BradBranston

Just getting started on X. I'm a founder building in the app dev + AI space. Looking to connect with devs, indie hackers & founders who are actually building things. If that's you , say hi

What's the most surprising thing a user has ever told you about how they actually use your product? Not the thing you built for. The thing you didn't see coming.

Honest week in review. Posting this because real building in public includes the bad ones. What I planned: ship the onboarding flow, get 5 user calls booked, write 3 posts. What actually happened: Rewrote the same function three times. Not because it was wrong because I kept second-guessing it and didn't trust my first instinct, which was right. Cancelled two user calls I had booked. Told myself I wasn't ready to show the product yet. That was avoidance, not strategy. Spent a full afternoon on something I then cut entirely. The feature made sense in isolation. It didn't make sense for where the product actually is right now. Posted nothing because I had nothing "good" to share. Which is exactly why I'm posting this. The week wasn't a disaster. Nothing broke. No crises. Just the slow, grinding kind of unproductive where you're busy all week and can't point to much at the end of it. I know what next week needs: one user conversation before I write a single line of code. That's it. Just one. Still here. Still going. Week by week.

@code_bytein Accident or not, trust and transparency matter more than hype.

Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code's source code via npm registry. 512,000 lines of TypeScript. Exposed. What did we find inside? -> "kairos" autonomous daemon mode -> "buddy system" pet features -> "undercover mode" -> "coordinator mode" -> References to capybara-v2-fast model The craziest part? Anthropics's own AI coding tool leaked its own source code through the package it ships to developers. Built with React, Ink, Bun runtime. 512K lines of TypeScript. All sitting in a .map file. Devs downloaded it before it was taken down. It's already on GitHub. This is either the biggest accident in AI history. Or the best marketing stunt ever. 🤔 What do you think? 👇

@kylegawley Human-level intelligence isn’t about perfection it’s about overall capability.

how can we claim human-level intelligence when AI is so wildly unreliable? would we accept these failure rates anywhere else? a lawyer who invents laws brain surgeon who operates on the wrong brain area 50% of the time pharmacist who hallucinates dosages 15% of the time

@noeticstech Organization now saves you from chaos later.

Clean project structure most developers ignore 🚨 Save this before your next project 💾 📂 Full Stack Project Structure ┃ ┣ 📂 Frontend ┃ ┣ 📂 Components ┃ ┣ 📂 Pages ┃ ┣ 📂 Hooks ┃ ┗ 📂 Services ┃ ┣ 📂 Backend ┃ ┣ 📂 Controllers ┃ ┣ 📂 Routes ┃ ┣ 📂 Middleware ┃ ┗ 📂 Services ┃ ┣ 📂 Database ┃ ┣ 📂 Models ┃ ┣ 📂 Migrations ┃ ┗ 📂 Seeders ┃ ┣ 📂 Auth ┃ ┣ 📂 JWT ┃ ┗ 📂 OAuth ┃ ┣ 📂 Utils ┃ ┣ 📂 Helpers ┃ ┗ 📂 Constants ┃ ┣ 📂 Config ┃ ┗ 📂 Environment Variables ┃ ┣ 📂 Tests ┃ ┣ 📂 Unit Tests ┃ ┗ 📂 Integration Tests

@ravikiran_dev7 CS still wins you just have to adapt with it.

Computer Science went from one of the absolute best degrees to pursue to one of the worst all within a decade Absolute nuts !

@KristenInMotion Right strategy, right stage that’s what actually drives growth.

Best thing you can do for Twitter growth: Engineer your content by account size. Get rid of random storytelling on small accounts. Get rid of lazy hot takes on big accounts. Small accounts should weaponize opinions to get noticed. Big accounts should use stories to deepen trust. Growth is contextual. If it’s not working, you’re using the wrong leverage.

@vishaltweetup Commuting AI driving would change everything.

If AI could handle these, life would be perfect: • Cleaning • Cooking • Laundry • Grocery shopping What am I missing?

@sickdotdev Different approaches both are still evolving.

Anthropic is now more open than OpenAI

@PaulGugAI Yeah

@bradbuildss So important

GitHub moved agentic workflows from demo territory into repo ops. The interesting bit isn’t “agents write code.” It’s agents triaging issues, fixing CI, updating docs, and opening PRs inside GitHub Actions with guardrails. That’s a clear shift.

@Zilot042 A strong network grows you faster than numbers do.

@bradbuildss Value meaningful connections over follower count; build a network that accelerates growth.

I don't care about follower count. I've said this before but I want to say what I actually mean by it, because "I don't care about followers" has become something people say while clearly caring about followers. What I mean is: the metric that matters to me is how many people in my feed I'd actually want to spend an hour talking to. Right now that number is small. I want it to be larger not because more is better, but because the right people make the work better. The person six months ahead of me who's willing to share the part that was actually hard. The dev who's tried three different approaches to the thing I'm stuck on and has real opinions about what didn't work. The founder building something I'd genuinely use, who I could give real feedback to. The compounding effect of finding those people isn't measured in follower count. It's measured in decisions made faster, mistakes avoided, and the specific kind of energy you get from being around people who are genuinely in it. I'm building a small, high-signal network. That's the whole strategy. If you're a builder who's actually building I'd rather follow 50 of you than be followed by 5,000 people who are here to watch. Drop what you're working on.

@Kappaemme1926 Build real skills first vibecoding comes after.

@bradbuildss without basis you can t do vibecoding how do u learn it?

in 2026, the best skill a developer can have is not coding. it's knowing exactly what to ask the AI. prompt engineering is the new computer science. What you think?

@efeokor When noise fades, truth gets louder.

@bradbuildss When everything else falls away, you’re left with clarity, your true self, your real priorities, and what actually matters.

Rock bottom is quiet. No applause. Just truth.

@bodefreelance The grind is quiet but it adds up.

@bradbuildss Yeah. Working without seeing the results immediately can be torturous sometimes.

Does anyone else find the "nothing broke today" days harder than the chaotic ones? Silence with no signal is its own kind of hard.

@tinytechfox Delayly sounds like a guilt-free way to take a breather.

@bradbuildss Funny you should say that Brad, I’ve been working on Delayly, a way to procrastinate without the guilt.

What’s the worst product idea you can think of?

@siddharthwv Strong brands won’t please everyone.

If your personal brand is not making people hate you You're not building it right.

@Bhawarthaa Depends on the task, but I mostly stick with ChatGPT.

Your AI tool of choice? • Claude • ChatGPT • Gemini • Grok

@DanielAchog 😊

@bradbuildss Real

No more waiting. No more thinking. No more planning. You need to execute.

@SagiWilentzik Protect your time like you would any important meeting.

You don't have a time problem. You have a scheduling problem. Everyone has the same 24 hours. The difference between people who get things done and people who don't isn't talent or discipline. It's whether the important work is on the calendar. What doesn't get scheduled gets replaced by whatever arrives first. Inbox. Slack. Someone else's urgency. Block the time. Treat it like a meeting you can't cancel. Because the work that moves your life forward deserves at least as much respect as a meeting that doesn't.

@KaiXCreator Marketing is the real challenge distribution wins.

As a founder, what’s more difficult? 1. Building 2. Marketing