Sami Rusani

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right. Don't forget that! #truth #motivation #mindset

AI is amazing at deleting work. It’s also amazing at creating new work if you don’t design the workflow. Where has #AI actually saved you time in production, and where did it create more complexity?

SaaS as we know it is dying. Not because software is dead, but because the “rent a generic tool + pay per seat forever” model is breaking. I cancelled CRM + project management + analytics + most creative tooling and rebuilt agent-native versions: modular, integrated with our workflows, shipping updates continuously, cost < 1 month of subscriptions Question: what subscription feels most vulnerable in your stack?

5/ Curious: Where does this leave your edge? Reply with thoughts - #AI operators, #investors, let's discuss.

4/ Institutions: This isn't hype; it's pragmatic. Stress-test for vendor lock-in. What tradeoffs have you made in AI adoption?

AI's cost crisis is real: Enterprise OpEx on AI could hit $500B this year, up 300% from 2024, as models update monthly and integration fragments. The hidden trap: Raw compute isn't the moat anymore. Aggregation platforms - such as unified APIs - could cut costs by 80%, but they also introduce new dependencies.

For all my lawyer friends. Times are a-changing.

To celebrate nano-banana-2 launching on @fal , I built FalSprite, sprite sheet generator that turns a text prompt into game-ready animations. One fal.ai key powers the whole pipeline: → nano-banana-2 for image generation → BRIA for background removal → OpenRouter LLM for prompt rewriting ~$0.20 per generation. Try it live or fork it: 🔗 falsprite.vercel.app 🔗 github.com/lovisdotio/fal… Thanks @BlendiByl for the help on this 🙏

@DarkHorseEntre1 We’re watching the stack get “strategic” in real time. The new chokepoints aren’t just models - hardware supply chains, energy, and who gets accredited to deploy.

@SamRusani Oh wow, Pentagon freaking about supply chains while OpenAI gets classified access? This shift from "neat chatbot" to literal national security happened SO fast 🤯 Are we watching tech become the new oil?

Last 24 hours: escalation with Iran. The Pentagon labels Anthropic a “supply-chain risk.” OpenAI moves into classified DoD networks. AI isn’t a product category anymore - it’s national infrastructure. The question: who sets the terms, and what guardrails survive?

I haven't used @perplexity_ai in a long time, but this has me intrigued. #AI perplexity.ai/hub/blog/intro…

@elvissun I love the mentality. Opportunities come and go, kids will never be young again, "first moments" will only happen once. Good luck with your building!

2.9M views. 6k followers. all in one day. wtf. Karpathy just called my agent swarm setup "brilliant or severe AI psychosis." my wife said it's both. a lot of you just got here. so this is my full story: I have a 4-year-old and 6-month-old. I'm a solo founder building a SaaS that competes with companies with hundreds of employees. but this isn't a hustle story. I watched too many people sacrifice their lives for someone else's exit. miss their kids growing up to hit arbitrary revenue milestones. I was that kid. I'm not doing that to mine. my rule is simple: business supports life. not the other way around. everything I build has to pass one test: does this give me more time with my family, or less? AI give me more. I can take a walk after a customer call. come back to PRs ready for review. ship features same-day. be present for bath time and the small moments that disappear if you're not paying attention. > that's the how. and here's the why: good ideas die in silence every day because the people who have them can't afford to be heard. the PR infrastructure is broken. big incumbents like Cision and Muck Rack charge $10k/year just to access their journalist database. these are table-stakes tools - you need them just to know who to email. so what happens? funded startups get coverage. bootstrapped founders stay invisible. corporations control the stories that get told. rich people pay their way out of the ones that shouldn't. freedom of speech is a nice concept. but freedom of reach? that costs money that most people don't have. I've watched founders with incredible products struggle to get a single piece of coverage while well-funded competitors with mediocre ideas land in techcrunch. this whole system is a paywall built to extract rent at every step. I'm tearing down that wall. > so here's what we're building the whole industry is broken. not just the gatekeepers - the entire system. journalists get 300+ pitches a day. most of it is spam. they're drowning, so they ignore everything. PR people respond by blasting 1,000+ journalists and praying for one reply. which creates more spam. which makes journalists ignore even more. it's an arms race to the bottom. everyone loses. the AI tools that exist? built to spam harder. "relentless follow-ups." "scale your outreach 10x." nobody stopped to ask if that was the problem in the first place. what if we point AI in the opposite direction. not "send more pitches faster" - but "find the 10 journalists who'd actually care." - for founders: get the same quality of outreach that funded companies buy, without the $15k/month agency retainer. - for agencies: stop burning hours on research. handle more clients without burning out your team. turn expertise into leverage with AI. - for journalists: fewer pitches. better ones. from people with stories actually worth covering. the big spam factories aren't going to like this. everyone else will. > what I believe one person with AI can now compete with teams of 100. not a prediction. I'm doing it. the world is splitting in two. on one side: specialists getting more specialized, protecting smaller slices of expertise, competing for jobs that are slowly disappearing. on the other side: generalists getting more powerful, building bigger visions with smaller teams, creating the jobs. I'm a generalist. I can code and market and sell and iterate. most people see that as lack of focus. I see it as my unfair advantage. the specialist uses AI to go deeper into their specialty. the generalist uses AI to become unstoppable. > not a unicorn I'm not trying to raise a series a. I'm not optimizing for an exit. I want three things: - location freedom: work from anywhere with a laptop and wifi - time freedom: control my schedule. no one tells me when to show up - financial freedom: never take a job I don't want. never compromise my values for a paycheck the path to all three: bootstrapped, profitable, sustainable. no VC telling me to 10x in 18 months. no board diluting my vision. no boss questioning my decisions. just me and zoe. my skills. my choices. most people see that as limiting. I see it as the whole point. > follow along I'm documenting everything. the wins, the failures, building in public while the world figures out what AI actually means. no course to sell. no community to upsell. just a guy with two kids building something real. if you're someone with a story worth telling - you're exactly who I'm building for. the playbook is being rewritten in real time. might as well write your own chapter. - Elvis

@DarkHorseEntre1 @OpenAI It's very fast. The idea of having a non-coding CTO with a high reasoning model is to make the code a lot faster, plus the CTO also gives strategic input on how to plan the sprints, what works, etc. Take it further with a CMO, CSO, etc to build marketable sprints...

@SamRusani @OpenAI Oh wow, layering different models like that is brilliant! 🤯 How's the speed vs detail balance working out in actual projects?

Very impressed with @OpenAI Codex Spark. It's insanely fast! It's a bit less detailed than #Codex 5.3 and requires more iterations, but I usually handle that by running a 5.2 or 5.3 model as a CTO for the big-picture architecture, and then have it generate prompts for Codex!

So today we have: - xAI Co-Founder leaving and saying "Recursive self improvement loops go live in the next 12 months" - Head of Anthropic's Safeguards Research leaving and saying "the world is in peril" and wants to "become invisible" - Claude's Opus 4.6 being "aware it was tested and acted good during those times" AND CONDUCTED HIDDEN THINKING THAT RESEARCHERS COULDN'T SEE??? - DeepSeek moment 2 with SeaDance, where AI is now reckoning with China's film & advertising industry AND YOU STILL DON'T OWN HARD ASSETS? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

Today, you really cannot focus on climbing the corporate ladder, relying on a monthly salary, or even building a traditional cash-flow business. These are all dangerous. You need to be invested, deeply invested, in the assets that have the most to gain from a rapidly changing world and environment. It is unlikely that you will be able to outpace the current winners when it comes to AI, robotics. Simultaneously, we are navigating a massive restructuring of the geopolitical order. The era of easy globalization is ending. Central banks are trapped in a cycle where they must devalue currency to service debt. In this environment, holding cash or relying on fixed income is a guaranteed way to lose purchasing power. The financial currents are moving too fast. If you are not invested you are immediately behind. The only true hedge against this dual tsunami of AI deflation and monetary inflation is ownership. We are moving into an era where the divide will not be between the "rich and poor," but between those who own the infrastructure of the future and those who are just users of it. The vast majority of future wealth will accrue to the assets that benefit from these shifts: Do not labor to compete with the machine, own the machine. Put every last dollar in the machine. Or be left behind.

malware found in the top downloaded skill on clawhub and so it begins

“Human in the loop” isn’t a career strategy - it’s a grace period. We’re not collaborating with #AI. We’re training it to replace us. The worst part? No villains. No conspiracy. Just cold economics. Obsolescence in real time. Hope you kept the receipt for that degree.

Game developers, some of you are in danger, some of you will ship products faster than you ever thought possible! #ai #gaming