Phone call with Steve. We had a little catch-up session. Talking about new projects, changes, etc. One of the topics was messages and customer notifications. Steve is somewhat pushing things towards the client direct messaging from the customer portal (ecommerce area). We were talking about some pros and cons of apps and app-based notifications. That is a lot cleaner, and the user gets to determine an opt in/out on their terms. Steve is seeing that texts and marketing texts are somewhat crossing the lines between personal and business.

He was reporting about some new changes that they have been working on for the icon touchpad buttons and menus. We then got into talking about digital menus and menu boards. Some clients only want them digitally, and some may want printable menu options.

We talked briefly about Cory doing some small code and fixes, using AI. Steve was talking about AI agentic coding and multiple models. He uses ChatGPT, Grok, Codex, and Claude. Probably some others as well, but that is the list that he gave me.

He is working with Josh and trying to get some things going for clients that Josh is bringing to him. They are working out some kind of split costing and almost an independent rep type model for custom code. They bill it out at a certain dollar value and then spit it.

Lastly, we talked about how the AI agents are breaking some of our code up into the black box level pages with tops, headers, body or main content, footers, etc. We were working on that stuff clear back in 2015/2016. He is now using AI to do some of that page break up stuff to gain the advantages of the black box code from back in the day. Interesting. They are working on new custom themes and presentation layers.

Right at the end of the call, I had to jump off to get on another meeting. It sounds like some good things are happening.