Andrew Conru

In 1994, I created the world's first online dating site. In 1996, I started Adult Friend Finder. It grew to 700 million users. I sold it. Nearly didn't survive that decision. I bought it back. And a few weeks ago, I sat down to rebuild the entire thing from scratch. 25 days. 274 hours. 490,000 lines of code. That's 47 books worth written at 1,800 lines per hour. One person. A typical developer writes 200-400 lines per day. I'm averaging 20,000. I'm designing every page, every feature, every pixel — with AI agents building in parallel as fast as I can think. People will say I just told AI to make a website. Not yet. Maybe in six months. Right now you still have to know what to build and why. That part took me 30 years to learn. This is a labor of love. I bought the company back because the members deserved better. I'm rebuilding it the way I always wished it could be. What a time to be alive. Something incredible launches in the next couple weeks. cc @levelsio @karpathy curious what you think of AI-assisted dev at this scale

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Honored to join John Dalton’s podcast to talk about the Seattle Prize, figurative art, and what a modern patronage model for serious art could look like. The Seattle Prize fellowship gives serious artists time, support, and community to create ambitious work in Seattle. Applications are now open. johndalton.me/podcast/ep-282…

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@ImtiazMadmood @AsmundurAsmund1 No more regrets

Do you truly understand what Japan just gained? As a Japanese citizen, I’m telling you—this moment changed history. Trump's Pearl Harbor joke wasn't an insult. It was the key that finally unlocked something buried deep in the Japanese soul. For 80 long years, we've carried apology and guilt like a permanent shadow—haunted by the past, bound by the Constitution America wrote for us, forever in "reflection mode." He turned that raw wound into a shared laugh between equals. No more endless atonement. No more vassal shadow. The curse is broken. Japan is free now. Thank you, Mr. President. We're allowed to stand tall again—as true partners, not subordinates. The strongest alliance in the world is rising—equals, brothers, ride-or-die. - @sow413

@jhong Have to cross the chasm :)

When the Internet "happened" in the late 90s/early 2000s, it went through three phases: 1) Lots of "too early" investment into a space where most of the revenue was actually venture funded and circular, 2) a trough of despair when the "i told you so!" people enjoyed their schadenfreude, and 3) real value being created as customers actually adopted things like e-commerce, at which point all the initial promises became true and then some. Once we hit this point growth has never really stopped, and many of the companies powering this are the world's most valuable companies. With AI code generation now good enough to the point where practically everyone is adopting and paying for it, *** AI is now entering phase 3 *** The companies that got mocked taking the greatest risks preparing for this, including the neoclouds like @LambdaAPI *, are going to look like geniuses. *disclosure: talking my book

So much fun using AI to launch a big project! @DaveShapi @MatthewBerman

@monsterhunter45 Step three's a bitch.

Yeah, I know this is engagement bait bullshit from a European with no clue, but I see this kinda RETURN TO FARM post on X all the time, and it's always some idylic dreamscape of rural niceness, which makes it really fucking obvious to all of us who come from farming backgrounds that these people have zero fucking clue, and would probably end up wrapped around an auger on their first day. News flash. Farming is HARD. What these people are imagining is rural living on a big plot of land, where they've got income from something else, and maybe a couple of animals to keep down the grass and a little garden on the side. That's what I do now that I'm a rich guy. It's pretty awesome. I also know that if I had to make a living off this land I could probably do it (because unlike these weenies, I know how) but I don't want to, because it would absolutely fucking suck. Because in reality making a living off being a farmer is brutal. It's nonstop backbreaking labor where everything that can go wrong, will. And it will go wrong at absolutely the worst possible time. (especially if cows are involved!) Modern squishy internet people do not even sorta comprehend how hard farming is. I worked on dairy farms. I can't speak for the dirt farmers but I'm sure they've got their own set of wacky nonsense they get to put up with. It is LONG hours. I once did a stint opening up a new dairy where I worked 72 hours straight, with a couple of thirty minute naps in a truck or on the barn floor snuck in. There's nothing quite as fun as dealing with fifteen hundred pound animals and dangerous heavy equipment when you're so tired you're starting to see things that aren't there. Oh, and you'd better get real comfortable with blood, shit, piss, and death. Dealing with lots of farm animals is not for the squeamish. They're going to get sick, get injured, get stuck in infuriating and mysterious ways, and die stupidly on you. Every kind of livestock has got its peculiar way of being a pain in the ass. Cows are loveable, curious, stupid, and sometimes homicidal. I've been kicked, trampled, hooked, and smashed into/through fences. These sheltered idiot city people say crap like "go buy a farm" having zero comprehension of how much good farmland costs, or the insane costs of equipment, or livestock involved. If they saw what a good tractor cost they'd shit themselves. "Buy land"... Have you priced land? Oh, you can still buy cheap land, but it's usually cheap for a reason. As in you can't farm it, or it doesn't have water, or it's a nightmare hellscape of windy death. So farming is expensive to get into, hard to make a profit at, and insanely difficult the entire time. Oh yeah, and just when you think you've got it figured out, the government will absolutely fuck with you, because it's also super regulated. Yay. "skip the degree"... Lady, I got into college on an ag scholarship, and started out as an ag science major. Successful farmers are educated because this shit is complicated. (I then changed majors and got an accounting degree so I wouldn't have to pull calves at 3:00 AM, a decision which I have not regretted) These fuckers think farming is just strolling around in a sun dress picking wild flowers or some shit. Oh hell no. Farmers farm because they want to, and the juice is worth the squeeze for them.

@AndrewYang White-collar workers have experienced Fuckening for a long time.

The Fuckening of white-collar workers has arrived. blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-end-of-t…

@beatnikdr1 I hope to stay and build here. It’s going to be tough

I am deeply concerned for the future of Washington state. I cannot stop thinking that things are going to get very bad. A good majority of people I know have left or are planning to leave. It’s real.

@LukasHozda It’s all about the polish

I am depressed about AI vibe-slopping because we programmers used to own the code we wrote, we used to talk to another and we used to be more explorative. With AI, you are discouraged from using less known libraries or approaches, AI just gravitates towards the mean

@elonmusk @OfficialLoganK By end of year

@OfficialLoganK Even code review will swiftly become a thing of the past

The bottleneck has so quickly moved from code generation to code review that it is actually a bit jarring. None of the current systems / norms are setup for this world yet.

@csaba_kissi Likely, very very well.

Everybody is talking about how AI will generate 100% of the code in a year or two. But nobody is talking about how this code will scale.

@MichaelARothman It’s tough raising minimum wages and fees expecting the masses to pay for it

𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗕𝗨𝗖𝗞𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗞𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗦 The Starbucks on University Way in Seattle — one of the most progressive zip codes in America — just delivered a case study that no business school could write better. Workers went on strike. Three months in, they had to end it because they couldn't afford to keep going without a paycheck. Then Starbucks announced the store is closing April 5th. And the workers who went on strike were told they are not eligible to transfer to other locations. So to recap: they struck, they lost income for three months, the store is closing, and they don't get to move to another Starbucks. This is what happens when the bumper sticker meets the spreadsheet. Striking workers don't get paid. Stores that aren't profitable get closed. Corporations don't reward disruption with promotions. These are not novel concepts — they are how employment has functioned for the entire history of employment. Seattle has spent years electing politicians who treat basic economics like an opinion. The workers at this location were presumably raised in that same ideological environment. The idea that you can withhold labor indefinitely and the business simply waits patiently for you to return is a fantasy — and an expensive one. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀.

@kylegawley Hold my beer

People who say AI is going to replace humans are either: a) have never used ai b) incompetent internet bros with no real skills who can be replaced easily

@elonmusk It’s almost as if the services are a scam…

Wow

@icanvardar we are so easy to simulate and reuse solutions of others w/o extra compute

mass adoption of AI sounds great until you realize the infra problem. there’s not enough compute or energy on earth to meet that level of LLM demand