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the only moat left is the love of the game

[tobi lutke @tobi]

It’s feeling really magical inside of Shopify right now. It’s clearly the greatest time in the history of tech industry right now. I hope it feels similar everywhere else.

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@gokulr Mercor

[Tobias van Schneider @vanschneider]

There is *a lot* of software that hasn’t been built across hundreds of industries because our best paid designers and engineers were occupied with building social networks and ad networks.

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." — Jeff Hammerbacher

Meanwhile, huge parts of the physical economy were left running on spreadsheets, email, paper forms, ancient desktop software and enterprise systems installed sometime around 1999. They still use it today.

Construction. Manufacturing. Logistics. Agriculture. Waste management. Energy. Shipping. Maintenance. Laboratories. Local government. Field services. Industrial equipment. Healthcare administration. The list is endless.

A lot of these places were simply too small, too "unsexy" or too expensive to serve with traditional software economics, especially after engineers became one of the best paid career choice.

But small teams can now build specialized tools for markets that previously couldn’t justify the best of the best engineering talent.

And even further, lets not forget about all the terrible enterprise software out there owned by massive corporations who locked in clients since the late 90s and didn't change a single thing since then. All these companies are completely vendor locked due to switching cost, but that switching cost is slowly disappearing.

Maybe I am too optimistic here, but there are entire industries still waiting for their first piece of software that is truly designed for the people using it.

The opportunities right now are endless.

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@arnesh_11 pretty cool

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@at_fome Biologists having their “AI can’t actually code moment”

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@Spidey_707 “MAIT 28” brother you are in still in college😭

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never seen someone as braindead as nimo

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@aadyasha07 never fails to push his agenda

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@pranvtwt Looks awesome, thanks man!

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kimi k3 in opencode go is guzzling my usage like there's no tomorrow.
back to DS4 flash i guess

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https://t.co/hfASrnL2Xn

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accidentally turned “watching system design lectures” into a whole pipeline

Wispr Flow transcribes the lecture → I dump it into a Codex skill I made → it spits out a beautiful interactive HTML textbook with diagrams, simulations, tradeoffs, recall questions etc.

way better than the graveyard of .txt transcripts I had before

not a Wispr ad btw, just what I use

[vatsal @vatsalpat]

Luna after the 5x price cut is INSANE VALUE

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after recent fixes, Codex limits seem way better today

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@gdb I love using ChatGPT Work for market research and pressure-testing whether an idea actually has PMF before I spend three weeks building something nobody asked for.

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@owenthcarey gpt 5.6 sol did that already

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@BenjDicken This is gold

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@sahilypatel didn’t the fortnite guys defeat them?

[Pietro Schirano @skirano]

You can now vibe code a language model.

From a single prompt, GPT‑5.6 built the entire training pipeline and trained a model from scratch on my iMessage history. Locally on my Mac.

It now generates replies in my writing style.