Elias Puurunen

@realsigridjin I'm in

Reply here if you want to be part of Canadian builder group chat in X 🇨🇦

@om_patel5 Back in the 1990s and 2000s we called it Rapid Application Development. It's awesome to see people who would have never written code or make something for their computers have the power to now.

a 58 year old guy just dropped the best take on vibe coding i've ever read. MD. PhD. triple board certified. been writing code since the 1970s. he said Claude Code is the biggest leap in programming he's seen in his entire career. and he's seen every single one. he said Claude Code feels like every major leap in programming history combined into one. the biggest shift he's seen in decades. he's using it to reverse engineer bus commands for his 25 year old Sony CD jukeboxes with ESP32 hardware. said doing it manually would have been "beyond laborious." then someone who had never coded before posted their first project. people started dogpiling on him for messy HTML and having a donation link. his response: who cares if it's messy HTML. the guy is posting about discovering he can build things late in life. and people are checking for em-dashes to decide if he's a bot. more good has been built for the world because of vibe coding than slop has ever been produced. we should be celebrating that, not criticizing it.

This was peak form factor

AI is about to body the entire SaaS market. Most SaaS products force you to work through a problem their way - the "right" way. Every company is different. With AI, you can whip up your own sovereign internal SaaS apps. Custom to your workflow. Data stored on-prem. If I were a PE firm holding a bag of SaaS companies, I'd be selling that bag right now.

@TheMingjie That's what I did Even better when your client is UW

Crazy idea: build a startup and get revenue in Waterloo, Canada before moving to sf - it’s cheaper - learn hardship, build character faster - meet the same people in sf anyway

Waterloo undefeated in pure hustle

@ruffoloj There's no shortage of funding But it's going to the wrong places

Canada’s innovators don’t lack ambition. They lack capital. Over the past few months I’ve had dozens of conversations with founders across Canada. A quiet anxiety keeps surfacing. It isn’t about talent. It isn’t about ideas. It isn’t about work ethic. It’s about capital formation

@Mashcr0ft do it

perfect

Toronto and Waterloo saving the world

@FounderEric Been that way for 16 years Too many "accelerators" accelerating taxpayer dollars into the wrong pockets

We have an epidemic of startup advisors who never done a startup full-time before advising founders at some of these accelerators in Canada.

@stephen_taylor Trying to do my part

I want to work with people who want to build Canada. We need to move past this lost decade. We need to kickstart Canada. More projects. More development. More engineering. Uninhibit every business that wants to build. Who's with me?

@KrishivThakuria Worth it

@internetvin Intense pressure on everyone right now.

is anyone else working like 10x more now? Like I'm working all the time? a bunch of my friends I've spoken to as well.. ?

3D printers allow you to will things into existence.

@lovelacecoding This is how software works. .NET itself is so huge it's almost impossible to use it all. I lived through using .NET 3.5 and pretty much never touched WCF and Workflow Foundation, and there were entire consultancies built around those.

I started making money writing C# in 2019. I still see .NET roadmaps that are full of things I have never touched. Not sure if that means I am behind, or if this is just how software careers work.

Good morning

@GeoffRuss3 It's looks like they got Temu to make them.

It looks cheaper, it feels cheaper. It is a downgrade. Shame. The Harper passports mogged this flimsy booklet.

@jeffreythejin Tbh this hits home hard. Computer science needs this attitude as well. Not enough to build cool stuff. You need to sell it too. Probably the hardest nut to crack as an engineer/CS type.

UW is world class in value creation but lacking in value capture If the engineers were trained to both build and sell their projects well they’d be an unstoppable self sustaining force of nature

@TheMingjie I'll try to do my part. 🫡

>sees humble guy hustling on twitter >checks profile >works at some random YC company >account based in Canada every time we need more Canadian companies for these young Canadian hustlers

When you want a computer science problem solved, you call a Canadian.