Ford Lascari

@writeandlift Thats some 10 min horse stance energy

320,000 people stood outside yesterday at the NFL draft to watch their team choose a new sportsball player when they could've been practicing horse stance and swinging kettlebells, semi-nude, in their backyard, listening to Robert Fagles's translation of Homer's The Iliad. We've never been more lost as a society.

Yea, my things is when I push things too far with agents, theres a complexity bar I run into when the codebase falls too far outside my understanding. I have lots of safeguards with intent and standardize loops and documentation structure but it still requires a lot of oversight to build high quality software.

@Ford_Lascari Well I run a couple other sites, too. And I have a couple things that are still in development that I’ve returned to recently.

Funny how confident people are about things that are readily disproven. "I can't do it, so no one can." I'm doing this sort of thing across literally dozens of projects. Over 1,000 GitHub commits every day this week. Yes, I spend ~$12k/month on subs and work a lot. But I do it

@JayScambler “Opus 4.7 is actually really good”

Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.

@KirkMarple What is the difference between graphlit and zine?

@dexhorthy Say less

drop everything and watch this immediately Captures so much between the lines stuff WRT crafting good software that I have struggled to articulate Incredible lessons from 40 years of software engineering, distilled and applied masterfully to the craft of building with AI

@verrsane Can you square your monitor first

new wfh setup new to MacBook so what apps should I download and use for work

@JayScambler whoa

You're telling me a Qwen 27B fried this rice?

@dexhorthy Makes sense. I meant more the devs of CC are 100% on yolo likely making changes based on their experience.

@Ford_Lascari many cc enterprise users have yolo mode disabled at the device level

okay i have not dug in but my immediate take on claude allegedly removing Grep/Glob tools: this is great for anyone who uses --dangerously-skip-permissions or maybe the use-a-model-to-auto-approve-things but for everyone else, now things that would always be allowed like Glob,Grep are now bash calls that need to be manually reviewed/approved, and last I checked the "yes and don't ask again" is pretty unreliable when bash commands contain pipelines like `| head` - `| tail` like i said, haven't dug in. I woud absolutely LOVE to be wrong about this

almost alive

@BowTiedUM Need low DHT masses for the culling that will likely take place. When robots can do grunt work, why would the elite need billions of mouths to feed?

Shit's gonna get weird soon We're not going to have a good time if our men are low DHT

Claude makes me angry

@doodlestein I would just CTA a lot more and then cross post to linkedin. Setup a hypefury auto plug as well

Seeking advice from people who are savvy about marketing for SaaS businesses. My jeffreys-skills.md site has been growing nicely in percentage terms since I launched it around 6 weeks ago. It should hit $6k/month in MRR today at the current growth rate (see pic from my admin dashboard). All this has been with negligible costs besides the ~5% fee to Stripe and PayPal for managing the subscriptions and billing. The site costs basically nothing to run, and I don’t offer a free tier. So far, I’ve done zero paid marketing or advertising. Instead, I’ve just been writing posts about the new skills I’ve been making and how they work. I believe the potential market for my service is pretty huge given that there are now 4 million active users of Codex alone, and many also using Claude Code. Compared to spending $200/month for GPT Pro and Claude Max, paying just $20/month for my site is pretty cheap. So my question is whether I should now start doing non-organic marketing, and if so, how? I know that if I took venture funding (I didn’t, it’s all bootstrapped and I built everything myself), investors would be pushing me to spend a lot to grow faster. But my past experience has been that paid marketing and advertising really doesn’t work very well and dramatically reduces margins. I’d basically be competing against all the other venture-backed AI startups that are burning money in an undifferentiated game. If I’m already growing ~200% a month, should I just keep doing what I’ve been doing and stick with organic content-based marketing that leverages my following on here? Maybe I should instead spend my time and energy making it easier for non-technical users to use and make more general, non-software related skills (like income taxes and wills) that can have broader appeal? Or focus more on business/teams users at a higher price point with enterprise functionality like SSO? (I’ve already built this out, but it’s a lot harder to sell those subscriptions; I don’t have a single teams customer yet!). Curious to hear what people who have been through this think. What do you suggest, @levelsio ? @dhh ? Anyone else? I appreciate any advice people can give me!

My g, did you forget about structured outputs

Light mode is better for agent harnesses as you largely reading prose. Dark mode better for code as need them pretty colors.

@benhylak @BenjaminDEKR L

@BenjaminDEKR ?

you can just tweet fake things (cursor has hundreds of employees)

@sunglassesface 🍞 ⬆️

Has anyone written code (aka vibecode) on a Macbook Neo? What's the experience like?

There harness you use will be biggest differentiator over the coming years. You NEED to be customizing yours to YOUR needs.

J skills are unironically one of the best $20 you can spend. Will learn a lot just reading through how they are structured