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I want to use Twitter like my child will read all my messages one day.

@TravelerOfCode I don’t want to go back. Feel like it is only going to get worst. Need to own equity or else you’re disposable.

@BannMeCo same boat. mass layoff survivor here. the moment your own thing starts making money, going back to a 9-5 feels like giving up something you can't get back. that fear is actually a good sign though

got laid off a while back. been building since. the scary part isn't the no-paycheck part. it's that things are starting to work and now going back to employment feels like the wrong move. that's a different kind of terrifying

newborn finally asleep. got maybe 90 minutes before the next round. time to ship something

@yacineMTB I’ve always thought Asia is one of the most racist places they are just too homogenous for to have a place to let it out. I like the states… there is surface area for racism everywhere.

like it's a different kind of racism. totally different

the japanese are absolutely mogging the americans on racism. i can't believe how racist they are. wow. i'm actually impressed

watched a company lay off 30% of their team and then post about "our incredible culture" the same week. that's the game. you're not family. you're a line item

@hodlmecloseplz @andrewchen this is the decision most companies won't make because it feels wrong to throw away years of work. but the teams that do it will move 10x faster than the ones bolting ai onto legacy code and calling it a strategy

@andrewchen Fourth option: scrap the codebase, rebuild AI-native from scratch with a small team. We've done this 3 times this quarter. 4 engineers, 8 weeks, shipping what took 2 years originally. Retrofitting AI onto legacy architecture burns the MOST opportunity cost.

lots of non-AI native startups funded in the 2020-2025 timeframe trying to figure out: - can you reinvent the product to be AI-native? - do you pivot towards AI? - or just use AI in the backoffice, and ride it out? opportunity cost is the hardest thing to calculate. The most dangerous startups aren't the ones with no revenue -- they're the ones with just enough revenue to keep going

@adriansensus self-funded small team is the move. you skip the part where you spend 6 months convincing investors your idea is worth trying and just go build it. looking forward to seeing what you ship

New chapter.🔥 Spent the last year building AI products across real estate, language learning, and trading tools. Self-funded, small team, shipping from Dubai. The company is Sensus AI — and I'll be sharing what I'm learning as we build. More soon.

@monokern @Polymarket @PolymarketTrade the interesting part isn't that one person built it. it's that the framework assumes a team of ai workers is the default unit now. we went from "ai assists developers" to "ai is the team" in about 18 months

MIND BLOWN: SOLO DEVELOVER BUILT a framework for a team of AI workers, and now startups are shipping products without hiring full engineering teams CrewAI - framework that turns a single LLM into an organization What happened: In 2025, a small open-source project began to gain popularity among developers building AI agents The developer demonstrated a concept: -> one agent = analyst -> another = developer -> another = manager -> another = reviewer They communicate, divide tasks, and make decisions like a real team People began experimenting, especially in areas where speed and decision-making matter One of those areas is trading on Polymarket: Recently I looked at a few public trader profiles on Polymarket showing fairly consistent results It's reasonable to assume that some of these outcomes could be linked to automation and perhaps they used CrewAI A few traders that caught my attention (Links in comments): 1. wokerjoesleeper 2. swisstony 3. RN1

everyone romanticizes quitting your job to build a company. nobody talks about the part where you have a newborn, zero revenue, and you're shipping features at 1am because that's the only quiet hour

i use ai every day to build products. it writes my code, fixes my bugs, and is the reason i can compete without a team of 20. bullish on what it enables. terrified of what it means for everyone else

@IterIntellectus Eat, shit, sleep repeat. It’s a good time.

babies really have the best life their days are basically wake up, boob, nap, boob, poop, boob, nap, boob, boob, play time, boob, fart, boob, sleep no wonder they’re so happy

the thing nobody talks about with employment. the constant availability. the shitty food because you don't have time. not working out because there's always another meeting. you trade your body for a paycheck that can disappear tomorrow

starting this account to document what it looks like to go from employee to building your own thing. no playbook. no guarantees. just figuring it out in public

most "building in public" posts are just counting days. nobody cares what day you're on. they care what you learned, what broke, and what you'd do differently. that's the interesting part.

@j_fishback Can't wait for your presidential run!

You should never vote for someone (Democrat or Republican) if they take money from AIPAC. They are traitors to our country.

@PaulleyTicks "TRUST ME" - Kash on Joe Rogan

Just how in the F does the director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation - the single largest and most powerful investigative institution on the face of the earth - get his Email hacked? Oh, wait a minute...

@publisherinabox this is the split most people miss. ai isn't replacing judgment, it's replacing the busywork that used to require headcount. huge difference.

Our approach: AI handles the volume work. Humans handle the judgment calls. This lets a small team manage output that would normally require 10 times the people.

Publishers using AI to scale their Facebook operations are growing significantly faster than those who don't. Here's how to use AI the right way.

@Conaugh90210 this is it. the public part is just accountability. the real value is the forcing function.

Building in public isn't about the public. It's about forcing yourself to have something worth showing every day.

@evanbknox do you have a cold start problem? what API are you posing from?

Marketplaces have a cold start problem. Shoppers search. See nothing nearby. Leave. Supply exists -- it's just not dense enough yet. Facebook started at Harvard. Uber went city by city. We just narrowed all our ads to Florida only.

@evanbknox coordination overhead is the real killer. every hire adds communication lines exponentially. ai doesn't have that problem. it just does the work. you need good leaders that provide good direction and gets out of the way!

My co-founder works at a Fortune 100. His take: a team of 40 with AI could annihilate their 400-person engineering org on output per person. Not because the 400 are bad. Because coordination overhead compounds with every hire. Small teams don't have that problem.