Shriv 🍷

I'm an Enginnering Failure.
just building things on the internet
currently: & @MindMergeHQ

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What's your take on this, @DarioAmodei & @AnthropicAI? Should I switch to @sama's OpenAI?

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Tried @claudeai Opus 4.6 Medium. Blink once and half your token budget is gone. Tried Fable 5... it drinks tokens like water and still struggles on tasks that should be straightforward.
If @OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol really delivers this efficiency, Codex is looking very tempting.

[Sam Altman @sama]

GPT-5.6 sol is half the price and ~twice as token efficient as fable in many cases for accomplishing the same task.

happy to deliver at one-quarter of the price.

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@nestymee @OpenAI This is what great products do they spark more building. Congrats, that's an awesome milestone for Aesty.

Congratulations @nestymee

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@AKSHITAAHLUWAL1 Just write "K"

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@yuzu_jpg @X Hi.. let's go

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@averycode Hey, Avery! How’s it going?

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Haha, Dear @Windows, I think I've unlocked the final boss on this 9-year-old laptop.
As a reward... how about gifting me a brand new @Windows laptop? I promise I won't fill the C: drive this time.

[Windows @Windows]

@Shrivvvvv a legendary achievement. your recycle bin is trembling

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@_baskarohenry can you please tryy out my platform? so i get some initial traction 🙂 it means alot to me!!

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Achievement Unlocked:
Successfully filled the entire C: drive. @Windows

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@sunayna30 Solo leveling?

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The founder's truest friend at 2 AM is the log file.

No teammate, no manager, no user just a scrolling wall of text that either tells you where it broke or, worse, says nothing at all.

You learn to love the ones that scream.

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"Just launch, nobody's watching" is comforting and half-wrong.

Nobody watches launch #1. But every launch teaches you, and the audience compounds quietly until #10 lands.

Consistency isn't the boring path to success. It IS the success.

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Explaining what I do to relatives: "So you make... apps? Like games?"

No, but also I've stopped correcting it. "Beta makes games" is a much happier sentence for everyone at the dinner table than "Cloud Run cold start latency."

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@_baskarohenry @ChambalKeDaku @siddio_ Yes, e.g. Rain charges

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Your follower count is a vanity number pretending to be a business metric.

500 people who'd pay for what you build beats 50,000 who liked one tweet and forgot you. Audience isn't the goal. Trust that converts is.

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Firebase private key in an env var will teach you a rage you didn't know you had.

Those \n line breaks silently mangle themselves in transit and nothing tells you why auth just died.

Half of shipping is fighting invisible whitespace.

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Attention is the only currency you can't earn back. You can make more money, find more time, rebuild a network.

But the hours of focus you traded for the scroll are just gone. We're spending the one thing we can't refund on the one thing that refunds nothing.

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My productivity metric isn't hours logged. It's cups of chai consumed before the first bug is fixed.

Today's count: 3. The bug won.

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There's a specific quiet joy no one talks about: deleting 200 lines of code and watching the app get better.

The best engineering days aren't the ones where you write the most.
They're the ones where you needed the least.

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Streaks are the best and worst thing in product design.

They build habits and then one missed day makes people quit entirely, because they've tied their identity to an unbroken number.

Good design motivates. Great design forgives.