The founder of CloudRepo, a bootstrapper, and 360-degree Founder. Loves Clojure, Simplicity, and Brazilian Portuguese. Here to learn from and help others.
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Sad, but true.
Everyone thinks they can build distribution in a year.
Until they actually do it and get a reality check.
– Cold email - 500 emails but 5 replies
– YouTube - 20 hours of work but 250 views
– SEO - 6 months of work but still on page 3
– Newsletters - 5,000 subscribers but 50 clicks
– LinkedIn - 200K impressions but 2 actual buyers
– Reddit - mention your product & get banned
– Communities - 6 months building trust but zero leads
– AI search - ChatGPT recommends your competitors
Getting the right people to care is half the battle...
These guys all must be leaving before the IPO to avoid the lock-in period???
It's also possible that people are buying up employee shares pre-IPO on the secondary market.
Crazy stuff, she was like co-creator of Claude Code along with @bcherny
Friday was my last day at Anthropic.
Two years ago, when Claude Code was a small internal tool, I asked it to build an RL env. I steered it for tens of hours but never manually wrote a line of code. It worked, I was hooked, and I joined the team.
When we first launched, most people approved every permission prompt by hand and mostly used Claude to answer questions and write tests.
Today, the default is trusting Claude's judgment to auto-approve. Claude does large migrations and builds new products.
Helping build Claude Code into an industry-defining product has been the journey of a lifetime.
Thank you to the incredible team behind Claude Code, Cowork, and Tag. These products are the sum of thousands of great ideas from you. I'll miss working with you all.
Thank you to our users for embracing a new way of working. Your constant feedback shaped so much of what we shipped and your stories made the work so meaningful.
Excited to see what you all make next!
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AI made me 10x more productive, and the reason is my ADHD.
I'm a big picture guy. The small boring tasks never gave me any dopamine, so they piled up.
I spent my whole life teaching myself frameworks just to force my way through them.
AI changed that. Now I say what I want, watch it get done in seconds, and get the hit of finishing something.
The boring work stopped being torture. It's actually fun now.
This is exactly the model that is going to destroy the big enterprise SaaS like Jfrog/Sonatype (my competition).
They have massive enterprise sales teams and teams of enterprise engineers that make absurds amount of money and have to pass that on to their customers in the form of 7 figure annual contracts, enterprise 'upgrades', etc.
Small teams can catch up to these big players in months, charge a fraction of the price, with a better product and actual human support from people who care/build the product.
You're gonna see this in all the Enterprise SaaS product - look at the MSFT Office Suite (vs Claude Docs) or Adobe's suite of tools.
There will be a huge amount of supply for SaaS alternatives and that will kill big, 10,000+ employee companies, but should be a boon for smaller companies as they don't have the overhead cost of so many employees.
In some ways, that's just the market becoming more efficient after decades of rewarding the big players.
The threat to SaaS is not every company using AI to build their own internal version of Slack.
It’s a small team of experienced engineers using AI to build a better Slack alternative and offering it at a fraction of the price, along with better customization support for enterprises.
The nimble and AI-first startup will put a severe price pressure on traditional SaaS.
Chris S. retweeted
The threat to SaaS is not every company using AI to build their own internal version of Slack.
It’s a small team of experienced engineers using AI to build a better Slack alternative and offering it at a fraction of the price, along with better customization support for enterprises.
The nimble and AI-first startup will put a severe price pressure on traditional SaaS.
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Bragging about vibe coding your own Airtable etc to save $40 a month is just a verbose way of admitting your time is worth $0 an hour
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It cannot be overstated how much your quality of life decreases when it gets dark at 5pm instead of 7pm
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Pre AI your moat was tech knowledge. You learned Rails, learned to do UX better than others, and built a better product.
2025/6 era we merged that knowledge with AI at an executional level. You have an idea for a new product or feature, you get AI to build it. Repeat. It’s 2x or 3x faster, limited by your brain and backlog.
2027 is going to be about AI knowledge. Your framework will be a proprietary set of skills, harnesses, loops etc that do all of the strategic and executional work for you. It’s 100x faster. You check in once a day to correct course. People will try to sell toolsets like this but yours is better or more tailored for your needs.
That means most product development and technical marketing (SEO etc) is done by AI. Your job as a founder is to do the marketing stuff that AI can’t do. In person events. YouTube videos. Webinars. White glove onboarding.
Your moat is how many X factors of speed you can get out of your AI framework, and how good your non-AI marketing is.
I believe this 100% - ephemeral user experience (ie apps in the before times), created on demand by AI, will replace/eliminate software as we have known it.
You can see this already beginning with Claude's Artifacts that not only present information but allow you to manipulate and use the tool - it won't be long until it can create things natively in an OS, on phone, or pc.
So I feel that is the inevitable death for any B2C product and a lot of B2B products.
What I keep trying to think about is, other than working for Anthropic, how will one monetize their time in the future?
It's not going to be valuable to know how to prompt - you barely have to know how to prompt today to get amazing outputs (my 9 year old makes incredible games with Claude).
Any thoughts on how non Anthropic people will make money when the world only demands intelligence and Anthropic is the only provider?
This argument is incredibly short sighted.
The AI will maintain any software it develops for users, 24/7. But apps mostly won't be a thing, intelligence will be.
Your AI will figure out the best goals for you, optimise for them, and if and only if it determines developing a personalised app for you would be useful, it will do that. But most of these apps will be ephemeral, built around user intent / goals on the fly.
Apps are a subset of intelligence.
Software as a service is dead.
Intelligence as a Commodity (Iaac) is just beginning.
If you really want to move fast and iterate on features that Agents want to use, have Claude Code create a TUI for it to communicate with you - include tasks, questions, anything else it thinks would you work with it in an async way.
Token spend is basically nothing to do this - then you can prove out some use cases, see how Claude does and then later move things to a different UI/UX
Other than for engagement, why would anyone even want to recreate a game as an exact clone? You'd be better off just pirating it or buying it.
Most people want to build games based on an existing game, but with their own takes. This is still allowed by Anthropic and is trivial to do.
Anthropic is going to burn through a lot of developer goodwill if it keeps imposing its own ideas of what people should and shouldn't build.
The timing is especially funny given Roblox just reported that over 80% of its top 100 games used AI during development and Tim Sweeney is pushing AI across gaming, an industry where copying and iterating on existing ideas is practically the foundation of how new games get made.
Developers are paying for tools to help them build software, not for Anthropic to make moral and ethical judgments on their behalf, and the more dependent everyone becomes on these models, the more concerning that gets.