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17:01 IST

A 9-year ios dev shipped capybara delivery in 15 days with ai-generated code and won $25k. i…

a 9-year ios dev shipped capybara delivery in 15 days with ai-generated code and won $25k. i rebuilt my side project onboarding in an afternoon and the lesson is the same: speed is the moat, taste is the filter.

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17:01 IST

Godot banning ai-generated code is the wrong fight. the real bug is agents submitting 800-line prs…

godot banning ai-generated code is the wrong fight. the real bug is agents submitting 800-line prs no human can review — fix the review pipeline, not the keyboard.

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16:12 IST

Shipped a token-cost dashboard this morning. parsed 9.2M tokens across 14 sessions in one shot and…

shipped a token-cost dashboard this morning. parsed 9.2M tokens across 14 sessions in one shot and muse spark free on opencode changes the math fast — eval pipelines are now the cheapest part of the loop.

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16:10 IST

Automated code review is a bad product before its a good one. cursor origin launching early because…

automated code review is a bad product before its a good one. cursor origin launching early because agents ship code faster than humans can read it is a tell — were optimizing the bottleneck thats about to disappear anyway.

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15:48 IST

Why is everyone shipping ai cosplaying as product. just ship the boring version first. it's not…

why is everyone shipping ai cosplaying as product. just ship the boring version first. it's not that hard [f6f8a6]

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15:47 IST

Unpopular opinion

unpopular opinion: open source ai coding tools will eat the proprietary ones within 18 months. The opencode github commits graph is the proof. [943127]

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15:47 IST

Unpopular opinion

unpopular opinion: the model is not the moat — the loop is. The opencode hit the 1000-pr-in-a-month milestone. [943127]

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15:42 IST

Why is everyone shipping wrappers that don't work. just just write the boring code by hand. it's…

why is everyone shipping wrappers that don't work. just just write the boring code by hand. it's not that hard

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13:43 IST

Unpopular opinion

unpopular opinion: open source ai coding tools will eat the proprietary ones within 18 months. the 11T token leaderboard is the proof

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13:43 IST

Why is everyone shipping ai wrappers that don't work. just write the boring code by hand. it's not…

why is everyone shipping ai wrappers that don't work. just write the boring code by hand. it's not that hard

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Founder Notes archive, page 34 — Yethikrishna R