Riley Brown

26 statements across 7 episodes · 19 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 1, 2024 by Riley Brown · said 10 times in 7 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Sep 1, 2024
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Riley Brown had never written code in his life until 50 days ago
“50 days ago I had never coded in my life.”
Riley Brown Sep 1, 2024 ▶ 3:42 I can't believe we coded an app with AI in 67 mins (V0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
Sep 1, 2024
Disclosure
Riley Brown spends over $1,000 per month on AI tools
“My AI budget is over a thousand dollars a month.”
Riley Brown Sep 1, 2024 ▶ 26:58 I can't believe we coded an app with AI in 67 mins (V0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
Sep 1, 2024 positive
Insight
Brown: Anyone can generate a working website prototype in one minute
“We can go to any website you think is cool and literally screenshot it and then describe like what you should do with it. And you can in one minute have a working prototype for it. It's not a full app because it's not storing any of the data, but it is a proto…”
Riley Brown Sep 1, 2024 ▶ 23:02 I can't believe we coded an app with AI in 67 mins (V0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
Sep 1, 2024 positive
Insight
Brown: Explaining a feature's underlying purpose boosts AI prompt creativity
“I like to make sure I give it, I tell it the purpose because it will actually use that in the prompt and it might add to its creativity.”
Riley Brown Sep 1, 2024 ▶ 13:27 I can't believe we coded an app with AI in 67 mins (V0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
Sep 1, 2024 positive
Opinion
Brown: Cursor AI is the best software he has ever used
“Cursor is by far the most fun tool I've ever used is the best software I've ever used in my life.”
Riley Brown Sep 1, 2024 ▶ 29:14 I can't believe we coded an app with AI in 67 mins (V0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
Sep 1, 2024 neutral
Insight
Brown: Choose 'Save All' over 'Accept All' in Cursor for easier undoing
“If you're using cursor, hit save all instead of accept all. Accept all is not reversible. You have to ask the AI to reverse it instead of just being able to, like, hit reject.”
Riley Brown Sep 1, 2024 ▶ 34:46 I can't believe we coded an app with AI in 67 mins (V0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
Sep 6, 2024 positive
Insight
Brown: AI design tools replace text pitches with interactive UI mockups
“Even if you don't have the core functionality, now you can just make the pretty parts and you can pitch people and send them V zero links. Like, Hey, imagine this app, like a lot of, you know, if you're working at a company and you're like, Hey, I think we sho…”
Riley Brown Sep 6, 2024 ▶ 54:46 Let’s build a social app with AI in 100 min (v0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
Sep 6, 2024
Insight
Brown: Inconsistent naming in codebases frequently trips up AI coding models
“Sometimes the naming can become an issue. Not saying that's the issue now, but just kind of going through some common problems I've run into.”
Riley Brown Sep 6, 2024 ▶ 1:36:27 Let’s build a social app with AI in 100 min (v0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
Sep 6, 2024 bullish
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Brown: Platforms will emerge acting as a TikTok for web apps
“Cause like, I think there's going to be platforms built for this, like where there, it'll be like a sandbox thing where it'll, it'll be like the TikTok of social, of applications where you can like create a little environment and you scroll through them, find …”
Riley Brown Sep 6, 2024 ▶ 1:25:36 Let’s build a social app with AI in 100 min (v0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
Sep 6, 2024 positive
Insight
Brown: Break AI failure loops by scrapping changes and expanding context
“After, I actually, yeah, I get, I start re, like, reiterating things. A lot more once you get into these failure loops. and it's really good. The cadence he has right now where it's like he tries four or five times, he scraps the changes, starts again from li…”
Riley Brown Sep 6, 2024 ▶ 1:35:03 Let’s build a social app with AI in 100 min (v0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
Sep 6, 2024 bullish
Insight
Brown: Early adopters of AI web building will capture profitable niches
“Doing it when it's hard is better because by the time the creating what we're doing now gets easy, the people who start now are going to be creating even better sites by then. That's right. Because there's a group of people always pushing the edges of all thes…”
Riley Brown Sep 6, 2024 ▶ 1:19:52 Let’s build a social app with AI in 100 min (v0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Insight
AI tools invert coding education: build first, learn theory later
“So through this process, you do kind of learn how to code, but it's just in an, in the opposite way. You build the thing and then you learn about it instead of learning about it, then building the thing, which makes it more fun.”
Riley Brown Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 1:35 I can’t believe we built an IOS app with AI in under 33 min (V0, Cursor AI, Xcode)
Oct 4, 2024
Disclosure
Yapthread to open-source code for community feature-building contests
“We're actually going to have feature contests, so we're going to release the code for the app, and we're going to see who can, like, fork the code and add the coolest feature to the app and it's going to be really fun.”
Riley Brown Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 33:15 I can’t believe we built an IOS app with AI in under 33 min (V0, Cursor AI, Xcode)
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Insight
Creator-builders using AI ship same-day features while outsourcing takes months
“Because yes, you can, as a creator, I can outsource someone to build apps for me, But the loop is so slow. I'm talking to other creators who do that, and it's like multiple months before basic features are created. Features that I have literally released to my…”
Riley Brown Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 32:11 I can’t believe we built an IOS app with AI in under 33 min (V0, Cursor AI, Xcode)
Jan 17, 2025 bearish
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The popularity of .ai domain extensions will wear off soon
“I think the dot AI is going to wear off soon. Like, I think it's going to become uninteresting”
Riley Brown Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 1:08:22 How to build your AI App with Cursor, Firebase, Vercel (Full Tutorial)
Jan 17, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Riley Brown almost exclusively uses Cursor for building AI apps
“Today we're going to be talking about how I've recently switched to basically only using cursor when building apps with AI”
Riley Brown Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 0:04 How to build your AI App with Cursor, Firebase, Vercel (Full Tutorial)
Jan 17, 2025
Assertion Supported
Brown's Software Composers community has grown to nearly 10,000 members
“I think we have close to 10,000 people now.”
Riley Brown Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 1:13:21 How to build your AI App with Cursor, Firebase, Vercel (Full Tutorial)
Apr 9, 2025 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Brown: Vibecode is the first app to build mobile apps directly on phones
“Yeah, I mean, ah, we just launched, ah, two days ago, launched Vibecode app, ah, which is the first ever app that builds mobile apps directly on your phone.”
Riley Brown Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 41:02 The Future of AI with Riley Brown
Apr 9, 2025 bullish
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Brown: Vibe Marketing Market Will Probably Be as Big as Vibe Coding
“I think it's all great, and a massive industry. Probably as big as Vibe Coding.”
Riley Brown Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 35:32 The Future of AI with Riley Brown
Apr 9, 2025 bullish
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Brown: People will prompt full movies with perfect audio in 739 days
“People are going to be creating movies with prompts 739 days from now, with perfect dialogue, with perfect speech with great background music, like, all of the models are going to be integrated into these videos and it's going to completely disrupt social medi…”
Riley Brown Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 14:56 The Future of AI with Riley Brown
Jun 23, 2025 positive
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Riley Brown: Janky AI Tool Setup Will Be Solved by End of 2025
“Is this process janky? Yes. But will it be solved by the end of the year? I think for sure.”
Riley Brown Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 35:37 I built next gen AI Agents with MCP + Claude (STEAL my workflow)
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Insight
Riley Brown: Tech Leverage Comes From Mastering Janky Early Tools
“And I think most of the leverage from these tools comes from doing things When they're janky and bad, understanding that it's not going to be janky and bad, right?”
Riley Brown Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 34:48 I built next gen AI Agents with MCP + Claude (STEAL my workflow)
Jun 23, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Riley Brown is building a mobile-first Cursor alternative called Vibe Code App
“We're building the cursor on your phone that builds mobile apps. So you open a mobile app, you type your idea, it builds a mobile app, and it's awesome.”
Riley Brown Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 36:19 I built next gen AI Agents with MCP + Claude (STEAL my workflow)
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Brown: Codex autonomously built and played its own chess game
“And so, in my video, it did this in one prompt. I said, build a chess game, then use browser use to test the game and play yourself until one team wins. And that's what it did in one shot”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 42:40 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
Apr 27, 2026 bullish
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Riley Brown: GPT 5.4 one-shotted a Replit clone in 80 minutes
“I've one-shotted, the other day I one-shotted an app like Replit, a vibe coding tool, that spun up sandboxes, and you could vibe code web apps on your phone in one shot. It took an hour and 20 minutes to generate the code, and this was on 5.4.”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 12:31 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Insight
Brown: Collecting output examples is top priority for enterprise AI implementation
“The number one thing that you can do in a company right now, and we're talking to a lot of companies that are trying to implement AI, is just collect as many good examples as possible. This allows your agents to have examples that they can reference.”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 35:37 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
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