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Live, laugh, launch:
🏡 vibe landscaping - $19 MRR
+2D desktop app
😎

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@navinpeiris @RhysSullivan

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When a new LLM is released

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With vibe coding you can have unlimited unfinished side projects. But maybe it can help people learn the importance of distribution the hard way, yet faster

[Jason Cohen @asmartbear]

"I'm building 12 startups in 12 months"

You mean 12 projects in 12 months.

With only a month of attention on each, it's almost impossible for any to become a "startup."

Do you feel bad for the 7 customers of each, that they're using an abandoned project?

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Do astronauts burn their trash like some of my neighbors? 🤔

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"I really like the designs overall that were generated. Much better than other platforms I tried."

Getting such feedback on a side project(AI landscape design) is very motivating.

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I can review anything just fine, what the heck is he talking about.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

My gf is banned from reviewing places in Europe on Google Maps after she gave one restaurant in Portugal a 1-star review

When she reviews inside EU it gets auto rejected, outside EU she can review any place

Free speech in Europe has sadly died a long time ago

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Hot take, Claude's memory feature is one of the most annoying things ever.

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💔 @Azure

[Romain de Wolff @romaindewolff]

I almost killed my company on Friday.

$90,000. One Azure bill. Gone.

Let me tell you what happened because I think founders need to hear this.

We built an amazing document intelligence system at Whisperit. It analyzes our customers' files: PDFs, Word docs, scanned documents, using OCR. It works beautifully and user love it.

But we had a bug.

A small email with a zip file. Inside the zip, a PDF. Some weird edge case that created an infinite loop in our code. The virtual machine would crash, restart, and try to reprocess the same document. Again. And again. And again.

We pay more than one cent per page processed.

You can imagine what happened next.

I saw the graph and my stomach dropped. An exponential spike. The kind of curve you want to see on your revenue chart (!!) not your cloud bill. The forecast for next month said $400,000+.

I thought: this must be a mistake.

Emergency 🚨. Check everything. It wasn't a mistake.

The worst part? We had a warning. Back in November we had a $25K unusual spike. We fixed it. Added upload limits. I thought we were safe.

But I never set a spending cap on Azure. Never set up alerts for unusual usage. I knew I should. I just didn't do it.

I went through every stage:

Denial → "this can't be right"
Anger → screaming at myself
Shame → feeling small, really small
Tears → first time in a long time

I cried that evening. Not because of the money, because I imagined having to close Whisperit. My team. Everything we built. Gone because of one missing setting and my stupidity.

The week had been incredible. New version shipping. Lots of new users. Sales going well. Migration going well. Growing the team responsibly. And then Friday hit like a truck.

Remember my last post about mistakes? Yeah. We're still making them. Bigger ones.

$90,000 is the price of a NICE car. Paid for a bug and a missing checkbox.

Here's what I'm doing RIGHT NOW so this never happens again:

1. Hard spending limits on every cloud service — no exceptions
2. Alerts at 50%, 80%, 100% of expected spend
3. Circuit breakers in our processing pipeline — if a document fails 3 times, it stops
4. Weekly cloud cost review — not monthly, weekly
5. Every API endpoint gets a budget ceiling

If you're a founder reading this:

Go set your spending limits. Today. Right now. Before your next meeting. Before your next coffee. It takes 10 minutes and it could save your company.

We move fast. That's our superpower. But speed without guardrails is a bomb with a timer.

I know what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I really hope this one doesn't kill me.

Still standing. Barely. Building. 🚀

[Florin Makes @florinmakes]

@AnthonyDo looks too ambiguous... she might get another idea 🤣

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Token Maxing = Bug Maxing

I think this is a dangerous trend. There needs to be a balance between no AI for dev and trying to use as many tokens as possible.

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*tokens

[Navin Peiris @navinpeiris]

Almost half a billion tokens saved on Claude Code over the past few weeks 😱

For any one not using rtk, I would strongly recommend at least having a look!

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@praeclarum People can just ask for it to count manually how many R’s are in each file and if should keep it busy for a while and burn though tokens

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notebook here:
https://t.co/wQ728ZAdNQ

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Google Colab lets you use an Nvidia T4 GPU for free, enough to run Qwen 3.5 9B at 4-bit quantization. A modern 9B LLM.

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@deifosv Thanks!🙏

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When the internet goes down, your ChatGPT subscription is worthless.
As a thought experiment I made a 50-line Python script that gives you an AI chat that runs entirely offline.

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https://t.co/1bgkeATvf6

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@marcba @DevTalksRo I would accept apples as barter

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@AnthonyDo I do miss office banter though... but traffic is not worth it haha

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@deifosv this guy ships👆