Gary Simon

🎉 EARLY ACCESS to my new course is here! Building a Modern AI-Infused SaaS with Claude Code (Full process) 👇

Barring the rare exceptions, the norm is this: It still takes months of hard work to build a successful product with AI. And I'm talking full time work.

I've pushed Claude Code to its breaking point with this project.

@DaveShapi Ah yes, let's leave it in the hands of our central planners. They know what's best for us

China just set a legal precedent: companies can't fire workers and replace them with AI just to cut costs. A Hangzhou court ruled AI adoption is a voluntary business choice: not a "major change in objective circumstances." Translation: eat your own costs. Not binding nationwide. But "typical case" status means every lower court takes the hint and adopts this posture Why does this matter? Beijing isn't stupid. Mass automation layoffs = revolution risk. The Luddites rioted over looms. Imagine 800 million workers vs. GPT-7. The macro logic is brutal: 1) Fire workers fast → consumer spending collapses 2) Aggregate demand drops → tax revenue dies 3) Payroll and income tax fund the state Every government is still labor-dependent. Automation isn't seen as a macro threat yet. Keyword: yet The EU will probably follow. The US absolutely won't (except where unions force the issue) China is signaling that automation is a privilege, not a right. The West is signaling the opposite. When unemployment cracks double digits and consumer confidence collapses, guess which model survives the riots.

I used Opus 4.6 every day it was released, same with 4.7. I can't tell a difference.

Framer asked me to check out their new shader system and how I'd use it, and as always, they've done a great job at integrating it in a very simple and easy manner. framer.link/DesignCourse 👈 Get a free month of Framer Pro: 'DESIGNCOURSE1' valid for 3 months!

Using the new Framer Shaders feature for my upcoming pool training system!

Wah, I hate this technological advancement! It doesn't prevent me from coding by hand, but I like to make sobfest posts claiming as much.

@DaveShapi I'm agreeing, and then getting into my crazy austrian econ rants

@designcoursecom that response is one helluva rollercoaster. i'm not sure if you're agreeing, disagreeing, or just venting.

Just wait until people discover how much labor is taxed. Literally the primary means of driving the economy. The thing that the entire world is dependent upon. Taxed at payroll, and at income. We are punished for working.

@pourteaux @levelsio they do indeed, not work well.

@levelsio SSRIs work well and cost $0.30/day, it’s not about money.

We should find out who's really responsible for doctorss prescribing so many SSRIs We have to follow the money Just like they did with the opioids epidemic

Good morning to everyone! ...except for the weirdos who are sad that AI can help them build faster.

@empathyx100 Not those. x.com/i/status/20353…

@designcoursecom Let me guess: you sell design courses.

I'm building more than ever. It's amazing. I absolutely love AI for development and for assisting design. I'm building stuff I would have *never* attempted pre-AI. Users of my upcoming app will be fine-tuning their own model in the app itself. It would be incredibly complex to code by hand. It's working, and it's rewarding as all hell. Who the fuck are these developers that are all bent out of shape?

@ivan_bezdomny I'm building this. An AI pool training service that ties into a user's projector (for projecting things on the table), camera, mic, and PC. The calibration process literally has users fine-tuning their own model if needbe, to accurately detect their pool balls.

Are there videos / channels showing people working with coding agents to build real software? Not toy problems or benchmarks. Burnt out on those. I understand why people would be reticent to show their IP but would be great to see it. Not summaries or "top things I learned."

I've been quiet here because I've been deep in the trenches. Finishing the course, but also building out a massive side project with the projection system I'm building for pool. This guy? Rodney 'The Rocket' Morris visited the studio. He's a former world champion pool player and in the hall of fame. The software is a massive undertaking, as it coordinates camera + projector + PC + mic to track balls in real time and much much more. Nothing like this software exists. I'll be sharing more details soon!

Clearing the context is like that movie 50 first dates for your LLM.

That's what we're told, at least. Under the "small government, more freedom" right: - Deficit continues to grow. - For nearly a century (and counting), you can be imprisoned for possession of a plant #freedom - There are so many laws, that the average citizen commits 3 felonies per day (there's a book on this subject) Under the "live/let live/anti-war" left: - The wars continue - Words are violence and we should cancel your entire career Left or right? It doesn't matter. The government will continue doing what it does like the cancerous growth that it is: grow until it can't anymore. We're close.

Ah, then you are an American. All Americans know that their elected representative are venal, self-interested, humans. That's ok, because that's the way the system is designed. The founders knew that the elected officials would be corrupt and selfish. So they built a system that sets those officials at odds against each other. In their competition to gain power over each other, they inadvertently execute the policies that the voters want. The system isn't perfect. But I don't know of a better one.

Here’s a tip to help you vote. Choose the candidates who engage in civil discourse rather than hyperbole.

Lmfao, "10 minutes" @jonocatliff what in the hell. 🤦

@unclebobmartin Sorry, I've broken free from the delusion that our "elected" representatives represent anything but their own interests.

@designcoursecom That is, perhaps, the most diseased thing I've read today.