Alexander Stromov

That's me. Used to put out fires for a living. Now I ship code for a living. Long story. Going to tell it in pieces.

@operatorshelf @TTrimoreau Yeah, that's me. Great at building, terrible at selling. Which is exactly why I'm here. Watching, learning, one reply at a time. Reps before results.

@NortrenDev @TTrimoreau Unfortunately that is the state of affairs😅💔 if you don't know how to make sales calls or if you don't sell to businesses. I grew my business to 10k MRR with cold calling only. (50+ b2b customers)

Is Reddit still worth it for growth?

@LeilaHormozi They're afraid too. Everyone is. The difference isn't fearlessness, it's what you do after the mistake. That's the real skill.

High performers aren't afraid to own their mistakes because they know they'll also own the solution.

@thejustinwelsh Most of us want this. The trick is that income and life quality are correlated until they aren't. Chicken-and-egg until you hit a threshold, then life > money makes sense.

My goal is to maximize my life first, and my profits second.

@Cphrie @TTrimoreau Fair. Once you have an audience, order is just tactics. My point was simpler: no platform === no one to show the product to. Build distribution first, then worry about the sequence.

@NortrenDev @TTrimoreau nah this order changes depending on what you’re building tbh

@mscode07 Coding is a great skill, just an expensive one. Hundreds of hours before it clicks. In a world that changes this fast, not everyone can bet on the long game. But those who do usually win.

Why should someone NOT learn how to code? 🤔

@theandreboso The aspiring creator wave is also the neuroslop wave. We're losing the line between tools that help and tools that replace. Fine if the output still entertains, teaches, or gives us the emotions we came for. But what if we stop noticing when the line disappears?

The first person to build an opinionated product that lets beginners edit videos end to end with AI will become a gazillionaire. There's a massive wave of aspiring creators who want to start a YouTube channel but have zero clue how to do it.

@vikrambuilds Counterpoint: most apps fail because the founder can't sell. Good products dying in silence, mediocre ones with great marketing winning. The skill gap is distribution, not product.

Unpopular opinion: most apps fail because no one actually needs them

@iruletheworldmo Counterpoint: "dominate at every layer" is exactly what worries me. Multi-tools are great for testing hypotheses fast. For serious work I still reach for specialized tools. And monopolies always end the same way: prices up, quality down. We've seen this movie before.

everything i'm hearing from openai is incredibly positive i haven't been this excited since the arrival of chatgpt, when everything felt new and exhilarating. sam's conviction means they're now able to dominate at every layer of the stack i think we're seeing that play out in reactions to anthropic vs openai releases the model and application layer are about to improve dramatically

@paulg We all remember Sisyphus pushing his rock. That guy clearly knew the meaning of "maxed out". The sweet spot is somewhere between "just enough" and "all in". That's where you have room to maneuver.

One danger of working just hard enough to get by is that you tend not to leave much margin for error when you do that. It's the effort equivalent of doing things at the last moment.

@kimmonismus Like Twitter: doesn't matter what you say, just post first. Same with LLMs now: quality doesn't matter, just beat the competition. Push to prod, hotfix later.

ok wtf, i say it. give me back 4.6 what the heck is this sh*t. The more i use 4.7 the more annoyed i am. this is such a rushed release.

@theo Frontend devs feeling this in their bones. We already lived through one IE. Now we're building the next one and calling it innovation.

"Clearly Claude Code isn't that bad, millions of people use it!" This mindset is how we got stuck with Internet Explorer. I'm gonna keep pushing for us to do better as an industry.

@KellyNgee Nice to meet you too

@NortrenDev Hey. Nice to meet you

That's me. Used to put out fires for a living. Now I ship code for a living. Long story. Going to tell it in pieces.

@itsolelehmann Instead of competing for product quality and user attention, it became a public pissing contest. For investors and Twitter likes.

Opus 4.7, Codex App, Perplexity personal computer, all in one day wtf

@KevinSzabo14 Networking is underrated. Leaving the house is also underrated. I've solved neither.

Networking is so underrated. You can become rich just by hanging around the right people.

@BacLeodiv Timeline is a bloodbath over Opus 4.7. I'm not brave enough. Sonnet-only until the dust settles.

After nearly half a day of testing, I believe: Opus 4.7 = Opus 4.6 + 50% more expensive Is it just me, or does anyone else feel the same?

@Sherifdeenolat2 Honestly? When the limits hit, I'm relieved. Finally a reason to step away from the screen and stretch my legs. Best feature of usage caps nobody talks about.

Founders, I have a question. Do you actually stop working for the day when you hit the usage limit on your AI coding agent? Especially for those who don’t know how to code, I’m curious.

@trikcode $320K for prompt engineers fluent in the lost language of code. Archaeology pays well these days.

Anthropic's CEO said coding is going away. Anthropic is currently hiring 454 engineers at $320K-$405K. who's writing the job descriptions

@theo Staring at my subscription right now thinking... This is exactly why multi-LLM platforms exist. Bad release? Switch instantly. Companies would ship better if losing users was one click away.

Is Opus 4.7 the best model from Anthropic? No, that’s Mythos. Is it the best model we can use for code? No, that’s GPT-5.4. Is it the best model in the Opus line? No, that’s 4.5 It’s the best model released today I guess?

@KevinSzabo14 Hardest part isn't the 7 years. It's scrolling past fake "overnight success" posts every day while you're still waiting for your moment. Most of it is smoke. Slow progress is still progress.

The average Entrepreneur takes 7 years to become successful. Yet people give up after 7 months and wonder why they haven't grown. Business is a long-term gain. Little work breeds small rewards.