DEV Community: With Attitude

How to Build Your First Agent. One That Works.

With Attitude — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:28:48 +0000

A beginner-friendly visual guide to building your first AI agent in Claude Code, based on questions from my readers.

Before we even start, let me say this: I doubt, quite seriously, that anyone alive has built a first agent without making a few mistakes. Not even Boris Cherny.

Since agents are new, it follows as a matter of plain logic that we’re also new to them.

I’m starting here because I’ve talked to people in my community who treat their mistakes as evidence they don’t belong here. They do. We all do. We’re all early adopters.

Continue reading on Substack →

Canva Template: Substack Cover Image Safe Zone (1200 630 345 195)

With Attitude — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:36:49 +0000

A reusable Canva template system for making Substack images look great across all previews..

Read this article first.This template is the companion resource.

Substack cover images are 1200×630 px but get cropped 9 different ways.

This Canva safe zone template locks your title, logo and characters into the center 345×195 px, so nothing gets cut.

Grab it, drop your design in, done.

Link below.

Continue reading on Substack →

Figma Template: Substack Cover Image Safe Zone Template (1200 630 345 195)

With Attitude — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:36:13 +0000

AI Product Manager helping you protect human agency. Tools to showcase your creative work. A community of 18K+ readers building critical AI literacy through practice. Use AI with attitude to strengthen the branch you’re sitting on, not cut it off.

Read this article first.This template is the companion resource.

Substack cover images are 1200×630 px but get cropped 9 different ways.

This Figma safe zone template locks your title, logo and characters into the center 345×195 px, so nothing gets cut.

Grab it, drop your design in, done.

Link below.

Continue reading on Substack →

What Substack Doesn't Tell You About Cover Images

With Attitude — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:35:38 +0000

The Substack Cover Safe Zone Guide. Make your Substack covers look great across all 9 previews. Prompt, Figma template, and Canva template included.

I dare you to find one image generation model neither one of us has tried. But even with all of them at our disposal, we both spend a frankly ridiculous amount of time making our newsletter covers look good.

So when Substack takes these lovingly overthought creations and makes them look gorgeous in one place, then deranged in another, we get annoyed.

Continue reading on Substack →

Use AI with Attitude, or Become the Product. Critical AI Literacy Series 2026.

With Attitude — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:31:26 +0000

Use AI hard. Just don't kneel for it. A field guide to critical AI literacy and attitude.

AI doesn’t need more obedient users.

It has enough.

It has users pasting deeply personal information into whatever chat box is cheaper.

Users who accept the first answer.

Users who call everything “research” if the output has hyperlinks or bullet points.

Users who let tools summarise what they never read, write what they never thought, and decide what they never had the judgment to assess.

Continue reading on Substack →

The Pre-Build Interrogation Prompt

With Attitude — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:05:45 +0000

AI Product Manager turning everyone into AI-native builders. I help you design & build with AI, not just use it. I build tools to grow your newsletter and showcase your work. Join a 18K+ community developing critical AI literacy by immersion.

The Pre-Build Interrogation Prompt is a companion resource to my article “Are You Sure You’re Actually Vibe Coding?”

Read the article first because this prompt only makes sense once you understand the difference between vibe coding, slop coding, spec-assisted building, and spec-driven development.

Continue reading on Substack →

So, Are You Really Vibe Coding? The 2026 Definition, Lexicon, and Decision Framework

With Attitude — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:05:09 +0000

Vibe coding defined by a practitioner who’s tested it since 2025: the 2026 definition, the full AI development lexicon, and the Spec-Driven Spectrum — a framework for choosing how much spec your build needs.

How sure are you that what you’re doing is vibe coding?

I’m asking because many people use this term loosely and treat it as a synonym for any AI-assisted coding.

Some people, like me, use the term loosely on purpose.

Others are simply not yet familiar with the distinction.

Read this guide even if you’re already a pro builder.

Use it as a reference. Print it if you still believe in paper. Send it to your team if they keep calling everything “vibe coding.”

Continue reading on Substack →

What I Refuse to Say About AI in 2026

With Attitude — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:49:01 +0000

What it feels like to build AI systems while raising the humans who will inherit them.

I spend a lot of time inside AI systems.

Not casually.

For the last several years, I’ve worked at the edge of AI product development, ethical AI, and AI-assisted building.

I manage AI products alongside brilliant researchers, engineers, and compliance leads, so I see the full product chain up close: research decisions, engineering tradeoffs, ethical tradeoffs, compliance risks, and security risks. The product choices that tell you what a company thinks people are for.

Continue reading on Substack →

Why Your Perplexity Credits Vanish (and How to Make 10K Last)

With Attitude — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:54:18 +0000

How I run Perplexity Computer daily without blowing the credit ceiling.

Last verified: June 12, 2026

Continue reading on Substack →

Anthropic Just Split the Frontier in Two

With Attitude — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:53:43 +0000

Fable 5 is the model we get. Mythos 5 is the model we don’t. The gap between them is the product strategy.

When a company announces two products from one model, the model is no longer the only thing being productized.

Today, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5.

Same underlying model. Different doors. Different rules.

This must be an interesting time to be a PM at Anthropic.

The model creates the capability, but the product is shaped in the access layer: segments, permissions, routing, eligibility, pricing, governance, and trust.

Continue reading on Substack →

Claude Skills: Editorial Minimalist UI System

With Attitude — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:21:47 +0000

Editorial Minimalist UI is a design system for AI-generated product interfaces that should feel calm, premium, useful, and built by someone with taste.

I built this skill after seeing one too many AI-generated pages with purple gradients, soft shadows, fake testimonials, and vague buttons.

The Editorial Minimalist UI skill fixes that by forcing the AI to start with the bones of the interface: structure first, typography second, then spacing, hierarchy, content, and surfaces before any decorative nonsense.

AI Product Manager andbuilder.

I write Product with Attitude, an AI newsletter for thousands of subscribers developing critical AI literacy the only way it sticks: through practice.

Continue reading on Substack →

12 AI Projects Built by the PwA Community

With Attitude — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:20:53 +0000

I Keep Saying You Can Build with AI. Here’s Proof.

You spend hours engineering context for one AI: training its memory, writing system prompts, building project files. Then you switch models and start all over.

Cuey is a free Chrome extension that unlocks that context for cross-model comparisons. When you compare ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in Cuey, each model answers with the full picture of your work.
Built for builders who can’t afford to start from scratch.

Continue reading on Substack →