Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹

Passionate Software Engineer, PHP, Go, JavaScript, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes.
Proud father. Loving husband.
Creator of PFM Platform

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

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[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

After Cursor's $60bn acquisition by SpaceX, I wonder what comes next:
Composer 3 as Grok 5, or
Grok 5 from Kimi 2.7 😅

[@levelsio @levelsio]

My first real investment exit!!! 🎉

Congrats @cursor_ai and everyone!!!

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

I had my money held for over one full year by ePayments due to the same "money laundering investigation". I hope it will not be your case, @levelsio. 🤞

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Okay I guess it's not about interest, more probably it's about this and they have to be extra careful now

I'd just appreciate a reason in the interface

https://t.co/nmpxGIYpFU

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

Luckily we have LLMs to help 🥹

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

Mobile responsiveness is a PITA 😓

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

Mobile responsiveness is a PITA 😓

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

The new Claude Fable 5 model is expensive as hell 🔥💸

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Claude Fable 5 is now available in Cursor.

It sets a new state of the art on CursorBench at 72.9%, 8 points above the previous best.

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

@levelsio I hope you're not taking about the production server 🫣.

Btw, I'm a human - could you whitelist me so I can comment on your posts?

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Nope, Claude Code sucks battery regardless, using it on my laptop I'd have to charge it after 3 hours!

I only use Claude Code on VPS via Termius SSH now

Now I only need to charge my MacBook daily, and I can close my MacBook whenever

Nice benefits of AI coding on the server!

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

Everybody, switch to Anthropic Claude now!!! 😅

[Claude @claudeai]

Fable 5 is state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks, with exceptional performance in software engineering, knowledge work, scientific research, and vision.

The longer and more complex the task, the larger Fable 5’s lead over our other models.

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

I guess that in case of Assisted FSD one must be sober anyway 😅

[@levelsio @levelsio]

When Portugal? 🇵🇹

Can I msg someone in PT gov to do this? Are they doing it

Por favor 🥹

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

My next car will be an electric one. That's 100%. Maybe not Tesla. Maybe BYD. But I'm winking at the Mazda 6e 🤤

[@levelsio @levelsio]

My 2025 Tesla Y is a great car

I never had a car before so don't trust me but I did ride a lot of Teslas before in Uber, specifically Tesla 3 and I didn't like it cause it felt cheap and shaky and I'd get car sick (I never get car sick)

Not the 2025 Tesla Y, even as a passenger I don't get car sick, it feels smooth, it doesn't feel cheap

Most of all my friends with petrol cars spend a lot of time in garages, meanwhile we've never

Only when it delivered, it showed an error that the cameras did not calibrate, we brought it to the garage and a cable was loose during production and they fixed it and since then it just works

I like driving it because I know the safety score is good so if something happens there's good odds we survive it as it's built well

Only thing I don't like is that sometimes it does automatic phantom breaking on the highway in Portugal, that's extremely dangerous because if someone is behind you, they might hit you, I think it's because in EU we still run on the old software and not FSD yet (except NL recently), also you do need to clean the cameras regularly but also there's lots of construction dust near us so that doesn't help

So yeah I like it a lot, it's a car that's not annoying, never breaks, doesn't need maintenance

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

Writing things down gives you some sort of clarity to start with. 🧐

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

Authenticity pays off big time nowadays. What a time to be alive!

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Well, that's a first.

An enterpreneur who I met at a cafe a while back and was a nice guy and said we'd follow up perhaps just sent me an AI-genereated pitch.

This wiped out the personal connection I had in my mind with this person.

How do people not realize AI does this?

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

I believe most of them are personal/internal tools. This does not mean that in a while they could potentially become public products. Maybe shrinking the bureaucracy dealing with opening a "digital" company would also help in this regard.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I think the challenge is that everyone can now build apps

But

1) almost nobody has distribution (like an audience), or

2) the money to pay for distribution (ads or UGC), or

3) the creative genius to get distribution for free (classically called guerilla marketing)

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

You know what they say - luck is the one you prepare for by building&shipping every day no matter what.

[Omar @notomarsol]

Wrote a whole case study about how @levelsio got lucky

- 108 projects shipped. 8 became lasting businesses
- 175,000 posts on X since 2013. About 37 a day. Every day
- His own hit rate: 5%. The other 95% flopped or never tried to earn
- 17 years between his first win and his latest

Very lucky guy

https://t.co/2TPALkDX0c

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

@marclou This is awesome! Thank you for sharing with us!

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

@levelsio @titi_build Cool idea! Is there a leaderboard where we can see the most wanted ideas?

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

Nowadays instead of "there's a button for it" use the "there's an AI for it". 💡

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Once you enable Auto-Reload on Claude, you can't turn it off? "Auto-reload is on" is unclickable 🥹

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

@levelsio Talking about bad UX... But "maybe" that's intentional? 🤔 Now ask Claude to contact their support in order to switch off this feature.

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

Now you know where they use the pretext of "climate change", "CO2 neutrality" and other "woke" terms to justify the lack of (good) service.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Complaining about things is one, but fixing them myself is another

So I added a [ 🗽 Not woke ] filter to https://t.co/kSbsCmuvBO

"woke" is a bit of a cringe term now, but calling it "Not ESG" would be too difficult

I scraped ALL hotel chains and sites for stuff like "climate change", "sustainability", "ESG", "carbon neutral" and tagged all of them

So now you can AVOID hotels that:
- limit your AC to 25C/77F (common in Europe)
- skip cleaning you room altogether (last 2 hotels I stay in Europe now)
- have no amenities (again I just stayed in them), and other useless stuff that does nothing to save the world at all
- reduce shower pressure to save water so you can't clean yourself
- charge you extra for your CO2 emissions every day you stay (???)

In fact all of this does the direct opposite of make the world better: it makes everyone hate their stay, sweat and have bad sleep, and be grumpy and unproductive all day

Avoid them with my site Hotelist and make the world better! :D

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

Me to Gemini: Do this task.

Gemini: I can't do this becasue X.

Me: Claude would be able to do it.

Gemini: Let me try again. (And it delivers 🤷‍♂️)

[Alexandru Busuioc 🇵🇹 @alexbusu_dev]

@marclou I think AI is good at UI, and maybe taht's because I don't do UI, but mostly backend. So, being strongly opinionated for the backend are, I think that's why I am so picky for the AI's output. As for the UI - I ask, it delivers, I check, usually it looks good so I'm happy ✅