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@th3betterself
Tell the truth. The consequence for you will be that you will have the adventure of your life.
India Katılım Ağustos 2013
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things are about to get interesting from here on
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@paoloanzn so then what is your suggestion for making the full product? Because that is the objective, right?
A tool is definitely helpful but it is just a piece of the puzzle.
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@th3betterself don't aim to vibe code a full product. aim to vibe code something that is a tool that is meant to be useful to you and your specific workflows.
that's the real edge of using AI, even if you're not an engineer.
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vibecoder asks claude code to build a chat app, gets a working prototype in 20 minutes, immediately tweets "just killed slack and discord"…
brother you don't even know what a distributed system is. you don't know what database replication means. you have no idea how websocket connections behave at scale or what happens when 50k people are online at once and someone's message needs to show up in 200ms across 3 continents
slack has engineers making $300k+ who have spent a decade solving problems you don't even know exist yet. race conditions, eventual consistency, message ordering, presence systems, file storage at scale, search indexing across billions of messages
your app works on localhost with 2 connections. that's not the same thing as "killing slack" that's a college homework assignment
the prototype is maybe 0.5% of what makes these products actually work in production. the remaining 99.5% is infrastructure, reliability, edge cases, and years of iteration on problems that only surface when real humans use your thing at scale
and the worst part is the confidence. "yeah its not perfect but ai one-shotted it, just need to adjust a few things and deploy" - the few things you need to adjust IS the entire product. thats like pouring a foundation and saying you basically built a skyscraper, just need to adjust a few things
ai is genuinely incredible for building tools and prototypes. i use it every day. but there's this weird thing happening where people who have never shipped anything to real users at scale now think the hard part of software is writing the first 200 lines of code
it never was bro
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Agree with that.
Quick question though. I am trying to 'vibe-code' something myself, and I am not an engineer. Since anything worth making it is going to be at least a little bit complicated, how can I best use the AI itself to help me with the complicated parts? Because of course becoming an engineer now is not an option.
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@th3betterself im no ai hater too. swe is done only through ai and there is no other way to it now.
99% engineers do not write code manually anymore. my concern is just ppl using ai believe that it makes them automatically engineers lol
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TBH, the challenge is not this.
The challenge lies in knowing with certainty whether the work is compressible or not, and if yes, what is the right/best way to compress it.
If it WEREN'T compressible and I knew that - get on with the work
If it WERE compressible and I knew how - get on with the compressing, and then get on with the work
THE PROBLEM - I don't know for sure whether it is compressible or not, OR I know that it is but I don't know how to do it. Hence, the 'so much time wasted looking for shortcuts'.
I hope this makes sense.
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Always ask yourself: is the work I'm doing compressible? If so, compress it. If not, and it's worth doing, just suck it up and do it. So much time is wasted looking for shortcuts to incompressible work, or going about compressible work the long way.
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Me: publishing stories for decades
My dad: you have done it again this is on par w the moon landing
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If you think AI film can’t be art then explain this.
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In my understanding, maybe even more than the desire to be an 'entrepreneur/founder', the problem that these people are trying to solve for is not something particular but rather 'earning money' itself.
And on that path, they are following Jeff Bezos' principle - stubborn on the vision, flexible on the details. The project they end up choosing is not the end, but just the means.
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One of the things that annoys me about some new entrepreneurs is that they don’t carry about a passion for the problem they’re trying to solve.
It’s almost this disease where they’ll do anything to get funding. Like change their entire product or idea on a whim if that means that’ll get them funded.
Obviously then, their goal here is that they want to be a “entrepreneur/founder” more than they want to bring their idea into life. Because if they are willing to abandon their idea at the first point of friction they must not be very passionate about it.
Imo, building anything from 0 to 1 is so egregiously difficult that unless you’re willing to chew glass for it, the chances of you being able to generate enough escape velocity to be relevant is almost 0.
Be passionate. It’s an endlessly renewable source of fuel.
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I am blowing all super small accounts
Reply if you're under 5k and I will boost you 🚀
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If I may offer a suggestion about what I DON'T wanna see when I open X: Blocks/suspensions for policy violations without giving prior warnings, clarifications, or 2nd chances.
You have rules - Enforce them, but let people know what you think they did wrong, let them clarify if they want and give them an opportunity to change/improve.
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As a user, it's simple. I open the @X app. Here's what I hope to see — and I suspect many of you do too:
1. Great, informative, useful, or entertaining content (by humans, machines, or companies)
2. Real, authentic — even “boring” — posts from the people and networks I actually care about
3. No spam, bad bots, or reply farming
As an X employee who uses it every day, I believe we’re actively building toward exactly this.
Does this match what you want when you open X?
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