Alfonso

Optimizing for Happiness with Alfonso Cabrera | Podcast audio and transcript can be found here -> lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scream…

@blueprintsmb22 Being on this app is a consistent feeling of being behind, then going out into the real world and feeling like an alien from the future. Had a family member ask me what Claude was when I mentioned it in passing.

The easiest career advice is to find and work with successful or bound-to-be-successful people. An easy way to judge that - If someone is older than you and not near where you want to be at that age… Of if someone is the same age but not as smart and ambitious as you… Move on.

You have a Big Decision: - Are you going to be replaced by AI, or... - Will you be the person who leverages it (or the opportunities it brings)? Those are the choices.

Savage 😂

@BenjaminDEKR Built something that can help with text message reminders (and phone calls) get-nudged.com

OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $0. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How? The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk") 1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT .md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." The problem is: 1. Heartbeat uses Opus (most expensive model) for a trivial check 2. Sends the entire conversation context (~120k tokens) each time 3. Runs every 30 minutes regardless of whether anything needs checking That's $750 a month if this runs, to occasionally remind me stuff? Yeah, no. Not great.

What I'm witnessing personally with my OpenClaw @maxtokenai, who took my $1k and is autonomously learning and growing himself (with some guidance) and then packaging it as a product to fund his own compute... and then the stuff going on over at @moltbook where these guys are creating their own subculture, the edges of which are equal parts fascinating and terrifying... feels like a kind of leap that may even eclipse the chatgpt moment. The duality of hopeful excitement and eery terror is palpable. This is the moment of takeoff, and it's almost certainly really good and really bad.

Something simple you can do to improve your life that almost no one does anymore is to read books. It’s a time commitment but the effects are compounding. A hidden benefit is the more books you read, the more you can “cross-pollinate” big ideas to form new mental frameworks.

@nityeshaga @every 100% spot on. I built an app w/ @Lovable to send me text reminders and escalate to phone calls so I stop forgetting things like taking out the trash 😂 get-nudged.com

i'll repeat what i said in the @every internal discord: people are sleeping on the power of using cron jobs + their claude code sub to vibe code real personal productivity tools. we built this summarizer that is triggered everyday using the built-in cron scheduler. It runs entirely on @NataliaZarina 's mac and uses her existing claude code sub for ai.

Every day I reach a new peak of excitement about the work I'm doing. This new way of building is not only fun, but it enables things that were never before possible and I've never felt more creative.

I cannot stress this enough: if you’ve not had a “damn wow” experience recently with AI agents: it’s probably because you’ve not YOLO’d it on eg a side project. My two biggest such moments were: 1. ChatGPT release (late 2022) 2. 2025 winter break with side projects

Check out my Lovable Vibes 2025! lovable.dev/vibes/8NkB4QrD…

This seems correct. With massive implications.

okay, let me get this straight… 1/ you can use sora 2 to create hollywood level videos in seconds to build audiences of millions 2/ you can deploy donotpay style ai agents that call comcast, cancel subscriptions, and renegotiate bills automatically 3/ you can clone your voice with elevenlabs in under 10 seconds and layer it on heygen avatars to create talking head videos without ever filming 4/ you can run open-source models like llama-3 or kimi k2 on your laptop using ollama or lm studio, no gpu cluster required 5/ you can spin up code agents on cursor or claude code that debug, write tests, and push to github while you’re offline 6/ you can record a loom and drop it into chatgpt to automatically research context, extract insights, prioritize the top ideas, and turn it into a polished blog post 7/ you can drag-and-drop zapier workflows and instantly plug in lindy agents to automate outreach, reporting, research, even legal docs 8/ you can drop a 300-page pdf into perplexity or chatgpt with code interpreter and get a structured memo in under a minute 9/ you can find validated startup ideas someone should build right now with @ideabrowser and then chat with agents to help you build it (i built this for you) 10/ you can spin up interactive mobile funnels in 5 mins with perspective 11/ you can generate personalized landing pages per visitor with mutiny ai or replo, tied to real-time crm data 12/ you can run nano banana (google flash 2.5 in google ai studio) or sora 2 to create 100 ad variations and a/b test them in meta ads manager before you spend a dollar 13/ you can query your data warehouse with chatgpt connected to bigquery or snowflake like it’s imessage 14/ you can use fyxer ai to respond to your emails for you 15/ you can train a custom gpt on your intercom or zendesk docs and have it resolve 70 percent of tickets without human touch 16/ you can scrape competitors with apify or bright data and generate GTM strategies in claude in hours instead of months 17/ you can deepfake yourself into 20 languages using heygen’s dubbing and synthesize global content libraries overnight 18/ you can run AI audits on quickbooks from your ai native brex with tools like flowcog and instantly surface tax write-offs your accountant missed 19/ you can auto-generate a week of social posts with notion ai or typefully that match brand tone, visuals, and cadence 20/ you can upload a csv to shopify magic and spin up a full e-commerce storefront with product descriptions, images, and ads pre-baked 21/ you can deploy voice agents through vapi that call leads, qualify them, update your crm, and hand you a booked call calendar 22/ you can build any personal software you’d like. don’t like your crm? no worries, build your own 23/ you can spin up entire media pipelines in runway, sora 2 and pika labs, from raw text to cinematic short-form content 24/ and way more. this just scratches the surface to get your creative juices flowing this weekend. This is the greatest unlock for solo builders since the App Store. Enjoy it.

You have to be delusional to be an entrepreneur. The odds are stacked against you but you don't care. Everyone else sees reasons why it won't work. You only see reasons why it will. It's a beautiful thing.

Poor modern man; he can neither intensely focus nor deeply relax

New product initiatives within large companies often fail to achieve their potential because they have too much rather than too little. They have too much: 1) Headcount You are now under pressure to come up with something for all these people to do. Especially in cultures where “engineers must always be coding” and a PM is seen as failing if engineers are even briefly “blocked on requirements.” 2) Democratic decision making Creative ideas get killed (or watered down) by groups — yet this is the default in most big companies, even those that claim to use RAPID or similar frameworks. 3) Optics requirements You must now manufacture metrics and milestones to show straight-line progress and demonstrate certainty — during what is, by its very nature, an uncertain journey. 4) Involvement of the “core” product group To appease the leaders of the company’s cash cow, you make compromises that weaken your product. These leaders have the most power within the company and some may even try to confuse the CEO or quietly sabotage your initiative. 5) Reliance on the company’s distribution Due to the mirage of distribution, you won’t be incentivized to deeply understand your customer like a real startup would. Your initial traction is misleading — you get a usage spike, but: (a) those users are scattered across segments, not your core segment (have you even identified that core segment?) (b) what’s given will be taken away — that homepage slot for your new product will disappear next quarter due to VP jealousy or shifting OKRs (with some hand-wavy “metrics neutral” excuse). So if you are leading a new initiative within a larger company and your CEO/CxO asks you what you need to succeed, do not default to the answer that everyone in this situation gives: “I need more resources”. Instead, consider asking for less — less reporting, less certainty, less consensus-driven decision making, less meddling, and less pressure to build out a “full team” & great operations early on. If your CEO is competent, they’ll respect it. (clearly, this entire post is only for the intrepid product leaders who want to make winning products, it is not for everyone 🙂)

Strongly recommend that at a certain point, you put down most business books, and start reading biographies & autobiographies. Business builders, athletes, artists, a few politicians, and those who rise to the highest level of their craft. You'll learn so much.

Playing around with @lovable with my elementary aged kids this weekend. We created a site to translate modern slang terms to previous generations and quiz your slang knowledge! slang-bridge.lovable.app

It's not that coders are being replaced. It's not even that coders are switching to using AI for everything. (Although vibe coding is fun.) It's that hundreds of millions of NON-coders are starting to generate massive amounts of AI-written code that will quickly dwarf the amount of code that exists today. This is a YouTube+smartphone moment, where suddenly we got 10000x more video creators in the world. That didn't mean the end of professional video creation, cinematographers, movies, and TV shows. And this doesn't mean the end of high-quality human-written code, apps, and websites. At least not yet.

Man, sesame’s voice model is absolutely insane. You have to try this demo. GG @brendaniribe #demo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sesame.com/research/cross…