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.

@KevinSzabo14 Mediocre content, great algorithm understanding, endless visibility. The internet is full of successful mediocrity. Being visible isn't the same as being worth seeing.

"But what if people see my content?" Okay and? Who cares? And if your content does suck, nobody cares. If your content succeeds, people will see it. So you'll be invisible if you suck. But you'll be visible if you're great.

@jeffrey_way Remember when everyone forced Gang of Four patterns into codebases that didn't need them? Or broke working monoliths into microservices? Complexity is often ego in disguise. Or worse, a way to manufacture work.

If I’ve learned anything about programming over the years, it’s to be suspicious of any person who repeatedly evangelizes increasingly complex approaches and techniques.

@techsavvytravvy The irony: the devs fixing these apps are using AI too. Writing code by hand is becoming a hobby, like playing retro consoles. Fun, nostalgic, but not how most work gets done anymore.

hard to believe we're past needing software developers when the apps that all of these Al companies ship are so awful and broken

@simonw The split between "real devs" and "LLM devs" is dissolving. Nobody today talks about "terminal devs" vs "IDE devs". They're the same people using whichever tool fits. LLMs are the next layer of abstraction, not a different profession.

Is there still a widespread belief that LLMs and coding agents are good for greenfield development but don't help for maintaining large existing codebases? I don't think that idea holds up any more

You know how students study written material? Read, look up from the page, try to recall before checking. Audio has no gap. Answer just plays. Fix: 2-3 second pause before every answer. It's about catching the "wait, I remember this" moment.

@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.