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I read and write code for fun and profit (at home and at @neuralink)

[Danish Hussain @astrodanish]

These are the magnitudes you need to be thinking on. yes you. you the intern. you the student. you the guy working a dead end job.

Throughout history, people who were dumber and weaker than you have changed the world in unimaginable ways, because they had high agency and a cogent grand vision.

nothing is stopping you.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Starship was the greatest thing humanity ever built without AI assistance. It will be the last. Everything after this will be designed with AI. The era of human-only engineering is over.

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

funnily enough, software people also think they know how the rest of the world works, because they can make computers dance.

which explains all the abmysal software in education, health, or any other industry that has a human component.

that old meme of coders being anti-social neckbeards is wrong. such a caricature doesn't have any influence in the real world, precisely because that'd require interacting with squishy human parts.

reality is much worse. reality is full of people with little understanding of anything outside their narrow domain, paired with immense amounts of hubris and power, who get mics shoved into their faces on every fucking topic imaginable.

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

Comfort is seductive because it feels harmless, but it quietly compounds into weakness

[Igor Babuschkin @ibab]

What’s the best open alternative to OpenClaw right now? Doesn’t make sense to put all your data into it if it’s owned by OpenAI.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX has acquired xAI, forming one of the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth → https://t.co/3ODfcYnqfg

[Bliss Chapman @chapman_bliss]

@flappyairplanes Congrats @aidanmantine and team!

[brainthinks @brainthinks02]

Few things enrage me the way enshitification does. Either Google or Samsung decided to change the default behavior of holding the power button down to open Gemini. I really hope the NexPhone with Linux delivers...

[Marc @MarcJSchmidt]

All my new code will be closed-source from now on. I've contributed millions of lines of carefully written OSS code over the past decade, spent thousands of hours helping other people. If you want to use my libraries (1M+ downloads/month) in the future, you have to pay.

I made good money funneling people through my OSS and being recognized as expert in several fields. This was entirely based on HUMANS knowing and seeing me by USING and INTERACTING with my code. No humans will ever read my docs again when coding agents do it in seconds. Nobody will even know it's me who built it.

Look at Tailwind: 75 million downloads/month, more popular than ever, revenue down 80%, docs traffic down 40%, 75% of engineering team laid off. Someone submitted a PR to add LLM-optimized docs and Wathan had to decline - optimizing for agents accelerates his business's death. He's being asked to build the infrastructure for his own obsolescence.

Two of the most common OSS business models:
- Open Core: Give away the library, sell premium once you reach critical mass (Tailwind UI, Prisma Accelerate, Supabase Cloud...)
- Expertise Moat: Be THE expert in your library - consulting gigs, speaking, higher salary

Tailwind just proved the first one is dying. Agents bypass the documentation funnel. They don't see your premium tier. Every project relying on docs-to-premium conversion will face the same pressure: Prisma, Drizzle, MikroORM, Strapi, and many more.

The core insight: OSS monetization was always about attention. Human eyeballs on your docs, brand, expertise. That attention has literally moved into attention layers. Your docs trained the models that now make visiting you unnecessary. Human attention paid. Artificial attention doesn't.

Some OSS will keep going - wealthy devs doing it for fun or education. That's not a system, that's charity. Most popular OSS runs on economic incentives. Destroy them, they stop playing.

Why go closed-source? When the monetization funnel is broken, you move payment to the only point that still exists: access. OSS gave away access hoping to monetize attention downstream. Agents broke downstream. Closed-source gates access directly.
The final irony: OSS trained the models now killing it. We built our own replacement.

My prediction: a new marketplace emerges, built for agents. Want your agent to use Tailwind? Prisma? Pay per access. Libraries become APIs with meters. The old model: free code -> human attention -> monetization. The new model: pay at the gate or your agent doesn't get in.

[Neuralink @neuralink]

You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to work at Neuralink. Explore our open roles: https://t.co/ua0QpsSFY5

[brainthinks @brainthinks02]

@Tesla please do something about the way you calculate monthly insurance premiums. I feel like I'm being extorted. I just got off the phone with an insurance rep who provided zero customer service and claimed to not be able to do anything to help me, and claimed that no one else there can either. You are now losing thousands of dollars of free money per year.

[DJ Seo @djseo]

@purepathwill Not a team, work of one excellent design engineer @roozm

We’re growing the team tho https://t.co/iXjLXwrzsw

[Andreas Kling @awesomekling]

Hooray! @ladybirdbrowser has passed the 90% threshold on web-platform-tests! 📈🎉

This is the arbitrary limit Apple says we must reach to be considered an eligible alternative browser engine on iOS. (+ other requirements)

So proud of the team for getting us this far 💜

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

- Linux is free.
- Docker is free.
- Kubernetes is free.
- Git and Github are free.
- GitHub Actions is free.
- Python is free.
- AWS, GCP, Azure are free (limited use).
- Terraform is free.
- ArgoCD and Flux are free.
- Prometheus and Grafana are free.

Your laptop and internet connection: That’s all you need to start.

No expensive bootcamps. No fancy certifications.

Just you, your determination, and these free tools.

While others are complaining about job markets and layoffs, DevOps engineers are getting multiple offers.

Companies are desperate for people who can automate, deploy, and manage infrastructure.

The same skills that took me from X to 3X salary, All learned using free tools.

Every successful DevOps engineer started exactly where you are right now. Zero experience. Zero connections. Just curiosity.

They didn’t wait for the “perfect” time. They didn’t make excuses about not having money for courses.

They downloaded Docker, broke things, fixed them, and repeated.

Start today. Your future self will thank you.

[brainthinks @brainthinks02]

@christitustech Winutil is absolutely essential for me for Windows 11 installs. I'll be checking this out

[Chris Titus Tech @christitustech]

I don't know who I am anymore...
Using macOS and programming in F# with dotnet.
Behold the BIRTH of MacUtil

[brainthinks @brainthinks02]

@Alienware Wow well I was completely wrong about this. Maybe the reviews I watched were outdated? Maybe Alienware changed something recently? I bought one of these headsets anyway with the intention of returning it if the voice quality was bad, but it wasn't at all. I'll be keeping them!

[brainthinks @brainthinks02]

Have an option for better voice quality / clarity optimized for streaming / recording / calls, and I'll buy it. I understand the current voice quality being optimized for voice isolation and competitive gaming, but I think there's a reasonable market for this. I'm still using my decade old Cavimanus wired headset. Not much on the market is competitive. Fractal's new headset could be, but it's missing noise cancellation

[Neura Pod – Neuralink @NeuraPod]

Consider donating to Neuralink's 4th patient, Michael, here:

[Minhaz @developeratul]

My ability to make technical decisions has improved significantly after watching @theo's videos consistently for weeks.

Previously I would use Next.js with Supabase for every project I come up with and would not consider all the use cases the product has. But now I consider things like:
- Do we even need SSR
- Do we need SQL for the MVP?
- Pricing
- How much can we scale for free!
- No vendor lock in tech stacks, so you can deploy anywhere without paying a lot of platform fees.
- Edge functions or API routes
- Rate limiting
- Captchas
- How vercel is doing bangers
- Different solutions for solve a specific problem

Theo got the best sponsors. Each sponsor he brings are absolute banger and he makes recommendations with full authority. Which you can really rely on.

Now whenever I get confused, I just look for if Theo has made a video on that topic.

Whatever industry you're in, find your Theo and go all in!