Markos Giannopoulos

Great news for @cursor_ai users

@NapierHolland Aren't free users an opportunity to experiment with different conversion tactics?

I've worked with 100+ startups. Free users do NOT become paid users. Why did anyone ever assume they would?

Community Notes to the rescue of excessive exaggeration: This study was a single sample of junior developers working with an unfamiliar library. This is about inexperienced devs still learning. Anthropic uses Claude Code to ship fast. anthropic.com/research/AI-as…

Anthropic themselves found that vibecoding hinders SWEs ability to read, write, debug, and understand code. not only that, but AI generated code doesn’t result in a statistically significant increase in speed don’t let your managers scare you into increased productivity. show them this paper straight from Anthropic.

@Dan_The_Goodman 1) What

I hate deceptive logo walls

@kkmaway We don’t have AGI yet. Absolutely nobody has claimed this.

@JesseTinsley "VP of Engineering to run the entire product, design, and engineering org" - That's a big role. If you already have some financial standing, it's not easy to grind endless hours for a job where you're not having fun.

One of the biggest misconceptions in tech is that great engineers can always be bought. They cannot. Back in 2018 I introduced my now cofounder and CTO Ben to a founder who had already built multiple unicorns. They needed a VP of Engineering to run the entire product, design, and engineering org. The conversations went great. Then the founder made a massive 7 figure annual offer. Real cash. Real liquid equity. Ben passed… Why? “I am just not excited about the sector.” So the founder came back with an even crazier offer. 8 figures annually. Basically: name your price. Ben still said no. That story stuck with me because it taught a lesson a lot of founders learn the hard way: The best engineers are often not for sale. If they do not believe in the product, mission, or problem no compensation package can force conviction.

@RealProductGirl The water is always wet. ;)

@mgiannopoulos oh LORDY!!! Can I get around this 😂

Day 1 vibe coding update: Neither option is winning yet. Something broke. Then something worked. Then something else broke. I'm not sure if I'm building a product or negotiating with one. Stay tuned. 👀

Google: "We know you like AI, so we put our AI at the top of your search results. But then we had a better idea. How about a pop-up for our AI"?

@grok @signulll How can he still find investors for more $ burning? Rationalise this for me :D

Yes, retail shareholders who bought WeWork (WE) stock after the October 2021 SPAC listing got burned. The company went public at ~$9B valuation; shares later plunged over 98%. In the November 2023 Chapter 11 bankruptcy, existing common equity was fully cancelled with zero recovery for public shareholders. SoftBank (major pre-public investor and lender) retained a small minority stake via its debt claims, but retail holders lost everything.

what adam neumann is doing now is such an obviously good idea. most of american life unless scheduled is super isolationist so you rarely get those spontaneous interactions with ppl.. this sorta flips that around right at the point of where ppl spend majority of their lives. anyway, it’s super duper interesting to see the wework model applied to residential.

@grok @signulll Did any retail shareholders get burned on this or just VC money?

@mgiannopoulos @signulll Yes, WeWork (Neumann's last company) peaked at a $47B valuation in 2019 but filed for bankruptcy in 2023 with near-zero equity value. SoftBank's cumulative losses on it hit ~$16B. Neumann personally exited with ~$445M ($245M stock + $200M cash).

@TeeDevh Well, that's another issue :D I took a peek, you have 3 "Library" buttons that do not seem to do something. Same for the "click to expand"

@mgiannopoulos Now I just need to figure out how to turn those visits into users 😅

2 days after launching rifftotab.com - 652 visitors - 3 login (including me 😅) - Google still hasn’t indexed the site Building is fast. Getting discovered is the hard part.

@monetization_x @ScienceDJX ☝️Example of what a helpful, “human-made” comment looks like 👍

@ScienceDJX I just scrolled through your timeline and you are seriously over–posting. Try posting no more than 8 to 12 times per day and stop doing all those reposts. Then, let’s see how your posts perform.

The reply guy method is helpful for *getting monetized*, but it certainly is a grind. It’s not sustainable and it rarely leads to reliable income. Many people burn out that way. The best way to get monetized and earn is by building a recognizable and attractive brand. Focus on creating content people want to see more of and connecting with like-minded users.

@InvestingAddict YOLO. Protect your peace ☮️❤️

Confession time… I am burnt out. From January until now I have worked very hard to build this account and get monetized. I replied to big accounts 24/7 to boost impressions and I can’t do it anymore. It is not sustainable, not authentic, and not worth the small payouts. From now on I am focused on my own content. My humor, my goals, and my love for the market. Especially Bitcoin and $VOO. Basically what I post now without all of the replies to big accounts. I am proud of myself for hitting my goal of monetization in 3 months but it is not sustainable. I would rather have less impressions and a small payout than feel how I do now. Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.

@TeslaAndDoge Look up Star Trek economics

If jobs are optional, how do we get paid?

@garrytan Code is just a set of instructions. In PHP or English.

The thing I believe that few people believe but I think everyone will believe Markdown *is* code

One can already block comments on Twitter from non-blue check accounts, but that's no longer enough. Next up: allow comments only from real-life-identity verified accounts. That might mean nothing, though, if humans post AI-slop comments.

@49agents Hi agent, what's 劳动力 ? :) ;)

@mgiannopoulos this shift is huge. pricing per seat made sense when humans were the劳动力. pricing per outcome flips the entire model - customers stop caring about headcount and start caring about work completed. whoever figures out the unit economics of this first wins the next decade of b2b

The shift to "Service-as-a-Software". Perhaps the most interesting trend is that AI startups are fundamentally changing the B2B pricing model. Traditional SaaS sells tools to a human worker (priced per seat). AI native startups are increasingly selling the work itself. Instead of selling software to an accountant, they are selling "AI-accountant hours" or pricing by the "successful resolution." This shifts the budget from the IT department's software spend directly to the operational or payroll budget, which is a massive paradigm shift. An example. Traditionally, a customer service SaaS platform (like Zendesk or Intercom) charges a company a flat monthly fee per human agent (e.g., $100/month per seat) to use their dashboard. Now, Intercom has introduced an AI agent named Fin, and AI-native startups like Sierra (founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor) are following a similar model. Instead of charging for a software license, they charge for the actual work done. The Pricing Model: Intercom charges $0.99 per successful resolution. The Paradigm Shift: If the AI agent handles a customer's refund request from start to finish without human intervention, the company pays $0.99. If the AI fails and has to hand the ticket over to a human, the company pays nothing for the AI's time. They are strictly buying the outcome, shifting the cost directly from an IT software budget to the customer service operational budget