Ethan Zhou

@maritimo300 hopefully not haha

@ethanzhou AI will replace you soon. We just fired 115 techies in SF who all were under 35. We kept the older ones for their leadership skills and to manage agents.

its officially been one month since i started working in SF, here are a few things ive noticed: 1. basically everyone here is in tech lol. 2. "what are you working on" has replaced "what do you do" 3. the weather. 4. the lingo here is so funny, my boss doesn't ask if i have time, he asks if i have "cycles" 😭 5. everyone's either raising, just raised, or about to raise 6. ai billboards (and planes?) 7. pretty friendly people; was on caltrain and some random dude clocked that i worked in tech and asked for my linkedin😂 one month down and genuinely loving it so far. if you're in the city let's connect, always looking to meet more people!

@ivan_zakharko I’m doing growth eng work for Revyl, before I lived in Calgary, Canada 🇨🇦

@ethanzhou Interesting. What are you working on in SF exactly? And where did you live before?

@internetramen real

paying SF rent but spending less than one waking hour per day at home

@Validate_QA lowk picking it up too🤣

@ethanzhou sf lingo is its own dialect at this point

@IcedKnife show her r/wallstreetbets

how do i tell my wife I lost all our money

by this logic humans aren't conscious either. neurons are also just doing chemistry (and at a deeper level physics) deterministically you could in principle simulate a brain by hand on paper.

@anamhira damn revyl cli might be OP

letting an agent write mobile code without a screen is a recipe for broken layouts so we gave them a live cloud iOS device to run their code on every save now the agent can: - open the app on a live device - click through the new UI - catch layout shifts and crashes no human-in-the-loop.

yo grok is lowk kinda impressive

@benaratame depends on what but you mean by game, if you mean to build, i would agree. if you mean to win i would disagree

@ethanzhou yes, the game has never been this easy (relative to how difficult it was in the past) imo this is still correct

bit cliche, but it's unbelievable how many opportunities exist at this point in time 2 yrs ago, i was a ugc creator and kbbq server earning $7.25/hr. i drove eight hours to a startup's ad video shoot hoping i could prove myself (i didnt) ive clawed my way up the startup ladder by learning as much as humanly possible at the most successful early stage consumer startups ive always been passionate and happy to contribute to a larger mission with a small team. startup life is objectively more difficult than going to college and working big tech, but everything is easier when you're passionate i consistently pull all nighters, get frustrated at my incompetence (at times), and meet failure thousands of times, but I have NEVER thought about giving up who knows -- maybe there will come a time when my iq and lack of education becomes a hard limit on what i can achieve but until then, ill continue working hard as fuck (out of passion) and learn everything i possibly can we're at an extremely unique point in history where you can have a working app in <10 prompts you can literally make MILLIONS in profit by posting ONE tiktok the game has never been this easy for anyone to build the life they can't stop dreaming about it is IMPOSSIBLE to lose if you do not give up -- please keep going after what you want thats all it takes to win

@benaratame ye but your original post didn't say you CAN build the life you want, it said the game has never been this EASY to. those are different claims. respect u alot and not tryna call u out but that was my og comment's thesis is on

@ethanzhou ye, hence y i said "you can literally make MILLIONS in profit by posting ONE tiktok"

@internetramen ye it saves ur settings to downloads so u can use the drag ss too

@ethanzhou I see it’s so clunky tho, don’t want to resize a box each time just wanna drag

macOS screenshot flow is so bad why do I have to right click this little box in the corner of my screen to copy and I can't even save to downloads

@internetramen gemini lol, i find it has best image recognition

@ethanzhou what ai did you use lol my first reaction was sending it all to opus 4.8 but it was as confused as I was

So moved in yesterday and couldn’t figure out how to turn on this shower Roommate was asleep and there’s no knob, switch, or anything so twisted everything until I found some random 5s video GENIUNELY live saving also apparently a common problem

week reviewed🫡

@imethanchoi goated ethan

4 things i get at 18 that i didn't get at 14: - shipping something is better than perfecting it. - people who pay you to think are worth more than people who pay you to execute. - viral is great but selling is the actual business. - the demo video that gets made ... beats the one that's still being planned.

@diegocabezas01 thank you

@ethanzhou Yeah codex inside of ChatGPT

were they not already the same thing?

@diegocabezas01 Ohhh, the apps will be merged together?

@ethanzhou Right now the codex app and the ChatGPT app are different