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James Cowling

@jamescowling.dev

@convex.dev co-founder/CTO. Dropbox storage designer. Distributed systems researcher at MIT. Bad motorcycle mechanic. Database shill.

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James Cowling @jamescowling.dev · 22/04/2025

Convex Chef supports Gemini 2.5 Pro! It's sometimes too verbose and occasionally forgets to call tools but produces way better UIs and seems able to build more fully-featured apps than Claude. Try it out!

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James Cowling @jamescowling.dev · 10/04/2025

LLMs love writing @convex_dev code so we made an app-builder to let them do it. Convex Chef: The AI builder that knows backend. Get cooking...

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James Cowling @jamescowling.dev · 09/04/2025

Ain't no one got time to log in to stuff. Now you can use @convex.dev without an account! Just npm i convex and npx convex dev.

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James Cowling @jamescowling.dev · 08/04/2025

Building an AI agent or need a durable workflow? Day 2 of @convex.dev Vibe Week is dedicated to you. New agent framework and durable workflow engine ready to go, check out links in the reply.

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James Cowling @jamescowling.dev · 07/04/2025

Day 1 of @convex.dev Vibe Week is a go! Announcing official release of our MCP server folks have been trialing. Check out the vid and the links in the reply. Stay tuned for more tomorrow!

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James Cowling @jamescowling.dev · 03/03/2025

Ok this is legitimately cool. Cursor talking to @convex.dev via MCP and figuring out schema improvements based on the rows actually stored in the database, performed in constant time!

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James Cowling @jamescowling.dev · 18/02/2025

Do you like TypeScript? Do you like databases? Do you like neither but just want to build apps using regular old functions? My @db.cs.cmu.edu talk on TypeScript Stored Procedures for app developers is online now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpgV...

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James Cowling @jamescowling.dev · 07/02/2025

CMU Databases talk streaming live 4:30EST Monday. Come learn how every good idea you have was already invented by someone in the 80s and why we should be running typescript functions in our databases. db.cs.cmu.edu/events/sql-d...

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