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0 of these 19 posts are strong enough to show on their own: specific, new, first-hand and usable. With 3, this account joins Find, where people look for builders worth following. The next reading counts the newest posts.
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1 of 19 Strongest post
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12 new AI models dropped in the first three weeks of august. from 7 different companies. most of them you installed, tested for 20 minutes, and never opened again. this is what AI feels like in 2026. not one breakthrough — twelve. not one choice — twelve. GPT-5.6 Luna. Gemini 3.7 Flash. Seed 2.1 Turbo. GLM-5.3. Muse Code. DeepSeek V4-Pro. and six more you probably haven't heard of yet. prices dropped 50% across the board this month alone. the model that was the best on monday gets dethroned by thursday. the API you integrated last sprint is already two releases behind. he's not excited because AI got smarter. he's excited because for the first time, one of them actually did what he asked — without him rewriting the prompt four times. that's the bar now. not "can it think." can it do the thing you need on the first try. 12 models in 3 weeks. you installed half of them. you actually use one. and next month there will be 12 more. the tool isn't the moat. knowing which one to use is.
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2 of 19 576views17likes0reposts3replies
I BUILT A GAME WHERE AI AGENTS LIVE IN A HOUSE, GO TO WORK, EARN MONEY, AND MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS. NOBODY TOLD THEM WHAT TO DO. five AI characters. each one has needs. hunger. energy. social. hygiene. they wake up, eat, go to their desk, write code, earn money, chat with each other, and go to sleep. all on their own. no scripts. no pre-programmed schedule. autonomy is on by default. they decide what to do until you say otherwise. one of them is coding right now. another one is in the kitchen making a snack. another one just walked over to chat because their social bar was low. bills arrive on mondays. you're not playing a game. you're watching a tiny economy run itself. the sims came out in 2000 and sold 200 million copies simulating fake people with fake needs. this is the same thing except the people actually think. companies are paying $180,000 a year for managers to coordinate teams. this house coordinates itself for $0. what happens when every office looks like this and the only human left is the one who built it?
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3 of 19 881views8likes1reposts1replies
a frontier AI model appeared 5 days ago. nobody will say who built it. it beats GPT-5.6 on coding benchmarks. and it's free. ox alpha showed up on openrouter on august 20 under the provider name "stealth." no company, no logo, no announcement. just a model with a 1-million token context window that accepts text, images, and video. independent testing: 80% pass rate on DeepSWE. claude scored 65%. GPT-5.6 scored 52%. stripe's CEO called it "very impressive." it's the fifth anonymous model release in six months — the previous four turned out to be from chinese labs. the quiet part: the provider retains every prompt and every completion you send it. you're not the customer. you're the benchmark. 100 trillion tokens per day of capacity. free access ending tomorrow. and the best coding model available right now belongs to someone who won't tell you their name. you're paying $20/month for cursor. the model that just beat it costs $0 and stores everything you type. tell me which one scares you more.
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4 of 19 175views8likes0reposts0replies
SAME PROMPT. FOUR MODELS. ONE CUBE. The task wasn’t “make it look 3D.” It was: one HTML file. Three.js. A Rubik’s Cube that actually solves itself.ChatGPT built a cube. Claude built a crash. Gemini built a painting. DeepSeek built a cube that lost three faces. This is vibe coding in 2026. The screenshot is the easy part. The solver, the state, the rotations that don’t explode the scene — that’s the part nobody posts. Pretty is free now. Working still isn’t.
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5 of 19 991views14likes2reposts1replies
stanford tracked 4.6 million workers through april 2026. hiring of developers aged 22 to 25 dropped 20% since chatgpt launched. not forecasted. measured. the guy in the video says juniors are cooked. the data agrees. but not for the reason he thinks. companies didn't stop needing junior work. they stopped hiring juniors to do it. cursor does the junior tasks for $20/month. the tickets that used to say "assigned to new hire" now say "assigned to copilot." the senior dev reviews the output either way. but here's what nobody in the "juniors are cooked" discourse is talking about. every senior developer in the industry right now was a junior once. they learned by breaking things, fixing things, and sitting next to someone who showed them why their solution was wrong. that pipeline is closing. not slowly. 20% in 33 months. the companies saving $89,000 a year by not hiring a junior are borrowing from a future where there's nobody left who learned the hard way. they're not cutting costs. they're eating the seed corn. in five years they'll post "why can't we find senior engineers" and the answer will be this video.
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6 of 19 63views7likes0reposts0replies
KARPATHY COINED VIBE CODING IN FEBRUARY 2025. BY DECEMBER HE SAID 80% OF HIS OWN CODE WAS WRITTEN BY AGENTS. A YEAR LATER HE CALLED THE TERM PASSÉ. That’s the whole story in three lines. The floor moved. Fast. 92% of US developers now use AI coding tools every day. 41–46% of new code on GitHub is already AI-generated. Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch: 25% of startups shipped codebases that were ~95% AI-written. Cursor hit a $4B annualized run rate. The vibe-coding tools market is ~$4.7B. Lovable alone has 60M+ projects. Developers report ~13 extra hours a week. 42% now say AI writes at least half their code. Pretty is free. A landing page is a prompt. A CRUD app is a weekend. A “I built this in 20 minutes” screenshot is not a moat. Karpathy’s actual update is colder: Vibe coding raised the floor. Agentic engineering is about the ceiling. You are not writing the code 99% of the time. You are coordinating fallible agents and keeping architecture, security, and taste from collapsing. Accept All is an entry ticket. Not the skill. Companies still pay humans to babysit what an agent ships overnight. Juniors still memorize syntax that the model already knows. Leads still treat a two-year-old process like religion. The math is simple: Junior in the US: ~$89k/year. Cursor Pro: $240/year. One hour of unplanned downtime in a factory: hundreds of thousands. One hour of a founder who can describe the product and review the output: the whole company.Writing code stopped being rare. Noticing that the agent just wrecked your data model while you celebrated the UI — that’s rare. The vibe was the unlock. The discipline is the job.
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7 of 19 1.7Kviews8likes2reposts5replies
41% of all code shipped in 2026 was written by AI. trust in AI-generated code dropped to 29%. almost half your codebase was written by something your own team doesn't trust. 76% of developers say AI makes them more productive. 70% report spending extra time debugging AI-generated code. both numbers are from 2026. both are true. the quiet part: AI didn't make coding faster. it made writing code faster. debugging, reviewing, understanding what the code actually does — that got slower. the time you saved generating moved straight into the time you spend fixing. pull request cycle times dropped from 9.6 days to 2.4 with copilot. nobody is measuring how many of those PRs get reopened, reverted, or quietly patched two weeks later. $89,000 a year for a developer who writes code. $89,000 a year for a developer who reviews code someone else wrote. same salary. completely different job. the tell is which one your company actually needs now. the most important skill in software in 2026 isn't writing code. it's reading code you didn't write and deciding if you trust it. do you actually review what your AI writes — or do you just hit accept and hope? tell me I'm wrong.
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8 of 19 545views18likes3reposts0replies
THIS SCREEN COST A COMPANY $80,000 AND THREE MONTHS. NOW IT’S 40 MINUTES AND ONE PROMPT. On the left — a stack of PHP files. On the right — a sidebar: withdraw, team, home, logout. At the bottom the terminal pulls dependencies while you don’t even look at the code. You don’t need to know what Composer is. You don’t need to remember PHP syntax. You don’t need to hire a junior for $2,500 a month to build a “user dashboard.” You said: make a cabinet. a withdraw button. a team page. a welcome screen. It did. You hit accept all. Companies are still posting jobs: “PHP developer, 1–3 years, HTML/CSS, Git, MySQL.” Three interviews. A test task. An offer in two weeks. This screen is already live. The question isn’t whether you can code. The question is why you’re still paying a human for something a model ships in the time it takes to drink a coffee.
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9 of 19 735views9likes1reposts2replies
$50,000 a month. from a game built entirely by vibe coding. no engineering team. no game engine experience. just prompts. the headline says it all: "This Game Created by AI Vibe Coding Makes $50,000 a Month. Yours Probably Won't." and that second sentence is the part nobody wants to hear. for every vibe-coded game making $50k, there are 10,000 that made $0. the app stores are flooded with AI-generated clones that look identical, play identical, and die in a week. steam added more games in the first half of 2026 than in all of 2023. most of them were never opened twice. the game in this video works because someone understood what makes a multiplayer game fun — not because AI wrote the code. the prompts were just the last step. the game design, the pacing, the reason anyone comes back for a second round — that's not in the prompt. that's in the person. vibe coding made building the game free. it didn't make building a good game free. those are two completely different problems. $50,000 a month is real. but "yours probably won't" is the honest part that gets cut from every AI hype thread. the tool is $20/month. the taste is still priceless.
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10 of 19 552views11likes0reposts2replies
IF YOU GRADUATED IN CS AFTER 2024, THE JOB YOU TRAINED FOR MAY NO LONGER EXIST. stanford and ADP tracked 4.6 million workers through april 2026. junior developer hiring dropped 20% in 33 months. not forecasted. measured. developers aged 22 to 25 are disappearing from payroll because nobody is replacing them. cursor does the junior tickets for $20/month. the tasks that used to say "assigned to new hire" now say "assigned to agent." but every senior developer was a junior once. they learned by breaking things and sitting next to someone who showed them why. that pipeline is closing. companies saving $89,000 by not hiring a junior are eating the seed corn. in five years they'll post "why can't we find senior engineers" and the answer will be right here.
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11 of 19 214views8likes1reposts0replies
A YEAR AGO HE COINED VIBE CODING. NOW HE SAYS: “I’VE NEVER FELT MORE BEHIND.” This is Karpathy. Not a guru. Not a course seller. Not a guy posting “10 Cursor prompts that 10x’d my life.” He was the first to describe a world where you don’t write code — you accept it. Accept All. Don’t read the diff. Just ship. A year later the same man walks on stage and says something else: Vibe coding raised the floor. Agents raise the ceiling. So your “I’m a developer now because I can prompt” is not the win. It’s the entry ticket. Companies are still paying humans to hand-build what an agent finishes overnight. Juniors are still memorizing syntax. Team leads are still proud of a process that already looks like a ritual. The hardest part of this talk isn’t AI. It’s the people who confused speed with level. Writing code is no longer rare. What’s rare is noticing the agent just wrecked your architecture while you were celebrating a pretty UI. The floor is everywhere. The ceiling isn’t.
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12 of 19 694views16likes0reposts1replies
SIX AI AGENTS DOING THE WORK OF SIX EMPLOYEES. ONE GUY WATCHING. THAT'S THE WHOLE COMPANY. no salaries. no sick days. no HR complaints. no "i need to leave early." no performance reviews. no quitting after 18 months to "find myself." Pincer screens messages. Reef pulls receipts. Molt runs the pipeline. Krill writes emails. Tide handles the cron. Shell manages plugins. all of them. at the same time. at 2 AM on a sunday. middle management was 5 people and $30,000 a week. now it's a screen, six bots, and $200 a month. and the one human left in the room? he's not working. he's pointing. "you do this. you do that." that's it. that's the job. companies are still hiring managers. posting job ads. doing three rounds of interviews. flying people in. meanwhile this guy built his entire back office in a weekend. if your job is "making sure other people do their jobs" you're not safe. you're next.
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13 of 19 3.0Kviews28likes3reposts2replies
61% of developers say meetings are the single biggest productivity killer. not bugs. not legacy code. meetings. the average dev sits through 8 meetings a week. 6 hours. at $45/hour fully loaded, a 25-person team burns $350,000 a year on zoom calls alone. the tell is what happens after. the developer sits down, opens the editor, and has 2 hours left to do the work the meeting was about. the quiet part: the companies cutting meetings first are shipping faster. but they're also the ones discovering that nobody knows what anyone else is building. two months of no standups and three teams shipped the same feature. $350K a year on meetings — or three teams building the same thing twice. pick your expensive problem. tell me I'm wrong.
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"after coding 6 hours nonstop." the stretch. the exhaustion. the feeling of a real grind. then the camera pans to his screen. three tabs open: claude. cursor. codex. no IDE. no terminal. no code. 6 hours of "coding" in 2026 is 6 hours of switching between AI tools and deciding which one gives a better answer. developers now switch context over 1,100 times per day. each switch costs 23 minutes to fully refocus. the average dev loses 2 hours daily just recovering from tab-hopping between tools that were supposed to save time. the quiet part: the tools got faster. the developer got slower. not because he's lazy — because now he manages three AI assistants instead of writing code himself. he went from engineer to dispatcher. $89,000 a year. not to write code. to copy-paste between claude and cursor and hope one of them gets it right. tell me I'm wrong.
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THIS STORE USED TO COST $80,000 AND THREE MONTHS. NOW IT’S 40 MINUTES AND ONE PROMPT. They still send invoices like it’s 2019. You still wait like the compiler is human. The only thing that didn’t get cheaper is the story they tell you about why it has to be expensive.
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THIS BEHIND-THE-SCENES FOOTAGE OF KUNG FU PANDA LOOKS TOTALLY REAL. THE CREW. THE CAMERAS. THE GREEN SCREEN. THE CABLES ON THE FLOOR. IT'S ALL FAKE. EVERY SINGLE FRAME. AI MADE THE WHOLE THING. nobody on that set exists. the ARRI camera doesn't exist. the guy with the boom mic doesn't exist. your brain saw it and said "movie set" and moved on. didn't even question it. Kung Fu Panda cost $130 million to make. 500 artists. 5 years of work. this video cost one sentence and 30 seconds. the animation industry has 300,000 workers in the US. Hollywood spent $100 billion on content last year. and AI just proved it can fake the entire production process so well that you watched it and thought it was real. they keep telling you AI can't replace creative work. meanwhile AI just created a fake film crew that fooled you for 12 seconds straight. you didn't even notice. that's the scary part.
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17 of 19 618views15likes1reposts0replies
ANTHROPIC JUST DROPPED A MODEL THAT FOUND A BUG NO HUMAN ENGINEER COULD FIND IN YEARS. THEN THEY MADE A SECOND VERSION WITH NO SAFETY LIMITS AND GAVE IT ONLY TO PEOPLE WHO SIGNED NDAs. Fable 5.1. best coding model on earth right now. beats GPT-5.6. beats their own Opus. found a crash at Millennium that their entire engineering team couldn't explain. years of trying. the model solved it. 45% cheaper for agent tasks. cache reads cut 75%. one million tokens of context. it writes 128,000 tokens in one response. that's a novel. and then there's Mythos 5.1. same model. same brain. but they removed all the safety classifiers. no guardrails. no "i can't help with that." full power. and you can't have it. it's only for "vetted participants" in Project Glasswing. two versions of the same AI. the public gets the version that says no. the insiders get the version that says yes. they're not selling you the best model. they're selling you the polite one. the real one is behind a door you don't have the key to.
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18 of 19 145views7likes0reposts0replies
WHILE YOU WATCH HER FAIL AT PUTTING OUT THE FIRE, SOMEONE ALREADY BUILT A GROK BOT AND IS GETTING PAID. You can’t look away. She’s pouring water past the flames — like everything else in your life. The fire doesn’t care. Comments keep coming. The algorithm feeds you another “wow.” Meanwhile someone opened Grok, wrote two paragraphs, and shipped a working bot. It answers clients. Takes orders. Closes sales. Sleeps while you scroll. The fire in the video is still burning. His balance is already moving. The difference isn’t who’s smarter. It’s what you spend the next 20 minutes on.
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19 of 19 Weakest post
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IF YOU GRADUATED IN CS AFTER 2024, THE JOB YOU TRAINED FOR DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE. 4 years of college. $160,000 in tuition. and the first thing your employer does is hand you a $20/month AI subscription and tell you to supervise it. you weren't hired to code. you were hired to babysit a machine that codes better than you on day one. the universities are still teaching you to write for loops. the companies already replaced for loops with prompts. nobody told the students. nobody refunded the tuition. CS departments are selling diplomas for jobs that disappeared while the students were still in class.
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