Benny da Bull

swinging shit - turning 25k to 1M roth IRA

[Higgsfield AI 🧩 @higgsfield]

GPT-6 Astra turned complex farm blueprints into a realistic walkthrough video.

It handled every step:

> Detailed drawings in AutoCAD
> 3D visualization in Blender
> Lifelike scenes with Higgsfield

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I really liked @marckohlbrugge's e-ink screen by @itopinion

So I asked Claude Code to make a CSS UI Kit I can use for my sites from the video

And it worked!

[@levelsio @levelsio]

✨ I replaced all these SaaS with my own vibe coded now, so about $25,000/mo savings:

- Weather API -> My own vibe coded weather service using Norway's meteorology API
- Image resizing API -> My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo)
- Google Vision NSFW detection -> My own $0/mo vibe coded NSFW detection service with Python's NudeNET (saves ~$2,500/mo)
- Cloudflare Streaming -> My own $0/mo Nginx VPS video streaming (saves ~$250/mo)
- API Flash -> My own $0/mo screenshot service (for social images) (saves ~$250/mo)
- New Relic + IPHub -> My own $0/mo error monitoring, DDOS blocking and fleet management service (called error2telegram) (saves ~$250/mo)
- Human moderators -> My own moderation on all my sites with @xAI (saves ~$10,000/mo)
- IFTTT -> Telegram bot (saves ~$100/mo)
- Photopea as editor inside Photo AI -> Vibe coded my own photo editor (saves ~$100/mo)
- Mapbox -> Vibecoded my own free replacement with OpenFreeMaps (saves ~$500/mo)
- Uptimerobot -> My own $5/mo Uptime Canary app running on Kuma (saves ~$50/mo)
- Ghost blog -> My own $0/mo blog platform
- Customer support -> @featurebasehq + AI support bot (saves $5,000/mo)
- Scrapingbee/SerpAPI -> My own $1/mo scraper with Patchright (save ~$250/mo)

I think I have reached my final limit of replacing my SaaS services as I have these left, but that'd mean becoming an ICANN registrar (I don't want 😁), managing my own email (I don't want), managing my own hard drives at home in a storage (I don't want) and managing my own servers at home too (I don't want) and running my own GPU rig at home (I don't want):

- Cloudflare Domains
- Cloudflare Email Sending
- Cloudflare R2 Storage
- Backblaze B2 for backups
- Hetzner for all my servers for all my sites (VPS)
- xAI for all LLMs for all my sites (so many things like moderation, writing emails, anything)

[Edgex @SahilExec]

AI isn't just generating ideas anymore.

It's starting to turn those ideas into buildable plans.

Feed it the right data, and suddenly custom homes, products, and projects become accessible to almost anyone.

The bigger shift?

AI could turn more consumers into builders.

What happens when the middlemen disappear? 👀

[Higgsfield AI 🧩 @higgsfield_ai]

GPT-6 Astra + Higgsfield redesigned an entire apartment in Blender.

New furniture, finishes, and lighting throughout.

It even comes with an itemized renovation estimate.

[Rik Arends @rikarends]

Building a new kind of AI-IDE. It's really more of a large scale code visualiser + AI worklane system. Code editors only exist as viewers as you zoom in and shatter by type. (building that now)

[ninjaHattori1 @Sahil100X]

I wrote GPU kernels for GPT2 124M inference engine from scratch in ~1500 lines of CUDA.

Here I explain it simply.

[Luckey Faraday @luckeyfaraday]

GPT Astra has completely changed how much I can build at once.

I’m currently working on 17 different projects simultaneously.

Picture this: you and your buddy hop on a website and play fucking Smash Bros. Brawl reconstructed in the browser.

No emulator. No install. Just open the site and play.

Well, it’s coming.

[Anshu @anshuc]

Here's what Astra built in 8 hours. It worked all night on weather effects, Blender modeling, and tons of little details.

It spent an hour just adding birds. AGI achieved?

Cost so far: ~50% weekly quota. Details below.

[Z @ZeeContrarian1]

Over the weekend I watched an interview with David Einhorn, who is undoubtedly far more intelligent than I am.

He explained that performance had been poor over the last couple of years because the type of investing they do simply hasn’t been working.

It is very interesting to watch how many great investors struggle to adapt when the market changes.

What worked for ten years becomes part of who they are, and changing it feels almost like admitting they were wrong.

But markets change.

And if you cannot change with them, eventually your old edge becomes your biggest weakness.

And to me, that is the entire lesson.

Markets do not reward you for being loyal to a strategy.

They reward you for adapting.

Last year I told the story of my favorite client, Oscar.

In 2022, when the market was down around 20%, Oscar was up around 20%. A big reason was the way I used the $VIX.

If you look at the comments below that story, someone told me that you cannot compare Oscar’s performance with someone who doesn’t know how to use the $VIX.

But we are in the business of making money.

How can you afford to know only one way to make money?

Only know how to be long stocks.
Only know value investing.
Only know technical analysis.
Only know momentum.
Only know volatility.

A strategy is just a tool.

The goal is not to prove that your favorite tool works.

The goal is to make money.

Around the same period, I was also consulting for a hedge fund that had started operating in 2021.

Luckily for the fund manager, the environment at the time was almost perfectly suited to the strategy we were using. We were using primarily VIX-related trades, and between 2021 and 2022 the returns looked extraordinary.

The fund was still small because it had just started, but on a percentage basis it was outperforming its peers by a very large margin.

By the time the market was down around 20%, the fund was still up around 10%.

That was exactly when I believed the opportunity had shifted.

Equities had become significantly more attractive, while the $VIX trades that had worked so well for us were becoming increasingly dangerous.

I told the hedge fund manager it was time to change. Reduce the volatility trades and start buying stocks.

He had no interest in buying equities.

His reasoning was simple: the $VIX trades had worked incredibly well. Why stop doing what was working?

But that is exactly the trap.

I disagreed strongly enough that I issued a formal letter. Always put things in writing, even with friends. When people look back at the past, they have a convenient habit of forgetting exactly how things happened and avoiding responsibility for the decisions they made. In the letter, I explained the risks I saw in continuing with those volatility trades and why I believed the volatility landscape had changed.

He decided to continue anyway.
The following months were catastrophic.

Meanwhile, Oscar and the portfolios I directly managed rotated into stocks and were up substantially.

There is no strategy that deserves your loyalty.

Sometimes the right tool is VIX.
Sometimes it is equities.
Sometimes it is value.
Sometimes it is momentum.
Sometimes it is cash.

Your job is not to become emotionally attached to what made you money yesterday.

Your job is to recognize what environment you are in today.

It is not necessarily the smartest that survives.

It is the one that adapts.

Markets are not much different.

Your edge is not VIX.
Your edge is not value investing.
Your edge is not understanding tech.
Your edge is not mastering macro.

Your edge is being able to change when the market changes.

[Joey @aijoey]

This is the most detailed rack level digital twin I have built so far.

It represents one NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack, modeled in Blender.
• 72 Rubin GPUs
• 36 Vera CPUs
• 18 compute trays
• 9 NVLink 6 switch trays
I also took one compute tray beyond the exterior visualization.
• The tray slides out
• The enclosure opens
• The cooling assembly separates
• The internal hardware is revealed in an exploded inspection view.

The goal is to create detailed infrastructure models that can support asset information, maintenance workflows, power, temperature, and system health.
Each project raises the standard. This is the strongest one yet. 👀

[miki ⋆｡°✩ @miki_code]

I asked Astra to make playable 4d chess

[Anshu @anshuc]

dude GPT-6 Astra is some kind of turbo-AGI machine god for 3D games. It one-shot this in 45 minutes for hardly a couple % of my quota.

I figured out how to get great graphics out of it. The trick is image gen. I'll share the process below.

[Evan @EvanMilenko]

Fable 5.1 + Opus 5

[Dilum Sanjaya @DilumSanjaya]

Built this fun interactive app for Microduck with Fable 5.1

Fable explored the available open source repos

Then used what it learned to figure out what features to add to the UI

[Za @ZaStocks]

I can smell taco’s and I’m not talking about the ones with tortillas, seasoning, cheese, lettuce, and tomato.

[Joey @aijoey]

Phase 2 of Datacenter Digital Twin with Fabel 5.1

Rear doors open , ports, ceiling lights, network and power cabling.

[Charly Delaroche @Nal_uh]

Silo's finale is on Friday, here is an interactive visualisation Silo 18.

Try it here: https://t.co/mwh4kkcoLw

[Sarah @araseb_]

Claude Fable 5.1 is insane.

i know literally NOTHING about coding. ZERO.

and i just built 3 fully functioning web apps in 30 minutes.

http://localhost:3000/
http://localhost:8000/
http://localhost:5000/

check it out.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Naval Ravikant: "You're going to die. It's all going to zero. What's there to stress about?"

"Stress is when your mind has two conflicting desires at once. You want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish. You don't want to go to work, but you want to make money. You have two conflicting desires, and that's stress."

Most people use stress and anxiety interchangeably. Naval says they're different things:

"Anxiety is this pervasive, unidentifiable stress where you're stressed out all the time and you're not even sure why. The reason is you have so many unresolved problems that have piled up in your life, you can no longer identify what the problems are. There's this mountain of garbage in your mind. A little bit is poking out the top like an iceberg; that's anxiety. But underneath, there's a lot of unresolved things."

His fix for it is thinking about death:

"One big anxiety resolver for me is just ruminating on death. You're going to die. It's all going to zero. You cannot take anything with you. If you can keep that idea in front of you at all times, what's there to stress about?"

Which raises a question. If nothing matters, isn't all time wasted?

"What is wasted time? Everything is wasted time in a sense because nothing matters in the ultimate. But in each moment, it's the only thing that matters. So if you're doing something you want to do and you're fully there for it it's not wasted time. If your mind is running away, wishing you were somewhere else, anticipating the future, regretting the past, that's wasted time. That's time you're not present for."

And the part most people miss:

"People get worried about dying and no longer being here. But they don't realize that so much of their life is spent not being here in any case."