Levi Bauer

@soleiljolina @interiorwhre You could recreate that yourself with a few pics of yourself and a good prompt on the paid version of Gemini. Good skill to learn anyway.

@interiorwhre ugh I wanna recreate

@jasonfried Yeah, but for those of us who are tinkerers….our time to shine.

A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it. It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways. Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo... Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all. So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design. They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job. Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before. Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.

@JoePompliano This will be good for all of us non-6 footer guy egos!

We’re going to see a lot of height changes this year because, with the rollout of ABS, MLB is now measuring each player's height down to the millimeter. The process is super strict — no shoes, no hats, knees exposed, back against the wall — and to account for potential shrinkage throughout the day, MLB is even requiring all its teams to take measurements between 10 am and 12 pm local time on their appointed day.

@gregisenberg ….same result.

reminder that you’re not behind, it’s just moving too fast

@chamath Incredible.

At 8090, one of our best engineers is still in high school. How he got a job here is a story for another day but, more generally, brilliant kids like him, using AI, will rebuild our entire world for the better.

@ClintFiore Reta not working today? 😂😂😂

I'm still mad nobody has made a mainstream fast food restaurant with state fair type of foods. Why do I have to go to a fair to get this delicious stuff?

@AntiDoc Oh man….im already quite a bit this way. Doing it even more seems like it would be bad.

A lot of people don’t use testosterone because they’re worried about how it will affect relationships, or their spouses are. This is a real thing, but it isn’t because you will roid rage on your wife or your buddies. It’s more so you lack patience for things you find trivial. It’s like how you would eat dinner when you wanted to go back outside and play with your friends. If you don’t like concerts, you will like them less. If you don’t like watching your woman’s movie pick, you’ll like them less. You’re just more eager to attack the things you want to do. There is not really any different feeling toward anyone, assuming you actually like them. You want to scratch a new type of itch, and it gets real itchy sometimes. Overall, assuming you’re not an asshole prior, relationships still only get better,

@thesayannayak …..but mine are pretty cool.

At this rate everyone’s gonna have their own app and zero users.

@sweatystartup Warmer……..

An overseas employee with 10 years experience and a $1,200 per month salary + a $30 SuperGrok subscription can work circles around a fresh college graduate.

@MSUKyleBrown @sweatystartup 😂😂😂

@sweatystartup What’s gonna happen when that AI subscription goes up to $150/mo though?!?

@sweatystartup ….aren’t there also downsides to hiring someone in a different country to be a part of a company’s process? Upsides and downsides to every decision.

Every time you consider making a key AI tool a significant part of your business ask: Would this tool still make sense if it costs 5x as much? How disruptive would it be to stop using it completely 6 months from now? People aren’t thinking about the downstream impact.

@AskPerplexity It all takes too many tokens.

We just shipped several upgrades to building web apps with Perplexity Computer. New projects are now automatically tested using Playwright. It navigates your app like a real user to identify and fix bugs before you ever see them. Build, test, fix, ship. All in one place.

@tszzl …..he is a great actor.

the dune movies were doomed from the start to be good and not great due to the casting of chalamet as paul. he does not have the gravitas for a child-god and is much better suited for kind of silly coming of age movies

@soleiljolina I’m doubting your life is boring.

I like my boring life it saves me from a lot

@EricRWeinstein I know this is a defeatist statement , but truly want to understand your thought: ….but what can just one person do to help?

This time, it's different.

@kloss_xyz ….definitely cheaper then buying it.

you paying attention? Anthropic is closing the gap on the exact infrastructure that made OpenClaw so valuable. Claude’s recently shipped: → dispatch (text your agent from your phone, it works on your machine) → scheduled tasks (recurring autonomous workflows) → remote control (monitor live sessions from anywhere) → agent teams (parallel multi-agent coordination) → channels (control Claude Code via Telegram and Discord) → auto memory (persistent context across sessions) → context compaction (stays coherent over long runs) → plugin marketplace (extensible skill system) not long ago you needed a custom framework or OpenClaw just to get Claude running on a loop. now it’s native. the moat for open source agent frameworks has fully shifted. it’s no longer “can it run autonomously?”, it’s “who runs it with more swagger?” the infra always gets commoditized. what you build on top of it doesn’t.

@MatthewBerman …..quicker then the actual purchasers of OpenClaw.

They’re building OpenClaw

@shivsakhuja ….and both are coming.

There are only 2 reasons why Claude can't do your work. It doesn't have the right tools It doesn't have the right context That's it.

@CyclesFan @TicTocTick What cycles are you looking at? All that I see have pointed at oil troughing in the last month-ish.

@TicTocTick Bullshit. $50 will happen way sooner than $500.

Oil $500 soon

Had my call with Brian last night. Was super helpful to talk through some things with him. He had some insights I had not thought about. If he offers this again, please take him up on it. @BrianRoemmele