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@marcvanderchijs Curious: what do you advise your children to study (in university and in spare time) these days, in this insanely rapidly changing time?

In the 1800s the primary argument against tariffs came from Reform Protestants who felt they interfered with divine providence. Might start using this.

@marcvanderchijs What a time to be alive!

LLMs are such an integral part of my life that it’s hard to understand how I lived my life just 2 years ago. I use them for everything, they not only save me hours per day but also make my life even more interesting. People who aren’t using them have no idea what they’re missing.

@paulg @typesfast Non-US hardware startup’s working capital needs may have halved?

"Every hardware startup's working capital needs just doubled." — founder of a hardware startup

Buried in today's Executive Order on tariffs is a bombshell: Duty free "de minimus" shipping is being eliminated from ALL countries as soon as the systems are ready.

@amasad Yesterday I made my own todo list website with @Replit, because looking for an existing product that fits my needs would have taken much longer.

Make games faster than you can download them.

A 9 year-old created a studying app for learning Bible verses on Replit, then added her own voice to practice! One of the most wholesome, inspiring Replit projects I've seen so far. You can just do things!

Huge cancer breakthrough! mRNA vaccine (similar to COVID vaccine tech) shows stunning results against pancreatic cancer! 75% of responsive patients STILL cancer-free at 3 yr, normally 80% recur. Could revolutionize treatment for one of deadliest cancers! Funded in part by @NIH

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS, indeterminate dendritic cell histiocytosis or other (non-LCH) histiocytic sarcomas cases. I'm trying to understand non-surgical chemo and targeted therapy options, new pathology markers to better diagnose subtypes/treatments, and any data on progression in pediatric patients. Please feel free to share – I’m trying to cast a wide net due to the rarity of this condition and how little is known. People can contact me directly at my first name (as written in my profile) at octant.bio.

@amasad Only app you need to make web apps. I haven't used any other AI coding tools lately to make my own web apps. Congrats. Well-deserved! I am genuinely surprised that Replit is not an even bigger name. It is way more general public-friendly than other coding apps.

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Ok. This finally solves coding on the go. You have the idea, you tap out the tweet length description into Replit, you hit “improve prompt”, and then the AI agents start grinding away to make it. Check back on desktop a while later and you have a v1 prototype.

@marcvanderchijs Ha. I have a friend who refuses to go to any services (restaurants, haircuts, etc) if she has to call someone to make a reservation. On the other hand, this trend seems to benefit young people who still are willing to make cold calls?

Kids nowadays are not used to making phone calls anymore. Everything goes through apps (and soon AI agents), but to their surprise a human-to-human phone call can get you room service as well.

@marcvanderchijs Hi Marc. What are hard vs easy roads in your opinion?

So true. The people that took the easy road in their 20s & 30s will regret that later in life.

@amasad @Replit adding SSL for custom domain without leaving @Replit would be so helpful 🥹 I was able to completely avoid AWS/Cloudflare etc. for my site, UNTIL the SSL step.

@amasad Question/suggestion: is there a way to add SSL to my own custom domain? I got a domain from AWS Route 53 (let's say example.com), but I can't seem to set up SSL so that I can make a https:// example.com that points to my replit app domain.

“‘Make the easy things easy and the hard things possible” — Larry Wall

Replit Agent—coming out of early access today—is the best way to go from an idea to a deployed app. Afterward, you'd want to iterate on features and fixes quickly. Enter Assistant—prompt to change at the speed of thought!

My doctor asked me to keep a sleep diary and gave me a PDF to fill out, which is hard to use, and if I print it out, I know I will lose it. So I gave Replit Agent a screenshot of the PDF, and it turned it into an App with CSV download. Personal software is a game-changer.

@marcvanderchijs Around 2013-2014 you said only a few jobs will be safe. You definitely said “athletes” and might have mentioned “actors and musicians” too. We were talking about this exact topic in the office.

Another example of an expert trying to fool people into believing some jobs are safe (virtually none are in my opinion, maybe a few percent) and that it will take 20 years. No, the reality is that most new university grads won’t have jobs in 5 years already.