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Gio Kakhiani 🏴☠️🇺🇦 retweeted
You can always do more with someone like you. You can only do something new with someone better. Choose your rooms accordingly.
Gio Kakhiani 🏴☠️🇺🇦 retweeted
Claude Sonnet 5 is crazy efficient for web deisgn.
❤️🔥Just recorded a 18-min tutorial on how to build award-winning websites with Claude Code + Sonnet 5!
Gio Kakhiani 🏴☠️🇺🇦 retweeted
Incredible that it was only 66 years from the first controlled, powered flight to landing on the Moon!
Gio Kakhiani 🏴☠️🇺🇦 retweeted
11th acquisition signed: RapidDev has acquired NoCode Alliance.
I've had my eye on this one for years!
JJ Englert built something special. Back in 2022 when no-code was exploding, he saw that the next generation of talent needed to be trained, certified, and brought together.
So he built the community to do it.
And what grew out of that is now the hub for finding, hiring, and training the best no-code and AI talent in the world.
With demand for AI-powered apps higher than ever, the timing couldn't be better.
Having a deep bench of builders changes everything, and this is the talent pipeline we need.
JJ, thank you for building this and trusting RapidDev to carry it forward. 🔥
Gio Kakhiani 🏴☠️🇺🇦 retweeted
bro, it's so over for designers
google stitch is insane. 🤯
Gio Kakhiani 🏴☠️🇺🇦 retweeted
Paul Graham is back on The Social Radars with @jesslivingston and @cjoneslevy. This time, they focus on what was happening behind the scenes at Y Combinator in the early years.
PG shares how YC grew through word of mouth, what it was like working closely with founders, and how much of it they figured out as they went. Along the way, he recalls stories from the early batches—the advice that stuck, and how small decisions shaped what companies became.
He also reflects on how the startup world has changed since then, from becoming more visible to how AI is influencing what founders build now.
0:00 - Paul Graham Returns
0:52 - “We Never Tried to Grow YC”
3:38 - How YC Actually Got Its First Founders
7:12 - Why Press Didn’t Matter
12:06 - The Real Reason YC Worked
17:48 - What It Felt Like Behind the Scenes
24:31 - How They Helped Founders Day to Day
30:57 - Writing Demo Day Pitches
36:42 - When Everything Started Getting Harder
44:18 - The Sam Altman Transition
52:06 - What Surprised PG About AI and the Next Generation of Founders
59:21 - Final Thoughts
Gio Kakhiani 🏴☠️🇺🇦 retweeted
AI AGENTS 101 (58 minute free masterclass)
send this to anyone who wants to understand ai agents, claude skills, md files, how to get the most out of AI etc in plain english:
1. chat vs agents - chat models answer questions in a back and forth while agents take a goal, figure out the steps, and deliver a result
2. agents don’t stop after one response. they keep running until the task is actually finishedno babysitting required
3. everything runs on a loop. they gather context, decide what to do, take an action, then repeat until done
4. the loop is the system. they look at files, tools, and the internet. decide the next step. execute and then feed that back into the next step. over and over until completion
5. the model is just one piece. gpt, claude, gemini are the reasoning layer. the key is model + loop + tools + context
6. mcp is how agents use tools. it connects things like browser, code, apis, and your internal software.
once connected, the agent decides when to use them to get the job done
7. context beats prompt all day. you don't need to write perfect prompts. load your agent with context about your business, style, and goals and then simple instructions work
8. claude.md or agents.md is the onboarding doc
it tells the agent who it is, how to behave, what it knows, and what tools it can use.
this gets loaded every time before it starts
9. memory.md is how it improves. agents don’t remember by default. this file stores preferences, corrections, and patterns
you tell the agent to update it, and it gets better over time
10. skills + harnesses make it usable. skills are reusable tasks like writing, research, analysis
the harness is the environment like claude code or openclaw that runs everything. basiclaly, different interfaces, same system underneath
this episode with remy on @startupideaspod was one of the clearest ways of understanding a lot of the core concepts of ai agents
could be the best beginners course for ai agents
58 mins. all free. no advertisers. i just want to see you build cool stuff. im rooting for you.
send to a friend
watch
Gio Kakhiani 🏴☠️🇺🇦 retweeted
Most @OpenAI Codex content is still too technical for non-developers.
So I made a guide to show you how to use Codex to do more with AI across GTM, sales, content, customer support, research, and operations without needing an engineering background.
I’m using Codex on the $20/month ChatGPT plan, and after spending the past month testing it as a non-engineer, I’m convinced most people are still underestimating how practical it already is.
What’s in the guide:
- How to install and get started with Codex
- How to set up your workspace, folders, and context
- How to use and create skills
- When to use local vs GitHub
- How to use threads, handoff, and commit without getting confused
- How to do research, write content, and run quality checks across your work
- How to set up automations and use slash commands like fast mode and plan mode
This is for creators, marketers, operators, sellers, support teams, and anyone who wants to do more with AI using Codex as a non-developer.
I recorded the full walkthrough and put together a free repo with the templates, prompts, skills, and setup I use.
I’ll drop the guide in the comments below.
Bookmark this and send it to a friend 🙏🏽
Gio Kakhiani 🏴☠️🇺🇦 retweeted
Every time building software gets cheaper, someone announces that developers are finished. It happened with WordPress. It happened with no-code. It's happening now with AI.
And every single time, the exact opposite plays out.
Cheaper software doesn't replace developers. It creates more software. The company that would've used Airtable now builds a custom CRM. The team that lived in spreadsheets now has an internal platform.
Stuff that was never worth building before suddenly is.
It's Jevons' Paradox. When coal got cheaper, people didn't burn less - they burned way more because they found new uses for it. Software is doing the same thing right now.
We see it already with Bubble. The apps people are building today are dramatically more ambitious than two years ago.
More software in the world means more developers needed to maintain it, secure it, and keep it running. Not fewer.
The "developers are dead" take is the most consistently wrong prediction in tech.
Gio Kakhiani 🏴☠️🇺🇦 retweeted
Met a young founder
Could only work on his startup part time because of college
Drop out, I told him
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg did the same thing
Turns out, he actually sucks at running a company
I declined to invest in his startup
It went under
Now he has no company and isn’t in school
I blocked him
No need to surround myself with losers