In july 2020 I sent this message in a whatsapp group:
"stop learning python. it's over."
"programmers are the factory workers of the 21st century"
everyone laughed. gpt-3 had just come out and could barely string a sentence together.
6 years later⦠we went from incoherent gibberish to whole working systems.
my own job has changed every few months. I skipped autocomplete entirely. went to claude code. then tab enter. then dangerously-skip-permissions. then voice. then 20 agents running in parallel talking to each other.
most people don't see it yet:
- people stop noticing AI improvements once the AI gets smarter than them
- baselines reset fast. what was magic last year is just a regular tuesday now
- you can't make someone understand something their paycheck depends on not understanding.
smart nerd jobs are where AI dominates. math, programming, data science, β¦ anything with a dense feedback loop where you can check the answer quickly.
the actual edge is the messy stuff.. taste, judgement, sales, investing, negotiation, frontier science.
these domains have sparse reward signals. ground truth is disputed. the stakes are too high to yolo.
this is where the money pools. when intelligence gets cheap, everything that can't be copied gets expensive. land. energy. attention. trust. taste. the humans who can operate under genuine uncertainty. anything with a hard ceiling on supply.
the rest commoditises.
you say "but I'm a 10x engineer". you think progress just stops right here?
I stopped identifying as a programmer or ML engineer. I build a business now. and I spend more time on the stuff that makes us human.
it was never about the tools, the language, the framework. you overfitted on stuff that was always going to commoditise.
adaptability was always the whole game. that's what humans do. we just have a serious competitor now.
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posted https://t.co/BpNDXueRrR on hackernews and it stayed on the show hn page all day
vibecoded some pretty cool new featurs all day
then checked and only 1 person clicked on it
but hopefully in the long run our programmatic seo starts working
I need to be careful not to get lost in feature creep again. only build stuff if genuinely useful
and always prioritise marketing and finding product market fit first
little secret: being a successful founder is more about personal growth and fixing your own bullshit (trauma, anxieties, mental stuff) than anything else.
just quit my job
gonna live on savings
gonna figure out how to make money
1 year to successful startup
no more excuses
thanks @levelsio@robj3d3@tdinh_me@marclou for the inspiration
I'm changing how I think about building a startup
I really believe you should just provide as much value as possible for free
as quickly as possible
without building for months
that's how I'm building https://t.co/2oGChfuNyt now
Finally gotten around to adding AI videos to ClipPanda.
The tech wasn't there yet but now it's getting pretty good.
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