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Michael Shemelis

DX Engineer, Convex · 1 appearance on the record.

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Michael Shimeles, known online as Ras Mic, is a software engineer creating technical tutorials covering AI agents, Claude skills, and full-stack development. Alongside his engineering role at Convex, he regularly appears on podcasts demonstrating AI application architectures.

6statements → 2claims → 6claims resolved → 83%fully supported → 3.91/5average certainty → 2.34/5average debate potential → 4.2/5argument clarity · the sources → 9said about them ↓

5 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 assertions · 3 opinions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Michael argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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4.2 / 5 directness 4.8 · coherence 4.3 · precision 3.7 · compression 3.5

answered every one of 10 assessed questions directly

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Michael Shemelis on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Michael Shemelis said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Ross Mike: GPT-6 Astra computer-use automation is surprisingly effective
“Like, I, like, I'm so bullish on computer use. Like, I really, like, a lot of, and a lot of people might think it's, like, insane, or it doesn't work, or it breaks. Like, you'll be surprised how good, like, Astra is.”
Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 8:53 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It
Opinion
Ross Mike: Using GPT-6 Astra to build landing pages wastes its intelligence
“What makes Astra amazing is for these, like, insane hardware projects, this next level software. So again, if you're using Astra to build a landing page, It's a sad use of intelligence”
Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 16:36 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It
Opinion
Ross Mike says he would cancel Claude subscription for Astra
“Anthropic is sweating for sure because for the first time I would like, if I, if someone asked me pick a subscription, I would cancel and drop my Anthropics subscription. I would cancel Claude. Astra's that good.”
Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 21:28 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It
Disclosure
Ross Mike used $24,000 in model costs on two $200 subscriptions
“Like I asked my Astra agent to calculate how much of how much I've been using, like the subscription price, but also like in terms of API price, how much like I've been using in terms of model costs. And in the last week I've spent over 24,000 dollars. Mind yo…”
Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 21:54 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ross Mike: Astra performance review cut app latency from 800ms to 20–30ms
“I did that for one of my apps and speeds went from 800 milliseconds to literally 20 to 30 milliseconds, right?”
Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 2:36 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It
Assertion Partly supported
Ross Mike: GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's priciest model, priced similarly to Fable
“OpenAI's most expensive model. It's on par with Fable in terms of pricing, but if you have a codec subscription, very subsidized, and not only that, it's also very efficient, meaning it doesn't take as many steps to complete a task.”
Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 1:57 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It

The other half of the tape: Michael Shemelis's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 8 times in 1 episode on the Startup Ideas Podcast. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Greg Isenberg 8

Statements about Michael Shemelis, by other people (1)

Opinion
Raz Mike: Most software ideas can be built as Chrome extensions
“Most ideas I truly believe can be Chrome extensions.”
Michael Shemelis (Raz Mike) Oct 18, 2024 ▶ 39:29 Do this to build a $100k/mo chrome extension using AI (Cursor AI, Claude)

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It Sep 10, 2026 11m
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