Go For Vertical

Big news here at Go For Vertical. Today, we're launching the first AI startup coming out of our new startup studio: MindBoard.ai. It's a completely new way to use AI that's structured and visual, not just about chats. Chatting with AI, it turns out, is not a great way to benefit from the amazing knowledge with have at our fingertips now. Conversations lose context, become spread out and fragmented, and are hard to apply effectively to our lives and workflows. But all that's changed now with this completely new visual way to use AI. There will be a lot more to follow here soon, but after nearly a year of hardcore work on this, I'm a bit too tired right now to make an "I'm thrilled to announce" LinkedIn post. Looking forward to sharing more on this new startup journey with you soon. Meanwhile, check out mindboard.ai .

@theo Still cheaper than hiring a real dev though. And o3 is pretty much as good.

A lot of devs are about to learn how expensive it actually is to run these models 🙃

@dfeinition You can always start inside Replit instead (which has much better support for new projects and dozens of platform templates) and then SSH into it with Cursor.

I've found Cursor is really struggling with scaffolding a new project. Old versions of packages, putting a page.ts and route.ts in the same folder. Is there a trick for creating new projects with Cursor?

@bryan_johnson 10,000 vibe coding prompts is the new 10,000 hours.

If 10,000 hours is a path to greatness, where does one invest that time in 2025?

@adell50 @hazlijohar @Replit You’re welcome!

@goforvertical @hazlijohar @Replit You’re a legend. Thank you so much.

I’ve spent $25 on @Replit and the app’s working so well I haven’t been stuck even once, and I’ve never had to refactor. Unlike Lovable and Bolt, where I keep spending time refactoring. What kind of magic is this, @amasad ?

@jshearin01 @Austen When this happens (and you’re right, it does), switch to o3 for the edit. It not only uses the edit tool like a boss, but it also almost always one-shots changes that just work, whether for bug fixes or complex new features. Yes, it costs much more, but it’s absolutely worth it.

@Austen What do you mean separating front and back end? One mode for writing frontend code, and another for backend code? I'm using Gemini for planning, and then still using Claude for implementing via Cursor Agent, as Gemini struggles with the tool use agent in Cursor.

Hung out with a bunch of Gauntlet AI graduates today to get my periodic update on what they’re seeing in building with AI. Virtually all have moved to Gemini as their main model. No one really using Claude. A couple big fans of Devin. All of this unimaginable 2 months ago.

@adell50 @hazlijohar @Replit Here you go: youtu.be/e2BE8v4Bj-U?si…

@goforvertical @hazlijohar @Replit This is interesting..First I’m learning about this opportunity. I’m the world’s worst engineer..so while I fancy myself knowledgeable about code I struggle with implementation. Are there any articles or video that discuss this specifically?

@adell50 @hazlijohar @Replit Use Replit’s SSH feature to edit the code there using Cursor. More AI options there, if you are code-savvy.

@hazlijohar @Replit I have been heavily relying upon rollback to get back to good…but replit has so far been unable to debug :( was thinking of pushing to GitHub to be able to get more dynamic assistance in refactoring a new branch and trying some alternatives.

We are living in the future!

@amasad @MeherSom @karpathy @Replit 2FA to get into my account. Big security hole IMO.

@MeherSom @karpathy @Replit What would you like to see next?

The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services: - frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs) - hosting (cdn, https, domains, autoscaling) - database - authentication (custom, social logins) - blob storage (file uploads, urls, cdn-backed) - email - payments - background jobs - analytics - monitoring - dev tools (CI/CD, staging) - secrets - ... I'm relatively new to modern web dev and find the above a bit overwhelming, e.g. I'm embarrassed to share it took me ~3 hours the other day to create and configure a supabase with a vercel app and resolve a few errors. The second you stray just slightly from the "getting started" tutorial in the docs you're suddenly in the wilderness. It's not even code, it's... configurations, plumbing, orchestration, workflows, best practices. A lot of glory will go to whoever figures out how to make it accessible and "just work" out of the box, for both humans and, increasingly and especially, AIs.

@Austen @grok, even if the 55 million is in secondary spending, is it fair to say that that spending result in more than 3.6 billion in tax revenues, making it revenue neutral or positive?

Ya I was obviously right. They’re counting all spending brought into local communities. PLUS the incomes of people who provide those goods and services (which by the way is the same money double counted). PLUS “secondary effects.” In other words nowhere close to revenue.

Without even looking it up I’m fairly certain that the national parks don’t bring in $55 Billion in revenue

It’s hard to say exactly without seeing your architecture, but it looks like you need both web search and deep reasoning capability. Look at Microsoft Autogen for the former, and check out DeepSeek R1 distilled Llama 70B on SambaNova for the latter. It’s $0.70/1.40 per 1M tokens and incredibly fast.

I’ll go bankrupt with these bills :( Can anyone help me get credits/discounts for LLM APIs? (For my AI agents)

@sama Will search work in the API also?

we put out an update to chatgpt (4o). it is pretty good. it is soon going to get much better, team is cooking.

How does it feel to live at a time with more opportunity than any other in human history?

@kimmonismus Or, just do it in Arizona. testing.com/blood-testing/….

A startup should be found that develops a machine so that we can do blood tests at home and evaluate them, so that we can enter the results directly at home into o1 or o3. This would relieve the health system and immediately improve the health of countless people. If o3 can then also issue prescriptions, that would be a huge win. The future of medicine lies in reasoners.

it’s absolutely astonishing that most people do not realize that software engineering, as we knew it, is already dead. - we taught people to be artisanal code-crafters, but the world now needs systems thinkers & automation orchestrators. cs degrees feel as outdated as medieval guild apprenticeships. - the ways we judged engineers—take-home tests, whiteboards, interviews—are broken. when ai can pass these tests, the real question isn’t “can you code?” but “can you ask the right questions & assemble the right answers?” - software production is commoditized: software creation has become a factory line. the only valuable engineering now lives in edge cases or the integration of systems. bespoke craftsmanship is niche; the rest is automation. - software itself is changing: it used to mean pixels & functions, occasionally spiced with ml for “personalization.” but that paradigm no longer matters. software is now the infrastructure for experience orchestration—adaptive systems built for an ever-shifting meta-environment. - even personal, human systems are shifting: our software doesn’t just mediate culture; it’s reshaping communication, relationships, & emotional endurance. it’s not tools anymore—it’s prosthetics for the psyche. when will the world come up to speed?

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