Oleksandr Stefanovskyi

Success is simple: you just do what you want to achieve and refine after mistakes, again and again and again. It's not easy, but it's simple.

Its the beginning of the end of subsidized AI subscriptions. GH Copilot is moving to usage-based billing, as has Claude (for business customers.) Fair to assume more will follow. I expect this change will also be a great boost for open models - cheaper, and pretty good already

I built the whole thing in half a day. I collected the links, instructed AI to write the code, and hosted it on GitHub Pages. It costs exactly $0 to run.

I got tired of the AI noise and engagement farming on the timeline. Finding authors I actually trust became too much mental work. So I built a tool to solve my own problem.

It's crazy that LLMs nowadays become smarter because of thinking out loud and the end users have to pay for this thinking instead of flat rate as we were promised.

@rrmdp @kylegawley "Spending daddy's money on a failed startup"

@kylegawley What was your first biz at 18?

I'm 39 I've never had a full-time job Been an entrepreneur since I was 18

@gabrielhsferr @GergelyOrosz They earn from tokens our usage

@GergelyOrosz Isn't it just a strategy to spend less tokens?

I use AI a lot for deep research and summarization. One thing I'm noticing across all models (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) is how they are becoming... more generic? More "AI-templated" in writing? Lazier? (Using the same tired phrases again and again) As the models supposedly get better, I subjectively feel they are the same or worse in this area.

AI adoption in your company should start with the acceptance that AI is not cheating.

With two weeks before the elections in Hungary, Orban (reigning prime minister for 16 years) is trailing the polls, badly. So his new campaign: claiming that Ukraine is on the verge of attacking… Hungary (???) It makes no sense: but this is the point of a post-reality campaign

@GergelyOrosz It is hard to imagine how any sane person could believe that a partially occupied country, which has been at war with a stronger aggressor for 12 years, would plan to attack its neighbor, especially one that belongs to NATO, the strongest military alliance in the world.

Screenshot from analysis in The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/… This is the most surreal campaign I’ve observed. The governing party cannot campaign with the economy (in terrible shape), foreign policy (Orban isolated himself, thanks to n absurd alliance with Russia), or anything sensible or forward-looking. So they manufactured an “enemy” that does not exist, a threat that is fiction, and are using the media (that the government controls) to attempt to make voters believe this nonsense. Election results will be interesting to see how this works (or not.) I would hope it fails miserably.

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@JesseBWatters I hope it is AI generated

Spring Break goes WILD☀️ 🍺🤪 and the students have NO IDEA what’s going on🤣 “The BIGGEST issue in America is what BIKINI I’m wearing tomorrow”👙 “We’re going to war with IRAQ that’s been crazy”🤔 “I’ve NEVER heard the word Ayatollah in my life”🫢 “Is Venezuela in SPAIN?”😬😬😬

“Only plumbers and electricians are safe from AI taking their jobs” Meanwhile:

@John__Penko @ygnatyuk_ В чому Грок хороший?

@ygnatyuk_ Платний Клод, трохи гроку і часом джеміні

Розкажіть про свій AI-стек? Які інструменти використовуєте під які задачі? Що найкраще працює для вас?

@yuriy_yarosh @ygnatyuk_ А що саме робиш цими інструментами?

@ygnatyuk_ Пишу MCP сервери зі скілами під А2A A2UI, ганяю RAG RL'ьом з трансформерами. Хостю в основному на vLLM, під Vast.ai або Tensordock. Написані провайдери під Virtual Kubelet. Для публіки зазвичай OpenRouter під Milvus або pgvecto.rs

Exactly one year ago (10 mar 2025), Dario Amodei: "I think we will be there in 3-6 months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code." This turned out to be... too darn accurate.

Programming is evolving too quickly, and I think that's the biggest problem we face. The leap in progress feels like going from writing Assembly code by hand to using a modern C++ IDE, except it all happened in just three months