yang217,376 views • 1 month ago

Ten minutes of talking gives Riley 80% of the diagrams that he shares in his videos. From Riley Brown: “I use Wispr Flow for everything. I’ll walk around for 10 minutes speaking all my ideas, then ask for an Excalidraw diagram with nine slides.” “When I come back, it has 80% of the diagrams I’ll use. I'll spend another 20 minutes editing them, but it organizes my ideas.” 📌 Watch the full episode here:
Peter Yang81,596 views • 18 days ago

The only concert venue where the nosebleed seats are better than the front row.
Peter Yang4,648,429 views • 2 years ago

“We’ve got /loop, /goal, and workflows. They all get the agent to run for long periods of time.” Here’s my new episode with Thariq from the Claude Code team, where he shared how he plans, builds, and runs loops with Claude Code: → How /loop, /goal, and workflows work differently → Live demo: Editing launch videos with Claude → Using HTML artifacts to plan and learn Some quotes from Thariq: “We cut Claude Code’s system prompt by 80%. As models have gotten smarter, they need less direction, fewer constraints, and fewer examples.” “Planning is an iterative process of exploring, investigating, and finding out what you don’t know.” “One failure mode I see is that people glaze over AI’s plans. You want to make sure it’s something you read.” I've been wanting to interview Thariq for a long time and I learned so much from this epsiode. 📌 Watch now: Thanks to our sponsors: Riverside: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video Wispr Flow: 4x faster than typing with your voice
Peter Yang186,950 views • 1 month ago

“We believe in intelligence as a public good before everything else.” Here’s my new episode with mephisto, who co-founded Nous Research and helped build Hermes, the #1 personal agent and AI app on OpenRouter. Karan is the most down-to-earth AI founder I've interviewed. We had a great chat about: → Why open-source AI must win → How Hermes improves itself without slop → How to mod your favorite games with AI Some quotes from Karan: “We need to keep giving this level of intelligence to everyone so that we're all on an even and equal playing field.” “Anytime [the model] says ‘you’re absolutely right,’ you’re being reward hacked. You are fuel for its reward function.” “Memory, skills, and the self-improvement loop are where context is stored. That’s where the actual personality you want lives. You can put that on any model.” 📌 Watch now: Thanks to our sponsors: Riverside: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video Linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams
Peter Yang124,572 views • 1 month ago

"This will replace 80% of the apps that you have on your phone." Here's my new episode with Peter Steinberger 🦞 where he showed me: ✅ His personal OpenClaw use cases - flight check-in, home security, and much more ✅ His counterintuitive AI coding workflow - no plan mode, no MCPs, and no fancy prompts ✅ Practical advice for other builders and how to build product taste Some quotes from Peter: "It's like having a new weird friend that is also really smart and resourceful that lives on your computer." "Why should I use MyFitnessPal when I have an infinitely resourceful assistant that already knows I'm making bad decisions at KFC?" "I don't use MCPs or any of that crap. Just because you can build everything doesn't mean you should." 📌 Watch now: Thanks to our sponsors: Granola - The best AI meeting notes app I've ever used: Replit ⠕ - Create beautiful prototypes and full stack apps:
Peter Yang667,474 views • 7 months ago

"We (Anthropic) are now creating entire features in days, not weeks." Here's my new episode with jenny wen (Claude's Head of Design) where she gave me a rare look at how Anthropic operates, including: ✅ How she uses Cowork to build products ✅ The real story behind Cowork's creation (including screens of early Cowork prototypes) ✅ How Anthropic is able to ship every day Some quotes from Jenny: "The specs we used to make with milestones ...we don't really do that anymore." "People think we built Cowork in 10 days. The actual story is we've been prototyping this direction for a year." "Designers, if you feel like the ground is shifting beneath your feet, it's because it is." 📌 Watch now: Thanks to our sponsors: Replit ⠕: Plan, design, and build with AI agents Linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams
Peter Yang427,465 views • 5 months ago

You can now make videos like this using HTML. I didn’t believe it at first until the HyperFrames team showed me how they do it directly in Codex and Claude Code. Best of all, the tool is 100% free and open source. But you need to learn the right workflows to make the videos look great - including generating a frame.md, storyboards, and more. 📌 Subscribe to get our full tutorial tomorrow:
Peter Yang193,295 views • 2 months ago

"You cannot walk from point A to B inside OpenAI without hearing Codex get mentioned." Here's my new episode with Rohan Varma (Codex PM) on how he uses Codex as his everything app to: → Prototype designs with Image Gen → Turn repeated work into automations → Turn project context into live Codex Sites → Use one Codex thread to manage others Some quotes from Rohan: "[Ask Codex] for something that seems 10x more ridiculous than you ever think it could do. And it probably can do 90% of it." "Over the course of the day, I'm probably doing 3-4x more than I would have without Codex." "For me, every time I do anything I basically think, could Codex have done this?" 📌 Watch now: Thanks to our sponsors: Wispr Flow: 4x faster than typing with your voice Riverside: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video
Peter Yang141,629 views • 2 months ago

Asked GPT 5.5 and Codex to make Star Fox. This is after 15 min of prompting 🔥
Peter Yang259,531 views • 4 months ago