Andreu Pifarre

@Clara_Gold It seems more like a YOU issue written by chatGPT

6 months ago, I moved to San Francisco. It’s the best place in the world to build, and one of the worst places to stay human. My unfiltered take: 1. SF is both overhyped and underrated The overhyped part: there are a lot of people with incredible resumes who are deeply unimpressive in real life. They were at the right company, at the right time, in the right market, and got carried by the wave. They made money, got comfortable, and now spend their time “exploring opportunities” over coffee, wasting your time. The underrated part: the top 1% here is insane. But almost impossible to get. Hiring in SF feels like being a guy on a dating app: everyone you want is out of your league, and everyone in your league wants someone out of theirs. The best people have unmatchable packages, endless options, and are optimizing for maximum impact: labs, frontier companies, or startups raising $100M pre-seed rounds. If you raised $10M from Tier 1 investors, you’re not hot shit here. You’re a B-player. It’s humbling. 2. There are fewer mission-driven people than I expected Especially on the application layer. A lot of people are in “secure the bag before it’s too late” mode. And honestly, it gives me the ick. The real religious builders I’ve met are often in labs, hardware, biotech, deeptech, defense — places where the work is hard enough that you can’t fake obsession. 3. The status game favors builders This is what SF does better than anywhere else. It rewards obsession. It rewards weirdness. It rewards people who make building their entire personality. Europe punishes that. SF gives it status. If you’ve felt like an outsider your whole life because you care too much, work too much, think too radically, or refuse to be chill about things that matter, this city will make you feel less insane. 4. The market liquidity is absurd Even if you don’t build a billion-dollar company, if you manage to build a strong product with a great team, someone smart might still acquire you for $ 100M. Yeah I know, it’s not your dream outcome as a founder, but on the days you feel desperate, it helps to keep going. 5. SF does not care about the meaning crisis that’s coming Anyone paying attention here can feel that something massive is happening with AI. But I’m shocked by how little people talk about the meaning crisis coming next. Everyone wants to talk about AI liberating humanity. Almost no one wants to talk about what happens when work — the thing that gives most people identity, structure, dignity, status, and purpose — starts disappearing. The vacuum will not be peaceful. People are underestimating the chaos that comes from humans suddenly having no idea why they matter. And I really feel like no one cares. 6. Personally, I’ve never been more unhappy I moved to SF and entered the matrix. I’ve always been intense. I’ve always worked crazy hours. But here, I lost the last parts of myself that were not about building. I don’t go to events. Most networking events feel like theater for people pretending to be important. The only events worth going to are small, curated dinners with people who are actually alive. I’ve made 0 real friends. I don’t do well with transactionality. I don’t do well with people constantly performing greatness. I don’t do well with rooms where everyone is optimizing and no one is being honest. So yes, SF is lonely, transactional, delusional, addictive, inspiring, boring, extraordinary, and completely insane. But it is still the only place to be right now if you’re a founder trying to build the next wave of humanity. And for now, that’s enough.

@levelsio It can't get worse than that a single 40k lines file of PHP code, I hope you are 100% vibe coding it and not even opening it yourself for editing purposes your LLM must be burning tokens like crazy.

I am very very very very concerned about the current state of developers When they think the average computer with 16 GB of RAM cannot open a 1.4 MB PHP file May AI save us all

Not too far from now, we’ll be saying: “remember when we had to compile code?!” #ai #llm #LLMs #SoftwareEngineer

GPT-5.2 just released #gpt #ChatGPT #OpenAI

I got 4 sora invite codes, hit like and follow.

@Altsdny You could share one with me

Watch Me Rebuild ChatGPT in 3 Minutes - React + Tailwind Speedrun youtu.be/XTOBF-r4zKY?si… via @YouTube #WebDevelopment #reactjs #figma #SoftwareEngineering

Prompt → AI → App. Perhaps the next-gen stack is no-code by default, full-code by exception. You won't write code unless you want to. AI builds the rest. #AItools #NoCode #FutureOfSoftware

The future of coding is compiler-free. AI will infer your intent and instantly render static, deployable code, no toolchains, no build steps, just results. Think Figma-to-React, prompt-to-production. #AI #WebDev #FutureOfCoding

🚨 Most React apps are one bug away from a blank screen. Error Boundaries are wildly underused, and it's costing users and teams big. In this deep dive, I break down why they're critical for production apps, and how to use them andreupifarre.substack.com/p/react-error-… #ReactJS #WebDev #frontend

🚀 Just finished a fun speed‑run project: I built a pixel‑perfect clone of Apple's AirTag landing page in React + Tailwind! Watch the video and let me know what you think. Repo + figma file included. youtu.be/cXrOBLCQqkY #buildinpublic #frontend #WebDev @reactjs @tailwindcss

@elonmusk You are all salty because he fired you. Just get over it already.

I couldn’t agree more! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

AI development feels 2-staged: 🚀 rapid wins on starter projects with “vibe coding,” then 🛑 diminishing returns as complexity grows. To break through that threshold, we need new tools & paradigms—what got us here won’t scale to larger contexts. #Ai #SoftwareEngineering

10/10 Still here? That’s a sign. Launch your first $50 ad this week. Get feedback by the weekend. Build what actually matters. No more guessing. Just signal. #BuildInPublic #ShipIt

9/10 TL;DR: TikTok ads are the fastest, cheapest way to validate ideas right now. You don’t need a product. You just need a vibe check from the market. #IndieHacking #FounderTips

(1/10) I used to waste weeks coding products nobody wanted. Now? I spend $50 on TikTok ads and validate ideas in 72 hours flat. Life-changing, seriously. Here’s how I do it ↓ #BuildInPublic #IndieHackers #Startup