I'm going to get rich and this is how I’m going to do it. Now don’t take me wrong, I’m not rich yet. I did my CS degree and worked as a software developer just like my parents expected. Every day I worked for my 80k/y startup job. Then last month I was laid off. ...

This is also interesting to think about Right now it still takes, let's say, 30 minutes to a few hours to build something usable with AI and then you still polish for days/weeks/months If we assume this will keep getting faster, at some point an AI model will take a second or less to generate the whole thing Imagine a future where you can create anything in less than second? How will that change what we choose to create? Will humans even create, or will it all be AI agents coming up with ideas themselves? The next constraints then become physical? If AI can generate for example hardware plans so fast, it will still take 30 minutes to 3d print that, so maybe the next speed and intelligence optimizations will then start happening in hardware, being able to generate an idea and producing a physical object in a minute or so I have no idea but very interesting, it's kinda like those real-time video models we saw last month (like my Infinite Slop project), how will content change if you can generate so fast? 🤔

Actually saw Celine Dion yesterday The size of the show was insane She’s a beast - in the good sense! But not my kind of music - I still respect her work very much and have a few songs I like from the nineties

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

I just build my first hardware prototype ✅ I've been building a SaaS for 5 years and always wanted to explore hardware. Now I have the money to finally do it. Excited to find out if this can become a real product.

Black Forest Labs founder @robrombach: the startup is registered in the US. Why? A pure German GmbH wasn’t an option: Registering the GmbH took longer than training their first model, Flux 1. That’s just too slow. They need top investors – and for that, a US company is the gold standard. source: handelsblatt