📸https://t.co/lAyoqmSBRX $100K/m 🛰https://t.co/ZHSvI2wjyW $44K/m 🎮https://t.co/jFirUbDgtZ $39K/m 🏡https://t.co/1oqUgfD6CZ $35K/m 👙https://t.co/RyXpqGuFM3 + @X $14K/m 🌍https://t.co/UXK5AFqCaQ $10K/m 💾https://t.co/T74ZwJ1F0C $0/m
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? 🤔
@levelsio Yeh i think the same. The ‘translation’ and engineering layer will be gone. What takes three hours now will eventually take a couple of seconds and then we’ll have NeuroLink - and then Elon Musk will probably fuck off to Mars
View quoted postCharacter AI has filed for bankruptcy Being a wrapper around one of the AI frontier lab's models is not sufficient to survive anymore in 2026 Because the AI frontier labs will perpetually outcompete you for lower cost and better quality as they both offer the API you use and their own app which gets your customers
Character AI just shut down. I think this is not going to be an outlier. AI is a bigger paradigm shift. The risk is that we have extreme centralization by a few big companies. For builders, making something agents want will be the only way to create something of lasting value.
View quoted postSwarms of historically accurate AI personalities from 2006 from different countries that you have conversations with
And it works!!!! 🤯
Let's try run Windows XP inside this tweet, tap to open https://pieter.com/xp/x
View quoted postTrue, nothing is ever "dead", but close to dead!
Nothing is ever really "dead" even once it's functionally replaced by something better. One example: physical newspapers from 1980 to 2026. Down massively, yes, but still not dead! Newsagents in the UK still make the majority of their rev from papers. https://x.com/i/grok/share/bGVnYWN5LWNvcHk_9f089538-4cdb-4119-bcf4-9a5df44e06bf
View quoted postSomehow got Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 running in XP now too, very hacky but it works kind of 😍 https://pieter.com/xp
People are Turing testing my MSN Messenger bot which really does think it exists solely in 2006
View quoted postPeople are Turing testing my MSN Messenger bot which really does think it exists solely in 2006
People think my MSN Messenger bots on https://pieter.com/xp are real 😁 I spent a lot of time making them feel real, they're all unique characters speaking different languages from countries around the world where MSN was popular AOL, Yahoo! and ICQ Messenger are also on
View quoted postThis is true You can get very rich on helping IRL businesses with the transition to AI and automating everything for them They'll have to to stay competitive because if one adapts AI, they all have to!
@levelsio I think it's the best time ever to walk into a business who has hardly any automations and get paid a huge check to help them automate everything. I believe trillions are on the table in the next 5-10 years as a forward deployed engineer. https://x.com/guilleflorvs/status/2107131465968279923?s=20
View quoted postI think one thing that's a bit dishonest that I saw a lot yesterday about the "software is dead" post and I don't blame them is people at all the AI companies kinda replying "omg yes it's the best time to build a startup ever" I mean yes, but you have to translate it to "omg best time to pay my company money for tokens to build your startup ever" And you have a lot of people who are already rich (post-money) who say similar, because they don't need to pay their bills with their salary anymore I'm also incentivized to say all this, half of my net worth is in AI stock (Google, SpaceX, Nvidia, and tech ETFs), I love to see their stock go up, but I care mostly about being real and no personally I don't think it's the best time to be in software ever, even if it's very unpopular to say this I think it's definitely the best time ever for creativity, you can make things now you couldn't even imagine being possible to make just a few years ago, that doesn't necessarily translate to money though There's ~40 million software developers in the world There's 2 billion people regularly using AI tools now So that's 50x, it'll grow to the same number as internet access, that's 6 billion people, so 200x more AI users than devs Once AI agents can do the dev work (they already can), that means something for software, even if it's not right now, but it'll mean something in a few years Many people predict this will cause the cost of everything to go down, and life will get cheaper, which is a good thing It just doesn't mean as a software developer or entrepreneur you'll be paid for the same thing in the future you're paid for right now (maybe other moats, maybe UBI, etc)
I'd expand the moats left to: - Proprietary data or content: data nobody else has, or unique content you can create - Network effects / community: users make it more valuable for each other - Audience / distribution: you can get attention on demand - Physical component:
View quoted postEvery guy I know (and me too) had to experience this once to then never do make the same mistake again
you fell in love with what you thought we could be. that’s not really my fault
A very heated debate yesterday about this, which shows I hit a nerve I asked @grok to summarize it and it said people believe I am directionally correct but a bit early Which I agree with It might take a few more years before everyone in the world uses AI chat apps and agents as @karpathy said And also until most people understand what's actually possible with current and future AI models But it's never bad to be early with these things and adapt before everyone else One of the repeated misconceptions I see is that people think I mean people will ask AI agents to build software, but I don't, their AI agents will solve their problems by building software on the fly With that a market springs up of software/data/etc for AI agents to pay for and connect to (like with MCP/APIs), but again the AI agents will try optimize to get the best service for the lowest price (free if possible) which makes it a cut-throat market, but possible to build a business in Anyway, it's interesting times and I learnt a lot from the replies and quote tweets yesterday, thanks everyone!
Software is dead It's now the era of personal software and everyone just builds what they need whenever they need it I think
View quoted postI'd expand the moats left to: - Proprietary data or content: data nobody else has, or unique content you can create - Network effects / community: users make it more valuable for each other - Audience / distribution: you can get attention on demand - Physical component: hardware, locations, real-world operations - Capital: owning assets and investing (esp into the AI companies as they are and will suck up large parts of the economy) - Regulatory: licenses and legal barriers
Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are: • Proprietary data • Network effects • A physical component
View quoted postThis is very accurate
wrote a little more about this here : https://alexine.rip/the-engineer-to-of-girlie-pipeline.html
People feel threatened and they think my point is doom and I'm a doomer I'm not, there's an explosion of creativity if anyone can make their own personal software It'll just be a completely different paradigm I think and we're already seeing bits and pieces of that now!
RT Denis Yurchak I recently started recording videos and wanted to have a teleprompter Before AI I would go online, search for a teleprompter app, install several on my Mac and pick one that suits me best Now I don't even wanna mess with the shitty software other ppl write, so I gave a task to Claude and had my teleprompter ready in 5 minutes And I can change it in any way I want, customize it to my needs and have the design I like Btw I took a picture with my phone because Claude was smart enough to make the prompter invisible to screenshots on the first go!
Software is dead It's now the era of personal software and everyone just builds what they need whenever they need it I think
View quoted postEven Nikita says it
Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are: • Proprietary data • Network effects • A physical component
View quoted postYes, potentially being the paid MCP tubing behind an AI agent solving a problem for their user is a business But AI agents too will try find the lowest price or do it for free if they can, they have a strong economic incentive not to spend their user's money!
I think the "software is dead" crowd is overestimating what regular people can do with AI. Building in public and selling to other builders gives you a pretty skewed sample. Plenty of people struggle to set up an app, let alone build one and keep it running. They'll happily pay
View quoted postI agree that @omarchy is a good example of where it's going Personal software that removes reliance on paid SaaS subscriptions and lets you create a malleable, user-controlled computing environment And it's all free, open source and sponsor funded
It’ll take a few years to trickle down. But he’s right. @omarchy is the canary in the coal mine. Everything will end up in that same place.
View quoted postSame with my 76-year old dad Glued to ChatGPT all day and loves it!
I badly don't want to think this. I want to think we're biased and we're just a small bubble. But my 66 yo mom uses AI everyday with Gemini. Same with my 62 yo auntie. She's the least techy person in the world. She barely knows how to download an app. You teach her how to
View quoted postYep! Which is why I'm working extra hard on https://nomads.com
@levelsio social apps will be fine though as users r buying into the network itself, so community building is moat
View quoted postI agree that @marchy is a good example of where it's going Personal software that removes reliance on paid SaaS subscriptions and lets you create a malleable, user-controlled computing environment And it's all free, open source and sponsor funded
It’ll take a few years to trickle down. But he’s right. @omarchy is the canary in the coal mine. Everything will end up in that same place.
View quoted postRT Steve Lacey 🔥 Tell me you’re Europoor without telling me you’re Europoor
I spent 10 years traveling and never wrote a travel blog. So I built one out of the data. Bookings, trips, posts, reviews, check-ins and photos. 🏠 Airbnb, Booking, Agoda and more, parsed from Fastmail 🌍 Every trip from @nomadscom 💬 Posts from the road, pinned to where I was
View quoted post"No one has the time to actively maintain software especially for non technical people" AI agents can easily maintain their own software projects and already do (see OpenClaw etc) Bugs/errors just feed back into themselves to fix!
i dont think personal software are gonna be a thing just yet purely because no one has the time to actively maintain software especially for non technical people most “personal software” are ephemeral still, used one then thrown away but at some point agents and harnesses will
View quoted postI know what this guy feels very well, but it's not like I can control how the world changes Do you want me to instead lie about where I think things are going or tell you what I think? I prefer we could keep continuing making cool software and people paying for it, but I also studied economics and wonder why would they pay for it if they can pay OpenAI $20/mo instead? I'm not, I'm not the founder of OpenAI or Anthropic, I'm not benefiting from this I'm just telling you what I feel is happening If anything it only disadvantages me because people will cancel my apps too! In transitionary times, it's better to spot the big waves early and adapt, than try ignore it, fight it, because you can't fight nature I'm an eternal optimist but also honest
Inspired thousands to pursue the indie hacker dream ✅ Made his millions ✅️ Couldn't give two fucks that 99% of them could end up screwed ✅
View quoted postPeople think my MSN Messenger bots on http://pieter.com/xp are real 😁 I spent a lot of time making them feel real, they're all unique characters speaking different languages from countries around the world where MSN was popular AOL, Yahoo! and ICQ Messenger are also on there with different matching demographics and personalities for each app A very deep rabbit hole I been in to recreate a real XP experience in ~2003 ❤️
@levelsio bro no way. how are you making it do all. please tell US. i legit thought people who joined are real?
Yes regulatory stuff has a moat of course, but even there you see ChatGPT, Anthropic and Google entering At least with Google you can hold the stock and participate!
@levelsio I agree and I assume this statement is about software on personal level yes? other wise I am curious what your thoughts on are on large software vendors with insane amount of business rules, laws, financial calculations which can never go wrong else it will cost you millions. For
View quoted postI can't believe really think this Have you used Opus 5.5? Astra? Maybe these people are on the free or cheap plans and haven't used top frontier models and simply do not know how great they are? Remember when majority of the population thought AI was dumb because they'd used ChatGPT 3 once in 2023 and it hallucinated and then just concluded AI was dumb for years until trying it again in 2025 or so
No hay nada que me diga que esto es cierto. Hoy se manda muchas cagadas cualquier modelo. Entonces no se la verdad si se quieren sumar a una movida o yo estoy haciendo algo muy diferente. No se ni que significa que el software esté muerto. Todo lo contrario si un modelo puede
View quoted post"What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years" @cdixon said in 2013 Make those 10 years like 1-2 year now because AI moves exponentially fast and normies adopt it quite fast because the interface is so easy (a chat)
@levelsio I think it's more difficult than that. Not all people know how to vibecode, only the people who are savvy enough to do it.
View quoted postYep but doesn't work with Alexa Then again I wanna get rid of Alexa and built my own too Any tips?
@levelsio Cancel spotify. Youtube music is superior and included in your premium. Better algo and you can listen to videos as songs.
View quoted postAs I posted before, I've cancelled almost all of the SaaS subscriptions for my business The only thing I still pay for as a business: - AI inference - Hetzner server hosting - Cloudflare storage - Backblaze backups - Taxes Now I started cancelling personal subscriptions too and just vibecoding my own versions or using Claude to take an open source project that does the same and then customize it for myself All I still pay for personally is: - Claude Code - YouTube (content) - Spotify (content) - Starlink (internet) - Phone eSIM - Personal cloud storage - Electricity and water (utility) - Taxes So if we summarize it for both, I only still pay for: - AI inference - Content - Cloud storage & hosting - Connectivity - Electricity & water - Taxes So to summarize all my money now goes to: - Content - Data centers - Power plants + water - Governments I think we'll be facing a tidal wave of cancellations once people find out how much money they can save It's just how the economy works
the fundamental basic economics misunderstanding that ppl have esp on here is that they think normal ppl need to use models to build their own software to be disrupted. they obviously don't & they obviously won’t. but even if just 1% of the population can build software, that's
View quoted post🚽 Toilet review: specialty coffee place in 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Poland Super clean with disco music, disco lights and a disco ball This is how good it can be! 🙏 10/10
Toilet review: interior design stores in 🇵🇹 Lisbon Consistently dirty and unmaintained especially concerning they charge €7,000 for a sofa they should be able to decorate the toilet nicely One shop light was flashing like in my Berlin days 4/10
It's not about making money People don't get it People pay $20/mo to Anthropic or ChatGPT so it helps them with their daily activities Instead of $20/mo to Adobe + $20/mo Canva + $20/mo to Microsoft 365 + $20/mo to Grammarly + $20/mo to Squarespace etc.
@levelsio I wish but it's so far from reality. Reverse engineering is no more proof of it either An easy way to observe this is in the X builder community; I see 100x more people building apps than I did a couple of years ago. I've not seen an increase in people making money If people
View quoted postHe's right but that's people paying for creativity That's why you're seeing an AI-assisted explosion of creativity A spreadsheet or analytics or CRM app isn't creative necessarily
fair point, but i think there's a difference between software that's purely functional and software that's an experience in itself nobody really cares who made their PDF reader, they just want it to work but it's like books. you could generate a book tailored exactly to your
View quoted postI agree but if "we're not there yet" is someone's business thesis They get rekt with AI's exponential progress faster than they think Better prepare and embrace the new post-software reality and see how you can fit into that Not saying that I completely know how I would btw but we should figure out
@levelsio long term agree, but we're not there just yet most people still don't use AI at all -> of those, most still don't pay -> of those, most still use it as basically search still very very early
View quoted postA big % of tech people don't get it Normies won't ask "build me software" They will ask "I have this photo and I want to manually edit it" and it will spin up a Photoshop clone They will ask "I need to know if sales are going up or down this quarter from all different ecommerce platforms we use" and it will spin up an analytics dashboard connecting all APIs with scheduled crons that keeps it up to date forever They already do! They won't know they're building software because their AI app/agent will do it for them And then they'll stop using most regular software!
@levelsio I'm sorry, but your definition of "normies" is some tech-adjacent person. A regular person has absolutely no fucking idea what you're talking about here, and frankly, the younger generation is as dumb with tech as the older one, maybe even worse. The average teen has a hard
View quoted postRT @Molson_Hart: @levelsio You're right, but I'd mitigate it a bit. I'm not a normie but I have no computer science training. I use claud…
I'd call this a bubble in a bubble Tech people somehow still think normies are not spinning up personal software already They're not doing it in Claude Code in a terminal like tech people for sure But their AI chat app is already doing it for them without them even realizing they're building personal software, like generating PDF reports, full web app dashboards and even entire web apps That will keep getting more advanced and soon ChatGPT will just spin up a Photoshop clone (but ofc only if they need it, preferring to just do their photo edits for them) Everyone will mostly use personal ephemeral software inside AI chat apps I think Some software moats will remain like social media (community), ecommerce (think like Shopify and Stripe), etc but they will just be used by AI to build the personal software with So maybe that's the point here, become a tool agents use to solve their user's problems and charge agents for it (like many are saying)
i actually think there's a huge opportunity here we're so caught up in our indie hacker bubble that we forget most people have no clue how any of this works the average person doesn't want to build their own software, they just want something that works i think who's buying
View quoted post100,000+ users on https://pieter.com in last 2 days!
💾 Two years ago I started working on these crazy nostalgia projects, kind of randomly, because I was bored and wanted to do something different than just build another SaaS or AI app/website I wanted to try to run Windows 3.1 inside a web browser, and to do that properly
100% There was this big wave of tech people last year who kept posting "AI won't replace jobs, it'll create jobs!" But that completely leaves out the transitionary period where old jobs are replaced by AI and new jobs aren't created yet In the Industrial Revolution that took 50 to 80 years! Time goes faster now, so with AI that could take 10 to 20 years of a rough ride for many
I called BS to this "AI will create as many jobs as it destroys" narrative from the very beginning the data of replacement is just a lagging indicator we are finally seeing the first effects I myself am replacing people I hired before with AI everyone is doing it, everyone I
View quoted post💾 Two years ago I started working on these crazy nostalgia projects, kind of randomly, because I was bored and wanted to do something different than just build another SaaS or AI app/website I wanted to try to run Windows 3.1 inside a web browser, and to do that properly already took me months When that worked well enough, I wanted to build a dial up internet connection so it could browse the web, with the basic levels of AI back then, that was VERY hard, and I'd just go around in circles forever. Finally I had to find the only person in the world who got that working @bai0 and beg him to help me make it work, and we did it! Then I started hosting classic games like Quake with full multiplayer, porting them to WASM, or if not already like Quake III by @lukathedev and hosting those with a full multiplayer server ready-to-go in your browser And then I spent 6 months trying to reverse engineer Windows XP to run on v86 by @copy_sh, very difficult (because it's so big) and only possible because modern AI like Opus 5.5 is good enough to figure that out For the last two years pretty much nobody cared about any of these projects, I'd tweet them into the void, which was fine because I thought it was very fun just for myself But now with this wave of AI-assisted reverse engineering WASM ports of games and apps to web they're finally taking off, pretty much anything is portable to WASM on web now, and if you add server to it via WebSockets, people can instantly play with each other, or interact inside apps you host, it's super cool Every game and app I have on @pieter now is full or almost full to the limit, yesterday 80,000 people played around in Windows 3.1 or Windows XP inside their browsers chatting to MSN and AOL Messenger AI bots and playing 3D Pinball or playing Quake etc. And that was my idea for @pieter: a non-commercial preservation project, kinda like an online computer museum but interactive! The most cool thing to pay respects to these old games, apps ...
PLAY ALL THESE GAMES IN YOUR BROWSER Your PC does not need the game installed! you can play Black Ops zombies, Skate 3, Halo and MW2 and more GAMES all run in a browser tab now. full list in the comments. School gaming is boutta be fire
Oops correction! @robj3d3 was right, I completely misread because the notification said "You got paid" and I checked the headline number of $11K but that's total! Oopssss So in that case the Original Content program pays about the same as the Revenue Sharing program, maybe a bit less (but depends on views ofc) Today I was traveling all day from early morning so I'm retared and I need some sleep 😊 😴
These were the most viewed this period So I have to buy @JohnONolan a lot of steak because it's his video 😂
@levelsio @X Do you get a breakdown of which posts drove it, or just the one total?
View quoted post💸 First big new Original Content program payout of $11,044! Never ever I got such a high payout with @X's previous revenue sharing program ($9K was the last record) Note that X pays out every 2 weeks, so $11K is about $24K/mo for a whole month If it repeats (a month is ~4.3 weeks) and $25K/mo if you add $1K subscriber revenue With my $5K book and $1K merch revenue that'd add up to a respectable $32K/mo Or $1,000/day to just shitpost on here! Pretty good 👌
🚨 New record! 💰My @X revenue is ~$25,000 this month $9,307 + $7,032 X ad rev share (28d) $1,389 X subs revenue (28d) $4,658 book revenue $773 merch revenue =$24,744 This is by far my highest X payout ever, just @X revenue here would be $19,312/mo! This is for about 73
Last night's impromptu Urban Terror LAN-party at our coworking day This is why the web is so good for multiplayer gaming Without it we'd have get 10+ people to download the same game on 3 different platforms (MacOS, Windows and Linux) Instead I just told everyone to open http://ut.pieter.com in their browser and everyone instantly started playing together Superfun 😊😊😊
🇵🇹 I tried to make an Urban Terror map of Lisbon with Opus 5.5 and it worked! It uses the real OSM maps data of the center area around Praça do Comércio with real buildings It's not fully exact but a nice approximation, I've always wanted to be able to to multiplayer games in
View quoted postToday I tried to port DOOM to WASM with multiplayer too Actually it's Odamex, an open source Doom engine for Mac, Windows and Linux, specifically great at Doom multiplayer, because the original Doom had very laggy netcode But nobody ever ported Odamex to web yet, so I tried today with Opus 5.5, and I got it working with in 30 minutes I also made Opus 5.5 create bots from scratch which it also did in just 10 minutes It's the free shareware maps and some of the best community made DOOM map collections like Dystopia 3 and Dwango5 (I had to Google that too but apparently those are the best!) http://doom.pieter.com
Inspired by @jaivinwylde I put the entire game of Quake III with WORKING multiplayer inside this tweet 🐣 Just click below to play! https://q3.pieter.com/x?v=12
View quoted postWe should follow what the data says Europe should only be open for people from countries where we have data that previous people from those countries had a net contribution to our society, the economy and stayed out of crime It's that simple!
Third-generation immigrants from MENAPT commit more crime than their grand parents did when they arrived in Denmark. Almost as much as their second-generation parents. Assimilation has been a failure.
Mom I'm on TV!!! We're in this tweet :D
PLAY ALL THESE GAMES IN YOUR BROWSER Your PC does not need the game installed! you can play Black Ops zombies, Skate 3, Halo and MW2 and more GAMES all run in a browser tab now. full list in the comments. School gaming is boutta be fire
I get this response also when I post: - I take 10g creatine per day - I eat a lot of steak and chicken - I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables - I drink black coffee If you have digestive issues after eating whole foods, it's not the food that has issues, it's your digestive system! Likely your gut flora is messed up from decades of ultra-processed slop food and you have to reset it with good food and bacteria to rebuild it
Please @elonmusk allow X Player Cards again They're really cool to have games inside tweets and it kinda makes X in to a gaming platform!
Here's how rice cooked with bone broth looks 😋
Everyone's talking about bone broth so I've been adding it to the rice cooker instead of water It's apparently great for your gut health, supports your joints and cartilage, and has an amino acid called glycone thats help you relax and sleep better And it tastes really good too
Everyone's talking about bone broth so I've been adding it to the rice cooker instead of water It's apparently great for your gut health, supports your joints and cartilage, and has an amino acid called glycone thats help you relax and sleep better And it tastes really good too
They're the same picture
Instead of Powerade, Gatorade or an electrolyte drink You can also just eat a banana, take some table salt and drink (sparkling) water This helps you maximize your strength during workouts and and prevents performance drops I have table salt with me during workouts and just
One of my favorite gifts to receive these days is not a bottle of wine or liquour But fresh coffee beans we can grind and try! These funky looking ones from @valeriansaliou and @lazy_coll
Update 2: We moved to a new bedroom and CO2 levels at night got very high again and we'd both regularly wake up at night, not optimal So I wanted to do the bathroom vent trick again, where putting the bathroom vent next to the bedroom on at night creates a low air pressure field and brings in new fresh air But the light switch was tied to the vent here so it'd blast bright light into the bedroom if vent was on, so I closed it but then it didn't help a lot. So we split the light from the vent now and put it on and it worked! About 600-700 ppm CO2 which is pretty great for indoors, outdoors is 400 for ex Next house will have an ERV system built in but it'll be a lot of breaking ceilings and walls to put that into this one so this works for now I use @airthings to measure the air quality in our house and bedroom, not affiliated, not paid but great brand and tip by @NorbertDragan
🌡️ Update: 100% sleep score with bathroom fan on to keep CO2 low It sucks CO2 out of the room and creates a low pressure field that brings in new fresh air from outside the room Last time 100% sleep was in an Airbnb in Brazil we stayed which was a house built in 1970s mostly
Very fun and cool personalized travel site using the https://nomads.com API and MCP server!
I spent 10 years traveling and never wrote a travel blog. So I built one out of the data. Bookings, trips, posts, reviews, check-ins and photos. 🏠 Airbnb, Booking, Agoda and more, parsed from Fastmail 🌍 Every trip from @nomadscom 💬 Posts from the road, pinned to where I was
View quoted postInstead of Powerade, Gatorade or an electrolyte drink You can also just eat a banana, take some table salt and drink (sparkling) water This helps you maximize your strength during workouts and and prevents performance drops I have table salt with me during workouts and just put some on my hand palm as if I'd do tequila shots 😂
Allowing myself to drink sweet drinks while working has been the most profound performance enhancement in the past 5 years for me. For the past 2 weeks I've been outputting at +50%. Higher focus, longer. 1 Powerade at my desk per day. I am able to do 12 hour days the way I used
View quoted postInspired by @jaivinwylde I put the entire game of Quake III with WORKING multiplayer inside this tweet 🐣 Just click below to play! https://q3.pieter.com/x?v=12
It's great Inspires other people to also get fit Almost everyone over 30 now has belly fat and is overweight it's an epidemic Hard to be lean at 40, let alone 49! We should all be @marclou'ing and get ripped or at least lose all the fat
A man can be a billionaire and still need to flex various physique/health/biomarkers to feel validation. Think about it. CZ can and has literally everything a man could want and still needs internet brownie points. At the end of the day we are all the same creature, with or
View quoted postTest123 https://q3.pieter.com/x?v=2
TIL a crazy number of hotels is owned not by public stock holders, not by private owners, not even by private equity funds, but by governments! You don't see this easily, because you have to dig quite deep (or well dig upward actually) and they cover it up in lots of constructions Like this hotel in Paris "Le Ballu", sounds French? Yes and it's owned by Hotels & Preference, which on paper is a French international hotel chain Hotels & Preference itself is owned by the Louvre Hotels Group, sounds French too? Yes But Louvre Hotels Group is owned by Jin Jiang International, that doesn't sound so French anymore? So it must be a Chinese company? Right? No! It's the municipality of Shanghai!? Yes the the local council of Shanghai somehow owns 539 hotels around the world including Raddison, Park Plaza, Vienna House, Golden Tulip, Campanile, Kyriad etc. Other big government owners are the government of Dubai, Brunei and Qatar So I added a filter [ Government-owned hotels ] and every hotel page shows the TRUE owner of a hotel, not just the chain!
Also one more filter for today: 🔲 Public company ☑️ Privately owned 🔲 Government owned I love ETFs as much as the next guy but they do put a pressure on stocks to grow by 10%/year or more Hotels have a hard time doing that, so how do you grow? You cut costs and big hotel
RT Steve Lacey 🔥 I spent 10 years traveling and never wrote a travel blog. So I built one out of the data. Bookings, trips, posts, reviews, check-ins and photos. 🏠 Airbnb, Booking, Agoda and more, parsed from Fastmail 🌍 Every trip from @nomadscom 💬 Posts from the road, pinned to where I was ⭐ Google Maps reviews, as the recommendations 📍 Years of Foursquare check-ins and photos 📸 My Instagram archive 51 countries. 7 years in Asia. $64/night overall, mostly chasing the ☀️ http://steve.ly/travels
I agree with this All AI companies should have 0% tax for next 10 years in EU Instant boost to the mostly non-existing AI ecosystem in EU which will then suddenly start existing!
Brazilians, what's the best washing machine, drier, fridge, freezer and AC brands? Because Brazil has import bans/taxes on everything so you can't easily get Euro brands like Miele, Bosch, etc. For AC, I'd go with Mitsubishi or LG but not sure if available in BR?
🇪🇺 Respect for @MistralAI for actually getting close now 38th in intelligence and only just behind the Chinese open weight models like DeepSeek, GLM and Kimi and ahead of any US open weight model! It shows Europe can still do stuff if they just all get on the same page 👏
Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk. • 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active. It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks. • State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses
View quoted postI own land and property in exactly these areas and will keep buying land and property in these areas This is exactly my post-AGI thesis too Scarse coastal or mountain land with clean air
once ASI is here and living somewhere because of "work" becomes pointless, people with money will just move to the nicest places on earth Mediterranean climate, ocean, mountains, good food, beautiful isolated towns places like this are going to become insanely valuable probably
🇵🇹 I tried to make an Urban Terror map of Lisbon with Opus 5.5 and it worked! It uses the real OSM maps data of the center area around Praça do Comércio with real buildings It's not fully exact but a nice approximation, I've always wanted to be able to to multiplayer games in actual REAL cities with friends so now we can I put it as the main map on http://ut.pieter.com now 😊
I keep going more niche with reverse engineered web-based versions of games 👉 https://ut.pieter.com 👈 6 months ago I tried to reverse engineer Urban Terror Urban Terror was kind of a Counter-Strike style mod on top of the Quake 3 Arena engine, I think @Erwin_AI got me to
View quoted postAnyone know how to enable Alexa+ in Portugal? Alexa regular never understands what we says. Alexa+ has an LLM behind it so should work better. It's not available in Portugal, but must be hackable?
Researchers have now found extremely high amounts of PFAS in the majority of Dutch tap water The Netherlands was long known for having some of the cleanest tap water in the world and every Dutch person would drink from it, but that turned out to be false It's full of PFAS! PFAS are per- and polyfluoroalkyl particles also known as "forever chemicals", they're highly toxic They cause an endless list of body ailments like reducing fertility, disrupting your hormonal system, reduced testosterone levels, delayed fetal development, disrupting your immune system, causing cancer, elevating LDL cholestrol, and high blood pressure And even worse maybe mind ailments like anxiety, depression, cognitive decline, ADHD and neurodegeneration Sounds an awful lot like many of the mental ailments everyone in Netherlands is complaining about? A lot of people I know there are burnout, depressed, anxious and definitely low testosterone @GreenpeaceNL lets every Dutch person check their tap water for PFAS My friend did and his tap water is 2-3x over the limit! I can recommend to all my Dutch friends to install an Reverse Osmosis water filter, it's the most rigorous filter out there and removes over 99% of PFAS and microplastics and other contaminants I have a Waterdrop G3P600, as always I am not paid or affiliated, I wish I was cause I'd be rich Did PFAS and a culture of drinking tap water make many Western Europeans weak men? I don't think it's too crazy of a thing to suggest actually!
💧 For years I was brought up in the Netherlands being told we had the "best tap water in the world" "The Americans are silly for buying bottles of mineral water, you can just drink from the tap!" I remember the same sentiment with my German friends When I stayed at the VOCO
View quoted postThere's very few logistics jobs now that won't be done way better by a self driving vehicle The faster we replace humans in trucks with self driving vehicles, the less accidents and deaths we'll have
Amazon Freight driver didn't back up straight and hit our building. Got her CDL (Commercial Driver License) this year. Amazon sellers and everyone who shares the road with drivers like this deserve better.
View quoted postSECRETARY RUBIO: In the case of Portugal, they've been a strong ally. We have an opportunity to go there and visit with them. And of course, Greece is a very important U.S. ally.
View quoted postAirbnb just responded to "reviewgate" The replies here are literally hundreds of people who got their reviews removed directly contradicting what Airbnb says here The "policy" they have seems to be to remove a guest's review and rating whenever a host asks for it I don't get why they don't just fix this? Everyone would love to see Airbnb have honest reviews and ratings you can trust Short term you might get more bookings if everything is a 4.5 or 4.99 but long term people discover it means nothing and they can't trust your platform and they leave elsewhere I think they're in some internal gridlock by MBAs who want to see revenue go up, not realizing that they're destroying a company I hope they fix it!
We remove reviews that violate our policies, and hosts can't delete them. Only guests who actually booked the stay can leave one. Ratings on Airbnb skew high partly because we remove listings that fall short of guest expectations.
View quoted postAlso one more filter for today: 🔲 Public company ☑️ Privately owned 🔲 Government owned I love ETFs as much as the next guy but they do put a pressure on stocks to grow by 10%/year or more Hotels have a hard time doing that, so how do you grow? You cut costs and big hotel chains have been doing that in the name of DEI and ESG and wokeness a lot. Locking down ACs, no daily cleaning, cutting corners, etc. it all saves money Those cost savings mean higer profit margins mean growth! Great as an ETF or stock holder, terrible as a hotel guest So you can now filter on privately owned One of the most consistent quality hotel chains I visit is Four Seasons (recommended by many people on here), not cheap, but almost always a good experience Guess who owns Four Seasons? It's private! And it's @billgates and @Alwaleed_Talal They must have a had such terrible hotel experiences, they had to buy their own hotel to get a good one! Can you imagine? 😂
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Skyr is quite dry by itself, so I always add one fully squeezed lemon + cinnamon powder That makes it juicy and tasty Sometimes I also add 20g of 92% Vivani dark chocolate, I put it on a wooden plate, then cut it up with a knife into tiny almost powdery bits and put it in
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He's right, there's more and more hotels offering this so I added an [ Apartment-style ] filter for hotels with kitchen and residential vibes
This is my consistent experience too You book an Airbnb Luxe Plus Verified Guest Favorite rates 4.99/5 and it's still a dump Then you review it and your review gets removed ???
@levelsio I had an Airbnb with black mold covering the bathroom ceiling—this was a "guest favorite." They refunded me, but the listing remained up, still a guest favorite. I'll never use it again.
View quoted postHe's right, there's more and more hotels offering this so I added an [ Apartment-style ] filter for hotels with kitchen and residential vibes
@levelsio Isn't this a solved problem? There are a bunch of chains that rent out rooms / studios / apartments with kitchens. Placemakr, Mimaru, Fraser Suites, etc. are all great!
View quoted postWhat most people don't know about Airbnb "If a person doesn’t like a review they received from you and wrote you a good review they can remove theirs and with it the rating of their experience." 100%
@levelsio Here’s the biggest scam with airbnb reviews that 99% of people don’t know. Most people think airbnb reviews are double blind - the reviews are only visible to the other side after they both write them or 14 days elapse. This is half the story. Only that if a person doesn’t
View quoted postI'm not paid by the hotel lobby or something btw I was a big fan of Airbnb and would prefer to stay in Airbnbs if they were great I want to have a kitchen to cook steak and vegetables, and not go outside to eat in restaurants or get shitty hotel food But I can't book Airbnbs because I the "rating anxiety" is so high because I can't trust the ratings and I end up with my bags in some place that sucks, so the variation of quality is too high to be able to seriously use for travel (except maybe in Asia) So they leave us no choice to just go back to hotels Meanwhile hotels still don't have kitchens! What a missed opportunity! Hotel industry could CLEAN UP entire Airbnb by just adding kitchens to rooms
RT Dado built a safari extension to normalise airbnb's ratings, after reading @levelsio 's post on how broken they are. it stretches the 4.6-5.0 cluster into a range you can actually compare (0-10). turns out a 4.9 is just the new 3. on github; 🔜 app store https://github.com/davorb/gimme-the-truth
✨ Rebuilt the http://Nomads.com meetups page from scratch It now has - individual meetup pages - category pages (like Coworking meetups) - city and country pages (like Meetups in Bangkok) And I tried to make it look better 😊 And it's also MCP-ready, so you can create, edit, or see all meetups via the Nomads MCP
✨ I have made coworking meetups a special category on https://nomads.com/meetups now So you can organize one in any city in the world to meet people there I've also added a [☑️] Recurring Meetup option now so if you do a weekly cowork or event, you don't need to keep adding the
Airbnb's entire rating scale is now 4.5 to 5.0 You can't make this up 😂
Airbnb deletes negative reviews so everything is always 4.7 Google Maps removes negative reviews in many countries as defamation so everything is always a 4.7 Booking sites want you to book so will also happily remove negative reviews for their hotels so everything is always a
RT Jon Yongfook I built an AI slop machine over the weekend. I will never launch it, after seeing what I created. You put in a story prompt, and it generates a more structured story with stakes, cliffhangers, a beginning, middle, end. Splits it into episodes. Storyboards the whole thing, makes a cast, music, poster, voiceovers. Then generates the visuals (different styles available from anime to cinematic) and you can play the episode as a slideshow, or render it as a video. Uses all the latest models that you would expect. A few observations from this exercise: 1) it was trivial to build There's no moat here. This is just "AI glue", building an app that wraps several AI models. The moat is the GTM strategy, which leads me to... 2) this space is insanely competitive there's tons of AI movie makers all using the same models with some thin layer of prompt direction or UX as the differentiation. totally saturated. 3) AI video courses I noticed that some of the biggest advertisers in this space are people selling "how to create your own AI movie" courses. There's something off about this, almost dropshippy. It suggests that there's more value in hyping the thing and selling courses about the thing, than there is in the thing. 4) this shit is really expensive All of those cool AI videos that you see using the latest video models, are expensive to make. A 60 second "mini episode" of a story built using my platform would cost $5 in raw inference. There's no business here, whatever margin you put on top of that can just get eaten by a competitor. And imagine if a user buys $100 of credits (of which $90 is passed through to your AI provider) then decides they hate the movie that was created, and asks for a refund or charges back. Enough of those in a month will bankrupt you. 5) just didn't feel right It's a fun little demo that got some laughs from my friends but ultimately it's contributing to the never ending pile of AI slop. Is that something I want to be part...
Another one!
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View quoted post🇧🇷 Flavio Bolsonaro (the son of Bolsonaro) is at the lead with 63% odds of winning the Brazilian presidential elections today Lula (the current president) is at just 37% Lula is left-wing and promises free money to the poor people and that's how he keeps winning Flavio Bolsonaro is right-wing, and the son of the previous president Bolsonaro who was jailed after allegedly organizing an attack by his supporters on government buildings in Brasilia on January 8, 2023, a literal copycat of the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack exactly 2 years and 2 days later but in Brazil! In the US, Trump got cleared of that, but in Brazil, Bolsonaro got jailed for 27 years because of that Brazil reminds me of South Korea where every new president tries to jail the previous president, it's a different type of politics Many Brazilians don't like either Lula or Bolsonaro by the way, realizing the system is so corrupt it doesn't really matter who you put in power, so they essentially protest vote for one to avoid the other, not liking either One interesting thing about Brazil more recently is how the Supreme Court judges are allegedly used by the ruling president to influence politics, censoring speech against the current government (again quite similar to what Biden was doing) Brazil's politics to me feel very heavily influenced by the US but with a 2 year delay because when US has elections in 2024, Brazil has them 2 years later in 2026. Their political swings have always followed the US ever since they started getting elections with just 2 exceptions in 2000 and 2004 (Bush in US vs Lula in BR) Knowing how accurate @Polymarket bets usually are (it predicted Trump winning in 2024 when the media said he'd lose) this will be very interesting. Funnily enough Lula has banned Polymarket and other prediction platforms in April this year, probably out of fear it'd influence the elections If Bolsonaro wins, many people predict the Supreme Court judges will try annull the election and dec...
I don't know where I read it but someone said High skilled Westerners immigrating to another country for better living conditions, lower taxes, easier business regulation, special benefits, is still fringe and for early adopters now Kinda like digital nomading was fringe 10y ago but now mainstream But it's the next thing to go fully mainstream I think A few years ago my Dutch friends and family would never consider migrating out, now they're at least thinking about it, next they might do it This will keep happening until life at home improves
Just a day later and now Javier Milei is offering full Argentinean citizenship with residence and passport for $350,000 Countries will keep plucking out the high skilled and wealthy from around the world for better conditions elsewhere Which is easier than ever especially in
Just a day later and now Javier Milei is offering full Argentinean citizenship with residence and passport for $350,000 Countries will keep plucking out the high skilled and wealthy from around the world for better conditions elsewhere Which is easier than ever especially in Europe This isn't new of course, this is what the US, Canada, South America and Australia did for centuries to attract people It's why there's Dutch dairy farmers all over the world because many got poached in 1950 after WW2 to migrate elsewhere (and often get free or cheap land to farm on)
This is great and another example of city states attracting all the skilled Europeans with better living, working and regulatory conditions!
View quoted postThis is awesome so to help everyone I added direct booking links now to https://hotelist.com Book directly on the hotel's site without any OTA Or if I have the hotel's email available I will show you that so you can email them directly and save money!
Je trouve un hotel chouette, 160 euros la nuit. Je trouve leur numéro et j'envoie un SMS: Bonjour ! Nous aimerions beaucoup séjourner dans votre hôtel demain soir pour une nuit. J’ai trouvé votre établissement sur Booking, où le tarif actuel est de 160 €, petit-déjeuner inclus.
This is great and another example of city states attracting all the skilled Europeans with better living, working and regulatory conditions!
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I keep going more niche with reverse engineered web-based versions of games 👉 http://ut.pieter.com 👈 6 months ago I tried to reverse engineer Urban Terror Urban Terror was kind of a Counter-Strike style mod on top of the Quake 3 Arena engine, I think @Erwin_AI got me to play this during COVID Because it runs on Quake 3's engine like RTCW and Q3 itself, I thought I could just use ioquake3 and WASM to run it on web, then add a multiplayer server and it'd just work... But no it didn't, I got stuck 6 months ago, it was buggy and wouldn't work, I kept trying and kinda got it to load but not really play Today I tried it again with Opus 5.5 and again, I couldn't get it to work, giving up I did a last try with Fable 5.1 on high effort and it after awhile it did figure out the issue! "The engine's struct was 4 bytes longer than what UT's bytecode expects, everything after that point (the entity count and the entity list) was read 4 bytes off" It rewrote the bytecode and made it work! So now we have another game preserved, running 100% the web via WASM, with a multiplayer server tied to it, so you can play with your friends 😊 Every model that comes out makes a bit more things possible and you can just keep trying old things that didn't work before I see lots of people mod modern games now too which looks very cool too Here I'm playing it with @marckohlbrugge a few minutes ago! Anyway you can play it with everyone else at http://ut.pieter.com now :D
It's such a weird experience that I can now build things faster than I get new ideas for things
I think this is super accurate AGI might just create a two-tier split in society, and I'm kinda starting to see it around me One part of society will succumb to AI slopscrolling and free money (basic income) from government as work is replaced by AGI The other part will fight that instead and become an elite counter movement that focuses on IRL, family, local community, and health I think many will be in kind of smaller communities (kind of like eco villages in the pic below), and my friend @csonotes is a good example of that and we try do the same (so I'm probably biased) @okaythenfuture below thinks it'll be in the central parts of big cities though Maybe both? For both of them you need real estate and land though Real estate and land also one of the few scarce resources left in a post-AGI world where almost every good becomes almost free If you told me a decade ago I'd want to buy real estate and land I'd call you crazy, but post-AGI it makes a lot of sense I think
Technology like this makes me even more bullish on tier 1 global city real estate. The internet is about to be ABSOLUTELY NUKED by all this AI garbage on the internet, including realistic rendered AI companions that sadly a lot of lonely and isolated people will become addicted
After trying the Reverse Osmosis (RO) filter and making V60 coffee with it, it tasted a bit flat I was kind of expecting that because even with the remineralizer installed (yes we have a remineralizer!) it only gets to 25 TDS, which is quite a low amount of mineral content for water TDS means total dissolved solids, so like what's left after you remove all the water, essentially the mineral content The plastic 6L water bottles we used before had a TDS of about 60 So I asked Claude what specialty coffee places do? They usually have an RO filter without any remineralizer. Then they use an industrial machine to remineralize it to the perfect level. That's why coffee of specialty coffee chains like @the_coffee (my fav) taste the same from Brazil to Japan. And their TDS level is high around 150 How can I do get my RO 25 up to 150 though? Claude suggested getting a mineral water coffee kit by Lotus Coffee, you get 4 drippers for Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium and Sodium, so I got it today and tried it. There's a specific amount of drops to add based on your current TDS The TDS went up to 156 so at specialty coffee water level, and the V60 looked different and way more bubbly And the flavor is great, it's not bitter, it's pure kind acidic like the Brazil beans we have should be Adding these drops everytime might be annoying though, maybe I can mix them and make my own solution, or I can get a remineralizer for coffee that gets it to 150 TDS by itself after RO Anyway I've become a coffee water snob now 🧔♂️ 🫣
💧 For years I was brought up in the Netherlands being told we had the "best tap water in the world" "The Americans are silly for buying bottles of mineral water, you can just drink from the tap!" I remember the same sentiment with my German friends When I stayed at the VOCO
View quoted post✨ I have made coworking meetups a special category on http://nomads.com/meetups now So you can organize one in any city in the world to meet people there I've also added a [☑️] Recurring Meetup option now so if you do a weekly cowork or event, you don't need to keep adding the same event, it does it for you!
I've been actively fighting almost guaranteed age-related loneliness for years, studies show after age 30 you start seeing friends less and when you get older especially men don't have any social life left! It's preventable, but it takes effort and initiative We've now
RT Atelier Missor The statue of Prometheus is finally finished. It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this. People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny. But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity. In a few months, we will start building a new city. It will be the most magnificent city in all of history. After all, the great dream of the West has always been to rebuild Rome. Come walk beside us in this endeavor. The world is waiting.
@Lukaesch @levelsio Based on 2026 IIHS crash tests and independent composite scores: 1. Tesla Model Y (2026/27) 2. Genesis GV80 3. Lincoln Nautilus 4. Infiniti QX60 5. BMW X3 6. Genesis GV70 7. Genesis Electrified GV70 8. Kia Telluride (2027) 9. Hyundai Ioniq 9 10. Hyundai Palisade Most hold Top
View quoted postI am self aware enough to say the Tesla Y looks like a normie car (like a typical sedan I guess?) but I don't rly care My friend drives a Jimney, it looks cool It's not fast and not safe, but it looks cool I think the Cybertruck looks cool too, it has personality Y is safe but the design lacks personality (which is fine)
This is why I have a Tesla Y One of the safest car brands and car models I don't trust myself nor anyone else driving so when shit goes down I wanna be in not the prettiest or coolest car, I wanna be in the safest car with the highest survival rate Which all the recent Tesla models are
🏎️ 175mph tire blowout in a Tesla Model S on the autobahn 🏎️ Miraculously no one died.
View quoted post"They’re so, so close to getting it"
@levelsio @JohnONolan I know you say “high trust society”, but the repercussions are pretty hefty if your caught stealing. I’m not against punishment though, but just saying this is not all just trust. Same in Singapore.
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