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AI Makes Doing the Impossible Possible
Austin explains how AI expanded the software he could build alone, using options backtesting and a large headline-research workload as examples. The animat
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Shorts I filmed while building NexusTrade.
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Austin explains how AI expanded the software he could build alone, using options backtesting and a large headline-research workload as examples. The animat
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In the original camera recording, Austin discusses how AI changes the scope of projects a solo software engineer can attempt, including options backtesting
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I walk through an AI coding interview: inspect an unfamiliar repository, explain its architecture, plan a bug fix or feature, write the failing test first, and verify the result. Explain what the tool changed and how you know it works.
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A solo founder on burnout from maintaining nearly 3 million lines of AI-written code, daily alerts and thousands of dollars a month in compute.
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Austin reacts to the UltraFast option shown in Codex while filming his development workflow. On-screen text asks: “Y’all really waiting 30+ minutes to fix
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Austin Starks: If this was vibe-coded before AI existed, that’s even more impressive than me sitting down and writing the code
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Austin Starks: What you’re seeing is smaller indie folks actually able to create a website
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Austin Starks: “no thought” is diabolical 💀; my landing page is more complex than anything you’ve EVER made
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Austin Starks: The irony is that I chose black and teal as my brand colors YEARS ago 💀
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Austin Starks: Does the original UI look like AI slop too? How did I go back in time to write this code??
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Austin Starks: Peep the tattoo.
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Austin Starks: My original colors (black and teal) were my original brand colors for 3+ years. You can go to my earliest medium articles and see that 💀 but
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Austin Starks: I bet more people think this current version was not Vibe coded in and the previous version was
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Austin Starks: It’s insane that people think my black and teal UI was vibe coded when that’s verifiably not true. Like, I have articles written with the UI
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Austin Starks: Show me one creative thing you’ve EVER done, with or without AI
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Austin Starks: If you’re using “vibe-coding” in the loosest definition, i.e. using AI to guide the process of designing and implementing software, then yes
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Austin Starks: I open-sourced NextTrade in Sep 2022… before ChatGPT existed. ChatGPT was released in November 2022. I could NOT have created this after AI.
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Austin Starks: If this is slop, then I’m a time traveler
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Austin Starks: Coming to an App Store near you. (Sorry Android, you’re excluded)
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Austin Starks: How to run multiple agents in parallel
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Austin Starks: Here’s how you ACTUALLY standout amongst the rest
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Austin Starks: If you ever thought about deploying your own AI trading bot, then this video is for you
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A short screen recording contrasts a model-selection question with an AI-assisted development conversation. The original on-screen content is preserved, wi
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Austin walks through the AI-tool subscriptions, model usage and infrastructure costs shown in his monthly spending breakdown. The amounts describe the reco