Paul Sherer

@zuess05 First... Who is doing that? This is a marketing narrative.

Serious question. We spent the last decade listening to podcasts telling us to wake up at 5 AM and grind for 12 hours a day to be successful. Now a 19-year-old is using Claude to build a massive software business from his couch while literally sleeping in. What exactly are people bragging about when they say they "work 80 hours a week" in 2026?

@tink_tv_ Well .. If someone is averaging 100 viewers min and isn't crushing $2k/month then I would argue something is def wrong - and maybe the sentiment should be that if I am a streamer and I am avg ~100 viewers and I'm not >$2k/month, then I should aggressively want to understand why.

Kinda ironic coming from a streamer who averages 30k viewers and thousands of subs a month. I think this is terrible advice. 100 viewers DOES NOT mean you'll make $2k in earnings a month. Telling this to people who wanna make it as a streamer is setting them up for failure.

@elonmusk Define 'complex'. I don't have access to fucking rockets to tinker with in my spare time.

If you’ve made a very complex thing do useful work, that’s a major plus

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.

@csaba_kissi This is sorta bait - 200 projects in 20 years is what I'd expect. 7 figures over 20 years is also based.

I was 33 years old. Left my job. Since then, I have completed 200+ side projects and earned 7 figures 💰 in EUR online. All of this with: ❌ CS degree ❌ Bootcamp ❌ Internship ❌ Certificates ❌ AI coding ✅ Self-taught in Programming ✅ Self-taught in English Nothing is impossible! 👍🤝

🚨 12 HOUR STREAM STARTS NOW 🚨 💕 TWITCH.TV/MONSTERMELLYY

@monstermellyy Already at 16hrs... LFGGGG!!!

@tink_tv_ This sounds like something a bot would say

OMG I CAN POST AGAIN!!! Twitter completely blocked me from posting since Saturday!!! GRRRRR!

@zuess05 I have a $20 Claude subscription. It hits limits in about 2 hours, doesn't do anything correct and half the garbage doesn't work. So no, a 19yo is not doing this.

Serious question. For 20 years, a "Software Engineer" was someone who spent thousands of hours mastering complex syntax, logic, and architecture. Now, a 19-year-old can vibe-code a production-ready SaaS in a weekend using plain English and a $20 Claude subscription. What does the title "Software Engineer" even mean right now?

Hey @StreamElements — I'd like to make a formal offer to acquire StreamElements for $10,000 USD. I believe I can take the platform in an exciting new direction for the streaming community. Serious inquiry. DMs open. 🐺

@asaio87 They all say it can be done in a couple hours. They all say they build 'production apps'. Yet none will actually show you one. Build GitHub.com/wolfymaster/wo… if you think you can without any knowledge.

I just tried to "vibecode" a very complex marketplace website without writing a single line of code its a multi-seller marketplace website using chat gpt 5.5 with codex using laravel 12 (very common framework) things are going good but as im getting more into the heavy coding it becomes more technical need to do lots of back and forth and I know what to prompt it to do I am sorry to say but if you are a vibecoder who has no idea about coding there 0% chance you will ever create a working production app yea, you will be able to create a simple app, maybe a template that costs 30$ or something, but thats about it and these guys push this idiocracy with vibecoding so much to make stupid people buy tokens

@CodeByNZ Was literally me a week ago. 25 yoe

This guy is a software engineer with 18 years of experience. Now, working at McDonald's. One day, his company decided 2 AI guys could do what his team of 12 used to do. As a result, got laid off. He sent 100+ applications, but didn't get any jobs. One HR rep literally told him, "CS degree is useless now". Now he's flipping burgers while grinding through rejections. He knows 200 developers in the same boat. And the executives who made this call? They are fine, they always are...

@hunvreus I've been asking the same questions for a couple years. No one will provide evidence or show me. I've invited these same people onto my stream to work on my project - they make excuses. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Talking to smarter folks than me, I'm convinced many of the AI folks in my timeline are full of shit. Nobody is "running 20 agents over night" and building stuff for actual users. Maybe some are building internal tools or disposable software. Maybe. But building software people like using? That doesn't get hacked on day one or blow up after the 3rd user? Nope. I don't even understand what that's supposed to look like. Do you work out a 57 pages document that perfectly describes what you want to build and then summon 14 agents and have them run wild for 6 hours? And what comes out on the other end isn't a broken pile of shit? Nope. Not buying it. PS: it may also be that I have an IQ of 82 and can't figure it out.

@0xPrajwal_ This is bait. Bro Claude sucks.

If Claude can write code, why should you be hired ?

@thepatwalls The irony that we are now bragging about LOC. 🤦

shipped 45,000 lines of code in the last 2 weeks. pre-Claude Code, this would've taken a senior dev 6 months. or a team of 2-3 ~2 months just kinda wild to think about

@systemdesignone Easy - the issue of 'it works on my machine's was so pervasive that the promise of a solution was immediately captivating.

Facts about Docker >Adds unnecessary overhead >Makes networking harder >Introduces security risks >Turns simple apps into complex ones >Increases operational complexity at scale >Makes debugging difficult >Bloats with inefficient images Why do people like this thing?

@housecor Love all the folks being like 'AI is great - you just need better guardrails'. And those guardrails are spending 2 days writing a markdown file explaining what it's allowed and not allowed to do, for a 4 hour manual fix.

Wild realization: AI means I shouldn't write *any* code anymore. Why? Because AI is better than me. 1. AI sees more than me. It sees *all* the connections, including docs. If I change something simple by hand, I might forget to update a doc, comment, or anything not protected by a compiler. 2. AI is more consistent than me. If I change code myself, now there's a little slice of potentially weird "human code" that may violate patterns outlined in AGENTS .md or skills. Every dev on our team has a unique style. AI follows *our* style, not a unique developer's style. 3. AI is faster than me. There's no way I can compete on speed. And it's only getting better.

@jahirsheikh8 I can explain and point to specific instances I either built or implemented each one of these. Can I have a job now? #whoshiring #help #ineedajob

As a developer, you should be able to clearly explain at least 10 of these: - Load Balancer - API Gateway - Reverse Proxy - Throttling - Rate Limiting - Idempotency - Pagination - Cache Stampede - gRPC - GraphQL - Webhooks - OAuth - JWT - Cache Invalidation - Query Optimization - Composite Index -ACID - CAP Theorem - Sharding - Circuit Breaker - Livelock - CSRF - Backpressure - False Sharing - mTLS If not, it’s time to brush up.

One of the most egregious series of continuity errors I have ever seen - in one scene. #limitless #continuityerrors #oops

@svpino Ok - and what happens when these agents write 90% horrible code, fuck up requirements and otherwise shit the bed like they do every single day? Why are so many people blindly trusting this garbage?

Writing code is becoming extinct. Let's face it: Software Engineering is moving towards the orchestration of multiple agents running in parallel. I'm now spending 80% of my time reviewing code and only 20% writing it, and even this split might be outdated soon. Tools are moving in this direction as well.

@Yuchenj_UW Ok, but where did he get 20k from?!?

One person, 2 months, $20K bootstrap, no VC, vibe-coded software. $1.8B company. We’re about to see more such 1-person billion-dollar companies. AI is compressing 5 years of building, launching, scaling a team, and fundraising into a solo high-agency CEO + 2 months.