do people who aren't building rockets really need smarter models?
I feel like Opus 5.5 is just enough for me. I've never had to use Fable for anything lol, only the fable 5.1 felt like something compared to opus 4.6. But now it is not the case
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Vik retweeted
Your code is not your moat. A high schooler with an LLM can rebuild your stack in a weekend.
The new operating system for founders:
1. Building is easy, distribution is hard.
2. 100,000 followers > $1M.
3. Make content every day.
4. Iterate on product every 24h.
5. Small team > big team.
6. Social capital > venture capital.
7. Flat teams > middle management.
8. Founder-led distribution > traditional marketing.
9. Own the audience before you write a single line of code.
10. Live and build on your own terms.
Cant be helped 🤷♂️
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Time has shown that I had a point. I had a gut feeling.
It comes down to having a boss who's smart and knows when to push back.
I'm grateful I haven't been forced to slop.
When I work, I never reach my weekly limit in Claude Code, I don’t even reach the 5h limit (I am on the team plan).
Maybe I’m underdelivering, or maybe I just choose not to accumulate technical debt at the speed of light.
Time will show.
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A friendly reminder: you have to use the shit out of AI
If you’ve spent years acquiring a digital skill, it’s time to rewire your brain around AI.
Don’t just use it as another tool. Rethink how you work, how you learn, how you build, and how you solve problems with it.
The people who learn to leverage this tech will have an unfair advantage.
Those who don’t, will become obsolete.
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I have a strong feeling that us no-name fellas still have some moats left.
Time will tell if I’m right or not, can’t wait to find out
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I tried working while riding the bus, and now I feel like throwing up
** somebody might say that I don't want it bad enough
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Vik retweeted
You must learn to reverse the polarity of the negative energy your best ideas will inevitably generate and turn it into positive, forward momentum.
I love this idea from @dhh:
All the best ideas that actually turn out to have an impact sound stupid at first.
“You've got to have a high tolerance for people telling you:
-What you're building is stupid.
-What you're building is ugly.
-What you're building is never going to work.
When I get that feedback, I know I'm onto something.
I’ve found that’s often true about products. You enter some domain and you think:
"Who's the best? Can I just copy them?I'll do a slight tweak."
That's not gonna work.
All the best ideas that actually turn out to have an impact sound stupid at first.
They're not intuitive.
That's where all the value has been locked up. It's locked up in this misconception about what people actually want, because most people don't know what they want.”
To make it in life, choose two people very carefully:
the woman you’ll have children with and your business bro
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As a technical person, AI defeats the purpose of the majority of software for me.
Looking at Product Hunt right now, I realize I can build most of these things myself for cheaper, with the exact set of features I need.
We need a new moat folks, wonderful time to be alive !
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“Start with Why” by Simon Sinek
An interesting book that made me contemplate some things, like the most fundamental question: simple to ask, but hard to answer.
Why am I doing what I’m doing, like, for real?
Is it about money, status, creation, freedom, or the desire to unleash my potential?
Probably a bit of everything, and nothing in particular at the same time.
I came to the conclusion that I’m doing this for the sake of creating my own freedom through the ability to create.
I want to be as independent as possible, and I believe this path can give me that opportunity: building as much leverage as possible through any means available.
I chose software as my ride for this journey.
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Let’s denormalise talking like kids, you can still sound "non AI" without relying on slang, abbreviations, and all these low brain sentence constructions
I want to do tech content and shi,
but f man, I hate IG.
But it’s genuinely the only platform where you can actually reach a broader audience.
(Yeah, also TikTok -> another thing I hate.)
All these places are brainrot ambassadors.
X is the only place where I genuinely find exciting and insightful things and people, and I consider growing here much more rewarding.
But man, it’s haaard.
Maybe YouTube is a good place as well, but there’s the same bottleneck: people love vertical content.
I guess the problem is in how I look at these things.
There’s probably nothing wrong with using a platform to boost yourself and then migrating the audience that actually cares to another platform.
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