Nick Saraev got called a trust fund kid on Twitter for sharing what he earns. His parents immigrated from Eastern Europe, and his family was bankrupt for the first half decade of his life.

Nick Saraev on why creators play up how consistent they are when they aren't always on. Once AI can generate most of the media, he thinks transparency and authenticity are what hold value.

Nick Saraev says entrepreneurship is operating at about 70% confidence, and technical people wait until they know everything. If you're scared because you don't have all the information, that's the signal to go do it.

Nick Saraev lays out an AI offer for web agencies. Take the sales call transcript, pull the action points, match them to a templated package, and send the proposal in minutes, not the full hour it used to take.

Nick Saraev gets asked what to automate first all the time. His answer is to build a process that already makes money first. AI multiplies what you have, and anything times zero is still zero.

Nick Saraev says that when you're maxed out, the fix usually isn't hiring. It's selling more, so you get to pick the clients who pay the most for your time.

Nick Saraev sets an internal rate of about $500/hour. Anything that pays less, he doesn't do and doesn't delegate. He used to work fifteen hours a day and get a quarter of what he now gets done in four.

Nick Saraev says you need a real win before you start making content. In a saturated feed, nobody cares about the $500 you made once. He scaled his automation agency to $72K a month before he started teaching.

Mansel Scheffel can tell when an AI system was written by a model and not a person. Right now the tell is the word "rung," and he's seen it in three big creators' AIOS videos. To him, that means the experience behind it isn't there.

Mark Szymanski tells Lars Faye how early this still is. Most people know ChatGPT and maybe saw a Claude ad, while the few who follow it closely argue on LinkedIn and X. Mark would rather go teach everyone the basics first.

Mark Szymanski asks Lars Faye to steel man a future with AI. Lars reaches for the personal computer and the secretary, whose job got harder for the same pay.

Mark Szymanski asks why he could not just point Claude Code at every site he has built and ask for another one. Lars Faye says not all context is written, and copying your own work keeps you stagnant.

Lars Faye expected to be called a Luddite for writing that agentic coding is a trap. Then a friend texted asking why Theo was talking about him on YouTube.

Lars Faye lays out the paradox in his next article: the advice is to learn to code before using AI coding tools, but those tools remove the friction that teaches you to code.

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Coding is shifting from memorization to judgment. You don't need the syntax memorized anymore, just the principles. Exciting or scary?

Jake Goldman thinks we're headed for fewer software engineers, and that it's a good thing. The future belongs to creators and makers, not people who treated coding as a blue-collar skill and feel entitled to the job. Controversial? Agree or not?

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