Sam Duval

2026 resolution: No procrastination. No Fear.

@yacineMTB and understand the systems that run it, and understand the logic and physics of our nature, if you want to really build stuff that matters

you still need to read and understand code

@signulll well we got to a point in which most people working on software couldn't actually program, so they could only debate about a limited subset

it’s kind of incredible that we spent the last two decades obsessing over skeuomorphism vs flat vs material & endless debates about affordances, cognitive load, fitts’s law etc basically optimizing software around human motor & perceptual limits… only to realize those constraints don’t even apply to the actual future user of most software.

building some computer use stuff and it is like magic

@theo even pre-covid google meets was better than zoom and somehow people all jumped on zoom

Google Meet is an order of magnitude better than Zoom. It’s also free. I straight up don’t get why people use Zoom.

@signulll luckily sentences can be arbitrary long, so the space of human programs is infinite

language is ridiculous. a typical sentence is ~20 words from a vocab of ~50k. that’s 50,000^20 possible sequences. most of those sequences are pure garbage, but the ones that land restructure reality for the reader. & when it is finished the writer is almost always slightly surprised by what they meant.

@benhylak 10x if you're joining late af - otherwise should want something that will 10x many times

you should only join a startup if you believe it will 10x.

@wongmjane for a long time human + AI will probably be able to build things that neither can alone.

What’s the point of building a product, funding a startup, doing anything, or even existing, if AI will eventually be capable of doing everything?

@hthieblot woot congrats!

Just crossed 50,000 followers. 17 years for 3K 9 months fo 50K Grateful to every founder, builder, and lurker who’s been along for the ride. If you’re building something ambitious … I’m still hunting for you. Onward

@IamMiaChase bunch of claude opus 4.6 agents doing vibe science. they did not discover anything interesting :P

@_SamDuval were all 50 agents actively making requests that whole 15 minutes, or were some mostly idle

I can confirm with 50 agents running in a VM it takes 15 minutes to eat my 5 hour cap on claude code max plan

@notch feel this. i've tried to delete onedrive and block shorts and both have returned multiple times

I trust Microslop's promises to change about as much as I trust the "ok we'll show you less shorts" message on youtube.

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@elonmusk @KatieMiller at this point it is beyond lies, they just have a incoherent world view that they constantly attempt to reinforce

@KatieMiller Legacy media lies relentlessly. The “Guardian” is one of the worst propaganda rags in the world.

The Legacy Media Lies. "No controllers were terminated as probationary employees or took the deferred resignation program." faa.gov/about/office_o…

@sahill_og good developers are likely to be the last human role. because until every other role is replaced, there will be demand for people to create software that can do those jobs

Investors are funding AI startups to replace developers. The developers are using those AI tools to ship faster. Then getting hired by those startups. To build more AI tools. To replace more developers. Nobody has mentioned this loop out loud yet.

@DevinSoto i pinned it for a reason

Three months in and half of you motherfuckers have forgotten your New Year’s goals Remember the promise you made to yourself Love you all <3

@rezoundous yeah and probably the most fun time too

Is this the easiest time ever to build a one-person company?

@AlexHormozi because its fun and there's stuff to do :P

Before you succeed people will say "Why are you working so hard?" After you succeed people will say "Why are you working so hard?" Get used to it.