Andrew Askins
@andrewaskins.com
Founder @metamonster.ai - the fast, lightweight SEO crawler that fixes issues for you
Work -> SEO, marketing, product
Free time -> Hiking, robotics, travel, food
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Work -> SEO, marketing, product
Free time -> Hiking, robotics, travel, food
📝 http://andrewaskins.com
🎙️ https://smalleffortspod.com
🦐 https://discoshrimp.lol
That's another key to prompt engineering: LLMs are probabilistic, so you need to test prompts across a decent-sized dataset to get a real understanding of how well they work.
June 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
That's another key to prompt engineering: LLMs are probabilistic, so you need to test prompts across a decent-sized dataset to get a real understanding of how well they work.
Maybe it's weighting a certain word heavily, or associating it with something you didn't consider. (at least I think that's what's happening)
The new UI makes it easy to generate this at the same time as the output from your prompt inline, and then review them at scale.
The new UI makes it easy to generate this at the same time as the output from your prompt inline, and then review them at scale.
June 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Maybe it's weighting a certain word heavily, or associating it with something you didn't consider. (at least I think that's what's happening)
The new UI makes it easy to generate this at the same time as the output from your prompt inline, and then review them at scale.
The new UI makes it easy to generate this at the same time as the output from your prompt inline, and then review them at scale.
While LLMs aren't really thinking, this can help you understand how its model may have "interpreted" your instructions and at the very least give you ideas for what to tweak to get the output closer to what you're looking for.
June 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
While LLMs aren't really thinking, this can help you understand how its model may have "interpreted" your instructions and at the very least give you ideas for what to tweak to get the output closer to what you're looking for.
At the moment it's typefully, it's simple, low on distractions, and has good previews. And it's bootstrapped.
Support for features like polls/slideshows/etc are limited outside of twitter which makes sense, it started with a focus on twitter
Support for features like polls/slideshows/etc are limited outside of twitter which makes sense, it started with a focus on twitter
May 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
At the moment it's typefully, it's simple, low on distractions, and has good previews. And it's bootstrapped.
Support for features like polls/slideshows/etc are limited outside of twitter which makes sense, it started with a focus on twitter
Support for features like polls/slideshows/etc are limited outside of twitter which makes sense, it started with a focus on twitter
I use it because I want to write code and use AI at the same time and it has better controls for feeding the AI relevant context within my codebase than others I've tried
April 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I use it because I want to write code and use AI at the same time and it has better controls for feeding the AI relevant context within my codebase than others I've tried
I probably wouldn't recommend Cursor to a non-dev. You could definitely use it, but it's better for someone who wants to at least dabble with and understand the underlying code.
April 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I probably wouldn't recommend Cursor to a non-dev. You could definitely use it, but it's better for someone who wants to at least dabble with and understand the underlying code.
Are you thinking about building something in one of these spaces next or just wanting better tooling for yourself?
April 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Are you thinking about building something in one of these spaces next or just wanting better tooling for yourself?
That's actually part of the value prop we're hoping to emphasize for MetaMonster:
- Audit your website (and scrape your content)
- Generate optimizations
- Publish directly to your CMS
All from one tool
- Audit your website (and scrape your content)
- Generate optimizations
- Publish directly to your CMS
All from one tool
April 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
That's actually part of the value prop we're hoping to emphasize for MetaMonster:
- Audit your website (and scrape your content)
- Generate optimizations
- Publish directly to your CMS
All from one tool
- Audit your website (and scrape your content)
- Generate optimizations
- Publish directly to your CMS
All from one tool
Hm, yeah, I guess neither of the tools I mentioned have an option to publish directly to a CMS (although it looks like Lex might be working on that) in the way that Cursor is integrated with my git workflows.
But neither did Google Docs which is what I used before.
But neither did Google Docs which is what I used before.
April 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hm, yeah, I guess neither of the tools I mentioned have an option to publish directly to a CMS (although it looks like Lex might be working on that) in the way that Cursor is integrated with my git workflows.
But neither did Google Docs which is what I used before.
But neither did Google Docs which is what I used before.
I'm using lex.page a lot like I use Cursor. I have a lot of my content in the tool, as well as a voice and tone guide, and use the Claude within lex to generate a rough draft of new marketing emails, blog posts, etc. which I then heavily edit
April 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I'm using lex.page a lot like I use Cursor. I have a lot of my content in the tool, as well as a voice and tone guide, and use the Claude within lex to generate a rough draft of new marketing emails, blog posts, etc. which I then heavily edit
I don't know, I've been using AI a lot in my marketing workflows
And talking to SEOs they're all heavy users too
And talking to SEOs they're all heavy users too
April 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I don't know, I've been using AI a lot in my marketing workflows
And talking to SEOs they're all heavy users too
And talking to SEOs they're all heavy users too
Under the hood, we store HTML and markdown of your page content for every page that we crawl. We use the markdown in our prompts so that the AI has your page context when generating titles and meta descriptions.
April 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Under the hood, we store HTML and markdown of your page content for every page that we crawl. We use the markdown in our prompts so that the AI has your page context when generating titles and meta descriptions.
You can use this to help with a site migration, or load all of your website content into another AI tool to run prompts against it.
I like to use this personally to add website content into @nbaschez.bsky.social's tool lex.page so I can provide more context to the AI when I'm working on content.
I like to use this personally to add website content into @nbaschez.bsky.social's tool lex.page so I can provide more context to the AI when I'm working on content.
April 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
You can use this to help with a site migration, or load all of your website content into another AI tool to run prompts against it.
I like to use this personally to add website content into @nbaschez.bsky.social's tool lex.page so I can provide more context to the AI when I'm working on content.
I like to use this personally to add website content into @nbaschez.bsky.social's tool lex.page so I can provide more context to the AI when I'm working on content.
Ohhhhh interesting, I should reach out and see if they're willing to give me some more feedback
April 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Ohhhhh interesting, I should reach out and see if they're willing to give me some more feedback
Also surveying the market again
One of the tricky parts is our market is going through a bit of transition
Traditionally crawls were cheap, but the companies adding AI generation features to their crawl capabilities are mostly charging a good bit for those features (bc AI has directs COGS)
One of the tricky parts is our market is going through a bit of transition
Traditionally crawls were cheap, but the companies adding AI generation features to their crawl capabilities are mostly charging a good bit for those features (bc AI has directs COGS)
April 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Also surveying the market again
One of the tricky parts is our market is going through a bit of transition
Traditionally crawls were cheap, but the companies adding AI generation features to their crawl capabilities are mostly charging a good bit for those features (bc AI has directs COGS)
One of the tricky parts is our market is going through a bit of transition
Traditionally crawls were cheap, but the companies adding AI generation features to their crawl capabilities are mostly charging a good bit for those features (bc AI has directs COGS)
100%
We've seen several people cancel their trials and site "too expensive" as the main reason, but we also have 2 still on higher plans that are ongoing
So I want to wait and see how those play out
I also have several demos this week, good chance to get live reactions to pricing
We've seen several people cancel their trials and site "too expensive" as the main reason, but we also have 2 still on higher plans that are ongoing
So I want to wait and see how those play out
I also have several demos this week, good chance to get live reactions to pricing
April 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
100%
We've seen several people cancel their trials and site "too expensive" as the main reason, but we also have 2 still on higher plans that are ongoing
So I want to wait and see how those play out
I also have several demos this week, good chance to get live reactions to pricing
We've seen several people cancel their trials and site "too expensive" as the main reason, but we also have 2 still on higher plans that are ongoing
So I want to wait and see how those play out
I also have several demos this week, good chance to get live reactions to pricing
Oh btw we launched the MetaMonster beta last week metamonster.ai
MetaMonster - Automate your metadata cleanup
Clean up your metadata in minutes instead of months with MetaMonster, the SEO crawler that fixes issues for you.
metamonster.ai
April 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Oh btw we launched the MetaMonster beta last week metamonster.ai
Did you buy a cabbage and leave it outside of Paul's house though?
April 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Did you buy a cabbage and leave it outside of Paul's house though?
I pay $20 per month for a Planet Fitness, but pay an extra $120 per month for a virtual personal trainer to create workout plans for me and keep me accountable
At various times I've paid:
- $80 per month for a climbing gym membership
- $150 per month for CrossFit classes
Happy to pay if I use it
At various times I've paid:
- $80 per month for a climbing gym membership
- $150 per month for CrossFit classes
Happy to pay if I use it
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I pay $20 per month for a Planet Fitness, but pay an extra $120 per month for a virtual personal trainer to create workout plans for me and keep me accountable
At various times I've paid:
- $80 per month for a climbing gym membership
- $150 per month for CrossFit classes
Happy to pay if I use it
At various times I've paid:
- $80 per month for a climbing gym membership
- $150 per month for CrossFit classes
Happy to pay if I use it