If you start poking life a little bit here a little bit there cracks will start to form.
And once you realize how you find the cracks is when you can actually start exploiting the cracks.
That’s where the biggest value is created, patching, fixing and exploiting those cracks.
Just organized a dinner for young technical outliers at FR8 in Helsinki.
There's still such a latent technical talent pool in the Nordics.
Despite the momentum.
We must amplify them.
Go bigger.
No limits.
They eat the same porridge for breakfast in Silicon Valley.
We rented an island.
Last week we brought together @nullfellows cohort 01. The density of exceptional young talent was just insane.
Cohort 02 is open. One week left to jump in - link in comments.
we rented an island off stockholm
for our first cohort's residency.
ioi medallists, teenage founders, and published researchers casually built insane shit at the evening barbecue.
we're 3000 applications in for cohort 02 --- if you think you belong here, apply by may 10 :)
Just organized a dinner in Norway for young technical outliers.
Very few seem to know about the technical talent density in Norway.
From places like e.g. NTNU in Trondheim.
Many go on to study at top US universities via initiatives such as the Aaker Scholarship.
Bullish.
In the last 24 hours, Anthropic almost sued me, Linkedin almost banned me and I got featured in 67+ Articles and Videos, all because I built claude code in rust and made it #opensource
Anthropic recently accidentally leaked the source code for Claude Code in their own NPM registry.
It spread across X almost immediately. Anthropic, they killed the link fast, but the damage was done.
A guy who mirrored it on github hit 100k+ stars in a few hours, becoming the fastest-growing repository in history.
At the same time, I dropped a detailed breakdown of every unreleased feature in claude code.
and when I posted about it on linkedin , it was taken down for being, no joke... illegal.
It still got picked up by Yahoo News, Layer 5, Skool, Towards Al and covered by Theo, ThePrimeagen, Mehul Mohan and more.
On the same day, I released Claurst - the rust port for claude code. Yes, built in less than 24 hours, with this amazing technique called clean room engineering.
This is when you have one person write a detailed spec sheet from the source code.
A completely separate person builds from that spec, never touching the original. This legally makes the resulting product a derivative work, not a copy, so copyright can't apply to it.
With people this takes months, with Al, this barely takes hours.
Companies have used this for DECADES to dodge open source licenses. This might be one of the first times it was used to create one.
The result spoke for itself, 7,000+ stars in under 2 days, porting most of claude code's features, delivering a better native performance, and working across multiple AI providers, not just Claude.
Anthropic has DMCAed every fork in existence.
Derivative works like mine and versions in Python stayed completely untouched.
If there's one takeaway this has, it's that security is hard. But .npmignore is harder, apparently :P
46 outliers. 25+ hyperscaler startups.
this is {} fellows' cohort 01.
it's an incredible time to build in europe we're putting this crazy amount of ambition in the same room.
stay tuned :)