Tam Tran
nexlo.ai
Tam Tran
@nexlo.ai
Solo founder in 2025
Building Nexlo.ai
A Vietnamese born American, full of East Coast sarcasm, LA - SF 🇺🇸🇻🇳

Background: Al, data, backend, software engineer x ex-restaurant owner
Coding tips, April 2025

“Gemini 2.5 is very smart, but sometimes it will sleep.

Sonnet 3.7 is also very smart, but it is too proactive and may even do things that you haven't assigned.

GPT4.1 is not so smart, but it is very obedient.

o3 is very smart, but it has a bad memory”
April 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Weekend distraction: playing around with MCP
March 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Reposted by Tam Tran
My preferred way of setting up new projects:

1) Spend an hour looking for a template repo
2) Spend 2 days customizing things
3) Run into a bunch of crap you dislike about the repo
4) Rebuild from scratch in a few hours.

You kinda have to go trough this process to figure out what you actually want.
March 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A little bit late to the party on Manus

My initial impression: another agent startup + clever marketing target audience (social media crowd)

Then I read this, showing Manus’ UX play
- story book style UI
- crypto-style hype launch

Now I can’t unseen 🙈

www.reddit.com/r/aipromptpr...
From the aipromptprogramming community on Reddit: It turns out the biggest innovation from Manus this weekend wasn’t the tech, it was their UX & marketing. Here’s my review.
Explore this post and more from the aipromptprogramming community
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March 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Lately I’ve been switching gear to Typescript and Expo to develop an mvp.

Interesting decision from Microsoft

Expo + Native TypeScript Compiler = Supercharged Development?
Why Go? · microsoft typescript-go · Discussion #411
Language choice is always a hot topic! We extensively evaluated many language options, both recently and in prior investigations. We also considered hybrid approaches where certain components could...
github.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM