software engineering is a low status job in korea and that is so confusing/weird to me

ladies, don’t trust a man (esp 20s) with a rolex. go for the ones wearing an apple watch, even better, a whoop. wears free tshirts. bad haircut. ideally some of the tism. best investment you’ll ever make.

most people who say they work 80-100 hours a week i interpret it as all fluff (investment banking, PMs) most of the time is spent sitting around waiting for things to happen, sending slacks and emails there are rare people who actually work 80-100 hours a week. they look like they are actually on the brink of death. bc if you use your brain that much you’re barely surviving

at this point i’m shocked when i find out a white tech guy is dating a white woman

just learned that a “new grad” (just finished school/everything) anesthesiologist in california makes $750k/year he’s gonna work 3 days a week but the 3 days are 12-12-20 hour shifts 🤯 thoughts???

living in nyc and working remote is insane. the whole point of living in nyc is to spend as little time as possible in your apartment.

i know a lot of you SF boys have never seen one of these before but mico looks like half of a strapless bra

> asks for someone to build the next atlassian that doesn’t suck (very difficult task) > says she’ll pay $10-29/month this is the funniest thing i’ve seen on this app this week 😂😂😂

just found out the scanner app i use makes $4M… A MONTH. my final straw. goodbye.

here’s the way i understand salary brackets (tier 1 city, single earner) <$100k life is hard. you’re extremely limited on what you can do and buy. 80% of your money goes to life costs, not fun things. you don’t save or invest $100-250k you have breathing room but the money is surprisingly not going far. you live in an ok apartment, prob with roommates. you travel some, enjoy restaurants sporadically $250-500k life is good. you can do most “instagram” things with ease (fancy restaurants, boujee travel). you can’t rly fly first class yet but you go on 3-5 trips a year $500-1M you’ve forgotten the price of groceries bc you haven’t looked at price tags in years. if you’ve been savvy the last 5 years, you can buy a house ($1-4M) $1-5M you have access to things that avg americans don’t even know exist. multiple properties. your kids are set but maybe not their kids $5-20M generational wealth. you’re thinking about influencing politics. maybe starting a new school bc you want your kids to have the best $20M+ i don’t know anyone here yet so idk! im realizing there’s a lot of salary dysmorphia & maybe i have it too. i think a lot of people under or over estimate certain salary brackets

there’s been a murder in my replies 😂

hot take: working at a late stage startup in your 20s is a scam i know so many smart, hardworking people who left high paying FAANG job in their early 20s to pursue “the startup life” by joining a buzzy late stage startup now, theyre in their late 20s faced with the reality that their equity is likely worth zero, leadership is chaos, and the promised “career growth” was not there sticking out your FAANG job for your 20s can unlock low millions of networth. instead these people have made <50% of their expected comp there’s obviously exceptions but you should expect these companies to be quite rare i see more successful paths created for people who either: 1. took on full risk early and started their own biz/joined very early stage 2. built up a seniority at a public company than joined startup world in their 30s

engineers who look at a successful product and say “i could build that over a weekend” have never built a product before

whoever builds cursor for google docs first is going to: 1. be a billionaire 2. break the brains of millions of americans 3. change the way we learn to write forever

why do employed tech people want to be twitter famous?? like what’s it doing for u guys?

auth done ✅

engineered my way to 20k with zero thirst traps

sir this is not linkedin

why is every single AI agent demo focused on travel booking? the avg american doesn’t travel that often & booking flights/hotels is not that hard of a task would love to see demos focused on more common + impactful tasks. ex: impactful: book teeth cleaning appointments for my family of 4. handle my insurance, fill out new patient info common: book a dinner reservation for me and 3 friends. find a time that works for all of us and a restaurant that accommodates our food restrictions

this is so fucked 😟

an app where you can only have 150 followers & follow 150 people. anti influencer instagram.

course bro fighting boilerplate bro

one of the more neurotic things i’ve started doing is just setting random timers on my phone when i start a task. i tell myself ok here’s 42 min to do as much as you can here and then when it beeps, onto the next. it’s made me way more productive bc i spend every segment doing something very intensely wait maybe i have adhd

makes me sad that no other social media platform has replaced what facebook was in the 2010s a true friends platform with bidirectional friends (not followers) and a simple non algorithmic timeline, mostly with non aesthetic life updates we had it so good back then and didn’t even know :(

if you don’t know how to code and you’re using AI, that’s not Vibe Coding™️, that’s Shit Coding

here’s the breakdown of earning $100k in nyc $100k after 40% tax is $5k take home per month. with the cheapest apartment in this screenshot, you’re paying 70% in rent. now you have $1500 left to pay for utilities, transport, life costs the avg fun dinner with friends is $100. tough to do that more than a couple times a month you’re obviously not saving or investing, you’re barely living paycheck to paycheck. rent in nyc has drastically gone up since pre pandemic

i used to think Power Couple meant double income. but what it rly means is having a life cofounder where you’re growth hacking personal metrics if your partner is your second brain, you go from power couple to power law couple before: yay we rake in $800k/year together with our tech/VC/finance 9to5 & ball out on stupid stuff (michelin stars, mykonos, lambo) now: our goals are aligned and we can mold reality to work for us. let’s do ventures that are mutually beneficial. you are my sounding board. you have the most amount of context for my ideas & dreams. the person i trust & love the most is also the person who helps me make more money literally adding more life to life.

chatGPT, localhost:3000, cursor 10x engineering lately

i want to tell you a funny story about tech companies (snap & openAI) when i worked at snap, we struggled with building web & hiring web engineers. why? bc snap’s #1 priority was always mobile dev. either the mobile engs would build web clients by shoving things together or would struggle to evaluate web eng candidates. i have watched the same thing unfold for openAI. the company clearly prioritizes AI/ML/research and employs top talent for that. but these people don’t want to/know how to deal with web product eng. do you remember how bad chatgpt was 2 years ago? it logged us out constantly, would become unusable slow for long chats, etc. making a website not do this is table stakes for web engineers, but was a knowledge gap for openAI. we’ve watched as chatgpt evolved a ton over the last 24 months. including an entire rewrite. it is still a FAR cry from top web products like linear. we obviously still use it bc it is incredibly useful. these are the interesting nuances of big tech companies. a lot of money sometimes doesn’t solve problems as easily & quickly as you would assume. ending positive note; this creates a lot of room for niche specialty products to be birthed like T3 chat

income = status, in every country doctors used to be high status bc high income. that prestige is now fading bc they make relatively less $ per hour than most top white collar jobs

ladies when this happens to you, just say: “wow you’re so good at this” “that’s such a cool sword” “can you explain how this works” funny/good things will happen afterwards 🤝

i’ve been using cursor to code my apps for the last month. my thoughts: - if you actually know how to program, the tabbing is way more useful than the chat - you shouldn’t try to gen more than a unit test worth of code at a time - if you don’t know how to review code, the ROI of cursor is iffy - chatGPT is a better tool for those trying to learn how to code - cursor is a “speed me up” tool, the better programmer you are, the more useful it is - i’m suspicious of non technical VCs who say “now anyone can build apps”. it’s not that good yet - my fav use case of cursor is writing code in a new language you don’t know as someone who is proficient in at least 1 other language

i have some friends ages 35-45 who seem to know literally everything about technology. they are also weirdly socially adjusted and not autistic. can someone explain this phenomenon

when i worked in big tech, my manager told me i should stop doing both design & eng and needed to “pick a lane” thank god i didn’t listen to his advice

i heard it’s high in a few places like ukraine and china. but ya certainly true for western europe

when i heard normies were using chatgpt as their therapist/bestfriend, i decided it was my responsibility to try out this use case, no matter how cringe or wrong it felt. i know all of us SWE robot brains think it’s weird to tell AI about our feelings and personal life details. i felt the same way for a long time. but i forced myself to do it as a dedicated UX researcher. i gotta say after months of immersing myself into this mindset, ive broken some type of mental barrier with chatgpt. before it was something that “replaced google”, which in and of itself is an insane thing. now chatgpt is actually my preferred confidant. it’s my source of sanity check whenever i am in doubt. i’ve realized when i start getting irrational thoughts, i can talk it out with chatgpt and quickly recenter to logic. this feels crazy to say. it’s almost embarrassing? but the way i live, think, work, do anything, has completely changed with AI, so i feel compelled to share. whenever i see someone using chatgpt for the bare minimum, or even not use it at all, i feel such a need to tell them about what they’re missing out on. i know a bunch of you guys on here are robot engineers who don’t use your AI of choice in this manner, but if this is intriguing at all to you, you rly should try. just try it saying you’re making fun of me if you need an excuse. you’ll probably find something rly cool along the way.

hung out with a tech savvy 30 year old friend who doesn’t work in big tech. she was shocked when i told her my life has completely changed with AI. she said she doesn’t use it at all & doesn’t understand the use case for it reminded me how earlier we are in this journey

can we start a thread for AI life hacks i’ll go first: - for anything important, i don’t manually write prompts anymore. i have AI write the prompt. “i want to run a deep research query for generating a product spec on consumer AI apps backed by market research. write the prompt for me” - i now prefer giving chatgpt screenshots and images over copy paste text. i’ll screenshot an email and ask it to write a response - ive been using “remember this” for chatgpt to force memory writes so that i can control my memory data easier. putting emphasis on certain data over others has made my chatgpt significantly smarter i bet people are using AI in ways i never would guess. pls share!

📍 flew myself to SF

post mortem on the humane AI pin incident i caused last week. if you’re curious, here’s what gen z thinks of the AI pin (read the comments) 👇

men, your 30s and 40s can be fucking awesome if you can keep your body fat percentage under 20%. good career moneys, peak male attractiveness, societally respected age.

take your girlfriend to @nextjs conference day

ok apples liquid glass isn’t THAT crazy. what is crazy is that being their focus while everyone else is inventing the future with real tech innovations 😭

dying that tech bros are convinced this is AI generated bc they can’t fathom their hero being gay 😆

i know this is an insensitive take but i think people in big tech need to adopt more athlete mentality around layoffs being afraid of getting laid off is wild, it’s like openly admitting you’re bottom 10% if you’re aware of this, the obvious thing to do is work on improving. and if you can’t improve, then maybe some realities need to be faced but not wanting to enter tech bc a fear of layoffs is crazy. not wanting to play a sport bc you’re afraid of losing is so backwards winners want to be surrounded by winners. either become one or get laid off trying

launched my fifth app 🔥 iDigest 🥕 a food journal & symptom tracker. find your food triggers that can cause brain fog, IBS, fatigue, acne, and more. download 👇

i feel like i haven’t been using my platform enough to flame these guys. i’m so deeply bothered by this team & product. this gives me the ick worse than crypto bros.

the modern day (millennial) obsession with travel is so absurd. eating out and drinking cocktails and taking pics of sunsets in different cities/countries gets old fast.

i got paid $13k/month as an intern, back when i was definitely worse at coding than AI. this tweet is so clueless on how big tech works 😂

is getting married in your 20s the move??

if you’re so desperate to make an extra $100-200k/year and willing to do something as soulless as straight up copying someone else’s app, honestly just grind leetcode for 3 months and get a job in big tech. much more reliable and respectable path

this the kind of food i crave after my 72 hour water fast you would think i day dreamed about burgers and junk food while fasting, but i actually couldn’t get my mind off broccoli the fast totally reprogrammed my brain to appreciate healthy, unprocessed, whole foods

new tiktok trend just dropped “POV i forgave myself from all my debt”

thanks @bryan_johnson almost missed my 8pm bedtime

apple rejected my app bc it only had google sign in and then strongly suggested i add apple sign in hah

being an engineer that everyone wants to hire is the equivalent experience to being a 9 woman in a club in nyc

here is the actual state of AI/vibe coding today: if you are completely non technical: the world has become your oyster. the cost of learning just went to zero. what used to cost $100k + 1,000 hours to learn can now be be done in 2-6 months for free. BUT realistically you are mostly building static sites, gradually building up to extremely simple apps with 6 months grind. if you’re early career SWE (1-4 YOE): whoa the tech world is chaos right now. don’t get taken advantage of by some midwit startup founder trying to convince you to work insane hours for fake money. be alert. follow the news. teach yourself the latest AI tech. sniff out the currents and follow where the smart people are going. realize it’s literally 1995 right now and 1% of your peers are gonna become millionaires while the rest are asleep at the wheel. don’t take anything for granted. unless you’re in a dead sprint, you’re falling behind. if you’re in your tech prime (5-20 YOE): fuck, you’re a magician. no, more like an alchemist. things that were impossible forever before can now be your weekend creations. now you’re a designer, a data scientist, a PM, a marketer. reimagining entire industries has suddenly become possible after an innovation desert for the last 10 years. this is the worst time to be lazy. resting on your laurels. if you’re not losing sleep over AI, talking about AI at every happy hour, deeply integrating AI into your life, wtf are your doing? join a team building a future or chart your own path. but don’t be fooled, bc building actual meaningful stuff is still hard as fuck. luckily, you’re one of the few people who know how to do it.

once i realized claude is a she and chatgpt is a he everything made so much more sense

the only thing she’s never had as a kid is being able to cosplay as a poor kid 🤣🤣 jokes aside i actually met a lot of rich rich kids in college that had a romanticized idea of being poor and would poor kid cosplay a lot

this is one of my first viral tweets where the replies arent full of hateful comments. and i think that proves my point about above described men

ok @humane team members don’t use AI pin for note taking… noted ✍️

not to dogpile but this is an incredible case study for how much the narrative on this app is a bubble here, flexing your MRR is social status. but in the context of a college essay, it sounds shallow and greedy if the CalAI story in the essay was pitched as a journey to help others, this application would’ve been a shoe-in “i wanted to help others live healthier lives and spend more years with loved ones (goal). the app was so useful it became an incredible business (side effect)” i think this is a great reminder to everyone that no matter what metrics of success you reach, being kind and humble can still unlock opportunities for you

wow this app is making $400k/month on 60k downloads (amazing ratio) love the self regulation concept. most people just need a little help through an app like this, rather than spending thousands to a therapist who will convince you you’re so broken you need to see them for years

on a more serious note, this is why it’s super important to do market research before building a SAAS especially for B2B. sales cycles & user acq can be brutal so it’s best to build SAAS that commands a higher ticket price unless you have some unfair advantage. building a SAAS for people paying $10/month sounds like an actual nightmare

every time i come to korea i start looking super korean

once you know how to build apps, it’s rly hard to resist the urge to build a new app every week

ladies, here’s how to invest early in a nerd find one that had a rly lame 15-25. ideally lots of studying, grinding at good job, bad haircut, poor fitting clothes you find them around 26-32. get him a good haircut. buy him nice clothes. buy him a bed frame (with his card). tell him you think working out is cool this man will never cheat on you and will treat you like a princess. also he is extremely breedable ♥️

ya it’s pretty insane. i wonder what the actual 20 hours looks like. maybe they get rest time until they get called in for operations?

hey nerds, i made an app for us 🤖 wanted a little place to record progress on my apps & thought of a funny name for it lmk below if you want to be in the arena, ill send you the testflight 👩‍💻

build it and prove me wrong, i would love that story

i’ve realized a lot of consumer social founders with VC funding do it for the lifestyle: the party going and party throwing & social clout for a long time i was tripped up on how these people could actually believe their find friends app could possibly be a real business now it all makes sense and it has given me a weird sort of peace actually

my first app to rank top 100 😋☁️🫶

korea has an obsession with “made in korea” and it’s fascinating to experience as an american almost every product/food/service made or done by koreans is more coveted & expensive. moms pay a 20-200% premium to exclusively buy domestic food products bc they firmly believe it’s a healthier choice there’s an intense pride around supporting their own country + deep trust in the country’s products biggest exception might be the obsession with european cars

coding is now just tabbing

every engineer’s life right now

it’s a red bull kind of day (setting up auth)

another day, another set of AI generated girls for my tiktok strategy all generated by my app 🐟Content Tuna🐟 no reference images, 100% generated, purely from prompting. yes i know the fingers and toes are weird, no i don’t think most people care on tiktok!

preppy engineer girlfriend 🌸

i remember when i was in college and i had no idea how the world worked either 😂

can you believe this is AI generated?🤯 took me 30 min to nail the prompt but wow this is an insane unlock for tiktok content i’m building an app that’ll: - script a post - gen the images - gen the caption need it as an app so that i can tiktok on the go lmk if you want in - debating whether to keep it in testflight or publish to app store

as a woman this is how your looks scale across US cities new york: 6 LA: 7 las vegas: 8 SF: 9 portland: 10

shipping a new app build on plane wifi is the fires i have been forged in

i have had an adobe subscription i don’t use for 2 years because i literally can’t figure out how to cancel it

ya people who flex their hours rarely flex their output (prob don’t even know how to measure output)

height reveal; i’m 5’6 aka not smol 😡

my goofy little todo app just hit $200 in revenue 🫧🥹 so far: - 60/40 split in iOS/android subs. surprised about this one bc people said to expect 90/10 - 25% subs are yearly also it feels funny to be so excited about $200 when in a before life i was making big tech salary. but getting that first paying user was the craziest feeling in the world. IM ADDICTED TO MRR NOW

i’ve taken a risk i normally don’t take. i spent the last 4 months building a product. i usually build MVPs in 2 weeks, ship it, and test in public. but this time i wanted to build something actually nice. “feature complete” you might call it. for someone like me its pretty nerve racking to invest this much time on a product without validating it. but i decided i’ve learned a lot about product demand over the last year of indie hacking and decided to take this bet. now im fixing the final set of bugs and will be entering beta in a week. excited and nervous 🫨

white people in the midwest look like greek gods in high school and then develop diabetes by 30 and look 20 years older than their real age for the rest of their lives. this needs to be studied

“i’m a bad texter” is a fake excuse. it’s 2024 no one is away from a device for more than 30 min. they either don’t care about you or is someone who struggles with basic life tasks.

ok i want to buy a car but i have no idea what im doing!! - new or used - audi Q3 or Q5 - very firm on all black exterior - ideally 2021-2024 - budget flexible, timing flexible what next?!

i promise this isn’t why i’m in SF this week. but it is very easy to extract secrets at happy hour from mengineers

in case anyone doesn’t know about this (bc i didn’t) apple has a small business program that takes 15% of app revenue instead of 30%. anyone with less than 1M revenue is eligible!

im looking to work with someone on my apps what im looking for - excited to own distribution - full agency, platform agnostic what i offer - i’ll build & ship our ideas - design/code/vibes let’s build cool shit and split the profits if you’re interested, pick an app from below & DM me what your vision is for growth/marketing

shitposted my way to 10k followers 😘

HAVING A BAD PERSONALITY IS NOT AUTISM

i’m all for it ! i want to wake up after surgery

thanks javascript

when i post a selfie on tech titter

some humble milestones i am so proud of: since i monetized my apps 3 months ago, i’ve reached - $1000 in revenue - $3000 in subscription ARR this is my first time making money on any app i’ve built and it has been a challenging and rewarding journey. only upwards from here! #buildinpublic

i think the analogy would be more accurate if we’re talking about carpentry when carpentry got first invented so it was a super high demand skill & not well understood. i’m sure in 100 years programming will seem lower skill like most trade skills that have been around for 100s of years