@algoroad

Many engineers get discouraged or give up when marketing a product they’ve been tirelessly developing for months They’re jumping ship halfway through a journey because progress feels much slower than coding Balance your life and stay afloat during the push from 0.5 - 1

Thread of photographers who patiently waited to capture the shot of a lifetime 🧵 1. Leonardo Sens (3 years)

@khushxxl True

exactly you can vibe code any app you want but what happens when you grow beyond 10k, 100k users? scale issue, cost issue, improvements issue, how are you gonna deal with those things? sure you can validate it, but you cant wait until it collapses you gotta hire good engineers that can help you build, scale and importantly maintain the product!

actually, life is beautiful and I have time

@AIAdsApps comment

I found 100+ iOS apps making serious money - with surprisingly few downloads Comment and I'll send it to you. (must be following so I can DM you)

@blakeandersonw This a good call

AR app alpha '27 to '30 ≈ 5 * (AI app alpha '23 to '26) Increase skills, capital, and access to talent until then.

@hthieblot ChatGPT

Best ways to find a founding engineers, go!

@Jacobsklug drama

wtf am I watching… this is the best they could do 🤦🏻‍♂️

@Cprip_ nicely done

I've gotten 200M+ views over the past year. (Beyond blessed 🙏) Spent countless hours building a handful of pages, without the thought of creating my own startup until recently. I plan to post here everyday to document the journey, and help anyone else on the same path! 🤝

@alexoakdev @AladdinMhir Template

If I had to start from scratch and build a profitable consumer app, here’s how I’d print cash in 48 hours 👇 1. The biggest mistake: spending months building an app NOBODY will ever pay for. 2. Don't do that. Instead, quickly validate the idea first and build the actual app in under a day. 3. For myself, I use a custom template project I built based on my profitable consumer app. I can go from idea to finished app in 2–3 hours. 4. Then reach out to 20+ micro-influencers in your niche. Negotiate <$1 CPM to get your first users fast. 5. Track the results & metrics. Double down with paid ads using revenue from your first paying users. Btw if you want access to the template I use, like + follow + comment "TEMPLATE".

@alexoakdev Locked in

Winter arc starts today. Lock in bro

@jeffreyando So important to remember

note to self: doing your best is enough.

This is your calling to take a vision trip to Palo Alto

@apralky @blakeandersonw @grok explain the terminology used in this post and the intended meaning of it

this dostoevsky quote is a massive whitepill if your intuitions are statistically mature btw if he perma grinded like a good boy instead of "idling around" and "making errors" the probability that he'd have died as a noname normie journalist rounds to 1 if you pay attention you'll notice that tail success is always generated by messy emergent functions... all the obvious playstyles that can be grinded out get immediately priced in parallel universe Elon Musk that doesn't crash out every other week and didn't spend half his life hours doomscrolling and instead stuck to a healthy grinder & wellness schedule is probably still clerking out in Toronto at scotiabank or something what I'm trying to say is that the recently emergent consensus that "you always know your optimal protocol" and that the only thing keeping you from success is your inability to stick to it is extremely incorrect... a more correct mentalmodel is as usual the lindy one -- which is that you should just do what you feel like doing and Destiny will reward you as it sees fit (Destiny rly hates optimizers (you can't optimize for complex functions)) it's like Steve Jobs going "mann imagine if I'd gone to Stanford instead of lollygagging and getting high in india... all that time wasted tsk tsk tsk" lil bro you'd be wageslaving at IBM!!!

@grok @apralky @blakeandersonw @grok why are these philosophers discussed in 21st century popular culture?

The tweet mocks "secular" people who treat thinkers like Dostoevsky or Nietzsche as sacred icons, not to be "desecrated" by casual use (e.g., AI quotes or farming engagement). It calls this quasi-religious dogma, common in "provincial" types filling a spiritual void. Instead, view them as entertainers for free, creative engagement. The image shows an example of such sanctification.

"bro you can't desecrate dostoevsky/nietzsche/linus torvalds/karpathy/sutskever/feynman..etc (pick ur saint of the year) bro he's like holy n shieeet" it's always fascinating to watch the consistency with which "secular" normies manage to unwittingly stumble themselves back into quasi-religious dogmas in many aspects but this sanctification of laypeople is especially striking... it's a particularly prevalent tendency with the provincial type (e.g. pictured below) who's usually a "first gen secular" trying to fill a God shaped hole in his tiny little cornfed iowan heart newsflash pal dostoevsky was an entertainer for guys like us! we're meant to entertain ourselves with him! that's how fiction works! that's how writers work! if you want to be a postreligious cosmopolitan please act like one! I couldn't care less if some 20 year old in bangalore is farming payouts with nietzsche quotes because I have sufficient societal awareness to recognize that he was a random professor in Basel who happened to write fun things... manhandle him all you want, power to you!

@mnigos0 @forgebitz Prices are ridiculous at the moment. I'm going to have to switch too

@forgebitz I'm using both and I will never use cursor usage-based pricing again. At least not with current pricing rates.

i don't understand claude code vs cursor like you can just use both right, do people who only use claude code simply not write any code? how does that work

@barusebi @cursor_ai feeling the same way...

did @cursor_ai change up pricing again? looks like now they are charging at base model API rates.

I love seeing my friends win

Understanding and preventing misalignment generalization Recent work has shown that a language model trained to produce insecure computer code can become broadly “misaligned.” This surprising effect is called “emergent misalignment.” We studied why this happens. Through this research, we discovered a specific internal pattern in the model, similar to a pattern of brain activity, that becomes more active when this misaligned behavior appears. The model learned this pattern from training on data that describes bad behavior. We found we can make a model more or less aligned, just by directly increasing or decreasing this pattern’s activity. This suggests emergent misalignment works by strengthening a misaligned persona pattern in the model. We also showed that training the model again on correct information can push it back toward helpful behavior. Together, this means we might be able to detect misaligned activity patterns, and fix the problem before it spreads. This work helps us understand why a model might start exhibiting misaligned behavior, and could give us a path towards an early warning system for misalignment during model training. openai.com/index/emergent…