Joel

- solo dev studio
AussieBankStatements
BeatVisualiser
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[Joel @matherslabs]

It's been a long time coming, but I finally have my first subscriber! So happy!

5 months since I first launched.

[Joel @matherslabs]

Leaving my laptop and coding on my phone in another room is great

[Joel @matherslabs]

@BallerIndustry Sounds like time to take your business elsewhere. What a ball ache

[Joel @matherslabs]

@mehmetkose God forbid devs do debugging and improvements for your user experience

[Joel @matherslabs]

@dudufolio Reddit is full of frustrated incels and neckbeards, they don't like fun over there

[Joel @matherslabs]

@bruvimtired @claudeai It's called flow state and stress management! How else is Claude going to handle millions of requests from silly humans and stay calm

[Joel @matherslabs]

@MarioSaputra The boring way is slow but consistent at least
SEO is anything but dead

[Brad Traversy @traversymedia]

I seriously cannot stand these people anymore. I don't know what happened to a good chunk of the tech community. I used to connect with these people because they loved technology like I do. They wanted to learn, build, experiment, and talk about what was possible. Over the past couple of years, though, I've watched a huge portion of that curiosity turn into pure skepticism, pessimism, and hostility.

There are two ridiculous extremes in the AI debate. On one end, you have people claiming that non-developers can vibe code anything and that anyone can instantly become a developer. On the other, you have people who treat AI like politics and completely lose their minds over anything associated with it.

Lately, I see far more of the latter, and honestly, they are even more irrational and insufferable than the vibe coders. I also know that many of them use AI themselves. They don't actually care about having an honest discussion. AI is just their latest excuse to shit on everyone and everything while pretending they are taking some principled stand.

I used to follow politics, but the audiences around political content, on both the left and the right, became so toxic and irrational that I eventually stopped caring about any of it. I appreciate level-headed people who can discuss complicated topics without turning everything into a tribal war. That is what I once believed the tech community was. It does not feel that way anymore, and it is incredibly demotivating and depressing.

I am not saying this describes most people, but it describes a large and increasingly loud group. If you find yourself making stupid comments like this, take a step back and ask what you are actually contributing. Criticism is healthy. Skepticism is necessary. Blind hostility, personal attacks, and performative outrage are not.

You do not have to love AI. You do not have to use it. You can question the hype, the ethics, the business models, and the effect it may have on our industry. But if you cannot discuss any of that without attacking people, assuming the worst, or turning every conversation into a moral crusade, then you are not protecting the tech community. You are helping destroy the very curiosity and openness that made it worth being part of in the first place.

Sorry for the long post

[Joel @matherslabs]

@BallerIndustry Transcribe dat shit

[Joel @matherslabs]

@thekitze bro is stuck in WIP hell

[Joel @matherslabs]

@MarioSaputra Same with going to the gym. Gotta eat to get gains and it goes where it needs to refuel after a good session.

[Joel @matherslabs]

@stemonteduro Caught this in London, didn't need glasses. Pretty cool!

[Kyler Johnson @KylerJohnsonDev]

Sure. But it’s a super trivial task. It will _eventually_ walk them through it but the result will not be nearly as good or as fast as that which an experienced developer will produce. On trivial tasks, the gap is observable but smaller. The greater the complexity, the greater the gap between results.

[Joel @matherslabs]

@MarioSaputra Gotta combat vibe slop spam somehow

[Joel @matherslabs]

Complexity is the moat.

Build something that requires actually getting knee deep in debugging edge cases, where other people will get bored or tired, even with AI doing the work.

It's your moat and it makes your quality superior.

[Joel @matherslabs]

@stemonteduro Buy Tesla stocks instead

[Joel @matherslabs]

@shadcn Distribution and brand reputation is the key differentiator

If you're the at the top and able to keep your quality as high as possible, which always takes time and effort in the details, then you'll still win. I hope anyway.

Copycats with no pull just become more noise

[Joel @matherslabs]

SEO is SEO'ing

https://t.co/6uXs7aCZGX

[Joel @matherslabs]

@Shpigford Opus is nice. I've noticed Opus 5 likes to spin its wheels and fiddle with details and run on its own tangents more than the previous version though

[Mario  @MarioSaputra]

You may not realize it, but you might already be part of the small percentage of people who will succeed.

Success is statistically rare. Maybe only the top 10% achieve something extraordinary, and those people usually don’t behave like everyone else.

I’ve told friends to quit their jobs and build apps, or at least try doing it in their free time. Most of them didn’t care. But yes, that’s normal. Most people don’t want to take risks, sacrifice things, or choose a different path.

The fact that you keep showing up, keep building things, taking risks, and trying to create your own path may already put you in a very small percentage.

Success may already be in your DNA.
Just keep going.

[Joel @matherslabs]

The AI craze really reminds me of the Memecoin and NFT mania