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Most people have no idea what it actually takes to be a founder. They talk about vision, grit, or passion. Those words are props.
What you really sign up for is a life where every decision feels like it costs something real. You will spend years being misunderstood. By your team, your family, even the people you hire to help you. You will fail in public and still need to keep the energy up in private. Every founder lives with the weight of knowing that you can do everything right and still get crushed by luck, timing, or somebody else’s mistake.
Founders aren’t braver than anyone else. They just get used to uncertainty, then stop waiting for clarity. Most of your wins won’t feel like wins at all. The first revenue will be too small. The first team will outgrow you or leave. The first product that feels right will barely matter to the market. You will doubt yourself in private, sometimes every week. The founders who last figure out how to keep moving while the ground shifts underneath them.
Most outsiders want the founder badge but none of the scars. They want the upside, not the drag. The hardest part is sticking around after every plan gets blown up and you have to rebuild with less optimism and more scar tissue. What makes it work isn’t relentless hustle or some mythical trait. It’s learning to make peace with constant discomfort, and then making decisions anyway.
If you need constant reassurance, you’ll give up before the real work begins. If you want everyone to like you, you’ll never make the calls that matter. If you can’t handle months where nothing feels certain, this life will eat you alive.
But if you can hold your own in chaos, get better at being wrong, and still want to show up and try again, you just might have a shot at building something that matters.
That’s what it actually takes. And nobody cares until you make it work.
Hey @poteto let me isolate the context and tools for a specific group of agents — useful when having a bunch of customers but you don’t wanna share info between them to avoid mistakes
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This is the last critical piece of the spectrum puzzle needed for SpaceX to provide complete phone coverage in America
just use @x
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Se está haciendo cada vez más difícil formar a los siguientes profesionales...
Los fundamentos no son atractivos para los nuevos desarrolladores y solo quieren aprender IA, pero cuando llegan a buscar trabajo rebotan porque no aprendieron los fundamentos.
Cada vez seremos menos
Starship’s 14th flight is set to launch on Monday, Sept 28. The 75-minute launch window opens at 7:15 a.m. CT. Live coverage of the mission starts ~35 minutes before launch → nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qxvvenMP…
Andrés O. 🏴☠️ retweeted
The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder
We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge
Bury your head in the ground at your own risk. I aim to not jump on any hype trains, but since Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 + the harnesses it was clear that these things can write code nearly as good as I can in my best language; better in other languages.
But we won't see non-devs push production code for a long time; possibly forever, if you ask me. Software still needs to be built in robust ways, and it's our profession to do this well, and use the new tools we have, which create new and interesting (+tough!) challenges
Andrés O. 🏴☠️ retweeted
for AGI remember:
The real signal is not the appearance of better tools. It is the quiet disappearance of the need for them.
