Ivan @ FF Classroom

These people don’t seem to understand that the fact that these questions get asked means that there are people who answer them to a satisfactory degree

Every person that moves to SF goes to a bunch of tech events in the first two weeks and realizes it's a complete waste of time.

i got recruited at neuralink lol this posting on x thing might actually be the way

spotted Barnes & Noble, Union sq

Had just turned 13 y/o and had no clue. Learned programming,web dev,AI/ML. Build projects for 10 months that no one wanted. Called them "Learning projects". After 10 months I realized I am now capable of creating actual scalable apps. And this 13 yo is now not gonna turn back

Lots of founders are crashing out A year ago AI felt like an incredible opportunity. Most of us were able to ship faster, remove admin, and get time back. Lots of engineering founders were even able to explore marketing for the first time: SEO, organic social, outbound. Building complex systems that felt extremely productive. But since then, a lot has happened. Here’s some of the themes I’m seeing: AI marketing isn’t working. At first it feels impressive and it looks good but for most it’s not driving results. This is made worse by the fact everyone has access to the same tools. Inboxes are flooded, buyers are fatigued, the economy is flat. Engineers are fried. Yes you can ship more but for many the flow state has gone. It’s a new way of working and it’s not for everyone. The speed leaves many of us exhausted before 11am. There’s a feeling of what’s the point? Is my product’s next feature going to be redundant in a year, or a month? Can’t AI do what my business does, better? SaaS valuations have collapsed. From 3-4x revenue to 1x. There’s a sinking realisation that a large number of SaaS companies will go to 0 in the next few years. Building to exit seems almost crazy right now. There’s far fewer buyers and far more sellers. These include vibe coders cloning products without the care or craft, contributing to the distribution challenges from people doing it the right way. Lots of people are trying to make money by selling shovels. This just adds to the frenzied energy. Build in public stopped being fun. A few makers realised that the new game is attention, and now everything feels insincere and stunt-driven. They are influencers not founders. Changes to the X timeline compounded the issues. There are exceptions and there are still moats remaining, but the challenges feel existential

- Be PewDiePie 🥹 - Good bye YouTube blog - Married Marzia Kjellberg in 2019, still going strong with no public drama or scandals - retired at 33 after dominating YouTube for a decade - married his longtime girlfriend - moved to Japan - learns Japanese, reads philosophy & the classics - Recent experiments even used AI tutors/apps for 100-day streaks to accelerate it - still trains, still ripped - designs his own minimalist home setup (including that beast AI rig) - Dives into small-to-serious coding & AI projects purely for enjoyment - builds small coding and AI projects for fun - Built a custom $20K-$35K home supercomputer with modded RTX 4090s (8× with 48GB VRAM each) + RTX 4000 Ada cards, running massive local models (up to 235B params) via his own ChatOS interface where multiple bots debate/vote on answers - Trained Own AI It beat ChatGPT 4 specific tasks - claiming it outperformed ChatGPT-4o (and others like DeepSeek, Llama variants, Gemini 2.0 Pro Exp under specific conditions) - makes videos only when he feels like it - became a dad, focused on family - Ended 4½ years of family vlogs while Björn is still 3 so his childhood isn’t locked in front of 110 million people - Gave his son the privacy and future choice he himself never had no law in Sweden required it - First massive family channel to treat the “memories” as the kid’s, not content - doesn't chase fame or money anymore - lives peacefully, offline, doing exactly what he wants