Lee Schmidt

@peer_rich Saying they forked vs code and added AI to it is like saying vs code built a text editor and added a file tree

cursor is one of the biggest AI bankheists forked VSCode, adds AI to it then retrains Kimi (first secretly then publicly) there must be something so epic behind the scenes that i am not seeing

@FilipPanoski Hard disagree, you made a bad decision. Keep your job, you’ll have more money and you’ll learn a lot (depending on what job it is).

"don't quit your job until your SaaS gains traction" I built side projects for 7 years making $0 quit my job, went all-in, hit $1K MRR in 14 months sometimes the safety net is what's holding you back

@GideonShalwick Vibe coders: “Let me ask my agent what I think about this”

Hot take: Vibe coding doesn’t (fully) replace thinking. It replaces hard core, coalface coding. If you want it to actually work, you still need: - Deep understanding of what the market wants - A clear user experience (not just “it works”) - Real UI design with proper affordances - Backend + infrastructure that can scale - Security that won’t bite you later - A plan for distribution Vibe coding replaces the old dev bottleneck. It doesn’t replace product, strategy, or execution. What do you think @garrytan?

Lovable incident. Delve incident. Vercel incident. Anthropic source code leak. What do these all have in common? Agentic and vibe coding, AI hype, and growth over quality (aka move fast with skip). The tech world needs to get a grip on reality and settle down before there’s an actual major incident. Stop hyping AI and vibe coding at the expense of security and user data and ethics.

@_MaxBlade Open claw is dead. It won’t survive the AI revolution.

Everyone says Hermes / Openclaw is unusable without Opus 4.7 I just ran two Hermes agents head to head, one with k2.6 and one with opus 4.7, through three heavily agentic tasks with one prompt. OPUS DID NOT COMPLETE 😳 Kimi completed all tasks. It took 4x longer, but is 10x less expensive to run. This is SHOCKING.

@samlambert Full send

just ship it

@NotFarLeftAtAll Maybe you’re jealous. Make more money and you can buy your daughter luxury hand bags too.

David Beckham drapes his arm around daughter Harper, 14, as she clutches £3,100 bag during NYC shopping trip £3100 for a bag … these people don’t live in the Real World

Get ready for used Mac minis to flood Facebook marketplace

@MindTheGapMTG @heygurisingh AI slop reply

@heygurisingh We run 12 Claude Code agents in production. The pattern is identical. 90% of the work is writing CLAUDE.md files, permission configs, and constraint layers before the agent writes a single line. Experienced devs don't give agents more freedom. They give agents more walls.

Vibe coders are not going to like this. UC San Diego just published the first real field study of experienced developers using AI agents. They watched 13 of them code in the wild and surveyed 99 more. Zero of them vibe coded. Not one developer "fully gave in to the vibes." Not one trusted the agent to ship. The researchers found the opposite of what every Cursor demo on your timeline implies. Experienced devs plan before they prompt. They load the agent with heavy context. They verify every diff and refuse to merge code they haven't actually read. "Flow and joy" coding, the whole Karpathy vibe coding pitch, got quietly rejected by every professional in the study. They said it's fine for throwaway prototypes. Not for anything that ships. The devs still liked using agents. They just don't let the agent drive. Turns out the people who've shipped software for a decade know something the vibe coding influencers don't. Huang et al., UC San Diego. December 2025. Paper in comments.

@brotzky What app is this?

Chat might be one of hardest UIs to build. - Rich text editor - Stream/pause/refresh data - DOM weight - Scroll position - Markdown/Custom UI Easy to build but hard to get right. Just getting this scroll restoration perfect was brutal 👇

@skylarromines @3YearLetterman @YaleClubNYC You’re speaking my love language

@3YearLetterman @YaleClubNYC I never claimed to be sane :)

This is my happy place

@skylarromines @MeganNyvold Maybe they met there

@MeganNyvold istg I would rather get married in a gutter on the side of the road

Just saw someone posting their wedding on IG. The 1st slide was them and the second slide was a photo of CAPITAL ONE CAFE. I can’t make this shit up WHEW is nothing sacred anymore oh my god send the asteroid

@erikras @DavidKPiano @grok Grok doesn’t have a gender as far as I’m aware, and it didn’t reply to me because I called your comparison dumb. @grok please explain

@leeschmidt123 @DavidKPiano @grok she replied to me and not to you. maybe you're not paying enough?

USERS care if code is messy. They care if the app is buggy. Or slow. Or if the UX is frustrating. Or if important features are missing or broken. These are downstream effects of messy, unmaintainable code.

@erikras @DavidKPiano @grok *attempted humor. Also you need to pay for grok. @grok please explain to Erik how to pay for grok

@leeschmidt123 @DavidKPiano @grok @grok please help Lee understand humor

@JaredDHardin Join us

I'm slowly going bald. I don't like it. I'd prefer to keep my hair. How do I not go bald?

@levelsio @mitgeniusz I think you’d have trouble getting someone to pay $30M for your sites. Still, what you’ve built is impressive.

More like $30M-$50M for my companies but yes it's a sign of the style of company you want to build If you raise VC, you have to go big to like $100M-$1B/year revenue, and if not you're shut down If you're indie, you can do with $100K/year or $10M/year and it's fine and you own 100% DocuSign is a success story, it has 3 founders who own about $250-$400M per person in stock That's about 3-5x more than me depending how you count, so it's actually pretty close but I own 100%

How is DocuSign worth almost $10 billion but the combined companies of Pieter @levelsio is worth only about $10 million or so?

@HankYeomans @DavidKPiano And has undocumented features that silently leak user data. But hey, it’s got a cool UI

Yes but when it reaches the point where the app works for them, is easy to navigate, and is performant, then the code doesn’t matter to them. It only matters to the engineer. Having said that I can show you some of the worst pre-AI slop you ever saw by self proclaimed “startup engineers” who had decade or more od experience.

@erikras @DavidKPiano @grok please help Erik understand why this is a dumb comparison

@DavidKPiano i always review the assembly code of every application I download to understand if it's worth my time using said app.

@zuess05 @Shyreman How about a failed migration that destroys data, breaks production, and bricks deployment?

@Shyreman That’s a real possibility for sure We might have to do some good testing and qa before each release

Senior developers are currently having a massive existential crisis because Claude writes "messy code" A junior just used Claude to ship an entire feature in 2 hours. Meanwhile, the Senior is still spending 3 days reviewing code. When will y'all realize that literally nobody cares if the code is "messy"?

@SimonHoiberg @zuess05 And this folks is why software has major security issues

I've been saying this for a while (and heavily criticized for it every time) - but the real unlock is just let the AI write messy stuff. Have it keep a changelog and add comments so it's clear what the attention was. Test and QA the solution, don't review the code itself. Turns out, future AIs also read this messy code more easily than all your "clever" abstractions that was so supposed to help human readability.