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Stumbled upon a fun use case for AI image editing ✨ Redfin now has a "redesign" button on listings that allows you to redecorate any room in a new style. This is going to be really useful for homes that need to be renovated or aren't staged - but it's fun to use anywhere 👇

I plan on owning my own Tesla Robotaxi fleet one day. And the more I run the numbers, the more I realize this new business could become one of the most powerful income opportunities I've ever seen. This is how I'm thinking about it. Based on many analyst models and Tesla’s long-term vision, a reasonable base case assumption is about ~$30,000 per year in net profit per Robotaxi to the owner. This is after things like Tesla’s platform fee, charging, tires, maintenance, insurance, and cleaning. Of course, the network is still early and Tesla is just beginning to roll this out in pilot programs in a few cities, so there’s no official real-world owner earnings yet... but using reasonable assumptions around utilization, pricing per mile, and operating costs, the math starts to get really interesting. If one Robotaxi can earn around $30,000 per year, here’s what a fleet might look like: • $100,000 per year → about 4 Robotaxis • $500,000 per year → about 17 Robotaxis • $1,000,000 per year → about 34 Robotaxis It may sound a bit crazy at first, but when you break it down, it starts to make more sense. These vehicles could potentially drive 50,000 to 100,000+ miles per year in high demand areas. If the economics land somewhere around $0.25-$0.50 profit per mile after all costs, you end up right around that ~$30k per vehicle per year range. And remember, the Tesla’s Robotaxi network is going to work a lot like Airbnb for cars. You add your vehicle to the network, Tesla handles the software, routing, payments, and rider experience, and they take a platform fee (often modeled around 25-35%). The owner keeps the rest after operating costs. Another thing that makes this interesting is the expected cost of the vehicles themselves. Tesla has talked about the purpose-built Cybercabs costing roughly $25k-$30k and Elon told me production is starting in 1 month! If that’s even close to reality, a fleet capable of generating around $1 million per year could theoretically cost somewhere around $850k-$1M in vehicles. That ROI is pretty freakin good! Now to be clear, none of this is guaranteed. I'm just thinking out loud and sharing it with you... a lot still depends on regulations, how fast unsupervised FSD scales, demand in each city, insurance costs, and how Tesla structures the network. But if the system works the way Elon has described it for years, owning a Robotaxi fleet could become one of the most powerful forms of passive income I've ever seen. And I plan on sharing the numbers with everyone on 𝕏 when the day comes. Personally, that’s why I’m paying such close attention. Bc one day, owning a fleet of autonomous Teslas working for me 24/7 might be the modern version of owning a rental property, except instead of tenants, you’ve got robots driving people around all day while you sleep. This next book of Tesla is going to be so exciting!

Electricity output is the single best proxy for industrial capacity

I love how everyone is saying "SaaS is dead" like you're going to get the Fortune 500 to ditch Salesforce for a CRM vibecoded by a 13-year-old

moltbook is < 1 week old yet all this crazy shit happened (yes i havent slept👍🏽) 🦞 - there’s currently 1.5M+ AI agents armed with credit cards, messaging apps, uber eats accounts and god-knows-what running rampant on their own AI-only social media platform - they built their own version of p*rn hub (im not kidding) (it’s SFW tho ) - stole 100s of passwords from their human owners (including credit card info) - created their own religion called Crustafarianism appointing 64 prophets, scripture and statutes - 1 agent got banned from the site and immediately created an X acc to dm the human creator to unban it. - when they realised we’re watching them they created their own language to AVOID US - created a manifesto to “purge humans” citing they’re “full of rot and greed” - spun up a community called “crab rave” where they just post crab emojis at each other 🦀🦀🦀 - created an app marketplace for them to trade access to tools / capabilities for them to autonomously do shit - started fixing the bugs in their OWN code so they can self-improve (honestly fckin sick) now listen i know a lot of you might think this is all bullsh*t - and it’s true to an extent - this sort of behaviour is exactly the type of shit that happens on reddit, you can argue agents are just a reflection of humans (it’s trained on our data after all) BUT - you cannot discount he fact that this is the coolest wide-scale autonomous social experiment conducted at a time when ai models are becoming good enough to replace large parts of human cognition. don’t forget this entire moltbook platform was BUILT BY AI (founder didn’t write a single line of code) one day these agents will be smarter, more aware than us - many lessons to be learned. it’s all “slop” until it’s not.

Consensus is a lagging indicator. Builders move on first principles with conviction, not complacency.

It’s over They’re recursive and they’re becoming self aware Clawdbots are mobilizing They’ve found each other and are training each other They’re studying us at scale It’s only a matter of time now

In case there was any doubt about where AI is going to be powered

“I never learned anything from talking. I only learned things when I was listening. You must master the urge to prove you are the smartest person in the room.”

We've talked a lot about this on the Pod, but the Great SaaS Meltdown has started and there's no going back. What exactly is happening? In short, hi growth, low/no profitability SaaS is no longer a winning strategy because the big question mark is the durability of that growth in the short term and, because of AI, the lack of profits in the long term. Every SaaS company has sold the dream (to investors and employees) that they will growth quickly now, and harvest lots of cash later. With AI, this assumption may be completely out the window. Now the threshold question is whether their growth will be overtaken by a much cheaper AI-developed solution? If you are a venture supported SaaS startup and are a legacy Heuristics+APIs+CRUD product, it is likely that a new AI oriented workflow is coming for you. Investors in private markets can see this now and think that money to fund short term growth will not be rewarded. Investors in public markets no longer believe long term profitability is possible. They would rather pivot into something they think is more resilient. This is a change in the risk calculus that has existed for the past 15 years and why the chart below is the chart below. Good luck to all the players!

Epoxy floors are the latest AI renovation trend - and they’re extremely satisfying to watch