How to be a software developer in 2025 ? - Frontend : Gemini 3 pro - Backend : Claude Opus 4.5 - Database Design : Claude Sonnet - Deployment : You - Documentation : ChatGPT - Security : Sentinel AI - Project Manager : Perplexity

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Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS: "  In a year or two; you'll get to a place where a lot of the current organizational tools that companies are using, you could build your own version. It would make so much more sense to you as a buyer. The code will be yours, the data will be us. You'll be able to adapt it, to your needs. There's no one size fits all. There's no like feature bloat." Do you think vibe coding will kill a lot of the SaaS market in this way @dharmesh @nicolasosharp @zackkanter @carlrivera?

This man dropped out of a no-name college in India to be a software engineer and by 33, worked his way up to being CEO of a $100M+ company in New York. Here's the never-before-shared incredibly inspirational story of Ershad Kunnakkadan: > be middle class kid in random state school in Kerala, India > get really into computers > senior hands you Ubuntu 8.04 CD, whole new world > starts contributing to SMC (a malayalam computing group) > gets into blogging cause SMC seniors are into it > go to no-name small private college in Kerala > spend more time in terminals than classrooms > shell scripting contests, Linux admin, security, virus cleaning, bots, paper presentations > doesnt see a point to college exams > drops out after 2nd year, promises family "I will earn a degree somehow" > lands internship at small software co > grows into being an architect > found security bugs in Github and Prezi > reads "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" and the "The Google Story", dreamt of being in the US one day > does Google Summer of Code > earns a degree remotely from Bharathiar University > gets remote job at BigBinary > moves back to Kochi to be near family > involved in local free software circles and workshops, events, meetups > building a quiet dense body of work over loud personal brand > gets introduced to Gumroad as a consultant first > joins Gumroad as a senior engineer > gets married > moves to Abu Dhabi to be closer to wife's family > does the boring crucial stuff - scalability, security, payouts, infra > grows to being a staff software engineer at Gumroad > support millions of users and $1B+ in creator earnings > just focusses on self-improvement > never once thinks about promotion > moves to New York City on an O-1 visa > Gumroad looking for a new CEO > board looks around and its clear who is best fit for the job > become CEO of a $100M+ gmv business I just love the story of Ershad. No brands, no pedigree, no MBA, no loudness. When I asked him the quality that got him here, he said "reliability". A truly kind, quiet and generous person. Who loves computers. Dropping out when you're rich is trendy in America, but to see someone Indian drop out and work their way up into the top role is pure inspiration. Don't worry if you don't have all the accolades and ornaments you see in people who achieve your dreams. Be a good person, and be reliable.

BREAKING: New Leaderboard Updates! Claude-Opus-4.5 and Opus-4.5 (thinking-32k) just landed on Code Arena (WebDev) and Text Arena leaderboards… and Opus-4.5 instantly took #1 in WebDev leaderboard, surpassing Gemini 3 Pro! WebDev leaderboard (powered by Code Arena) #1 for Claude-Opus-4.5 (thinking-32k) #2 for Claude-Opus-4.5 Expert Leaderboard #1 for Claude-Opus-4.5 Text Leaderboard - #3 for Claude-Opus-4.5 - #6 for Claude-Opus-4.5 (thinking-32k) Huge congrats to the @AnthropicAI team for such incredible milestone! Learn more in the thread on how it performs in key categories and on the Occupational leaderboard.

After building a $2.5M AI software agency, I’ve learned that anyone who says there's a "magic AI bullet" is lying to you. You don’t win by having that one secret tool. You have to stack the right ones and use them together. Here’s the full stack I’d start with: 1/ @Lovable This is where every product starts. You describe your idea in plain English And Lovable builds 80% of your app automatically. The key isn't the automatic building. It's that you no longer need devs to do it anymore. 2/ Cursor When you’re ready for production-level code, Cursor handles the final 20%. It will turn your vibe-coded project into a market-ready product. 3/ Supabase Supabase gives your app structure: - Auth - APIs - User data Supabase manages all of this for you. Lovable connects to it natively. 4/ Zapier, Make, n8n These tools connect your app to: - CRM - Email - 3rd party tools - Honestly anything Everything repetitive and even dynamic can be automated by them. 5/ ChatGPT, Claude, Chatbase They turn your apps into adaptive systems. You can: - Train them on your docs - Add chat layers - Automate customer responses The way I see it is they make your app experience feel "alive" And I can tell from my own personal experience that these are the kinds that impress users and keep them coming back. 6/ HeyGen + ElevenLabs These are the main players of your content engine. You can create AI videos, voiceovers, and explainer assets in hours. That means you can market and sell without depending on a creative team. You don’t need every AI tool. You only need the right stack and the skill to connect them. Get that part right, and you can turn almost any service offer into a system that earns while you sleep. Happy stacking.

If you haven't updated to Cursor 2.1 yet, DO NOT DO IT. Super super broken right now. Agent mode is barely functioning. My chat histories are corrupted. Multiple existing worktrees got corrupted. Working with the team to get it fixed asap.

We're releasing a visual agent & workflow builder Fully open source Built on http://useworkflow.dev Outputs "𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚠" code Supports AI "text to workflow" Powered by @aisdk & AI Elements Sample integrations (@resend, @linear, @slack) Clone & ship your own product, or embed AI workflow building capabilities into existing ones. Demo: http://workflow-builder.dev Deploy: http://vercel.com/templates/ai/workflow-builder…

claude opus 4.5 is finally here, so we tested it against gemini 3 to see which one is the better at vibe coding we took a new startup idea and went from idea to landing page to prototype to ad creative in one sitting. you also see how @boringmarketer uses claude skills to get the most out of claude opus 4.5 (and how you can do the same). if you’re wondering whether opus 4.5 is worth using, this 1hr tutorial will help you decide and learn how to get the most from it.

we made @marclou a product demo for @DataFast_ hope he likes it

The problem with vibe-coding is that it opened the floodgates to a certain kind of person (myself included) who now pushes the idea that you can vibe-code an app in a few days and start printing life changing amounts of money. It’s turning into the same fake and lame energy of the info-guru world where the lifestyle becomes the product by setting unrealistic expectations to lazy people who want to get rich quick. In case I misled people: my belief is you can vibe-code an MVP. You can get interest, a waitlist, even early revenue. If the product is simple or you have basic engineering instincts, sometimes you really can build and scale something meaningful fast. It happens. But most of the time building real software still takes months. It needs iteration, debugging, new features, and actual users so you can test and fix. Non-engineers often misunderstand that software is a living, breathing organism. It needs maintenance, it needs oxygen (distribution and growth), and none of that is instant or finitely required. Anyone claiming you can fully automate marketing is lying. Anyone promising thousands of paying users overnight is selling an edge case. These outcomes happen, but they’re rare and treating them as the standard is how people end up disillusioned and angry. A lot of the “software fell off” narrative comes from comparing today to the 2000s/2010s, when (I believe) companies were built with decades in mind. Too many founders now (again, myself included) fantasize about quick wealth instead of lasting impact, largely due to social media and very largely due to every VC jamming the Cursor, Lovable, etc narrative down our throats (see: the fastest company to 100M ARR charts). I’m not saying you shouldn’t want to get rich, even quickly. That’s actually exactly what I want to do. I’m saying you may see more success by aiming to build something enduring because the opposite is a very unlikely-to-hit gamble where survivorship bias the only thing you see on your feed. To be completely clear (and TLDR): for selfish reasons alone, you should want to build for long-term impact. Do not let social media convince you that you can no-code a $10M ARR SaaS or raising $50M at 22 and exiting in 2 years are normal.

It became easier to make money with Replit with our integration with @stripe! - Add subscriptions or one-time payments to your app with @stripe in one click - Build payment flows, product catalogues, and more - Publish your app and start accepting live payments Now available to everyone

A live look at Planning Mode in action with @andyzhang on the @FlutterDev show. Implementation Plan – the agent’s logic Feedback – leaving comments on that plan Walkthrough – proof of the agent’s work

we're hiring a Product Manager to lead the roadmap for the @beehiiv Ad Network (will report directly into me) fully remote competitive salary meaningful equity 401(k) match insurance monthly wellness day unlimited book budget tons of autonomy

Which one do you think matters more? - idea - execution - timing

Codex team is working on a few experimental projects that are starting to shape up and I’m excited to share more about soon. But I’m curious, what would you like to see ship or improved by the end of the year other than better models?

We're looking for a Head of Content at @typefully Think @leerob for Cursor or @peduarte for Raycast – someone who deeply gets product, growth, and what makes a product company stand out. Ideally already creating great content using Typefully. I know this person is out there, but how do I find them? Please materialize yourself in my replies

Evan Spiegel lists himself as “VP of Product at Meta” because of how many Snapchat ideas ended up shaping Meta’s products

The CTO watching the CEO sell a feature that doesn’t exist:

The AI scaling era is over! “Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research” it’s been obvious for everyone seriously developing on top of LLMs. The app layer will drive the further progress, until a new breakthrough in AI, that’s not guaranteed.