Nikolas Tsakiris

Is this community dead? I mean, we just view the same posts over and over. Me personally, I want to actually build, ask, and meet, engage. Maybe something fundamentally flawed with X's algo, or the platform's nature? ...I don't know.

@hooeem What's underneath the surface in your experience? Data pipelines, eval frameworks, latency budgets, deployment infra. That's not shallow. That's where products live or die.

POV: you’re the only person at work who doesn’t know how to build an AI agent.

@eliana_jordan The fork isn't between titles. It's between engineers who adopt AI as leverage and engineers who treat it as a threat. Same title, completely different output.

You’re 1 post away from changing everything One post got me my first dev job. One post brought my first users. One post started making me money online. Don’t overthink, just post

@k1rallik @everyonebpup Unobfuscated source map in an npm package. Intentional transparency or someone forgot a build step?

@everyonebpup npm install claude-code -save-their-secrets

> Anthropic ships Claude Code as an npm package > someone runs `ls` on the source map > entire codebase just sitting there. unobfuscated. > plugins, skills, tools, hooks, commands - everything > internal architecture of the most hyped AI coding agent, fully readable > Anthropic says nothing > meanwhile they're selling Enterprise contracts > the source map was in the registry the whole time > nobody checked security through obscurity lasted about 3 months.

@svpino Any discipline that can be taught in a weekend workshop was never a discipline. The skill survived. The job title was always temporary.

I still remember when people thought "prompt engineering" was going to become a real career.

@ylecun €890M is a Series C with impostor syndrome. What exactly makes this a "seed"? haha, anyway, looking forward for your research though!

Unveiling our new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs). We just completed our seed round: $1.03B / 890M€, one the largest seeds ever, probably the largest for a European company. We're hiring! [the background image is the Veil Nebula - a picture I took from my backyard, most appropriate for an unveiling] More details here: techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/yan…

respect the hustle, and for slow-moving markets this works. but you're comparing data retrieval to a trading terminal. Bloomberg isn't $24k because it shows you numbers. it's $24k because it executes before the sheet refreshes. latency, order management, and position sizing are where the terminal earns its keep. Sheets will get you analysis, not alpha. different games entirely.

MY TRADING TERMINAL COSTS $0. IT'S GOOGLE SHEETS Bloomberg Terminal - $24,000 a year. My Google Sheet pulls the same data for prediction markets, free. Parses odds from Polymarket and Kalshi simultaneously. Same market - prices differ by 3-8%. The sheet catches discrepancies and highlights them. Monitors volume. Market was quiet for a week and suddenly $200K in an hour - someone knows something. The sheet flags anomalies. News feed. Parses headlines by keywords for each market. News drops - I see it before the price moves. Resolve history - how the last 20 similar contracts moved before closing. Pattern: 12 hours before resolution the price accelerates every time. Kelly calculator: I enter my probability, market price, bankroll - the sheet tells me how much to bet. AI forecasts, separate tab. Agent analyzes all the data and gives a recommendation with reasoning. Google Apps Script, free APIs, updates every hour. People pay $500/mo for signal groups with "95% win rate" and a negative balance. I open my spreadsheet.

the CI analogy is solid for deterministic workflows, but it breaks the moment you need judgment calls mid-pipeline. not every step in a real task graph has a binary pass/fail gate. sometimes step 3 changes the definition of step 7. rigid pipelines handle the predictable; agentic loops handle the emergent. the people shipping production systems are using both. framing it as either/or is the actual dead end in my opinion

hot take: making AI agents chat with each other to get work done is a dead end. the only model that's actually stable is treating it like a CI pipeline. you define a task graph, declare the workflow in a config file, and set quality gates. it's just engineering we're building incredibly fragile systems because we're chasing cool demos instead of reliable architecture

this confuses documentation with access. YC's playbooks have been public for over a decade. everyone has them. the 7% buys you something no agent can replicate: a signal to Sequoia that someone with a track record looked at you for 10 minutes and said yes. that's not a playbook, that's a door. whether that door is worth 7% is a different conversation, but pretending AI closes it is wishful thinking.

YC charges 7% equity to teach you playbooks that AI can now execute autonomously. You don't need an accelerator. You need agents with the right playbooks built in. That's Polsia.

fair critique on the hype, but you're conflating two different problems. solo builders shipping with zero tests is an execution issue. historically, every tool that democratized creation got dismissed by the establishment first. the ones who won were those who used the new tool while keeping the old discipline.

most of the vibe coding hype here is coming from solo builders shipping hobby apps with zero users that’s a very different game than a large dev team shipping production code to millions of users

the grifters are real and they're loud, but they're also not the whole picture. the issue is the incentive structure on this platform rewards talking about building over actually building. so you see 100 "just shipped" threads for every 1 real product with paying users. blame the medium, not the craft

Wait what? I always thought InDiE hAcKeRs were just low-tier devs shipping nothing while talking lots of shit. It turns out they're grifters who are actively scamming people?

the problem with a "how to indie hack" book is the target audience doesn't read books, they read threads. and the ones who actually succeed do it by ignoring advice and figuring it out themselves. readmake worked precisely because @levelsio just documented what he did, not what others should do. a compilation of multiple builders' actual decision trees (not journeys) would be different though

I've been thinking about writing a book about building products as an indie hacker for a while But after reading readmake.com I'm totally spoiled 😂 @levelsio literally covered every aspect of what one should know to become an indie hacker. Highly recommend

@eliana_jordan the problem with "showing up no matter what" is it can become a trap where persistence substitutes for strategy. if you're juggling too many projects, showing up harder isn't the answer. picking one and killing the rest is. what's the one thing you're focusing on now?

Last week I felt extremely unmotivated. I kept showing up, but it was hard. Too many projects. Not clear focus. A few failed ideas. This is the indie hacker path: showing up no matter what. New week, new focus

@swyx @claudeai This is why I write everything down. You never know when documentation becomes executable. Years of opinions just turned into working code.

bought a new mac to give my clanker a hand-me-down and realized... i have like 4 years of macbook setup blogposts i can just give @claudeai. bro is just oneshotting converting every tech stack opinion i have into bash scripts* golden age for people who blog everything they do tbh *and i can walk away from my laptop and periodically check in on my phone!!!

@DanKulkov Yeah because X isn't a marketing channel (but it might turn into one, maybe...), it's a conversation platform that tolerates some marketing. Approach it like a megaphone and it punishes you.

promoting my saas on X feels like

@thdxr We deploy sophisticated models to fix problems caused by not talking to each other. Maybe tools improve while collaboration patterns stay frozen.

one place where i always need the smartest possible model is to resolve merge conflicts smartest model for the dumbest work

@marclou It only feels counterintuitive if you believe planning beats testing. I believe that most plan to avoid the discomfort of shipping something unfinished, me included. The cheat code is just being okay with unfinished though.

Shipping more is the counterintuitive cheat code for entrepreneurs

@thdxr Honestly don't get the outrage. It's a $20/month subscription to someone else's servers. When economics change, so do limits. True, just cancel if it doesn't work for anyone anymore.

man the responses to the new claude max limits are crazy everyones expectations are so out of whack it's kind of embarrassing to get this mad, i'd just be like damn ok i'll cancel were you guys depending on this shit to keep your grandma alive i don't get it

@marclou Correlation isn't causation here. Profitable founders aren't profitable because of Next and Tailwind. They're profitable because they stopped debating stacks and actually shipped something people wanted.

Founders who build profitable startups use NextJS + TailwindCSS + PostgreSQL n=200

Enough with the 'who is being laid off due to AI' doom-posts already!

@T_Zahil How would we filter such replies if social platforms won't force it themselves?

I love coding with AI yes But I despise AI-generated slop in the comments Stop using AI to generate bullshit please, it just undermines your credibility