Jared welch

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

My political stance is buy Bitcoin

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

Hearing @BenWilsonTweets tell @davidsenra his favorite book is Enders game and he reads it every year is awesome. I do the same. One of my favorite books ever

[Tibo @tibo_maker]

AI was supposed to make us work less

I've never been this tired in my life

most days I have up to 10 agents running at the same time. one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something I already forgot I asked for, 3 other I have no idea what they are doing but i suppose i ask it?

and I jump from conversation to conversation all day

compared to 5 years ago, I probably context switch 100x more

by the end of the day my brain is fried. completely toasted. nothing left, not even for the people I love

I call it the fried brain effect

thought it was just me but almost every founder I talk to lately says the exact same thing

we got superpowers, and somehow the pressure only went up. if you can ship 10x more, you feel like you have to ship 10x more. every single day

I don't have a solution

honestly I have no idea where this goes from here

anyone else feeling this?

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

It’s humbling how much worse you can be at some things but also really good at others. Always good to balance being a novice with some mastery as well.

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

AI really makes it easy to create random scripts I run once then never look at again. Not sure if that is a bad thing though

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

The misleading thing about vibe coding is that truly great products take time even if you can build it quickly users still have to use it

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

To be fair, I still think Luna / Terra are AMAZING models for their value and tasks. Opus 5.5 is just so GOOD at saving the tokens that you can run it for all your tasks and not run out in 5 hours. It's THAT efficient. Throw in commands to use subagents for things and 🚀

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

I used to love openai models luna / terra and prefer them over claude opus 5 and earlier.

but this most recent update of opus 5.5 is a great lesson to not lock in.

The amount of token efficiency with this model is insane and more productive than sol and astra by far.

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

Seeing the same. Astra was unusable and wasted all my tokens and said “sorry your usage is up and I’m not halfway”

Gpt Luna is better than Astra

[kache @yacineMTB]

I can't stand astra. Literal dog shit model

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

I’m ahead of Tobi here. I had chat make me a rust based disk usage tool almost day one. Who doesn’t hate du?

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Was wondering where my disk space went.
Therefore this exists now. You can simply wish software into existence.

[Jacob Moreno @jacob_moreno_]

The first "TACOOO TUESDAYYY" of the LeBron Sixers era. This is special.

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

Agree here. Astra is over engineering and not token efficient. But it might resolve to good outcomes if you can afford to run it long enough. YMMV

[dax @thdxr]

a portion of our team has gone back to Sol

astra is good and can do some novel things but it has some downsides

and so far our effective spend looks doubled so tough to justify

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

Somthing that is hard for me to reconcile is that great products require time to compound and improve.

But building a startup is exciting because of the growth and novelty.

I love building and making things. But making an amazing thing isn’t enough if no one knows about it

[189 @liljuuliet]

was showing my normie friends codex and how you can just make whatever you want and they literally didn’t give a fuck

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

there is no doubt that astra is an amazing model.

it also is clearly the first milestone model where using it for normal use cases seems like a complete waste.

It is too fucking expensive on usage. Seriously. I can get like 1 task every 5 hour limit window. back to sol i guess

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

Astra is pretty awesome but very token heavy.

I had it make a blazing fast file system disk usage tool. Anaylzed my whole Mac disk space in 19 seconds.

The era of agents making me command line tools continues. Very cool

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

Don’t have astra access yet :(

“Chat, loop all day and tell me if I have astra access”

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

Build cool stuff and share it. Learn from others building cool stuff. Thats all I wanna do

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

What do people use for agent documentation?

Like you have a project and you want to tell an agent how to use it.

Readme or agent.md means I have to edit and update the file all the time. Need something realtime and helps save on token context

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

DHH and Omarchy is so fun.

Same with rails, I see this Linux OS focus as a similar idea of making software fun and beautiful.

With all the AI slop, I hope more of the ambitious ideas like Omarchy continue to bubble up.

Make coding fun again

[Jared welch @JaredBWelch]

Focus is the biggest thing separating people and their output

So easy to spend a lot of time for not that much value.

Focus helps you pick the most important things to do and do them

The cheaper thinking is with AI, the more important focus becomes