This is a ridiculous stat in a ridiculous story: "The marginal cost of running an agent, had collapsed to, essentially, the cost of electricity." The marginal cost of a coding agent is not even remotely close to "the cost of electricity." These agents are absurdly expensive to use and run. Why do you think AI labs are banning people from having multiple $200 subscriptions? Because those subscriptions are heavily, heavily discounted to drive demand. Why did labs stop folks from using their subscription costs in OpenClaw? The OpenClaw guy had five max subs and was losing 20k a month building and running his amazing project (because he was retired and had the money to set in fire) before AI labs banned this practice of having multiple subs. In case you just missed it: Because these agents are expensive as hell to run. The cost of running coding agents daily on eight hour shifts is thousands of dollars a month at API pricing and that is subsidized too. My team regularly burns anywhere from 4K-8K a month across three people using the latest and greatest for an AI driven building workflow. That's not even agents running 24x7 "making money while you sleep" which is utter and total nonsense. This is one of the most spectacularly unprofitable businesses in history so far. People talking about the end of all work because this stuff runs for "pennies" cannot do even the most basic math. New NVIDIA chips don't even break even for data centers for like 24-36 months and they are basically obsolete by then. That doesn't count power and cooling and people to run it all. Imagine if your car was basically worth zero after three years? I'm so sick of these idiotic Population Bomb level stories about the end of all work and running agents for pennies. It's a mass delusion for people who can't be bothered to bust out a calculator on their phone for five seconds.

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You hear about a startup that’s 9/9/6 but they’re like including the 2 hours everyone hits the gym and the Sunday ping pong tourney That’s not grinding bro ur just 22 and didn’t get a college experience

Non-technical vibe-coders would do so much better if they spent a little time to learn how software is structured. I think it's good to jump into the tools and start messing around immediately, but as soon you really start building, you should know app structure.

AI coding tools have opened up so many incredible opportunities for me

It's such a crazy time for marketers Insane upheaval around channels, but you can get so much more done

Every now and then I try to sit back and remind myself of how crazy AI's progress is

On one hand, I think there a lot of solo founders who'd do a lot better with the right cofounder But it's so much work and it can be really hard to find the right person, especially if you haven't been in the game long enough to build connections and friends

I'm fascinated by this guy who rides his bike up and down the Venice boardwalk telling everyone that they're a champion and to have a great day. Always boosts my mood, lol.

Here's what I'm getting done today: #buildinpublic - 2 Client proposals - X - 100 tweets - Client work - API project details and outreach - Connect with 20 founders

Fear is not talked about enough as a major cause of why so many founders are bad at marketing.

A lot of marketers trying to level up with AI are falling into the trap of trying to stay up on every new development vs. focusing and spending the time to figure out what really works

Likes are free folks

Just yapping away hoping people visit Markata.co today

X is not showing my recent replies. Don't they know I have a goal to reach!?

Building your audience on X is really a momentum game when you have a small account.

If you're early and planning to reply guy your way to the top, it's extremely helpful to have easy access to a lot of accounts.

Would love a IRL app that lets me know if a person has ever posted "grok is this true?"

I haven't really posted about it before, but 95% of Markata.co's code came from AI. I've been dabbling in code for years, but never could keep at consistently until I started using an AI coding tool.