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can't code, won't code. builder, investor (dev tools/infra) @supabase @etched @factoryAI @sfcompute. 3 👶 under 4.

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1Dec 31, '25How I code with agents, without being 'technical' I've spent 3 billion tokens in four months. Every single one through a terminal, watching an agent write code I couldn't write mys144×4.1M8.4k80824k
2Dec 29, '22AI tools that didn't exist one year ago: ChatGPT Whisper GPT-3 Codex GitHub Copilot InstructGPT Text-to-product AI slides DALLE + API Midjourney Stable Diffusion Runway videos Emai136×3.9M34k7.7k17k
3Jan 10, '23The real AI winner: Microsoft - $1bn in OpenAI (2019) - Owns GitHub which released Copilot - Dalle powers Bing Image Creator - Valle which produces an AI voice from 3s of input - G58.5×1.7M10k1.3k1.2k
4Mar 15, '23All the best examples of GPT-4, from OpenAI:56.5×1.6M4.5k7424.2k
5Feb 6, '23Jobs erased by AI56.2×1.6M5.7k1.6k2.5k
6Jul 15, '23View post on X46×1.3M8k487709
7Aug 4, '23View post on X44.6×1.3M18k4.4k369
8Dec 1, '22All the best examples of ChatGPT, from OpenAI:36.2×014k2.8k7.5k
9Mar 14, '23I just watched @gdb use GPT-4 to: - write code for a discord bot - debug & read documenatation - look at images and describe them in detail - create website code (that works) f33.1×938k2.7k224536
10Jan 27, '232 big things in AI from (just) yesterday: 📝 Text to music 🎶 by Google 🩻 Text to 4D by Meta Examples, explanations and links ⤵31.8×902k2.8k4461.7k
11Mar 12, '25changing github . com to uithub . com gives you the whole code repo and structure so you can pass to an LLM27.6×783k7.5k5848.1k
12Aug 4, '23Thank you no-code25.6×725k1.2k40112
13Apr 15, '23AI will mint many millionaires. None of them will be selling prompt guides, or remixing the same content that’s already out there.23.6×669k1.2k50301
14Jun 6, '23ControlNet for QR Codes - it actually works 🤯22.7×643k3.2k294941
15Mar 20, '23Sounds familiar21.1×598k3.9k567314
16Oct 25, '23Indie Hackers: spend 6 months on a their SaaS tool with $590/mo revenue @levelsio: $79k MRR (did 400k in one month?!) Landing page, stripe checkout link, Typeform redirect to uploa20.9×591k87459859
17Jan 29, '24Microsoft released their annual Future of Work report and this time around it’s not about remote work, it’s about AI. (slide numbers in brackets) - Knowledge workers with ChatGPT a20.9×591k1.8k3602.6k
18Dec 23, '22Everyone20.5×580k7.8k553149
19Mar 14, '23Google AI Announcement: - PaLM API & MakerSuite - AI in Gmail, Google Docs & workspace - Generative AI support in Vertex AI - Generative AI App Builder - Partnerships, prog20.5×580k1.6k324546
20Mar 28, '23who can teach me 'coding with chatgpt'? I want to be able to use chatgpt to write scripts, create apple shortcuts with API calls, small apps like this. i just keep getting stuck wi18.6×527k76625869
21Jan 5, '23Before OpenAI → during OpenAI17.8×505k1.7k6363
22Mar 31, '23My fav use of ChatGPT + Browsing so far 🤩 Looking through the code for the Twitter algorithm and asking questions, seeing how things work, what means what etc. I can't code so i c17.5×496k1.6k168925
23Dec 31, '22What are your AI predictions for 2023?15.7×445k70083185
24Mar 23, '23ChatGPT + Zapier Demos: - find email and respond - slack team message - notion lookup and create15.2×429k1.2k162729
25Mar 23, '23View post on X14.6×415k3.9k400273
26Dec 2, '2211 business ideas you could build on ChatGPT:13.9×04k7104k
27Apr 18, '23Microsoft has been secretly working on an artificial intelligence chip, code-named Athena, since 2019. The chip is designed for training large-language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT a13.7×388k66072123
28Jan 3, '23View post on X12.8×363k5.7k54466
29Apr 5, '22$600k+ per year as a one-person business. That's NomadList. You can do the same. This is what I'd do... Here's how I'd do it...12.6×03.5k3744k
30Jul 28, '21Today I bought my dream car 😍12.6×011k171128
31Dec 1, '22New wave of startups coming. Their stack: - landing page - form input + stripe button - ChatGPT api - output displayed/emailed Who can make money the quickest?!12.2×05.9k4722.5k
32Feb 16, '23📣 tell me what you want AI to do, and I'll tell you how to build it11.7×332k85187978
33Dec 22, '22AI is huge. Think bigger. Instead of X company + AI feature, rethink everything from first principles with AI in the picture from day zero.11.2×318k1.3k123343
34Jan 21, '23Will you upgrade to ChatGPT pro now it’s released, $42/mo?11.2×318k5913368
35Mar 14, '23How long until we see these tweets: "GPT-5 is rumoured to be trained on 69 quazillion parameters"11×313k2.1k14656
36Aug 30, '20Most popular web browsers 1995 - 2019 h/t Pie Chart Pirate10.9×05.2k2.1k273
37Jun 29, '19What working in tech means to my family: - can fix WiFi - can fix any laptop - understand all cables - app troubleshooter - technical dictionary - phone signal operator - Bluetooth10.6×06.3k1.6k77
38Jun 16, '21I asked 100 founders of unicorn companies, what made them so successful? None of them responded. No thread.9.7×07.8k528172
39Mar 23, '23ChatGPT + Zapier Plugin = your own AI assistant You don't have to be technical or build anything!9.1×258k1.1k67574
40Oct 3, '24well shit, canvas vibes 💯9.1×256k1.3k59784
41Mar 1, '23$1000 for the most impressive thing built with the new @OpenAI ChatGPT api and whisper model… $1k for each (ChatGPT + whisper) Deadline: Sunday 5th Midnight PT Submit: ben@bensbite8.7×245k64055299
42Mar 17, '23View post on X7.9×224k3.2k35338
43Dec 28, '22Who are the best people in AI to follow? New year, new feed7.8×222k60643361
44Apr 6, '23Your own ChatGPT? Talk to your data? Anyone, anywhere, with any skill level will be able to do this very soon.7.7×218k61335182
45Oct 13, '22A million things → what's happening in AI, summarised. Here's a bunch of cool shit that's going on. (plus Sir Benedict Cucumber batch h/t r/stablediffusion) ⤵7.3×02.6k3201.9k
46Apr 11, '23View post on X7.2×205k2.4k26937
47Mar 23, '23ChatGPT plugins is rumoured to be as good as apples greatest feature 👇7.1×202k9671431
48Aug 10, '24Companies are paying $15k - $50k monthly for PR firms to track and report every time their brand is mentioned in the media With ai, the costs comes down to 0. Zilch Here's exactly 6.7×190k594412.1k
49Mar 3, '23AI tools for today's email, the longest one yet! ChatGPT API aftermath6.4×182k92193690
50May 7, '25applying to YC summer batch? want to get your ai product in front of 125k potential users before you apply? reply here with what you're building and we'll include some in the newsl6.2×175k78024602
51Feb 13, '23AI tools in todays email:6.2×175k1k122939
52Apr 5, '23Some news... I left Zapier, to go all in on AI—focusing on Ben's Bites and investing. I became an @a16z scout, (+ something else soon 👀) And most importantly; my wife and I are ex6.0×169k2k1661
53Mar 25, '23Unpopular opinion: I don’t care that openai is for-profit now.5.8×165k6492917
54Jan 6, '23It works !!! 🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️ An AI mini model chat app thingy, without code. → Upload your data in a sheet → Interface to ask a question → Zap to use OpenAI embeddings to sear5.8×165k59063394
55Apr 27, '23Forget DAN, now there’s DNN: Do Nothing Now5.8×164k1.2k10485
56Mar 29, '23Joe Rogan fighting a bear5.6×159k7784849
57Mar 28, '23View post on X5.3×149k1.5k29371
58Apr 26, '23View post on X5.2×147k1.5k16432
59Jun 13, '23I got everything I ever wanted Arabella & Maximilian, born 12th June4.9×140k2.7k3917
60Apr 24, '25i’m so fucking sick of bad AI software. we’ve been promised the world will change, everyone will get rich, no-one has to work again bla bla bla. and then we get tools that claim th4.8×137k66529294
61Feb 20, '23AI tools from today's email, going out in 2.5hrs (always lots on a Monday from weekend shippers 🚢)4.7×132k806110695
62Feb 8, '23This month in AI so far...4.7×132k834150308
63Aug 21, '24don’t worry - ai won’t take your job 8 year olds using ai will4.4×125k1.1k200861
64Nov 18, '22All the educational resources to learn Machine Learning in one spot:4.4×01.1k2801.3k
65May 27, '19How to be a startup founder (phrase edition): - let’s unpack this - circle back - I’m heads down - nice to e-meet you - quick zoom chat - ping me - zooming in/out - thread - some t4.0×02.7k243114
66Oct 1, '24NotebookLM - ships like a startup - posts on x like a startup - makes incredible product google saved4.0×113k2k57263
67Mar 13, '25non-technical guide to how code works3.9×110k834661.4k
68Dec 4, '22The next wave of impactful startups won’t be: [insert idea] + AI assistant. They’ll be: Old ideas, re-imagined from 0, by AI, minus human biases. Eg. An education system built to p3.8×01.7k196734
69Sep 30, '19Trying this out... reply with what you want to build and I'll suggest ways to do it without code 👇3.3×01.2k208563
70Nov 22, '22The best threads on what’s happening in AI:2.9×0724116946
71Nov 26, '22The AI hype train won't stop. Why? There’s already important use cases solving real problems:2.9×0988161721
72Apr 11, '25nah but seriously, you mfers used to write this much code by hand?! you're mad2.9×81k1.1k3678
73Mar 21, '20Restaurant owners: if you want me to set you up with an app like this. let me know ben@makerpad.co -menu & online ordering -gift card system -customisable for you2.8×01.4k348244
74Feb 15, '24assume token length will be billions assume videos will be indistinguishable assume images will be indistinguishable assume every sentence is by ai (fully or in part) assume day to2.6×75k63459138
75Apr 14, '25a fund for builders - $100k checks - 12 months to go full-time on your idea(s) coming soon... if you want to invest, email me ben @ bensbites . com subject: builder fund body: firs2.6×73k60632418
76Dec 9, '22📣 OpenAI is now available on Zapier 📣 It lets you create images and prompts directly through a Zap. You can build full no-code AI apps!!!2.5×01.2k105515
78Dec 8, '22ChatGPT is just mass scale user testing in final stages of GPT-4 prep right?2.3×01.9k6866
79Nov 17, '22There’s a ton of AI tools popping up. What’s one you use daily?2.1×055963566
80Nov 30, '2215% of YC's Demo Day were for AI/ML companies. These are a few that caught my eye:2.1×072379566
81Jul 21, '23I turn 33 today 🎉1.9×53k69856
82Aug 15, '21Just married ✌️1.8×01.6k313
83Feb 8, '19✔️ Airbnb-clone marketplace w/ no-code - Pages auto-generated from CMS - Book via @airtable - @zapier updates the row - @stripe invoice sent - Once paid, the row is 'confirmed' in 1.6×089787193
84Dec 10, '22When the calculator was invented, some mathematicians were put out of jobs. But the best mathematicians used the calculator to solve problems faster. Same will happen with AI tools1.6×01.1k15249
85Jun 3, '21No-code makes building a startup so easy. Your only worries now are: - getting customers - hiring talent (+firing) - managing a team - raising $/bootstrapping - competitors - doing1.6×0928125142
87Feb 25, '20there's one, dominant no-code stack: webflow, zapier, airtable and memberstack. you can do almost anything with it. there isn't a more powerful one right now. there's all-in-one to1.5×073361262
88Nov 17, '22This is huge. @huggingface Tasks; everything you need to know about any ML task. - Summary of what it is - Resources to go deeper - Models, demos and space related to that task1.5×063681315
89Apr 6, '19Don’t learn to code Newsletter: @Mailchimp / @ConvertKit / @substack Podcast: @anchor / @TransistorFM Ecom: @Shopfiy / @webflow 📱: @glideapps / @thunkable Website: 💰: @stripe DB:1.4×064583247
92Jul 4, '19Product design goals1.2×09528621
93Mar 29, '20Looks like my June wedding is off 💔 Not from restrictions, just sick of each other after a week.1.2×01.1k355
94Jul 7, '20Don't do it Don't do it Don't do it Don't do it Don't do it Don't do it1.2×08603689
96Jul 2, '19This is a huge deal to me after having a couple years trying to figure out WTF I'm doing Got to make enough things until one starts sticking1.2×09451631
97Feb 28, '20📢 Announcement: I'm launching 🎉 The first no-code focused fund where we will be investing in companies who are building around the no-code ecosystem. Very much linked to the work1.1×06965760
98Nov 16, '22Notion now has AI baked in h/t @NotionHQ1.0×059354123
99Nov 21, '22Text-to-3D by NVIDIA1.0×05559489
100Dec 31, '21In 2021 I; 🤝Sold my company 🤵‍♂️Got married 🏡Bought a house 🚗Bought my dream car 🛩Bought my dad his dream gift 💰Raised a $1m+ micro fund 📈Invested in 50+ companies 😷Got cov1.0×07311478
101Mar 9, '21✨⚡️ @Makerpad has been acquired by @Zapier 😍 I couldn't be more excited!! We're now able to educate many more people on the democratisation of software development I'll continue r0.9×06193120

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