> be Kimi Founder
> 32 years old
> peers are choosing corporate jobs
> you're building AI infrastructure from scratch
> China. no English press. no Western hype.
> raise $2B. hit $20B valuation. quietly.
> nobody outside China writes your name
> invent a new optimizer. 2x more efficient than the industry standard.
> build 300-agent parallel systems. 4,000 steps. 12 hours straight.
> open source. free. beats the models everyone pays $200/month for.
> one afternoon you sit down
> record 40 minutes
> give the entire playbook away for free
> the math. the architecture. the decisions.
> a week later Western developers find it
> "wait. this exists?"
> "wait. it's free?"
> "wait. it beats Claude?"
> you were already on the next version
> they were just catching up
> different game.
clipboard image → ssh → tmux → opencode
this wasn't possible before since you can't "paste" anything into a tmuxed ssh session
so i built a friendly, and intuitive workaround
i probably won't open source this, since it's pretty niche but let me know what you think
The 'vibecoding' hype is officially hitting a wall. We have passed the peak of inflated expectations regarding AI eliminating all software developers.
David Sacks recently broke down the reality check the tech industry is facing, citing insights from Aaron Levie and Matthew Yglesias. The consensus is shifting: people do not actually want to 'vibe code' their own complex applications.
The real consumer demand is simple. We want professionally managed software companies to leverage AI coding assistants to build better, cheaper products. The translation is straightforward: just lower your prices, do not make the end user vibe code.
While agentic coding is an undeniable boon for professional developers looking to scale their output, and fantastic for beginners learning the ropes, it breaks down when casually building complex software. Casual users are not equipped to take on the ongoing risks of system upgrades, routine maintenance, bugs, and cyber security threats.
Chamath Palihapitiya takes it a step further, calling this casual approach to enterprise software a massive risk rather than just a tax on knowledge workers. He predicts that we will eventually see a public company completely torch its enterprise value because someone tried to vibe code their way out of a problem, leading to inevitable firings.
As Jason Calacanis points out, this is exactly how the technology adoption lifecycle works. The industry is currently moving from the peak of inflated expectations down into the trough of disillusionment. AI agents will eventually climb the slope of enlightenment and become a highly productive standard, but the idea of replacing the entire professional developer workforce overnight was just a phase in the cycle.
FT: @theallinpod@jason@davidsacks@chamath@friedberg
Using AI "non-technical teams are now shipping production code"
Well, that's not what you want to hear for a financial product.
Coinbase drinking the kool-aid so hard if they think people want to store assets on an exchange that does that.
Let alone one that took pretty poor steps around user data security in the past.
it frustrates me to no end that making "know how to use tmux and a vps" a job requirement would make it impossible to hire people
so many of the "software engineers" in our industry are completely uninterested in pursuing excellence
- Codex $100 plan
- Opencode Go $5 plan
this might be the ABSOLUTE BEST bang for your buck in AI right now, opencode models are solely for frontend because codex currently sucks at it, everything else code related is codex
I think this is undefeated for now
@dhh Do you think ONCE or Kamal is a better fit for other devs looking to leave the cloud, or is the answer as simple as single vs multi server deployments?
Slowmaxxing is my new favorite thing to think about
- Read a physical book
- Go for a walk w/o listening to a podcast
- Eat food w/o watching a tv show
- Write using a pen and paper
- Get a pot plant or 10; tend to a garden
- Work hard on a single task
- Watch a movie w/o looking at your phone
2026 is the year of being slow
Dell XPS 14 IPS with Panther Lake on Omarchy 3.5 is a battery monster. 28h 30m left with just a 61% battery?? That's 46 hours on a full charge(!!!). Portal to another world indeed.
I'm not joking, I had Claude write a big batch of code last night.
I am troubleshooting rn.
I asked it to review, It said this is trash code and it needs completely reworked.
We are spending credits to run in circles.
If I could give you one success life hack.
And trust me. I literally have a hyperbaric healing chamber in my house. I take life hacks seriously.
If I could give you one tho. It'd be this.
Grab a bunch of epic fantasy books as thick as your head. Replace all your TV and social media time reading them.
Your brain will slowly start to work again. The focus from reading the thick ass wordy books will slowly put it back together.
Sanderson. Abercrombie. Gaimman. Pierce Brown. Great places to start.
Replacing this as your main time wasting hobby will give you absolutely crazy returns when it comes to actually making money. The focus you gain will make you lethal.
this is the easiest way to get your first 100 users:
> go to https://t.co/TR3rySZQV4
> drop your product url
> add keywords your ideal users care about
> it monitors reddit 24/7, finds relevant threads, and drafts authentic replies you can post
I have had a lot of fun lately letting Claude fully control my old ThinkPad.
This finally feels like the correct way to interact with computers, like something’s been missing this entire time until now.
Give Claude a laptop to live in, you won’t regret it.
Coding is dead. Engineering is not.
If you knew React + CSS in 2020, you were set.
Companies threw money at you.
Fast forward to 2026.
If you’re still just writing buttons and fetching data manually, you won’t survive.
Here’s the brutal truth.
AI writes code faster and better than most developers.
Tutorial hell won’t save you. If it takes you 6+ months to “learn” Next.js, you’re fooling yourself.
Your value equals problems solved divided by time taken.
The reality.
Code is cheap. Engineering is expensive.
Your value equals problems solved divided by time taken.
Start being an AI full stack engineer who architects, reviews, and ships products.
That’s the shift.