Andrey Ye

🇧🇾 🇹🇭 · Software Engineer · Trying to be Indie Dev

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

Unpopular opinion: AI will not take programmers' jobs, it will just make programmers so powerful that they don’t need anyone else to make cool products.

One year ago, I was just an Android developer who could make a simple app in one month.

Now, I can handle five platforms in one month with AI help: iOS, Android, web apps (thanks to KMP), backend (thanks to Supabase and Cursor), and landing pages with awesome copy and design (thanks to Cursor).

Can you imagine a future where a programmer generates a cool product every month?

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

Reading many indie devs posts and everyone says - distribution first.

My mental model is a typical developer - care about the engineering things 99%, marketing 1%. So decided to try distribution first thinking and it is so hard and changes everything.

I want to try TikTok ads and think about how to sell my app and realize it sucks, need to change many things to make it sellable and attractive for users. 😅

But I think I'm on the right way. If I start a new app from how to sell thinking I will have a bigger chance to succeed.

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

@athcanft Marketing

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

bye bye, @zksync 👋. It was a painful adventure. I really believed in you, but crypto narrative is dead now compared to AI narrative. Just withdrew all my funds. Wound is finally healed 100%. 🥲

Spent 620h farming the airdrop.
Lost ~$40k vs just holding BTC all this time

Mistake 1: Created 60 wallets with big activity and low volume instead of making fewer wallets with bigger volume. Didn’t expect volume in LPs to be the most important airdrop multiplier. Arbitrum and Optimism did it fair. You just made the rich richer, and low-volume users got almost nothing.

Mistake 2: Didn’t exit instantly after the airdrop because of trauma and belief.

Painful lesson.

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

@IntCyberDigest Web has such nice dependency management - perfectly consistent with the rest of web architecture 😅

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

I work much more because now I don't become tired 🥲 Writing code vs reading is different cognitive load.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Do you work less, same or more with AI vs before AI?

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

Great time to be a perfectionist developer. AI finally made “let me check one more thing” scalable.

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

@kskrygan @antonarhipov Guys please do it!🙏 I already love you and after this I will become the biggest fan.

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

Nice to see @GeminiApp and @AndroidStudio finally catching up on agent-based Android development.

I started with Cursor for Android, then moved to Codex and Claude desktop apps.

Now this workflow is surprisingly good and cheap:
• start with free Gemini
• switch to 3.1 Pro Preview when it gets messy or times out.

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

@KYKYPY3A_B Получается NASA теперь больше красавчики, чем SpaceX? 😜

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

@gvanrossum LLM = CPU (data: tokens not bytes, dynamics: statistical and vague not deterministic and precise)
Agent = operating system kernel

[fakeguru @iamfakeguru]

For everyone asking how to install it, I published the CLAUDE.md from this thread, along with a few extra fixes.

Drop it in your project root - it overrides the system prompts and forces employee-grade output.

star it on github if it saves your codebase: https://t.co/m0BSBE7L0R

[Kaito | 海斗 @_kaitodev]

5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs!

he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap.

if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked.

average score across all jobs is 5.3/10.
software devs: 8-9.
roofers: 0-1.
medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀

https://t.co/7MWRgdtLDI

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

Programmers are dead. The new programmer is an engineer: specs, architecture, DevOps, AI prompting, QA.

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

Codex has an amazing app and gives fast, great answers.

Claude has a terrible app and gives worse answers.

Coincidence?

@OpenAI @Anthropic

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

Thailand might be the best timezone for developers.

When the US wakes up, Claude and Codex start unreliable.

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

Everyone is a developer now!

[@levelsio @levelsio]

AI is making coding fun again for so many people

So many stories like this 🥹

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

@elonmusk Before posting better test it by yourself 😉

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

New dev habit:

https://t.co/vLtGWftegj
https://t.co/bliMAhhD1I

🤓

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

I think startups should keep all repositories in one workspace so AI agents can access the whole system.

[Andrey Ye @andoctorey]

@tim_cook So soon we will have a generation of kids that never used Windows 🥲