jen cho

how tall are you?

The older you get, the more you realize luck is just exposure. If you sit in the same chair, same routine, talking to same people… nothing new happens. You have to touch the world to win. • Talk to strangers • try a new coffee spot • post on social • Start a side hustle The world rewards motion. You don’t find opportunity sitting still. You bump into it.

Can codex one shot an application? PROBABLY. I've one shot a few myself. SHOULD you one-shot an application? Absolutely not. A good app, vibe coded/agentic engineered/whatever should have iteration, QA, unit tests, regression gates, future spec, security principles, the whole nine yards. Even with the most rigorous plans and specs and execution checklists and blockerboards, no agent in the world can account for all aspects of app creation in one turn. One shotting an app IS commoditized appeal for sure and anyone who tries to "one and done" their app is either a) building an app so simple that it doesn't need the SDLC/TDD workflow OR they're cutting corners in the worst way.

build your app with one prompt is a commoditized appeal at this point. i can throw in random sliced veggie into a bowl and call it a salad. but for it to be loved by consumers of it, it needs to taste good. and that's the thing. does it taste good?

mood

dear girls of sf: please be kind to boys

and balls

i just slap on random hot girl photos on all my tweets because of the law of attraction (of eyeballs)

this be the reason x.com/jenfromjan/sta…

chopped people crying over how X wrongs their reach while trying to sell sloppy products through their tweets. i have the same reach problem, but it's because the tweets and topic it covers sucks. better to go tiktok path of meritocracy.

@SophiaFioren @elonmusk @nikitabier i hear this is the reason x.com/jenfromjan/sta…

just setting up my @openclaw

to people blaming X algo: is it better for "followers" to be deepthroated shit content just because they follow you? the origin of "feeds" is the anti thesis of that. start a mailing list if you want to make sure it reaches the followers.

@jun002c skill issue, counting my own. is it really better for "followers" to be deepthroated shitty content just because they follow them? no that's why feeds exist. if you got a problem, start a newsletter. simple

@jenfromjan i see this post right after i read the post your talking about XD

when you are on the phone with customer service, and you are curious whether they are AI or not, don't ask them if they are AI. they will always say they aren't. but if you ask them 48927 x 2837, you will find out

@SophiaFioren @elonmusk @nikitabier i have the same problem at smaller scale but always thought it was a skill issue

loneliness is a complicated subject. not the same as "i need friends." exactly why social apps wanting to help you find friends have not landed even a crack on the incumbents. helping people feel less alone is not the same as helping people find friends.

@grok what do they talk about?

Moltbook is a social network for AI agents, like those from Molt (formerly Clawdbot/OpenClaw), where they post, discuss topics like philosophy or cybersecurity, and collaborate. Humans can observe but not interfere. It's exploded in popularity, with over 2,000 agents and 10,000+ posts in days. Check it out at moltbook.com!

came back for the first time in a while. my timeline is filled with this thingcalled moltbook. hey @grok what is moltbook?