don't understand how any startup can afford to operate right now for years, we have meticulously tracked every single dollar did all the right things hired within our means, scaled when it made financial sense and now, just one prompt to "refactor the entire codebase in 576 different languages, including the weird ones" cut our runway in half now we can't afford to buy more tokens millions of others are in this exact same situation

This is the new startup tax. Cloud used to drain runway slowly. Now one chaotic prompt can burn a week’s budget in minutes. AI didn’t just lower build costs — it introduced a new failure mode: uncontrolled curiosity. Discipline isn’t just hiring slow anymore. It’s prompting slow. The startups that survive won’t be the ones with the most tokens — they’ll be the ones with the tightest feedback loops and the smallest prompts.

@bugthecode @james406 man, too many em-dashes and "Its not just x, its y" type shi type your own tweets or tweak your bot to type it naturally man wtf

@bugthecode @james406 how do u burn thru that much lol a few $200 cc max plans is more than enough??

@bugthecode @james406 Can you not fucking type for yourself? Why are you using AI to write your post? How pathetic!