Kevin Alsterda

Building a custom merch marketplace @ upmerch

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

Been using Claude Code for 4.5 months, have never hit the 5 hour usage limit.

Today, hit the 5 hour usage limit twice without any increased usage over normal load.

Did something change?

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

haha completely accurate!

[Kr$na @krishdotdev]

The new development cycle in one image.

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

New best practice when working with Claude:

“send me 3 side by side examples as an HTML artifact”.

Works so good for improving design!

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

Precisely

[Luke Pierce @lukepierceops]

Starbucks spends $400 million a year on software. Yesterday they announced they're moving off IBM and Microsoft to build their own custom systems in-house.

IBM dropped 3% and Salesforce dropped 4% on the news.

And honestly this is, unequivocally, the biggest signal I've seen since OpenAI and Anthropic launched their consulting arms back in Q1. The largest companies in the world are done paying for software that half fits how they work.

We saw this coming about a year ago. Moved everything we build off Airtable and low-code tools and went fully custom. Already paying off, and it's only going to compound from here.

This is the opportunity right now.

You get all of a company's data into one system. You build out a single operating system for the entire business. You cut out bad, redundant processes. Then you layer AI on top of it, under the correct processes.

That's the core of AI consulting. Helping companies actually operate better.

There are a lot of fly-by-night offerings circulating right now when it comes to Ai Services.

For example, 'second brains'.

Throwing scattered data into a second brain while the processes underneath stay broken does nothing. The companies who will absolutely destroy their competition over the next 5 years are rebuilding how they work from the ground up.

Starbucks is showing you what other companies will be doing over the next several years.

Your job is to position yourself to facilitate that process for as many companies as you can.

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

@Samaytwt On your iPhone, try searching “Calendar”. Same result!

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

The current Y is the best overall car I've ever owned, and I've owned plenty across the spectrum. Nothing's even close.

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

@adamnmichel @scottlincicome @AmyOtto8 Converting a Trump Account to a Roth IRA can boost retirement savings by $1.2m

https://t.co/OI8K766RNn

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

Trump Accounts are now the best vehicle to maximize your child’s retirement savings.

Not opening a Trump Account could cost your child $1.2m at retirement.

But there’s a catch…

*Only* opening a Trump Account could cost your child $600k at retirement.

Here’s the 4 step playbook to compound your child’s way to $5.3m tax free:

**I've read a lot of FUD about Trump Accounts the last few days. Since investing in your child's future is a big decision & I'm not an investment expert, I decided to do some research with Fable to better understand it. I haven't seen this anywhere else, so I figured I'd share what I found. If something's incorrect, please let me know.

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

If your 2026 roadmap and forecast from January still applies today, you’re moving too slow. You should have thrown it out the window by now. Welcome to H2

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

@mattsly @altcap @mattsly your concerns are solved by moving the Trump Account funds to a ROTH IRA, paying a one time tax at age 22

https://t.co/SjOJZFHlO0

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

Trump Accounts are now the best vehicle to maximize your child’s retirement savings.

Not opening a Trump Account could cost your child $1.2m at retirement.

But there’s a catch…

*Only* opening a Trump Account could cost your child $600k at retirement.

Here’s the 4 step playbook to compound your child’s way to $5.3m tax free:

**I've read a lot of FUD about Trump Accounts the last few days. Since investing in your child's future is a big decision & I'm not an investment expert, I decided to do some research with Fable to better understand it. I haven't seen this anywhere else, so I figured I'd share what I found. If something's incorrect, please let me know.

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

Just realized I no longer get spam in @X's chat, nice work! 0 spam in the last few months, I used to get multiple per day.

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

Investment vehicle comparison revealed

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

Trump Accounts are now the best vehicle to maximize your child’s retirement savings.

Not opening a Trump Account could cost your child $1.2m at retirement.

But there’s a catch…

*Only* opening a Trump Account could cost your child $600k at retirement.

Here’s the 4 step playbook to compound your child’s way to $5.3m tax free:

**I've read a lot of FUD about Trump Accounts the last few days. Since investing in your child's future is a big decision & I'm not an investment expert, I decided to do some research with Fable to better understand it. I haven't seen this anywhere else, so I figured I'd share what I found. If something's incorrect, please let me know.

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

RESULT: $5.3M at 60, all tax-free

Total cost =
$120K from parents
$315K from the kid
$22K tax bill at 24

Full report: https://t.co/bVNUkDabhM

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

@AndrewCurran_ https://t.co/lcipmYV5dC

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

@AndrewCurran_ https://t.co/lcipmYV5dC

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

@AndrewCurran_ What makes you think China will allow Mythos capable models be released?

[Kevin Alsterda @KAlsterda]

@bygregorr @rohil_ag @cursor_ai Agents.md and Claude.md do the same thing, just copy the content over