Brian

Jumping on the code2cad trend! 🤓

Has anyone thought of the possibility that Singapore being number 1 on claude usage might be just be VPN users from China? We don’t even have as big of a startup/corporate ecosystem as America + we’re not even 1/50 of the population. How’s that possible?

@SeloSlav Looking at the jank really brings back memories 😂

Programming an elevator in a multiplayer game is difficult beyond all imagination.

@0xkyle__ Lmao imagine if IPPT results were made into a leaderboard and public

the one thing that sums up Singapore is how the government pays you 200 to do a yearly fitness test which everyone hates, but people will pay obsene amounts of money to work out once you slap the fitness test with athletica wear and cool selfies you can post on ig (hyrox)

this is exactly what happened to music > barrier to record an album in 2000: a studio, a label, $500k > barrier to record an album in 2015: a laptop and garageband > result: more music than ever. most of it niche. some of it massive software is about 5 years behind that curve vibe coders with claude code are the new bedroom producers and the bedroom producers won do with that what you will

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing… China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine the gap is ARCHITECTURAL it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study… and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure Merz at least had the courage to name it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

Never doom, we will be in the golden era of building software for years to come. We have the potential to build robots the likes of those portrayed in “I am robot”. The future is here for anyone who wants to build it. You could be the sung jin woo of robots, never doom!!!!

let me just leave this here for you kids

@0xkyle__ Great to see our govt being forward looking 🫡

singapore stays winning

@thellimist @ideabrowser Great writeup! Big problem is that all saas is geared towards human users and not agents

@ideabrowser There is a reason why this opportunity exist. Current tooling sucks for other use cases. Here is a more detailed explanation kanyilmaz.me/2026/02/19/fiv…

The 2026 arbitrage window is open (but I am not sure for how long)

🤯🤯🤯 This is AI now

YOU’RE. THE APP MAKER NOW! In 2007 I suggested just before the collapses of the App, will be a Cambrian Explosion of iOS, Android and computer apps. We are now in the Cambrian Explosion. This will peak at such a level that 1000 new “official” app will be at the iOS store every second. But what does the collapse look like? The end of the App, the end of the App Store, the end of the OS as we know it and the end of the device as we know it. It will be replace by just a local AI that runs agents in the cloud. The App will be built on-demand and saved in a “play area” if you like. This “play area” is a chalk board where you can doodle, change and improve your recipes (prompts) anytime you want. Ultimately it will be just you, your AI, on any device (it won’t matter) and ultimately just your voice eg: “make a spreadsheet app that for my record collection, make the discovery the record cover, sort by my plays”. For decades I called this VoiceFirst because it is. Of course you may still thumb claw on glass screens, but less and less. In my series on ReadMultiplex.com, You Have 5000 Days To The End Of Work As We Know It, actually 4969 days now (readmultiplex.com/5000Days.html), I cover what this means to all of us as Deskilling propagates. I am a coder and have more friends that code than not. Our job is Deskilling fast and first. The arrogance we once had is turning into concern and if you are not, you are in denial. It is not the end, but the beginning, the candle makers did not much like Mr. Edison. Yet the Candle makers, some left to go on to other things and some became better and made bespoke candles, some stayed for the dwindling commodity market. Candle making peaked around the US by 1903. It never came back. Now anyone is a candle maker, and supplies to make them is dirt cheap, the cost of some server time, your ideas and your words. It will Vibe Code into existence. Oh I know that then “quality” of apps will fall to utility for one person, and that is my point. App making will peak in 2028 and never return. In fact nearly 80% of all code will be AI made by 2028. What will be left is, AI, protocols like the software that runs the internet, and software that drives your device, but mostly rudimentary snippets that AI uses and builds and maintains. This is the way of it. I am delivering what I know and doing it early. It will have a big impact. And it will be more psychological impacts than financial ones ultimately. Who am I if I am not my job? This is some of what I cover in my 5000 day series. Please read it or listen to the Podcast. The brilliant developers? They are brilliant and they will continue to ride the wave and innovate miles ahead of the 8 billion new developers, if they refuse to ride the wave, the wave takes them. This is why I am writing this. And I know some will say “oh there is that grifter spouting off”, ok. Some I hope can hear this and ride the wave. The rest of us, we have a new canvas and a pallet of our needs and our imagination. You can soon build anything in minutes, you can use it, change it, keep it, or discharge it. Your App will mostly be built bespoke and on spec for a user of one. The future is gonna get weirder, and weirder.

scientific mindset always wins in the end. short term land grab mindset always runs out of steam.

@meshtimes_ I used to be that engineer too lmao, but supabase and vercel is really the goat

A lot of engineers pointed out this could’ve been deployed cheaper with aws and they’re right. But the goal here wasn’t infra cost. It was to give me time back. Shipping solo for a few hundred dollars meant more time to study feedback, iterate, and decide what actually mattered :’) For me, that tradeoff was 100% worth it. Thank you @venturetwins for sharing <3 my inspo

@max_paperclips Life will be gamified one day

I'm seeing a lot of "why would you want AI to play games for you" comments. The answer is - of course you don't. That's not the point. Sure there's a couple use cases, like better NPCs and such, but what this is really about is agents. There's all these billion dollar companies spending money trying to automate stuff with LLMs. The issue is, they kinda still suck at being agents. More than you'd expect them to. They're getting pretty good at code, but planning & operating your warehouse logistics operations? Forget it, too unreliable. Of course it's training that's the issue, there's no particular reason to expect models trained mainly as chatbots and text completion tools to be good at that, regardless of how many parameters you increase them to. A chat is a VERY simple environment. Just a user prompting it, all information is generally in the prompt. No need to explore, experiment, deal with the unexpected Obviously this has improved somewhat, tool calls as part of the chat, code agents and such, anything where it's easy to get a lot of text data and kinda fits in the "there's a chatbot and it's helping a user" space So, what to do? How the hell do you get enough data that's challenging, diverse, requires not just single shot reasoning but planning, goal setting, prioritising information, and not just text but full multimodal environments? Games OBVIOUSLY. If you had an agent that could truly dominate a good range of games, it'll hopefully start to generalise to more boring but economically important environments. You don't want a chatbot to run your logistics, you need the best damn simulation of a high skill Factorio player you can get your hands on There's a silly amount of potential tokens available in games, all verifiable, and many that potentially transfer to other tasks. That's why game agents matter more. There's a huge amount of unlocks if you build models to be agents first, chatbots second. World models extend this principle to the environments themselves, which is going to be huge IMO, but in the meantime there's huge amounts of high quality data on Steam waiting to be unlocked

@robj3d3 U don’t need to tap card either, can just use apple pay.

Singapore public transport is insanely efficient I’m surprised we don’t have this in London: - tap card when you get on - tap card when you get off - no physical tickets - buses/trains actually on time - very clean - everyone is respectful and quiet Seriously why can we not manage this in Europe???

@gfodor @elonmusk There probably won’t be enough energy from fusion reactors to do that

@elonmusk But if we can make fusion reactors here we can move the Earth away from the sun which we both know will eventually be necessary

The Sun is an enormous, free fusion reactor in the sky. It is super dumb to make tiny fusion reactors on Earth. Even if you burned 4 Jupiters, the Sun would still round up to 100% of all power that will ever be produced in the solar system!! Stop wasting money on puny little reactors, unless actively acknowledging that they are just there for your pet science project jfc.

@ErnestoSOFTWARE B for sure, on first look it looks the worst but it’s the only useable one.

Gemini 3 vs GPT 5.2 vs Claude 4.5 all tasked with building the same app → 1 prompt each ( same prompt ) → All built in Rork(.)com Comment below which one wins?

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@ErnestoSOFTWARE B. A’s tabs looks misaligned

I built the same app with 2 different Ai’s Gemini 3 Pro vs Claude Opus 4.5 > Built using Rork(.)com > 1 prompt each > All images were added by Ai Comment below Which model do you think did better?