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"I was a fool." Elon Musk In a stunning moment in federal court today, Elon admitted under oath that he feels like a fool for donating $44M to start OpenAI. Why? Because he built it to save humanity, only to watch it become an $800B "closed-source" giant for Microsoft. But here’s the Vision…. He’s not just complaining; he’s correcting. He’s suing for $150B in damages and demanding OpenAI return to its non-profit roots. Elon isn't fighting for the money, he's fighting for the original mission. If he wins, the AI world shifts back to the people. 🛡️🦾 Are you with the "Fool" who cares, or the "Genius" who sells? 👇 #OpenAITrial #ElonMusk #MuskVisionHub01

MuskVisionHub01's tweet photo. "I was a fool."
Elon Musk
In a stunning moment in federal court today, Elon admitted under oath that he feels like a fool for donating $44M to start OpenAI. Why? Because he built it to save humanity, only to watch it become an $800B "closed-source" giant for Microsoft.

But here’s the Vision…. He’s not just complaining; he’s correcting. He’s suing for $150B in damages and demanding OpenAI return to its non-profit roots.

Elon isn't fighting for the money, he's fighting for the original mission. If he wins, the AI world shifts back to the people. 🛡️🦾
Are you with the "Fool" who cares, or the "Genius" who sells? 👇 #OpenAITrial #ElonMusk #MuskVisionHub01

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Noah

@NoahKingJr

28 days ago

"We used to review every line of code before it went into production"

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The Secret Developer @TheSDeveloper

26 days ago

@dohypemyhustle @NoahKingJr Yes, as we must

The Secret Developer @TheSDeveloper

28 days ago

@eng_khairallah1 What is this code of which you speak?

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Peter Girnus 🦅

@gothburz

3 months ago

Last month I founded an AI startup. I can't code. That used to be a problem. Now it's a "founder advantage." I call myself a "vibe coder." That means I describe what I want to an LLM and paste whatever it gives me. I don't read it. Reading code is for people who write code. I write prompts. My first prompt was "build me a SaaS platform." It built something. I deployed it. I don't know where. But it has a URL and that's enough for a seed round. I raised $2.3 million. The pitch deck said "AI-native architecture." That means Claude wrote it. All of it. The architecture. The deck. The financial projections. I prompted "make the projections look ambitious but believable." It hallucinated a $40M ARR by year two. That's not believable. But VCs don't do math. They do vibes. Hence the term. My CTO is also me. I put it on LinkedIn. "Non-technical founder serving as CTO." Someone commented "that's brave." It's not brave. It's just that engineers cost $200K and prompts cost $20 a month. I have 14,000 lines of code. I 've read none of them. But I did ask Claude to "review the code for quality." It said the code was "well-structured and clean." It wrote the code. Of course it said that. That's like asking your barber if you need a haircut. A security researcher DMed me. Said my app had a path traversal vulnerability. I didn't know what that meant. I pasted his message into Claude. Claude said "this is a serious security concern." I prompted "fix it." It changed something. I deployed it. The researcher DMed me again. He said I'd introduced three more vulnerabilities. I blocked him. Problem solved. That's founder mentality. I hired my first employee. Also a vibe coder. His resume said "built 200+ applications." He meant he clicked "accept" in Cursor 200 times. But that's experience now. We pair program. That means we sit next to each other and prompt the same LLM from different laptops. Sometimes we get different answers. We pick whichever one runs without a visible error. Visible is doing a lot of work in that sentence. We don't have tests. Tests are for code you understand. We have "confidence." Confidence means it loaded once in Chrome. We shipped to production on a Friday. Everyone said don't ship on Friday. But we don't have monitoring. So every day is the same. If a server crashes in the cloud and nobody's watching the logs, does it make a sound? Philosophically no. Financially also no. Because we don't have logging either. A customer reported that the app was "leaking data." I said "leaking is a strong word." He said his API keys were visible in the page source. I said "that's a feature for power users." He cancelled. I marked it as churn due to "product-market fit recalibration." We process payments. I asked Claude to "add Stripe." It added Stripe. I think. The money arrives somewhere. Most months it arrives in our account. I don't ask about the other months. Our database has no authentication. I didn't ask for it. The LLM didn't suggest it. We're in an open relationship with our users' data. They just don't know it yet. Someone found our database on Shodan. I didn't know what Shodan was. Now I do. So do 40,000 other people. Including our users. Former users. I went on a podcast. The host asked my "tech stack." I said "mostly Claude and whatever npm packages it feels like installing." He laughed. I wasn't joking. There are 847 dependencies in our package.json. I recognize none of them. One of them is from 2016 and hasn't been updated since. It's probably fine. "Probably fine" is our internal SLA. We got accepted into an accelerator. The application asked about our "moat." I said "speed of execution." Speed of execution means I can mass-produce bugs faster than anyone can find them. That is technically a moat. The demo day is next week. I need the app to work for eleven minutes. After that it can do whatever it wants. It usually does. I'm raising a Series A. $12 million. The deck says "built by a team of elite engineers." The team is me, a guy who also can't code, and an LLM that doesn't know we're in production. But we move fast. We break things. Mostly our own things. Sometimes other people's things. We'll figure out the difference later. I still can't code. But I have a mass-producing liability factory that works some of the time. In 2026, that's called a company. And the graph goes up and to the right. Because I asked Claude to make sure it does.

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