--- schema: 1 type: video title: Is Prompting the Future of Coding? - Ep. 20 with Nick Dobos description: >- Nick Dobos, maker of the #1 programming GPT, on prompt-gramming with AI Nick Dobos showed me how to ship a website with two words and a single click. He’s the creator of Grimoire, the #1 custom GPT for programming that has been used for over 1 million chats. All he gave Grimoire was two words: “coffee website.” Just a minute later, Grimoire built the website and pushed it live to the internet. It was wild. Grimoire can do a lot more than create websites—it’s a coding assistant with 75+ built-in hotkey commands and sample projects, a guide to learning how to code from scratch, and a tool for programmers to find answers to their questions in real-time. Before he created Grimoire, Nick was an iOS developer at Twitter. When ChatGPT came out, Nick started experimenting with it—and ended up building Grimoire. Today, he’s at the leading edge of experimenting and building with AI. I sat down with Nick to explore how people are using Grimoire and what it tells us about the age of programming by prompting. We dive into: - How AI is massively lowering the barriers to code - Why it’s important to solve the “blank canvas problem” that people experience while creating with AI - How AI tools can streamline your creative process - Why Grimoire has an edge over ordinary ChatGPT - The best ways to use Grimoire to code smarter and faster This is a must-watch for coders, creative people, and anyone curious about how AI is changing the way we interact with computers. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Timestamps: 00:00:31 - Introduction 00:05:20 - How Nick built Grimoire, the top-ranked GPT for programming 00:10:25 - Ship a website with two words and a single click 00:14:57 - How Grimoire is solving the “blank canvas problem” in AI creation 00:16:30 - The coding curriculum that can take you from zero to full programmer 00:23:29 - Why Grimoire has an edge over ordinary ChatGPT 00:34:10 - Nick’s thoughts on building the system prompt for a GPT 00:40:04 - The utility of AI as a new layer on top of existing apps 00:43:11 - How Nick uses a custom GPT to unpack his emotions 00:50:35 - How to use AI to break down tasks—from programming to daily to-do lists Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Nick Dobos: https://twitter.com/NickADobos Grimoire: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-n7Rs0IK86-grimoire Nick’s website for his experiments with AI: https://mindgoblinstudios.com/ AI-first code editor Cursor: https://cursor.sh/ Open Interpreter: https://www.openinterpreter.com/ Lisa Feldman Barrett’s book: How Emotions Are Made Demo Hume, the empathetic AI voice: https://demo.hume.ai/ canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/video/is-prompting-the-future-of-coding-ep-20-with-nick-d-624609a19a42 markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/video/is-prompting-the-future-of-coding-ep-20-with-nick-d-624609a19a42.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md' channel: everyinc updated: '2026-10-24T01:14:53.973Z' language: null children: [] videoId: wK6UpkjPd4I durationSeconds: 3445 publishedAt: '2024-05-01T14:09:20.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 344 endSeconds: 442 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=344' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 663 endSeconds: 750 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=663' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 761 endSeconds: 850 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=761' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 860 endSeconds: 958 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=860' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 958 endSeconds: 970 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=958' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 1085 endSeconds: 1196 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=1085' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 1412 endSeconds: 1524 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=1412' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 1524 endSeconds: 1536 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=1524' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 1614 endSeconds: 1625 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=1614' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 1717 endSeconds: 1826 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=1717' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 1837 endSeconds: 1947 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=1837' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 2181 endSeconds: 2297 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=2181' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 2308 endSeconds: 2388 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=2308' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 2399 endSeconds: 2488 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=2399' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 2693 endSeconds: 2805 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=2693' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 2805 endSeconds: 2816 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=2805' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 2914 endSeconds: 3025 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=2914' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 3037 endSeconds: 3145 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=3037' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 3156 endSeconds: 3245 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/wK6UpkjPd4I?t=3156' heldReason: rights --- # Is Prompting the Future of Coding? - Ep. 20 with Nick Dobos Nick Dobos, maker of the #1 programming GPT, on prompt-gramming with AI Nick Dobos showed me how to ship a website with two words and a single click. He’s the creator of Grimoire, the #1 custom GPT for programming that has been used for over 1 million chats. All he gave Grimoire was two words: “coffee website.” Just a minute later, Grimoire built the website and pushed it live to the internet. It was wild. Grimoire can do a lot more than create websites—it’s a coding assistant with 75+ built-in hotkey commands and sample projects, a guide to learning how to code from scratch, and a tool for programmers to find answers to their questions in real-time. Before he created Grimoire, Nick was an iOS developer at Twitter. When ChatGPT came out, Nick started experimenting with it—and ended up building Grimoire. Today, he’s at the leading edge of experimenting and building with AI. I sat down with Nick to explore how people are using Grimoire and what it tells us about the age of programming by prompting. We dive into: - How AI is massively lowering the barriers to code - Why it’s important to solve the “blank canvas problem” that people experience while creating with AI - How AI tools can streamline your creative process - Why Grimoire has an edge over ordinary ChatGPT - The best ways to use Grimoire to code smarter and faster This is a must-watch for coders, creative people, and anyone curious about how AI is changing the way we interact with computers. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Timestamps: 00:00:31 - Introduction 00:05:20 - How Nick built Grimoire, the top-ranked GPT for programming 00:10:25 - Ship a website with two words and a single click 00:14:57 - How Grimoire is solving the “blank canvas problem” in AI creation 00:16:30 - The coding curriculum that can take you from zero to full programmer 00:23:29 - Why Grimoire has an edge over ordinary ChatGPT 00:34:10 - Nick’s thoughts on building the system prompt for a GPT 00:40:04 - The utility of AI as a new layer on top of existing apps 00:43:11 - How Nick uses a custom GPT to unpack his emotions 00:50:35 - How to use AI to break down tasks—from programming to daily to-do lists Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Nick Dobos: https://twitter.com/NickADobos Grimoire: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-n7Rs0IK86-grimoire Nick’s website for his experiments with AI: https://mindgoblinstudios.com/ AI-first code editor Cursor: https://cursor.sh/ Open Interpreter: https://www.openinterpreter.com/ Lisa Feldman Barrett’s book: How Emotions Are Made Demo Hume, the empathetic AI voice: https://demo.hume.ai/ Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/video/is-prompting-the-future-of-coding-ep-20-with-nick-d-624609a19a42 · Channel: [Every](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## 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