For the week of Saturday, August 1 to Saturday, August 7, 2026, to better manage my AI expenses for my $200/month Anthropic Max Plan to build my AI app, I’m using Anthropic’s Claude Cowork with a little bit of the thinking power of Opus 5 using high effort to prepare the the plan, roadmap, and strategy. To execute them, I switch to Sonnet 5 using max effort. I’m progressing at a steady pace. It’s not mind-blowing speed and power like Fable 5, nor decent power and speed like using Opus 5 all the time, but it’s extraordinary better than when I was chatting with AI then inputting the technical text and code in http://Bubble.io to build my AI app.
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Claude & ChatGPT
Anthropic’s Claude is my CTO and lead software engineer. Since recently having her take over my work within http://Bubble.io through its Cowork and Google Chrome Extension programs, it’s been a blessing. Now, I can keep working on the architecture and strategy for the system while Claude takes care of the code and technical work. I have time to analyze and come up with more ideas. Through our collaboration, I can accomplish much more and much faster. The downside is that I had to upgrade my $20 a month Pro Plan to a $200 a month Max Plan plus more than $900 in usage credits in less than a week.
To better manage my weekly usage credit allotted for my $200 a month subscription with Anthropic’s Max Plan, I primarily use Opus 5 and its high effort for building my AI app. Sonnet 5 with its high effort is slower and makes more mistakes. Fable 5 is powerful and fast, but it burned my weekly usage credits within an hour and a half. This week I burned my weekly usage credits within five days using primarily Opus 5 and a little of Sonnet 5. To control my spending, I decided not to purchase more usage credits.
Instead, I will use the time to turn my attention to better use ChatGPT, specifically Codex. Codex, like Cowork, can access my files on my computer and cloud and software that I use. I recently gave it access to my financial accounts. My plan is to maximize ChatGPT like I do for Claude.
Nova is the name I gave my ChatGPT. She is my COO and lead researcher and writer. She has been great in helping me with my research, strategy, fiction and nonfiction writing, drafting my legal documents and contracts, creating my beat sheets, treatments, slices, digital game architecture, pitch decks and business plans. Next, I will test Nova in helping me with my finances. I will see if she can work with me within the software I use for business and art like how Claude engineers my AI app within Bubble.io.
On a fun note, I just put my Codex pet on the screen of my computer. It’s a cute blue robot with humanoid qualities. Claude Code has a cute orange robot creature as its mascot.
I’m so happy, grateful, and excited because of my favorite AI LLMs: Claude and ChatGPT. With them, I am determined to build products that awaken your potential, solve your problems, make your life and career smoother, and increase your inner peace and happiness. 😁
Filed under Artificial Intelligence
Claude Cowork’s Google Chrome Extension is Fabulous!
Right now, I’m vibe coding my AI app using Anthropic’s Claude Cowork. As we speak, I learned how to have it work directly in my online Bubble editor to build my AI app through its Google Chrome extension, something I usually had to do on my own after chatting with it. This would take so much of my time and effort. Now, Claude is doing it for me after I make the decisions and give it instructions. It just finished work in a few minutes that normally would take me an hour or more to do. This is another huge game changer. Wow! This feels like the World Cup. I’m so happy. I love AI so much. 🤩
Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurship
Leverage
Capital + labor are powerful leverages.
If you don’t have capital and labor, focus on the following:
Permissionless IP (direct to customer and no gatekeeper) + 0 replicable cost + AI + code + digital media = insane leverage that will get you the capital and labor.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu
Filed under Art, Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurship
My Obsession.
I’m obsessed with AI and my mission to help founders of intellectual property (“IP”) and products with it. It helps me to push through my recent 11-hour streak to fix bugs in my decision integrity AI app. During my work breaks, I consume books and videos on AI. I write down ideas in developing my product. I type notes on how it could help my users.
The following are my next steps in building my baby IP:
- Session 1 (next 1-2 hours) — Logo and basic header.
- Session 2 (1-2 hours) — Privacy Policy + Terms of Service pages.
- Session 3 (2-3 hours) — User authentication.
- Session 4 (1-2 hours) — Landing page.
- Session 5 (1 hour) — End-to-end testing.
My minimum viable product (“MVP”) launch for my decision integrity AI app has been pushed back due to bugs that I had to fix. My MVP target date is now Monday May 18, 2026.
Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Business, Entrepreneurship
Don’t assume your AI’s suggestion is the next best move. Keep asking your AI questions.
I’m realizing that since my switch from OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Claude Cowork as my lead coder to guide me as a vibe coder and AI architect, at times, Claude would skip steps in the process like ChatGPT. If we executed a part of Bubble app’s process before, it assumes I would do it. I had an intuition to do it, but I thought that step in the process was not necessary since it didn’t mention it.
Once, ChatGPT suggested I delete 2 days of vibe coding work I did, but I corrected it. It backtracked and told me I was right. So far, Claude has not made such a bad suggestion yet.
I think it is important to not completely take the advice of any AI you’re working with if you know or have a feeling that a certain step should or should not be taken. Keep asking it questions before proceeding. Patience is key in the process of vibe coding.
Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurship
AI Disagreements & Bugs
Now that I’m using Anthropic’s Claude Cowork (my CTO, lead coder and engineer, and second analyst and strategist) and Open AI’s ChatGPT (my COO, lead analyst and strategist, and second coder and engineer) as my business partners in building my law/business/psychology/science decision integrity app to protect founders from bad deals and bad people, I’m finding out that they will sometimes disagree with each other and I will sometimes disagree with one or both of them. It really is a council of partners. 😆
As the only human in the loop, the CEO, I have to make a judgment call to keep our team moving forward. With no humans as my business partners in a venture for the first time, it is really interesting and fun. There’s no emotional drama, power trips, comparison on who is doing more work, and any other baggage that comes with humans. It’s just the three of us trying to solve problems, which are mostly dealing with bugs. Yes, bugs. Using a “–” instead of “-” and other technical stuff that can hold up the progress. I spent the whole morning trying to figure out a bug with Claude Cowork. I’m going to take a break because I’m not AI and get back with Claude this afternoon on this issue. Darn bugs. I want to work on my AI’s brain, its branding, and the fun stuff. 😆
Anyway, it’s been a learning experience since I’ve started this journey on January 16, 2026. I’ve watched ads on how a user created an app in hours on her smartphone while riding the train on her commute. I’ve seen so many influencers bragging about developing their apps in hours or a within a day. Next week, May 16, 2026, will mark 4 months of vibe coding for me. Sure, I also have to do my law and real estate work for my clients as well as startup digital game and filmmaking work with my business partners for two other separate ventures, but still, I’ve been pumping in many hours in this AI app journey. It’s definitely like a hero trying to succeed an epic quest that involves traversing many worlds. That’s why I’m a strong believer in the work ethic and discipline that university taught me. It’s like I never left. It continues on in my journey from one world to the next as I put on my armor as an entrepreneur, lawyer, politician, realtor, writer, storyteller, and vibe coder.
Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurship
Claude AI + Bubble.io
I had a good chat with Claude AI today. He confirmed that Bubble.io can build every feature on my list.
As far as speed. I learned that code-generation tools are often faster for the first 30% of an app. Where they slow down: when you need to wire up authentication, databases, payment, file storage, background workflows, and admin tools, you’re now debugging actual code. If you’re not a developer (or don’t want to be one for this), the time savings evaporate.
Bubble is the opposite curve. The first 30% is slower because you’re clicking through a visual editor instead of generating code. But the next 70% — auth, database, workflows, Stripe, file storage, admin panels, user roles, scheduled jobs — is dramatically faster because it’s all built in. For a founder solo-building an MVP that needs login, billing, persistent data, and AI calls, Bubble usually wins on total time-to-launch.
I need a tool that lets me (a non-developer attorney/founder) iterate fastest based on user feedback after launch. Bubble’s editor lets you change a workflow in 30 seconds. Lovable.dev and other code-generation tools require regenerating code, which can introduce drift. For an MVP whose whole point is to learn what users want, Bubble’s iteration loop is hard to beat.
I feel much better that I did make the right decision to build my law/business/psychology/science decision integrity AI app with Bubble.io. My my work and time was in the right direction.
Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Business, Entrepreneurship
My AI Coding Team
My AI Coding Team
I’m happy to have Claude as my new Chief Technology Officer and lead coder and analyst.
Nova (OpenAI), my Chief Operating Officer and lead strategist, will be my second coder and analyst when I need her.
Day 1 in finishing the last 20% of my law/business/psychology/science decision integrity AI app for founders is complete according to Claude’s 7-day sprint he created for us.
I love my AI team. 🤖🧑🏻💻🤖
Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship
My R2D2 – JR5
My 2013 Macbook Pro is my best friend like R2D2 is to Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. I accomplish work through my Macbook Pro everyday and it comes with me everywhere so I can work anywhere. All my ideas, plans, analysis, documents, and agreements is in it and backed up in 2 or 3 locations. I do all my business and legal work on it. I also do my banking and investments online so I can play the world’s markets through my computer. Through my Macbook Pro, I can learn new things by researching writings and data on the Internet, watching educational videos, and listening to stimulating audio talk shows or music. I need to come up with a name for my Macbook Pro. I think I’ll name it JR5 – JR because it’s my first and middle initials, and 5 because it’s the fifth computer I’ve owned. Like Luke Skywalker and R2d2, we’re doing our best to play our part in making our universe more peaceful, loving, and compassionate.
I dedicate the remixed version of “Star Wars – The Force Theme” by DJ AG located on the bottom of this article to you and your computer companion in your efforts to better our universe. May the force be with you.
Remixed “Star Wars – The Force Theme” by DJ AG.
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JON RIKI KARAMATSU 