Jerome

🚨 I DONT KNOW TO WRITE CODE FROM SCRATCH But over the last Few Years, I’ve built a high-frequency Solana trading engine, a decentralized Web3 storage vault, and a production-grade crypto payment gateway. Here is the unfiltered reality of Vibecoding your way out of the rat race👇 My journey didn’t start with a shiny CS degree and a perfect GitHub graph. It started in the graveyard of failed side hustles: • A dead FreeFire YouTube channel. • Cold-pitching dropshipped Meesho products on OLX for $10 profits. • Grinding crypto airdrops ($LVLY & $WAL saved me) only to burn the cash trying to manually trade memecoins. I realized trying to out-trade the market was a losing game. I needed an edge. I needed automated infrastructure. But I had zero syntax skills. And back in mid-2025, there were no autonomous "one-click" coding agents. So I used ChatGPT and Gemini. Not to generate generic cursor or Lovable slops, but for brutal, line-by-line system architecture. I spent months doing day-and-night trial-and-error sessions manually copy-pasting method-by-method replacements, fighting hallucinated dependencies, and relentlessly debugging until I forced a CT tracker, a Telegram subscription manager and a legacy trading bot into production. It wasn't a fairy tale. My first trading bot was way too slow because I didn't understand the power of Helius RPCs. My subscription bot didn’t get enough users to cover the marketing costs. I missed my shot at a Walrus Protocol grant. I failed my corporate placement exam because of an accident. Right now? I'm literally borrowing money from friends just to keep my Linux VPS servers online to run background nodes like Aethir and CARV. But here is what that absolute chaos taught me: Writing raw syntax is a dying skill in this era. Orchestrating systems using AI while understanding the fundamentals is the future. I learned how to manage Docker namespaces, secure webhooks behind Nginx reverse proxies and deploy agile, zero-trust architectures. I learned how to bridge the gap between an abstract idea and a live, hardened prototype. I’m done trying to play the standard corporate game, and I am sick of watching founders get scammed paying for fragile, vibecoded websites and backends spat out by one click AI agents. I use AI too. but not as a crutch but as an engine to rapidly prototype secure, hardened architectures using actual engineering methodologies. Now I’m turning this into a service. If you are a founder with an idea but need someone to rapidly prototype the backend, manage your VPS infrastructure, or hold the trenches handling tech tickets as a Web3 Discord Mod... my DMs are open. ~Jer123-Dev Portfolio in bio

@oxgeek this time u have 200$ more than what u had in 2021

my crypto journey. 2021 - 0 - 11k usd 2022 - 11k - 30k usd 2023 - 30k - 70k usd 2024 - 70k - 200k usd 2025 - 200k - 85k usd 2026 - 85k - 200 usd you all lied to me.

@Akintola_steve i remember pasting this kinda Stuff 5yrs back in the elements tab in the Bitcoin explorer site thinking i would get free bitcoins once i refresh🫥

Funny how 90% of techies never learnt this: ^(?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}(?:\/[^\s]*)?(?:\?[a-zA-Z0-9=&_%+-]*)?(?:#[a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)?$|^(?:[a-fA-F0-9]{32}|[a-fA-F0-9]{40}|[a-fA-F0-9]{64})$|^(?:\+?[0-9]{1,3})?[-.\s()]*(?:[0-9]{3})[-.\s()]*(?:[0-9]{3})[-.\s()]*(?:[0-9]{4})$|^(?:(?:0?[1-9]|1[0-2])\/(?:0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])\/(?:19|20)\d{2})$|^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*\d)[A-Za-z\d@$!%*#?&]{8,}$ To some its jargons but to you what’s it ?

@anupamrjp nano money_machine.ts cat money_machine.ts nano money_machine.ts cat money_machine.ts nano money_machine.ts npm run build screen -r Rich npm start

every developer’s terminal history is just: cd .. cd .. cd .. ls cd .. reply with yours and i’ll tell you what kind of dev you are

@JonBuildsHQ Networking & contacts >>>> anything

What's the hardest truth you've learned as a founder? 👇

@neerajjj6785 even if it does nobodys switching until influencers saturate it

Do you expect GPT-5.6 to beat Claude Fable 5 or Claude Opus 4.9?

@butterchole 😂jk ..... Btw syntactically im familiar with java but i have built all my projects in python

@Jer123_Dev Yeah, but how can I code in English I mean yeah English we can't code in spanish😑

Be honest What would you choose Java Cpp Python 🥰

@Shra_va_ni Why not ?

can you still call yourself a developer if AI writes 90% of your code?

@0xTJustin You werent poor until u sold 🙃

i joined crypto in 2023 to become financially stable and live a happy life 3 years later im now mentally unstable and poor

@aryaniyaps u might enjoy being solo only until u are visible once u get commits past ur capacity u gonna need one for sure

Do you think that the solopreneur era is here? How far can one grow a business without hiring/ a cofounder?

@D3nny_crypto waiting for the final dip probably on eth!!

Are you still buying crypto?

@dark_coderz Probably he was debugging 🙃

met a guy, he still copy-pasting the code from chatgpt

@neerajjj6785 Help Ai?

If AI builds everything for you, what’s your real job?

@panditdhamdhere Finally someone throwing reality

How to break into web 3 in this market. Be in SF. Send 100 cold dms/apply for roles. Take risk of running their untrusted codebase in your system. Give 8 interviews full month & wait for get ghosted. If lucky enough to get hired be ready to get laid off right same month.

Looking to #connect with someone having a good network to bring in clients Replies all urs !!

@noor_editor_ What's the project all Abt??

i'm hiring a dev (nextjs, nodejs) 50-70$/h, do you know someone?

@Triloch79742929 Crime Pump 😶‍🌫️

A Pakistani guy lost over $40,000 in crypto.😳 If his trade drops just 10% more, he will lose his full $50K and get liquidated. $SIREN crashed from $1.2 to $0.5 in just 4 hours, almost a 60% dump.📉 With $50K, you can live the whole life in Pakistan. Crypto trading is brutal. $SIREN

@Shra_va_ni You : So the overall site + hosting + maintenance would cost u an avg of 50000 + monthly charges for hostings Client : 50000??!!....... this one kid i saw reels is doing this for 200rs you:

i'm a frontend dev, roast me in 3 words

@BuildWithOm check and tell if mine tells the same ?

Your GitHub should answer one question: "Can this person build things?"

@dev_olayinka Networking and contacts

If you could master only one tech skill for the next 10 years, what would it be? What's one unpopular opinion