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1/ I have 13 years of programming experience. AI can now do most of it. Here's what that means and why I quit my job anyway. 🧵

@galligator Signals.ai - daily research on your equity portfolio

What are you building this weekend? One comment gets a $10k investment and I’ll help you execute.

@twannl this rules. rocketSim saved me hours debugging layout quirks on weird simulators alone

When I was a student, I couldn't afford most developer tools. So we're making RocketSim Pro free for students to help the next generation of iOS developers get a head start. Tag a student iOS developer who could use this 👇 rocketsim.app/student

@saaaanjjjuuu i had this in iOS 17. pocket taps hit emergency contacts. fixed by disabling tap to wake.

iOS 26.4 has a SERIOUS problem. I lock my iPhone, keep it in my pocket… and it randomly starts dialing my contacts. It’s actually driving me insane, this year the level of bugs in Apple’s software is crazy.

@sherifgjini @X fair, distribution matters. but reply chains with other engagement farmers isn't distribution, it's a circle jerk. other indiehackers aren't your users.

@therook_ @X Solo founders need distribution. Shipping is almost not important at all at this stage if you have no distribution. Product has zero priority if no users. We build distribution and gain users by talking with user, socializing. Farming replies are THE VERY RIGHT CHOICE sir.

Hey @X algorithm, Only show this to people who are: → Building a product → Solo founder → Indie hacker → Tech Lets engage and grow together! 👋

@MargoMoratti hiring still wants specialists. generalists ship faster only after they already know the domain.

Generalists vs Specialists in AI era? Shiri_shh’s post (6K+ likes) says generalists who spot patterns and adapt fast will win in 2026. Critics call it a “psyop” — hiring still favors deep AI/ML specialists. Who’s right?

@_Crrown @MetropolisDEX @soniclab wait how does this hold when incentives drop and volume cools off?

Just jumped into the @MetropolisDEX USSD Bootstrap Campaign Deployed my S-USSD DLMM position yesterday and it’s already printing at 120% APR from fees and $METRO farm. Fees and rewards stacking. 500k $S incentives on top! This is how real liquidity gets built on @SonicLab Position attached 👀 $USSD

@Noahpinion japan calls them madogiwazoku, older employees literally paid to sit idle

The U.S. labor market may start to look more like 1980s Japan -- generalists looking for ways to fill in the weaknesses of AI, small businesspeople striking out on their own, and a few specialists with valuable skills. noahpinion.blog/p/salarymen-sp…

@JamesonCamp half! more like 95% funded AI companies are not going to make it, they burn so much cash and subsidize open-ai and claude cost for clients, that's the reason for their existence, soon they would have to find moat or die.

Half the AI companies getting funded right now arent gonna make it The model companies are already so massive they're just gonna acquire the rest. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google - they ARE the market The real money is in the businesses getting enabled. A $50M company that gets AI implementation right becomes a $200M company PE firms are about to have a field day. Buy these companies, improve them with AI, flip them at 4x. Hardware too. Everything in between the models and the end user is about to explode...

knowing the SOC II industry, i would have given delve the benefit of doubt, but their response to storing customer data in an publicly accessible supabase bucket (because of shoddy code) was horrendous; in the language they used, they tried to shift blame on 3rd party storage provider, rather than being apologetic, that’s when i knew, nothing they say has to be trusted anymore. x.com/jameszhou02/st…

I don't mind it @bcherny the value provided by the $200 Claude Code sub is still 20x the API cost. If I had to choose, I'd rather retain higher rate limits on coding vs using 3rd party tools with the sub. One workaround could be, count usage 2-5x for 3rd party tools, so it's not a net negative for Anthropic.

Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.

@simpleminingio ai datacenters already fighting utilities for megawatts in texas, power is the real bottleneck

As we enter an age of abundance, scarcity becomes more valuable than ever. AI makes software cheap, compute accessible, content nearly free. That's the headline everyone sees. Underneath it is a different story. The AI boom needs physical inputs at scale. Power. Turbines. Transformers. Switchgear. Data centers. And the skilled labor to build and wire all of it. We're short roughly 500,000 electricians in the U.S. alone. Turbine and transformer lead times are measured in years, not quarters. Power contracts for large-scale facilities are getting more competitive every month. None of these constraints get solved with a software update. They take years of investment, training pipelines, and infrastructure buildout to move. Most investors have a beautiful demand model for AI. Very few have a supply model. That gap is where the real edge is. The demand curve is going vertical. The supply side is flat. Abundance doesn't eliminate scarcity. It reprices it. And right now, the physical layer behind the digital boom is one of the most mispriced parts of the market.

@FMXRP1 @XAODAOLLC governance. nobody knows who decides changes or how fast. builders hate unclear power.

XRPL Community: What Matters Most? Curious to hear from the XRPL community: What do you think is the biggest gap right now? 👉Funding for builders 👉Governance 👉Developer tools 👉Awareness Drop your thoughts 👇 @XAODAOLLC

@ashen_one subs were always a loophole. api billing is how anthopic keeps the lights on.

The Anthropic team just officially BANNED Claude monthly subscriptions to be used in OpenClaw 00:00 Claude Sub Ban Lore 01:25 Founder Response Breakdown 01:48 API Costs Reality 03:24 Community Backlash 05:07 Claude Alternatives 06:49 Local Models 07:11 Final Thoughts

@roothideDev nice, roothide bootstrap support is huge. does this play nice with palera1n rootless?

new version, add support for roothide Bootstrap (well you need to enable tweaks for Browser apps): cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/11…

@notmyname113432 we tried something similar. agents help until real business logic shows up, then they stall fast

🚀 Tired of setting up Claude Code from scratch on every project? I built dev-suite — an open-source toolkit that turns Claude Code into a full development platform in under 2 minutes. Here's what it gives you out of the box: 🤖 Specialized AI agents — not one generic assistant, but experts per domain: React, Next.js, Spring Boot, FastAPI, Rust, Go, security, accessibility, DevOps, and more. Each agent knows exactly what it's doing in its stack. 📚 Skills system — agents load focused knowledge (Zustand patterns, Prisma migrations, Docker optimization) only when needed. No bloated context, no hallucinations from trying to know everything. 🔌 MCP servers — plug in real tools: API testing, database queries, code quality analysis, log analysis, documentation fetching, performance profiling. Your agents can actually do things, not just talk about them. 🖥️ Visual dashboard — a full Electron app to configure everything. Detects your stack automatically, recommends the right agents and servers, generates your CLAUDE.md and .mcp.json. No JSON editing, no guessing. What it looks like in practice: You open a Next.js + Prisma + PostgreSQL project → dashboard detects it → suggests the nextjs-expert, prisma-expert, database-query MCP server → one click → Claude Code now knows your stack deeply, can query your DB, validate your API contracts automatically. No more copy-pasting prompts. No more "act as a senior engineer" system prompts. Just agents that actually specialize. v1.1.2 just shipped with fixes for MCP server installation on fresh setups — the most common friction point for new users. 100% open source. MIT license. Works on Windows, Mac, Linux. ⭐ github.com/claude-dev-sui… If you're using Claude Code seriously, this is the setup you've been missing.

@larsencc wait how does it handle legit forks with low downloads but real maintainers?

Built a tool for exactly this. "slopcop check " tells you if a package is legit before you install it. Checks registry age, download count, postinstall scripts, and name similarity to popular packages. "slopcop scan" runs through your entire package.json or requirements.txt. If your AI hallucinated a package name and someone registered it with malware, slopcop catches it. Pro Tip: Setup a Claude Code hook to run this before every install. Try it ↓

@swyx researchers literally call modern ai pre-scientific. twitter debates like it's settled science.

this is why nobody takes ai twitter seriously

@gracepace_ wait how did you replace health insurance after quitting big tech?

I quit my big tech job 2 years ago. Here’s what I’ve learned and been up to (+ what didn't work out)!! I quit my job to become a content creator + founder!! And continue to build Design Buddies! I realize that I can make a lot more impact and money doing so. I want to make tech/design more fun and build fun community. I first traveled the world for 6 months (21 countries). My biggest regret in life was studying too much in college (worst time in my life) and locking myself in too much as a new grad, trying to climb the corporate ladder. I was finally free. I stopped reducing my identity to my job title. You shouldn’t either. When I came back home in 2025, I got to: - Start making more tech comedy content and went viral - Host more social parties instead of “networking” events and felt happier. - Move to a creator house in Los Angeles and started taking my content more seriously - Do collabs with awesome creators - Become a paid actress - Make way more money from tech brand deals than my actual tech job. What didn't work out: - Trying to become a traditional SaaS VC-backed tech founder because it sounds sexy in san francisco and I cared too much about what other people thought of me. Haven't found something that I would give up everything to work out. - Some people stopped seeing me as a role model because I was no longer posting about "how to get job in design" I say yes to everything that sounds fun and then figure it out later. I stopped caring about pleasing everyone. I used to feel hurt when people whom I thought were my friends spoke badly behind my back. I am now ok with being disliked because I am not anyone’s slave. That has gotten me far in life. It led me to rooms I never thought I’d be in. It led to speaking opportunities, creator collaborations, brand deals, new friends, and a life where no two days look the same. I get to wake up anytime I want. I don’t miss my 7 am engineering stand up calls about moving my button 5 pixels to the right. But I wouldn’t be where I am today without the opportunity to be a UX Designer at Electronic Arts! It taught me great design, collaborations, discipline, and more. Grateful for EA!! I appreciate you all for following along!! I hope to inspire you to live ur best life too!! What would you be doing with your life if you have unlimited money? — I quit on on Apr 1 2024 (not an April fools day joke, I did it to make it funny) and hosted my I quit my job party on April 20, 2024 at 4:20 pm I’m also hosting another party for Design Buddies 6th year birthday + my 2 year quitting job freedom party in Los Angeles Sun Apr 12, afternoon! Comment if you’d like an invite

@garrytan we tried a devex checklist like this. docs improved fast, onboarding bugs still hurt the most

I make tools on GStack for myself, so I am releasing /plan-devex-review today to help you create amazing Developer Experiences. Big thanks to Addy Osmani's DX framework for the inspiration here.