Nick Bwalley

I recently came across this post and I was asking myself. Is this truly a good deal or not. Apparently @sama is offering $2M credit to startups in exchange of equity in the company. What do you think? Would you trade in equity for tokens?

You actually don't need an AI product to build AI agents internally. I found this series by Lethain that documents how a fintech company built their own agent framework from scratch and I think it's worth looking at it. It Covers: 1. tool calling, 2. context windows, 3. evals, 4. logging, 5. subagents, and more. This is a Must-read for engineers and leaders in 2026 👇 lethain.com/agents-series/

I don't know who needs to hear this but: Stay small enough long enough and you'll be big enough soon enough. 🎯🎯 Who's here, showing up again. 👋🏾👋🏾 Happy Friday :)

Meta just laid off 8,000 people. Roughly 10% of the company. I hope this tells you something. No matter how skilled you are, you're always replaceable. Always. So here's my takeaway: prepare for your exit the moment you walk into a Fortune 500. Otherwise you're in for a big surprise. And most importantly, build something that you will always seek refuge for these unprecedented outcomes. A personal brand, A SaaS that truly solves a problem or just anything that's yours. Never choose comfort. Have a good day peeps :)

@TheGeorgePu This is very true ngl. It's just a ticking time bomb and you never know what you expect. So the best thing is to always be prepared for anything.

Meta cut 8,000 people today. A survivor wrote about a teammate who slept 4 hours a night for months. Commits at 3am. Commits at 6am. IC4. Strong reviews. No PIP. Cut anyway. Working harder doesn't move you up the layoff list. You don't survive by being valuable to them. You survive by not needing them.

@omarvvvr Now this question depends on the time of the day. A good cozy afternoon I would prefer working at a cafe but night-time or early mornings then working from home is usually the best.

As a freelancer, which one do you prefer ?

Good morning techies, Just curious to know. How do you deal with burnouts or thought-blocks ? Especially when you're working with sprints with tight deadlines?

@ericdjav Personally I think a safe margin would be $2k MRR is just safe enough to keep you alive at the moment but it's really on the edge. A few churn and you're in the gutters.

Solo founders building in public: At what MRR would you feel "safe"? Not rich. Just... safe enough to stop checking Stripe every hour.

There is a japanese concept called "Karōshi" which simply means "death from overwork". Which I personally think it's almost inevitable as a startup founder going from zero to breaking even. This isn't just hard work. It's an identity shift. Sleep becomes optional. Weekends disappear. "Rest" starts feeling like falling behind. Most founders don't talk about this part. The grind gets glorified. The burnout gets hidden. Have you felt this? How do you manage it?

@elonmusk @AnthropicAI @SpaceX Since now we have Andrej Karpathy join the team, I think all this combined forces of formidable mindsets will work to ensure Earth and even Mars is great for humanity.

As the recently expanded partnership with @AnthropicAI demonstrates, @SpaceX is offering AI compute as a service at significant scale. We are in discussions with other companies to do the same. Over time, especially with orbital data centers, we expect to serve AI at extremely high scale.

@Hartdrawss And this is primarily what founders need to hear. I used to be the person who would give people a leeway to choose and most ended up postponing by the time you reach out the next day or even few days later. The intention is gone so creating that sense of urgency really matters.

This founder hit $500k ARR in < 8 months with just One Single Change ! here's the full breakdown (embarrassingly simple): 1/ they removed every sales delay >demo requests stopped waiting for calendars >prospects got shown the product immediately >setup happened while interest was highest >speed became a conversion advantage 2/ “later” was killing deals >every delay gave buyers time to drift >people forgot why they were excited >competitors could move faster >momentum died inside follow-up loops 3/ demo-to-close jumped hard >close rate went from 20% to 50%+ >nothing fancy changed in the product >urgency fixed the broken handoff >speed created trust before doubt appeared 4/ it only worked for simple products >setup had to happen under 30 minutes >low-ticket SaaS made decisions easier >$100-$500/month pricing fit the motion >enterprise complexity would break this 5/ they trained the team on urgency >kept 2-3 instant demo slots daily >streamlined onboarding to under 15 minutes >made payment possible during the call >everyone understood speed meant revenue the actual lesson: >remove waiting >sell during peak intent >make setup immediate every “let me get back” gives buyers time to disappear.

@elonmusk That's why we love you @elonmusk

SpaceX is actively hiring world-class engineers/physicists for SpaceXAI, even if you have zero prior experience in AI. Smart humans figure it out fast. Please send an email with ~3 bullet points demonstrating evidence of exceptional ability to ai_eng@spacex.com.

@Ratul_AI Just curious, how do you come up with such brilliant ideas before generating the script and finally the image.

Google Omni vs Seedance 2.0 🔥 watch this video and then tell me.. which one is better according to you?

@ZabihullahAtal This is a must watch for every AI Engineer on board. Also y'all AI Software Devs this is for you.

🚨 Stanford AI professor Andrew Ng just released a completely free 2.5-hour AI Prompting course. And honestly, this might be one of the most useful AI courses for beginners and professionals right now. Andrew Ng is one of the biggest names in AI education:

@samsheffer What a time to be alive and witness this.

i don’t think you understand how insane omni is

@karpathy I'm smelling $2T Anthropic Evaluation in the next 6months. What a useful add this is! 👏🏾

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

I had a startup idea last week. Instead of building it, I posted it on Reddit and got brutally honest answers. Saved myself thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours. Most developers catch the same disease: build first, hope users show up later. In the agentic AI era, building has never been cheaper or faster. That's exactly the trap. When you can ship in a weekend, the temptation is to skip the one step that actually matters: talking to real users before you write a single line of code. Validation isn't something you do after launch. It's what tells you whether to launch at all. Don't just build. Find the people who'd actually use it, and let them tell you the truth first. Curious to know what are your thoughts on this? #BuildInPublic #SaaS #Solopreneur #Startups #Startupideas