How open source projects make money

I get asked this daily, so I decided to do a video on it.

Hot take: your commit messages should be the AI prompts.

Then you can delete the code and rebuild it with a better model by simply replaying the Git history.

Code is disposable. Intent is durable.

Major life cheat code: Don’t romanticize potential. Measure yourself by what you consistently do, not by what you believe you could do one day.

Wait, so the founder of Anthropic is "Amodei," as in "loves god"?

And he leads Anthropic, meaning "human-centered," which is being used in military strikes?

And the creator of ChatGPT is "Altman," as in "an alternative to humans"?

And he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed?

And then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a company that promised to do no evil?

And the whole global AI arms race is being driven by people who claimed to be worried about AGI taking over the world?

Either the universe is an extremely cliché writer, or has a brilliant sense of humor

New Engineering blog: We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C compiler. Then we (mostly) walked away. Two weeks later, it worked on the Linux kernel.

Here's what it taught us about the future of autonomous software development.

Read more: anthropic.com/engineering/bu…

🚀 Launch day!

I've been building @queuewatchio in public for a while – a Real-time Queue Monitoring for Laravel

No more guessing. No more missed failures. Just clean, real-time insights into your background jobs.

Free tier available. Built for developers, by a developer.

My hottest take is:

If you're bad at working with AI, you're probably also bad at working with people

(after you've understood the basics, context windows/tokens/messages etc)

Big companies are filled with people lacking intrinsic motivation so they have to quantify inputs as performance metrics: meetings attended, emails sent (preferably late at night), LOC written, tickets closed, etc.

Zod 4 is now in beta!

💎 7x faster object parsing
💎 20x reduction in tsc instantiations
💎 57% smaller core bundle size
💎 metadata via .meta()
💎 z.toJSONSchema()
💎 z.templateLiteral()
💎 z.stringbool()
💎 z.int32(), z.float32(), etc
💎 z.file()
💎 new logo 😇

You know you've reached product-market fit when you disable sales notifications to avoid deleting emails each morning.

pride versioning > semantic versioning 😂

Just saved $4000/year on @awscloud with 250 lines of code and a $4/month @Hetzner_Online server. 🤯

Cursor users pressing tab all day long hoping to hit the jackpot

Some people think perfectionism is at odds with shipping fast. Wrong. Shipping fast is how you get closer to perfection.

We now live in a different world.

Acceleration is imminent.

You *will* need to adjust your worldview.

This is what the early days of the singularity look like.

And you are living through them.

In the past week I've wasted TOO many hours fixing failed builds that used Nixpacks from @Railway.

Errors are criptic. Googling the errors doesn't help.

The idea is nice, but it doesn't work well in practice.

Going on, I will use plain Dockerfiles.

#buildinpublic

@Railway To get a starting point for your Dockerfile you can use our Dockerizer. Not perfect, but more stable.

easypanel.io/dockerizer/

1️⃣ Plan your work
2️⃣ Work your plan

Don't mix them!

I'm really impressed with @medusajs as a framework (separate from the eCommerce modules).

If they add automated CRUD for custom models, I will consider using it for many projects.