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Christopher Weis: the conversation
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L15Christopher: Hello?
L16Nix: Is there any computers in there? Hey, what's up, Chris?
L17Christopher: Can you hear me?
L18Nix: I hear you great, brother.
L19Christopher: Oh, perfect. How are you doing today?
L20Nix: I'm doing all right, man. Can you turn your video on? Because I make shorts out of it.
L21Christopher: Oh, you do?
L22Nix: I mean, if you don't want to, that's fine. But if you want to have shorts done, turn it on. If you don't, that's all right too.
L23Christopher: Okay. I'm—
L24Nix: If you don't want to, that's fine. No pressure.
L25Christopher: That's fine. I'm driving right now, so.
L26Nix: All right, that's cool. Well, that'll make it even cooler. Um, so do you know what Omarchy Builders is?
L27Nix: You know what I'm doing?
L28Christopher: I do not, but I honestly love to find out some more.
L29Nix: All right, cool. So you can't really go to the website right now, but the Omarchy Builders website. I've interviewed 11 people now, and I just talk about Omarchy, how they found it, what they do with it, and then I do a full spotlight of them, uh, based on what they talk about.
L30Christopher: Awesome. I think that's fantastic. I went to the website briefly, um, trying to find the link to the Zoom, and, um, yeah, it looks amazing, by the way.
L31Nix: Yeah, thank you, brother. Thank you, man. Well, it's cool to finally put a name on the face, because I've—we've kind of orbited.
L32Nix: We've kind of orbited a little bit, and here we are, man. That's really cool.
L33Nix: Um, so you consent to having this recorded and me putting your, uh, you know, I don't put personal information, you know, just basics of, uh, a lot of data where, like, the things that you say that are similar to the other folks and make correlations to how people are doing the same type stuff, and then, uh, maybe you've got some stuff that's unique and we'll spotlight that, and that's where we go.
L34Christopher: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the more [redacted], the more people you have in, I mean, it's problem of building a community, right?
L35Nix: Brother, you got it, man. That's exactly—like, it—I'm so glad you get it, because believe it or not, some folks I talk to don't quite understand it.
L36Christopher: Oh, no. It's all about being open.
L37Nix: Yeah, exactly. Um, so you're building a lot of stuff, man. How did you—like, let's start with the first computer that you ever had and what you did with it and how you came across it, and then go from that part, build an arc, a little bit of a story, a little stuff in between.
L38Christopher: Okay.
L39Nix: And then jump to, uh, um, jump to where you found Omarchy, your Linux experience previous to that, if you're a developer, if you're not, how do you use it, what does it make your life better. It looks like you're in a Tesla, are you?
L40Christopher: Yeah, this is an old Cadillac SRX.
L41Nix: Okay. That's cool. That's cool too.
L42Nix: I was going to ask you if your Tesla could do a kickflip.
L43Christopher: I mean, not yet.
L44Nix: Yeah. Well, cool, man. Um, so just take it away.
L45Nix: Like, what's your story? Where did you start?
L46Nix: Are you a computer guy? Are you just a business guy that likes computers?
L47Nix: What do you do?
L48Christopher: So basically, this all started in high school when I got my first computer. It was an old Dell. Um, it had a 2-gigabyte hard drive, and I was told, "You'll never fill it up."
L49Nix: Gigabyte or megabyte?
L50Christopher: Gigabyte.
L51Nix: All right.
L52Christopher: And I was told, "You'll never fill it up." And I said, "Watch me." And then it all started with, you know, games and stuff like that, and then it got really fascinating.
L53Christopher: And then I fell into the automotive industry out of high school. Um, I lost touch with the cutting-edge technology.
L54Christopher: I always got hand-me-downs.
L55Nix: Okay.
L56Christopher: I've never bought a—I've never bought a brand-new computer because I don't believe in e-waste.
L57Nix: There you go.
L58Christopher: So then I remember—I remember a while back, um, I got this old computer. I was like, "Well, how can I use this today?" I found Linux.
L59Christopher: So I kind of got into a little bit of the Linux. It was Ubuntu.
L60Nix: Yeah.
L61Christopher: I can't remember the number of it, of the release number, but it was relatively old, about 2015, 2014.
L62Nix: Yeah.
L63Christopher: I kind of fell into Linux. Um, and then, yeah, I kind of, you know, modified the computer, got it going, figured out it can do a lot more. I bought a TV tuner for it.
L64Christopher: I thought that was fantastic, to be able to record TV on a computer.
L65Nix: Right.
L66Christopher: And then, yeah, automotive industry kind of took over for about 5, 6 years.
L67Nix: Okay, that's right. There's so much—there's a lot—okay, I'm piecing you together. I remember that you've done a lot.
L68Nix: You've been on Omarchy Sunday Spaces, so I remember you talking about the automotive is what made me click, and.
L69Christopher: Yes.
L70Nix: Yeah. So keep going, keep going. Sorry to interrupt.
L71Christopher: No, you're perfectly fine. Um, so yeah, in the automotive industry. And just recently, um, I created an X account, I'd say probably 2, 3 months ago, specifically for releasing all the applications I built using AI for [redacted].
L72Nix: Right.
L73Christopher: And then realized how saturated that environment is already. So I just kind of threw that out. And then I was scrolling one day, and then I saw this guy on X, his name was Nix.
L74Christopher: I don't know if you know him or not. That's you.
L75Christopher: And I was like, "You know what? I'm just going to do my first reach out and just message this guy, because he looks really cool and he's building a bunch of stuff."
L76Nix: I'm glad you did.
L77Christopher: And then—and then from then on out, it's been completely obsessive with Omarchy and AI, and right now I'm trying to get a large model to run on a small computer by dissecting a large model, using it as a database, and then using a smaller model to then use the bigger model as a database, because I want—it's going to be slower than your frontier models, but at the same time, why not have, you know, a 20, I don't know, 280 billion parameter model running on an
L78Christopher: 8-gig card? I mean, that sounds fantastic to me.
L79Nix: Yeah.
L80Christopher: But.
L81Nix: Can you go into more detail on that?
L82Christopher: Yeah. Um, right now I'm still doing some research on, um, I think they call it LoRA.
L83Nix: Yep.
L84Christopher: So basically, having a marketplace—like, my idea was to have a marketplace, not like a plugins, but more of like a skill set, but not like a Markdown file, but like an actual skill packet that the community can build and train. So then ultimately, you can download a small model and then build it to what you want it to do.
L85Nix: Yeah.
L86Christopher: Meaning, here's the conversation part: I want to be able to do coding. Just as an example, I want to do coding in Rust. I want TypeScript.
L87Christopher: I want some artificial intelligence for automotive. Um, I want to be better at speaking this language.
L88Christopher: So then you download these packs, and then each model is custom-tailored per individual.
L89Nix: Whoa. Okay.
L90Christopher: Yeah. So that's what's going on in my head right now. Um, other than that, I built a couple plugins for Omarchy, specifically for myself, and I released them on the plugin store.
L91Christopher: Um, I haven't checked on them in a couple weeks.
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L95Christopher: So, yeah. But no, other than that, I mean, just within the last month or so, just the Omarchy community, like I said in one of the Sunday meetings, is it's reassurance that what I am doing and my ideas actually have a value to other people, because I'm strictly from the automotive industry.
L96Nix: Right.
L97Christopher: You know, you're kind of left in the dark. You know, I kind of compare it to mushrooms, and excuse my language, you know, we're left in the dark, fed s***, expected to grow.
L98Nix: Yeah, yeah.
L99Christopher: On the automotive industry.
L100Nix: And I got a feeling like the automotive industry, they may be technical, but they're not great, I bet. You probably shine.
L101Christopher: Yes. And [redacted]. And then, oh, yeah, I forgot.
L102Christopher: Um, I've been using one of my applications in two [redacted] now, two months, that I built using Omarchy and, um, a little bit of ChatGPT and Claude in there.
L103Nix: Whoa.
L104Christopher: So it's, yeah, it's, um, essentially Uber, but internal.
L105Nix: Okay.
L106Christopher: It's internal. So it's your own drivers, like having an organizational system for valets and shuttles and mobile services [redacted], and it's Uber for that.
L107Nix: Wow.
L108Christopher: So depending who's available for a shuttle, you know, like the old method was text, a text message thread or a Teams message thread, but now it's everyone gets a text message. They say, "Yes or no, I'm available. I'm not available."
L109Christopher: Um, and then from then on out, it's Uber, but for [redacted] internally.
L110Nix: Right. Now, you said that you were, or you are not, like a developer in by, like, normally?
L111Christopher: Oh, normally, no. I mean.
L112Nix: Okay.
L113Christopher: Not at all. Not one day.
L114Nix: Okay. So let's walk through this. I got to, I want to walk you through something.
L115Christopher: Okay.
L116Nix: So six months ago, did you have these kind of ideas that you wanted to do these kind of applications for [redacted]?
L117Christopher: Yes. I've been working on one of them for over a year, and then fell into AI. But just as, like, it would be kind of cool if this happened idea.
L118Nix: Right.
L119Christopher: And then the tools became available to where you could actually build it.
L120Nix: Okay, you see where I'm going. So.
L121Christopher: Yeah.
L122Nix: Omarchy, your ideas were stagnant because of, no disrespect, a little bit of skill, lacking in skill. Not lacking, but you know what I'm saying. You didn't have them.
L123Nix: So then.
L124Christopher: Absolutely.
L125Nix: You enter Omarchy and AI, and that jump starts or propels your ideas and your ability to drive it forward. And it sounds like you said you were working on that app for a year, and then Omarchy plus AI, and you've already shipped. And you got customers.
L126Christopher: Yeah.
L127Nix: So talk about how the mixture of your ideas that were a little bit groundlocked, and then enter AI, Omarchy, and what you're capable of now.
L128Christopher: Okay. So basically, from idea, you know, I would, this is very rudimentary, but I didn't know anything, so I'd be using, like, Microsoft Paint.
L129Nix: Sure.
L130Christopher: To kind of just build these vision boards, and it would take, you know, you work on it all night just to get a vision board.
L131Nix: Right.
L132Christopher: And then, you know, at that point, you're exhausted. Like, what is this one screenshot going to do for me, other than solidify the idea that's already in my head?
L133Nix: Right.
L134Christopher: Um, but then you get these tools come out, Omarchy and AI, and now it's, I have an idea, I can spend 5 minutes planning the idea, walk away, grab some coffee, grab a bottle of water, and come back. There's a vision board, everything's mapped out, there's a working prototype.
L135Nix: Right.
L136Christopher: Very, very, very, very minimal MVP that at least gives you the idea that would usually take, I don't know, I guess I don't know how long it would usually take to do that, because I don't have the developer background.
L137Nix: Months.
L138Christopher: Months, yeah. And I did it in 5 minutes while drinking coffee and whatever I wanted to do.
L139Nix: So that puts you in the driver's seat more of a developer, a developing product manager than a coder. And the coding part became.
L140Christopher: Yes.
L141Nix: Simply.
L142Nix: So instead of having skills, you have. Yep. Could you repeat that?
L143Christopher: It kind of broke up there for a second.
L144Nix: Yeah, it did for me too. So you, you know, most of the time, folks that are product marketing and developers, or not developers, creators, they start out as 10 years of development, and then they say, "Well, I think I can do this," and then they develop it on their own. And it sounds like you had the ideas, and you skipped that whole 10 years and went straight to being a product manager, managing the tools, which are essentially developer human, you know, could have been humans.
L145Nix: So.
L146Christopher: Yeah.
L147Nix: If you think of, if you think of Omarchy and AI agentic coding, you know, those could be considered like human-type things, if you look at it that way. And now you're managing 10, 15, 20 different agents, and you're the boss or the manager, and things just happen for you.
L148Christopher: Exactly. Exactly. So you end up.
L149Nix: I'm not great on that. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I'm trying to prompt you to, like, I'm going to make shorts out of this and make you.
L150Christopher: Okay. Okay. So essentially, instead of learning the entire skill sets of what each single byte of code and what each language means, you can end up slingshotting yourself through that entire process by essentially saying, "Hey, Mr.
L151Christopher: Agents, I need you to move this button from here to here, or I need this workflow to work like this." And at that point, it just happens based off of the tools that we have, which used to be a meeting.
L152Nix: Right.
L153Christopher: I'm assuming it would have been like a meeting, conference call, a play-by-play of going through the application with the development team. Can it be easily translated as 5 or 6 words quickly typed on your phone or talked through the microphone?
L154Nix: Right. And again, that would be weeks of back and forth. "When can we meet?
L155Nix: I can't meet until next Thursday." "Oh, crap, I can't meet that day.
L156Nix: It'll be next Monday."
L157Christopher: Yeah.
L158Nix: "Okay, you have the first meeting. You just say hello. When can we meet again?"
L159Nix: And on and on and on.
L160Christopher: Yes, yes, yes. And now it's almost instantaneous.
L161Nix: You just skip all that.
L162Christopher: Yes. Instantaneous. Boom, done.
L163Nix: What do you see in terms of, like, the downside of being able to try anything? And we end up doing everything, and, you know, there's like this, we went from being limited to being able to do everything, and now it's kind of out of control that we're starting 100 projects and finishing 3, versus having 100 ideas and only doing 3.
L164Christopher: Yes. And I could probably speak to many people when you get to what's called over-analysis paralysis or feature-focused, where you end up snowballing everything into it, and you end up building an entire operating system when your goal was to only do one specific thing really well every single time.
L165Nix: Right.
L166Christopher: So when you're trying to get someone who doesn't know about your product to use your product, you're essentially teaching them an entire different language, and at that point, you lost them. To where if it's just one specific thing, "Hey, this will do this for you, and all you need to do is this," it will speak for itself and then launch like crazy.
L167Nix: Right. All right. Well, um.
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L169Nix: I was just about to ask you to kind of wrap it up, give your.
L170Christopher: Okay.
L171Nix: You know, like, say what you want to say to the community, your words.
L172Christopher: Okay. For the community.
L173Nix: Take your time, take your time.
L174Christopher: I'd say, follow your heart. Okay. Follow your heart when it comes to what you want to do, and use the tools available to you, because it's really hard to diagnose a car with a flathead screwdriver.
L175Nix: Yes.
L176Christopher: I want to relate it to that. But you can build an entire application by using the tools that are already out there. And then.
L177Nix: Right.
L178Christopher: As far as the Omarchy community, I mean, I've never seen anything like start from nothing and explode to what we have now as fast as it has. Like, I'm having a conversation with someone I met on Twitter or X, and I look forward to all of his posts. I look forward to everything he has to say, and everything that this community has brought to me.
L179Christopher: I mean, I don't know, it's mentally life-changing. I think you can put it that way.
L180Nix: It's what?
L181Christopher: Mentally life-changing.
L182Nix: Yeah, it really is. It really is. All right.
L183Christopher: Yeah.
L184Nix: Be looking for your spotlight and your tweet out and your, so I'll take all this, summarize it. Will you verbally say, "You authorize me to use this"?
L185Christopher: Absolutely.
L186Nix: All right. I'm going to make you a rockstar, brother. Thank you for jumping on with me short notice.
L187Christopher: Absolutely. Anytime, man.
L188Nix: All right, brother. Hey, let's talk. This isn't goodbye.
L189Christopher: This is see you later.
L190Nix: This is see you later.
L191Nix: Nix out.
L192Christopher: All right. Bye.
L193Nix: Later. All right. I'm done for the day for that.