# Your framework shouldn't define your ceiling # Code with Beto · https://codewithbeto.dev/blog/your-framework-shouldnt-define-your-ceiling # Plain-text export for AI agents and LLM tools # Source: Code with Beto ## About Code with Beto **Code with Beto** ([codewithbeto.dev](https://codewithbeto.dev)) is an online learning platform by **Alberto Moedano** (Beto, [@betomoedano on X](https://x.com/betomoedano)). It helps developers ship production-ready **React Native**, **React**, **TypeScript**, and **Git** apps through video courses, real project walkthroughs, and production codebases (not toy demos or slide-only tutorials). Members get structured learning paths (React Native, React with TypeScript, Git, LiveStore), optional **lifetime access** (Basic or Pro), premium templates such as **Platano**, technical blog articles, and examples from shipped products like **Inkigo**. 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I just don't want an unfamiliar language to be the reason I stop before I've even tried. ## The work has become much bigger than my stack React Native is still a huge part of what I do. I know it well, I enjoy working with it, and that experience is valuable. But I've also built internal dashboards and my own link shortener, worked on SwiftUI apps and native Mac tools, deployed backends to Google Cloud Run, and taken on a C++ project for an e-ink display. That also means being willing to choose a different tool. For a shared custom interface across iOS and Android, React Native is still a strong choice for me. It uses native components too. When an app depends heavily on each platform's own UI and APIs, though, separate native implementations are worth considering again. You still have two apps to test and maintain, so that decision needs to include the ongoing work. [Shopify's move back to native](https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native) is one reason to revisit those tradeoffs. I talked about it in this video: **Watch my take** **Is React Native Dead? Shopify Is Leaving** My take on Shopify's decision and what it means for choosing the right tools for your app. [Learn more](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iSIt9pLUfE) Another company's decision doesn't automatically make it the right choice for your project. It does give you something to think about. I want to choose based on what the product needs, with enough openness to reconsider an old assumption. This is the thinking behind [Build & Ship with AI](/build-with-ai), the program I'm planning around the AI workflows I use every day. I want to help you build that same confidence outside your usual stack. _Presale · No lessons available yet._ ## Learn enough to own what you build With my C++ project, I don't need to master all the syntax before I can start. I can learn through a real problem and ask for help with the parts I don't understand. Andrej Karpathy put it well in [this post](https://x.com/karpathy/status/2105819303471976479): > We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. Ask the agent to explain its decisions in a way that clicks for you. Karpathy suggests going beyond text with diagrams, interactive pages, and even explainer videos. A diagram of where your data goes might teach you more than another long answer. Then check the work. Open the official documentation for the versions you're using, test the behavior, and try a failure case. Your experience with unreliable connections, unexpected inputs, and different devices still matters here. You don't have to know every detail before you start. You do need to understand enough to tell whether the result works and maintain it when your needs change. ## This has changed my day A good example is my inbox. I used to spend some of my best morning hours answering routine emails about discounts, purchasing power parity, student discounts, sponsorships, and other opportunities. All of it needed attention. It also meant spending a lot of energy on the same kinds of replies before getting to the work I really wanted to do. Today, Codex handles much of that routine work for me. The same thing has happened with posting on social media. Crossposting was tedious. Now Codex can operate the websites and help me get that work done. These are small parts of running Code with Beto, but when they come up every day, changing how you handle them makes a real difference. English isn't my first language, and I learned it late. Expressing myself the way I want can be difficult. AI helps me communicate my ideas more clearly when I give it direction, context, and constraints. I still have to decide what I want to say. I need to read the result and notice when it has lost my meaning or doesn't sound like me. That part matters. Having help with the writing makes it easier to get my thoughts out. I've also been testing computer use, 3D modeling, design, and website automation. I use AI to work through analytics and context, and to explore parts of a problem in parallel. The more I try, the more reasons I find to keep experimenting. ## Where the models are right now Here's a current comparison that includes Astra, Fable, Opus, and some leading open-weight models. It uses the same benchmark index across all of them, with the tested settings shown: ![A snapshot checked October 6, 2026. Click to enlarge.](/blog/your-framework-shouldnt-define-your-ceiling/model-landscape.svg) _Source: [Artificial Analysis leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models) and [methodology](https://artificialanalysis.ai/methodology/intelligence-benchmarking), Intelligence Index v4.3.2. Scores are index points, not percentages. Reasoning settings and costs differ. Open weights doesn't necessarily mean unrestricted open-source licensing._ This is one view of current capabilities. It doesn't directly measure how well a model will handle your inbox, operate a website, or work on a 3D scene. Those are things you need to try in the context of your own work. I should also acknowledge an advantage I have. Some model companies give me free access to their paid plans because of my channel. That gives me more room to try the tools. Thank you for supporting the YouTube channel, because you're part of the reason I get those opportunities. I think workflows like these will reach more people as the tools become easier to use and less expensive. I don't know exactly how quickly that happens. I do think it's worth looking again at ideas you've set aside. Something that used to feel like a whole project might become a manageable task. A product you were thinking of building might turn into something people can ask an agent to do themselves. ## Go solve one useful problem I find that empowering and a little scary. The job market worries me. So does spending months on something that's becoming easier to copy. I don't have a neat answer that makes those concerns disappear. But the changes in my own day are real. Routine replies and crossposting take less of my attention. I have help expressing my ideas. I'm willing to explore work I might once have avoided. What I do with that room is still my decision. Your agency and taste are yours. You decide which problem matters, which tradeoffs you're willing to accept, and whether the result is useful. Those decisions give all this activity a purpose. Try one small thing outside your usual stack this week. Choose a repetitive task you understand, and write down what a good result would look like before asking AI to help. Start with a small sample you can check yourself. Try an awkward input or a failure case. If you don't understand part of the solution, learn enough to explain it. Then use it for a few days and see whether it actually helps. You might discover that a simple script is enough, or that the task needs more human judgment than you expected. Either result teaches you something useful about where to put your effort. That's why I decided to create **Build & Ship with AI**. I want to bring together what I've learned from using AI every day: automating repetitive work, exploring unfamiliar technologies, and following an idea through to something you can actually use. The program I'm planning will focus on the habits behind that work, from saving your progress and experimenting on a clean branch to deploying and making the next iteration. I want to help you understand where things like CI/CD and payments fit, and get comfortable working directly with the underlying technology. You should be able to choose solutions you can maintain without reaching for another app-builder subscription every time you have an idea. If you want to get more comfortable building and automating beyond your usual stack, I'd love to help you get there. You can join the presale below. **Presale · No lessons available yet** **Build & Ship with AI** The program I'm planning around practical AI workflows: automate repetitive work and build projects you can deploy and maintain. [Learn more](https://codewithbeto.dev/build-with-ai)