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Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
We're giving away a Hogwarts Legacy custom wrapped NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 to celebrate its official release with DLSS 5 🪄
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Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
Of course the US is the first to realize this is a thing now.
And of course, EU will be the last.
Hopefully Singapore will follow up with something similar soon.
I discovered a whole new class of revenue streams - and I think this is gonna get HUGE.
I call it:
💸 Agentic revenue.
It's not passive income.
But it's not really active income either.
It's revenue that is driven entirely by AI agents, end to end, without any (or very little) human involvement.
Agents will find the opportunity, negotiate the deal, plan and deliver the work, issue the invoice, and make sure the money hits your bank account.
It has the features of passive income but the potential of active income.
Last month, my AI agents generated +$25K this way.
This month, probably even more, and so far, this is just a POC I'm running.
My new company in Singapore will be entirely built around this idea.
I like to think of it as a 0-person company. One of the first of its kind.
It's early and it feels a bit unreal. But so did "online income" in the very beginning.
I'm going stealth in this one, though 😎 I know few other smart people are already on to this, and it might get crowded soon enough.
This is the most exciting time of AI, hands down!
Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
Peter Thiel's critique of European tech is sharper than most people quote it:
"In the social democratic European societies, it's acceptable to be moderately successful. It's not acceptable to be wildly successful."
That's not a cultural observation. It's a structural diagnosis.
Look at the pattern: Skype sold to Microsoft. Spotify relocated to New York and listed in the US. DeepMind sold to Google before it could compound. Klarna — one of Europe's most valuable fintechs — spent years being investigated and regulated the moment it hit scale.
The moment a European startup gets big enough to matter, the social contract shifts. Regulators, press, and public sentiment move from neutral to hostile. So founders learn to exit early — not because they lack ambition, but because the system taxes it.
Europe produces world-class talent and early-stage innovation. It just doesn't retain the compounding.
The constraint isn't capital. It's the ceiling culture places on acceptable ambition — and founders respond rationally to the incentives they're actually given.
Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
Want video quality like @tobi, @dhh, or @jasonfried for around $2,000 less?
I just went down this rabbit hole. After many orders and returns, here is my final setup.
1) A mirrorless camera
They’re using the Sony FX30, which costs around $2,600. If you’re on a budget, a cheaper alternative is the Canon R50 V, which you can get for around $700.
The camera alone isn’t enough. You’ll also need a lens. Lenses can be expensive, so I recommend getting the R50 V without a lens, since we’ll get the newer version of the lens that @dhh , @jasonfried , and @tobi use.
Canon R50 V: canon.de/cameras/eos-r50v/
2) A lens
You’ll want the Sigma 15mm f/1.4. This lens lets much more light into the camera, helping you look good even without the best lighting. It also helps blur the background.
Jason, DHH, and Tobi use the Sigma 16mm f/1.4, which has been discontinued.
Sigma 15mm f/1.4 for Canon RF: sigma-foto.de/15mm-f1-4-dc-c…
3) An SD card
If you’re only using the camera as a webcam, you theoretically won’t need one. However, after a factory reset, I couldn’t use my camera because it demanded an SD card. So, just in case, get a cheap one.
SanDisk SD card: amazon.de/dp/B09X7DY7Q4?ref=…
4) A capture card
To get clean 4K output, you’ll need a capture card. USB-C will only output 1080p.
Get the Elgato Cam Link 4K and a Micro HDMI cable.
Elgato Cam Link 4K: elgato.com/ww/en/p/cam-link-…
(It comes with a USB-to-USB-C adapter)
Micro HDMI cable:
amazon.de/dp/B014I8U33I?ref=…
5) A tripod
I followed Jason’s advice and kept the setup simple: just a cheap tripod.
I got one from SmallRig. It looks the same as the one Jason uses. I think his is from Neewer.
amazon.de/dp/B0FSRY5TKC?ref=…
6) A USB-C PD cable to charge the camera
The Canon R50 V can be charged via USB-C while you’re using it. This didn’t work with the USB-C cables I already had at home.
You’ll need a USB-C PD cable. PD stands for Power Delivery. I got this one:
USB-C PD cable
amazon.de/dp/B08PVQWB6M?ref=…
7) Follow this tutorial by Think Media
youtube.com/watch?v=9Nv-uxPK…
8) Bonus: Upgrade your mic
If you want to upgrade your mic too, they use the Shure MV7.
shure.com/de-DE/produkte/mik…
This is exactly my podcast and screencast setup too. Just also need a Camlink 4K dongle and you're totally set: a.co/d/0ejLjAjA
Like so many things, I just bought what @tobi told me to after seeing his superb picture quality on a call 😄
Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
Mfers be 35 years old, in debt, single. worrying about what to wear for halloween.
You’re already a clown.
Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse.
We gave it 19 gene therapy vectors in a spreadsheet, a mouse model of epilepsy, access to a motorize surgery rig with cameras and one goal: reduce seizures.
It picked the drug. It picked the brain region. It derived the coordinates from three papers. Then it drove the stereotaxic arms into the brain and injected 250 nanolitres while watching the entry site through the rig camera for bleeding.
A licensed vet gated every irreversible step and held a physical kill switch to stop the AI agent.
Thread on what it decided, what it saw, and the moment it refused to let me override it.
[Writing this on the spot out of excitement, but I've been 18hrs in front of my laptop coding and coordinating this, so keeping it brief and descriptive, more cohesive thoughts on this soon...]
Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
I'm starting to sense a divide in the tech industry:
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole
Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group
Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
SaaS is not dead.
Building narrowly scoped software that you can easily sell to a tech audience on X, is dead.
Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
PlanetScale uses rails and we have out-shipped our competitors every year for the last 6 years
Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
Rails 8.2 shipped `bin/rails query` for AI agents.
On 7.2–8.1? I backported it, plus a Claude Code skill to safely query prod anywhere: Kamal, Heroku, SSH, k8s, Docker.
💎 github.com/lazaronixon/rails…
🤖 github.com/lazaronixon/rails…
Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
The Ferrari CEO praised @Tesla's new Roadster unveil today:
"It certainly shows that in the automotive world there's still a lot to be done. We have to keep dreaming. As a European, thank you for showing us how that, even in an old world, you can still innovate and dare."
He gave the Roadster launch 10 out of 10 for technology and 10 out of 10 for presentation.
Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
Vor 65 Jahren kamen Arbeiter aus der Türkei nach Deutschland. Sie haben dieses Land mit aufgebaut, geprägt und die Infrastruktur des Wohlstands geschaffen, in der wir heute leben. Aus Gastarbeitern wurden Mitbürger – Freunde, Familie, Kollegen und Nachbarn. Dafür danken wir.
