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I've tried all (24) AI coding agents & IDEs 😵‍💫 [Cursor, Softgen, Windsurf, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Claude, AmazonQ, Pear, Devin, Github Spark, IDX, Webdraw, Tempo, Cline, Continue, Databutton, Base44, Qodo, Aider] The Vibe Coding giga-thread:

AI won't replace the entire profession, but it's replacing the bottom 20-80% in {translation, design, coding, content, marketing,sales,design, operation, account, law} Small teams like mine beat big corporations because AI brings huge leverage for A players Real examples of AI:

Chinese AI startups: 1/6th of US funding, bad press, sanctions, brain drain, communism, little English proficiency, and no talent influx.. But after using Manus AI, Deepseek, Trae, Kling, Vidu, & Ying, I think the US is in trouble. At this pace, China will dominate AI. Demos:

Absolutely nobody predicted this: AI Code is the new NoCode. Honestly, I like talking to AI more than to human developers when building small apps. It understands me better, even with half-baked specs. I've literally tested all AI builders I could find 😑 1/20 🧵 :

After seeing these humanoid robot demos, I bet you'll be convinced that all manual labor will be gone to robots. (even the world's oldest profession will be taken by them). All 26 humanoid robot demos:

I've tried all (46 😵‍💫) AI Coding Agents & IDEs [Factory, Cursor, Heyboss, Windsurf, Emergent, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Canva, Devin, Github Spark, IDX, Stitch & more] The most complete list ever made (with demos & notes):

I've tried all (36) AI Coding Agents & IDEs 😵‍💫 [CreateXyz, Cursor, Softgen, Windsurf, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, AmazonQ, Pear, Devin, Github Spark, IDX, Webdraw, Claude 3.7 Sonnet & more] The most complete list ever made:

If only someone told me this before my 1st startup: 1. Validate. I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed. 2. Kill your EGO. Make your users happy instead of yourself. 3. Don’t chaise investors; chase users, and then investors will chase you. 4...

TLDR (2015-2024): - Elon wanted to stop Demis & Deepmind from creating an AGI dictatorship. - He appointed himself as a CEO. - Greg and Ilya said: but Elon, now can easily become the AGI dictator. - Sam had his own party going, trying to get control, Ilya accused him being driven by money and politics instead of AGI. - Karpathy offered to merge OpenAi into Tesla. Elon liked the idea, others didn’t. - Elon said, let’s merge it with Tesla so that Tesla funds openai and keeps it being non profit. - Sam and Greg decided to find alternative ways to fund the company. - Sam wanted to do an IC0. Elon said it’ll make people think OpenAi is a scam. - They went for Microsoft deal instead. - Elon didn’t like the Microsoft deal and wanted to be the CEO, so he left in 2018 and stopped funding them. - Sam said he is enthusiastic about non profit future and earned CEO title. - Sam turned OpenAI into capped profit - Sam was fired by Ilya for thinking more about monetization than democratization of safe AGi. - Sam was brought back by Satya and Twitter “openai is nothing without its people” - Ilya was fired by Sam - Sam turned openai into for-profit. - Elon started XAI to build his own AgI - Ilya started SSI to build safe AGI - Greg left OpenAI, possibly tried to get into SSI, was rejected and returned back to Sam - But it all doesn’t really matter anymore, since LLMs reached the ceiling of scaling and won’t lead us to the AGI - Sam recently said “I know the worth to AGi now”, which is a fundraising play That’s it. Good night.

The Era of AI Agents began 🫥 I don't know if I'm terrified or excited. see for yourself 🧵:

The Time Has Come for Robots. I build AI Agents to replace office workers, but these demos convince me! All physical labor will be gone to robots, too. (even the world's oldest profession). Just watch it if you disagree. The biggest robot thread ever (50 demos):

What is MCP & why it's a big (huge) deal: (model context protocol) TLDR: MCP makes it possible for AI Tools to use external tools. E.g. Chatbot/IDE/AI-Agent can use Gmail/GoogleDrive/WeatherApp etc. Detailed explanation for both, tech & non tech people (+demos): 1) AI Tools (chatbots, wrappers, agents, code generator, etc) wanna talk to external systems. In pre-MCP world, one would have to write code to connect AI tool to the external system via API. Which meant every connection had to be pre-coded. It also meant that every AI tool had to hard code its connection to every other tool. So if there are 1000 AI tools and 1000 external tools, then 1000000 hard-coded connections via API. 2) MCP is a standard protocol. This means that every AI tool has to implement this once, and then it can connect to thousands of external tools via this protocol. 3) The same goes for external tools. They all have to create an MCP server just once, and all AI tools that support MCP can connect to them. 4) It's a huge deal. Imagine 10k AI tools and 10k external tools now all have to implement MCP just once each. So it's 20k implementations. Versus 10k*10k=100M implementations. 5) This whole thing can also run on the cloud or on local computer. See demos:

Explain me this: Why would American companies hire US based remote employees for $120k-$350k if it’s possible to hire Europeans for $50-$90k? Why Europeans work remotely for local firms if they earn x3 from US remotely? Big unfolding trouble for US employees & EU businesses

AI won't replace entire profession, but it's replacing the bottom 20-80% in {translation, design, coding, content, marketing, sales, design, operation, account, law} Micro teams like mine beat corporations because AI brings huge leverage for A players Real examples of AI:

I automated 90% of my startup empire[24]. My biggest monthly expense is AI; it's no longer human labor. 41 AI agents & tools for coding, marketing, seo, research, design, sales, accounting, legal, paid ads, data entry, scraping, and everything else:

Explain me this: Why would American companies hire US based remote employees for $120k-$350k if it’s possible to hire Europeans for $50-$90k? Why Europeans work remotely for local firms if they earn x3 from US remotely? Big unfolding trouble for US employees & EU businesses

I've tried all (24) AI coding agents & IDEs 😵‍💫 [Cursor, Softgen, Windsurf, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Claude, AmazonQ, Pear, Devin, Github Spark, IDX, Webdraw, Tempo, Cline, Continue, Databutton, Base44, Qodo, Aider] The Vibe Coding giga-thread:

Very important decision to be made, and I need your say on this! Where should the first Indie Maker village be? 🇹🇷 Turkey 🇵🇹 Portugal Why Turkey: - no visa needed - best airport in the world - cheap Why not Turkey - poor brand. People think it's a poor third-world country

After seeing these humanoid robot demos, I bet you'll be convinced that all manual labor will be gone to robots. (even the world's oldest profession will be taken by them). All 26 humanoid robot demos:

I’ll go bankrupt with these bills :( Can anyone help me get credits/discounts for LLM APIs? (For my AI agents)

I nearly quit the "build-in-public" scene after this reply. Is this the harsh truth?

Chinese AI startups: 1/6th of US funding, bad press, sanctions, brain drain, communism, little English proficiency, and no talent influx.. But after using Manus AI, Deepseek, Trae, Kling, Vidu, & Ying, I think the US is in trouble. At this pace, China will dominate AI. Demos:

I haven’t seen any doctors using AI, Construction workers don’t use it either, Teachers barely heard about it, The difference between a human & human+ai is so huge that it should be illegal to not use AI at work. It hurts to see almost no AI adoption outside of the tech world

AI won't replace the entire profession, but it's replacing the bottom 20-80% in {translation, design, coding, content, marketing,sales,design, operation, account, law} Small teams like mine beat big corporations because AI brings huge leverage for A players Real examples of AI:

I've tried all (36) AI Coding Agents & IDEs 😵‍💫 [CreateXyz, Cursor, Softgen, Windsurf, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, AmazonQ, Pear, Devin, Github Spark, IDX, Webdraw, Claude 3.7 Sonnet & more] The most complete list ever made:

I've tried all (46 😵‍💫) AI Coding Agents & IDEs [Factory, Cursor, Heyboss, Windsurf, Emergent, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Canva, Devin, Github Spark, IDX, Stitch & more] The most complete list ever made (with demos & notes):

Reply with your profile and I'll roast it! (I'll be direct and harsh, proceed at your own risk & and take no offence) 👇 go

Absolutely nobody predicted this: AI Code is the new NoCode. Honestly, I like talking to AI more than to human developers when building small apps. It understands me better, even with half-baked specs. I've literally tested all AI builders I could find 😑 1/20 🧵 :

I'm announcing my new mission, Until today, My goal in life was to try EVERYTHING:::: 1) Tried b2c, mobile apps, hardware, robots, IOT, e-commerce, b2b, enterprise, saas, agents, directories, courses, no code, wrappers, freelancing, running an agency, outsourcing... 2) Run several startups, each doing $1M+ ARR. 3) Run many VC-backed startup. 4) Run deep tech startups with a co-founder & a team of devs. 5) Run multiple SaaS & directories solo. 6) Run multiple AI agents in duet with co-makers. 7) Bought and Sold startups. > Did many of the above points simultaneously 🥴 8) Worked as a taxi driver, security guard, mover, teacher, bartender, software developer, PM, CEO, CTO, Designer. 9) Entered Startuplab, theHub, 500 startups & Alchemist accelerators 10) Raised pre-seed, seed, series A. 11) Self funded. 12) Bootstrapped. 13) Tried Islam, atheism and Christianity 14) Tried being a liberal and conservative 15) Lived in the west, east, south and north (25% of my life each). 16) Grew up on a farm, lived in a big city, small town, village, downtown, outside of town, house, villa, apartment. 17) Married, divorced, have many kids 18) Semi pro in Judo, Football and Pingpong, amateur in Volleyball & Tennis 19) Have a driving license for trucks and busses 20) Dated European, Slavic, Asian, African, Latino, and Arabic women 21) Lived on $50/month and $50k/month 22) Only used public transport for a few years, then only a scooter, then only a bicycle, and then only a car. 23) Been fat, fit, hacked and average. 24) Drunk, smoked, partied. 25) Built a house, playground, furniture... 26) Spoke/Thought in 3 different languages (33% of my life each) 27) Learned to sing and play guitar 28) Leaned to paint 29) Built my first AI neural net in 2008. 30) Studied CS, AI and UX in uni 31) Dropped out of university 32) Studied in a public school in the ghetto where only two classmates survived to this day 33) Studied in another school in the village, where we'd go to school on horses. That's how I ended my "Pre-training" and reinforcement learning stages. WHAT's Next: From today(not literally today ofc) and on, my next goal in life is to change the startup world by moving the wealth FROM vc-backed corporations TO bootstrappers. I'm doing my job - by sharing everything I know, with detailed examples, and showing by doing - by building SaaS, Nocode tools, Launchpads and AI Agents for busy founders, to help them outcompete entire organizations - by educating people about AI and sharing my predictions & analysis Every day, I get messages from founders thanking me for this. I see their progress and success, it warms my heart and gives me more energy to continue my mission. My goal is to automate my org to the level where it's the most automated org on earth. Then, I wanna share my blueprint, knowledge, and tools with fellow bootstrapped founders so that we together could take over the software world and make it more decentralized and fair. Instead of 50,000 billion-dollar corporations owning the whole market, we can have 50 million bootstrappers owning it. And I'll do all I can to get as close to this goal as possible. Also, I wanna create an alliance similar to the one YC founders have, where they buy from each other, promote each other, integrate with each other, and fund each other.... I wanna do the same for bootstrappers. Who is in?

Twitter tech drama recap: 1) Dudes got into YC and everyone got so jealous to say forking open source is illegal. 2) An indie hacker started a war after not being feature by Product Hunt. I made an acquisition/partner offer to PH. If rejected, I’ll launch my own. 3) DHH said vercel is just a wrapper on top of aws with 500% markup. He is wrong. 4) Wordpress and WP engine had a family fight but now seem like back together again. It turns out wp run 40% of the web. 5) Sam Altman keeps replacing his cofounders with AI one every few months to end up being one-man billion dollar company just as he predicted. 6) PH CTO doesn’t know who is Pieter Levels, so their meme lord resigns. Buut, it turns to be a great marketing trick to promote his meme saas. Genius. 7) Notion steals nose pics of Kepano(obsidian founder). 8) Elon and his mom spent a week convincing people on X that he isn’t dating Italian PM. Hmm. 9) MKBHD launched an ugly wallpaper app, sparking the meme “the one guy go lectures everyone on a thing but scores F at it”. 10) an employee of gumroad joins buildinpublic with a side project but his employer quickly finds out and asks wtf. 11) Vercel CEO accuses Dax to being sponsored by CF, Dax responds “mf ur really laying out sponsor accusations right now”

The Time Has Come for Robots. I build AI Agents to replace office workers, but these demos convince me! All physical labor will be gone to robots, too. (even the world's oldest profession). Just watch it if you disagree. The biggest robot thread ever (50 demos):