Andrew Askins

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.

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.

Something we've found helpful when testing prompts for MetaMonster: have the LLM output it's "rationale."

Pretty cool:
- I crawled our site
- Told the AI to analyze my page titles and generate an engagement score from 1-10
- Filter to < 5
- Generated optimized titles
- Had the AI score the optimized version and provide a justification

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

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.

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

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.

I use ilus.ai to create most of the illustrations for the MetaMonster site

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

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That's 3-5 clicks to update titles and descriptions for every page on your site.

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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.

Rolled out handy little feature in MetaMonster this week to let you export all of your page content as markdown.

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)

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

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Oh btw we launched the MetaMonster beta last week metamonster.ai

I think I may have taken the "bootstrappers need to charge more" advice a little too seriously and overpriced the MetaMonster beta... 😬

Don't want to overreact to small sample sizes just yet, but seriously considering cutting the price by 50% (add increasing what's included in each plan)

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

yes

if you find them let me know

i thought sam's list was going to finally solve this, but seems like every firm on there is targeting venture funded startups

That's terrifying! We once spent a week searching for our cat, and it was awful (eventually found him)

Really glad your pup made it home safe

This season of Tiny Seed Tales with @leenyburger.bsky.social is so good because THIS is the hard stuff!!

It's easy to keep doing what's working. It's easy to shut down something that obviously isn't working. But so many businesses spend time somewhere in the middle.

Yeah! My parents met in journalism school, and my mom worked for the state newspaper until I was in high school.

I seriously considered trying to become a photojournalist when I was in school, but my parents spent my whole childhood strongly suggesting I not follow in their footsteps lol.