Ruben Meul

Tweets about AI, tech, coffee, productivity hacks.

[Ruben Meul @rubenmeul]

Someone built a site that scans your SaaS and tells you how likely it is to be replaced by a Claude Skill. Which is, quite literally, a markdown file.
If your product is a workflow layer on top of something an LLM can do natively... what's your moat?
https://t.co/qpol4sBsRs

[Ruben Meul @rubenmeul]

Vibe coding introduced a problem I didn't have before: constant micro context switches.

Every prompt has a 30-90 second gap. Too short to do real work, too long to sit still. So you check something, open another tab, lose your train of thought.

[Ruben Meul @rubenmeul]

@levelsio The Tesla post is a nice way to say; “the decision is postponed again”.
Even though I really hope it will finally be approved that day 🤞

[Ruben Meul @rubenmeul]

The vibe gap: productivity up, understanding down, vibes immaculate.

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@zuess05 Frontend dev

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TIL batch processing for LLMs is basically "I don't need this now, just get back to me" and it costs half as much. Why was I running everything real-time again?

[Ruben Meul @rubenmeul]

If you're building with LLMs and not using prompt caching, you're literally paying to re-read the same book every single API call. Cache your system prompts & context. Cut costs up to 90%. It's one of the most underrated optimizations out there.

[Ruben Meul @rubenmeul]

PSA: Claude Cowork quietly eats ~12 GB of disk space when enabled. That's a 10.8 GB VM bundle just sitting in ~/Library/Application Support/Claude. Might want to keep an eye on that if you're running low on storage. 👀

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

@JustBroOnX don't waste time with crypto

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@ay_ushr Hire fast, fire slow 🙃

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[Ruben Meul @rubenmeul]

@Tobby_scraper What you do: build
What you should do: talk

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Indie hackers celebrating $10k MRR on a 3-week-old AI wrapper is like celebrating a marriage on the first date.

At least wait for the churn data before you tattoo that number on your Twitter bio.

[Ruben Meul @rubenmeul]

The "1% better every day = 37x in a year" crowd ignores that going from 90 to 91 is ten times harder than going from 10 to 11.

Growth isn't compound interest. It's plateaus you break through by changing HOW you improve.

The formula is a lie. The habit isn't.

[Ruben Meul @rubenmeul]

v0 pro tip: iterate on UI with dummy data first. Real DBs and CRUD add complexity—and credits burn faster.

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[Sam Altman @sama]

Let yourself occasionally get a little screwed in exchange for not having to live with your guard up all the time. It’s worth it.

[Ruben Meul @rubenmeul]

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