elroy

Full-stack developer • Founder • Content Creator | Tech + Startups + Faith 🚀
Phil 4:13

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@vitaliidodonov MRR

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@LimYiShengBrian This is crazy

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@peternoszek hahaha

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨NEWS: Cursor’s $50B “in-house model” is literally Kimi K2.5 with RL on top. Got caught in 24 hours

>be Moonshot AI
>spend hundreds of millions training Kimi K2.5
>1 trillion parameters, 15 trillion tokens, agent swarm architecture
>beat GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 on real benchmarks
>open-source it because you believe in the ecosystem
>one condition: display “Kimi K2.5” if you make over $20M/month from it

>Cursor takes the model
>runs RL on coding tasks
>ships it March 19 as “Composer 2”
>blog post: “continued pretraining + scaled reinforcement learning”
>zero mention of Kimi K2.5
>“our in-house models generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world”
>publishes benchmark chart
>Composer 2 against Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4
>uses the chart to justify raising at $50 billion!

>less than 24 hours later
>kimi dev intercepts the API response
>model ID: kimi-k2p5-rl-0317-s515-fast
>they didn’t even rename it
>Moonshot head of pretraining runs tokenizer test
>confirms: identical to Kimi’s tokenizer
>publicly tags Cursor’s co-founder: “why aren’t you respecting our license?”
>two more Moonshot employees post confirmations
>all three posts deleted within hours
>legal is now involved

>but it gets worse
>Cursor had Kimi K2.5 listed as a FREE model in their UI just weeks ago
>users were openly using it
>Feb 9: “K2.5 was in my model list. I updated and it vanished”
>it vanished because Cursor pulled it from the picker, and relaunched it as their own model

>Moonshot valuation: $4.3B
>Cursor valuation: $50B

Absolute state of Cursor.

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@roasblender @CharlieCannon9 Wtf

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Just landed in San Francisco to build a startup with my friends at @draper_u
Excited to meet founders, creators, and builders in Silicon Valley. Let’s link up!

Follow along if you want to see the journey unfold

#StartupLife #Founders #SiliconValley #DraperU #BuildingInPublic #TechStartups

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@civilianweb3 HIIIII

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@bentist @BrettFromDJ Something like a bereal?

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@bentist @BrettFromDJ Personally thinking if there’s a social media app that filters out this ai slop. No to the death of the internet haha

[elroy @elroy_chua]

Marketers & creators, what's the most painful part of working with clients or collabs? Revisions? Payments? Burnout? Misaligned expectations?

I'm building a tool to solve this, but what to hear from your first.
Drop your pain points below 👇

#buildinpublic #creatoreconomy #marketingtwitter #agencylife

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@LimYiShengBrian Sheesh let’s go

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@mikefutia Sora

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@audiencon @vercel Digital Ocean. Muchhhh cheaper. Love Vercel tho...

[elroy @elroy_chua]

Quick q for founders/operators.

If you were starting fresh today—would you go B2C, B2B, or a hybrid (B2C + Enterprise)?

For context: I’m a software engineer with limited sales connections. Super new, eager to learn, and want to hear from people who’ve been there. 🚀

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@georgesttock This is insanneeeeee NANO

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@levelsio @PierreDeWulf @ScrapingBee This is so awesome 👏👏👏

[Mehraj @mehrajdesign]

These are my recent Hero Section designs, and I’m giving them ALL away!

Get the Figma files for FREE

Here’s how:
• Like this post
• Repost it
• Comment ‘Hero’ below

I’ll DM you the link, just make sure you’re following me so I can send it over!

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@mehrajdesign Hero

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Launched my first ever YouTube post! Scary and daunting, but proud nonetheless. Give it a watch!

Link: https://t.co/py54O70i7k

#softwareengineer #development #youtube #vlog #launch