Ruslan Lobachev

building people + ai teamwork, ex @mirohq

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

@boardyai helping AI/PE rollups integrate acquisitions faster and build repeatable playbooks. need Boardy Pro for this

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

markdown is the new black

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

claude code teaches you resist async distractions better than any slack

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

@pmitu we're going #3. a cofounder needed not only to build :)

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

pricing and unit economy is the key for the future of ai products

with low margins and usage-scaled, costs both entrepreneurs and investors will start approach software like a completely different kind of business – more like retail, where physics and logistic really matter

no more money out of the void

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

should founders look at their ai businesses as arbitrage games?

i mean → find smth ai can do so valuable for customers so they're ready to pay much more than you'll burn on crazy LLM costs

do it fast until the customers figure out how to do it on their own :)

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

@hwchase17 love it

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

every ai startup turns into a cloud infra business, even if they don't realize it

making an ai product = letting your users run their agentic workflows on the AI compute YOU pay for

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

@stochasticmacaw yeah, probably

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

when are REHABS for people burned out from Claude Code addiction opening?

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

AI flips software economy

Previously: build time (create software) was expensive, run time was almost free

Now: build time is almost free while run time costs scale crazily (the more your product is used the more you SPEND)

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

@dimapyanov can you elaborate?

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

.ai is the new .com

right?

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

@pmitu Depends on the use case:

For me (doing everything from app dev to data analysis or homework) – it's Claude Code, most powerful of universal ones

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

@yashhq_22 Love it

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

@Christophepas cool cases, thanks for sharing. we're finally starting to get those promised 10x startup work accelerations

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

@pmitu Sponge turns conversations into actions

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

Fast iteration isn’t about better prompts. It’s about better feedback loops.

Our loop in Claude Code:
- new branch per experiment
- define goal as a /command
- command must ask for feedback, reflect, and rewrite itself

Human + AI learn together. Iterations compound.

[Ruslan Lobachev @ruslan_lobachev]

Vibe coding can’t kill product engineering

Vibe coding simplifies simple “CRUD-like” apps

However, as more and more capable AI technologies emerge, the frontier of what’s valuable shifts to more and more smart, autonomous, and capable apps and agents

Developing them requires good old strong engineering mindset, regardless of how goals, constraints, hypotheses, tests, iterations are expressed - in code or in English