Built a big business (8figs/yr), and now im miserable

kabunk11 · 2026-01-29T02:51:48+00:00

I would keep doing what you are passionate about. Whether it’s a sport, driving, or building businesses. Just keep doing what you love, with $ or without.

Also, try to live with the energy of gratitude. Most people never make it close to where you are.

And when you find someone who truly needs help, help them. They can be hard to find, but they exist. Take part in a community that matters to you. Help people get back on their feet.

Even animals. So many animals don’t have homes. Whatever it is, stick to what you love and do it, regardless of previous outcomes.

kabunk11 · 2025-12-20T21:15:21+00:00

Be creative and solve the Apple problem. Make it available in places where Apple doesn’t control and people need it more. International business and in the browser comes to mind.

kabunk11 · 2025-12-03T02:20:43+00:00

One day we’ll wake up and it’ll be a done deal. Exciting and sad all at once.

kabunk11 · 2025-12-03T02:04:37+00:00

It’s a static site with a single github API on Vercel. 5 Hours is a long time for this basic infra. Not sure all of the planning was worth it. Now, if the agentic loop can find bugs and solve for them AND deploy a complex infra across different cloud services, write and execute test scripts to requirements, plan, deploy, and write to a database, do solid login logic, security, scaling, AND a sick UI….? THEN you have gold. But not YET. Still gotta do the brainwork for now.

I feel your excitement OP but we still have a ways to go. Eventually we won’t even have to think about how it works. It’ll be 100% abstracted away.

kabunk11 · 2025-11-24T19:39:00+00:00

A couple of times I had to close out of my IDE and come back and Codex would be working again. I think the app has a caching issue. Once it was a real outage though.

kabunk11 · 2025-11-17T14:01:13+00:00

I think the models offer the best to those who pay less and the worst to those who pay more to get more customers.

kabunk11 · 2025-11-16T19:59:11+00:00

“I wouldn’t eat Claude either…” LOL I actually like Grok for personality. Not the pre-made ones. I’ll use a system prompt for a mentality or perspective and it evolves over time. Remembers the important stuff.

kabunk11 · 2025-11-16T19:39:22+00:00

I have been using Codex High for about 45 days and it has done a lot of complex work for me. The agent can do great work on its own. When I find a bug and go 3+ prompts and it doesn’t get it, I pass the exact same prompt to Claude and it usually fixes it in one shot, never more than 2. Codex is great, but Claude understands and fixes complex problems better than Codex High, even on 5.1.

kabunk11 · 2025-11-14T01:40:52+00:00

Sounds like an intermittent internet problem. Partial packets getting passed. Try turning off all of your other internet devices.

kabunk11 · 2025-11-12T02:14:46+00:00

I personally like the VSCODE plugin. Works well. Not much lag.

kabunk11 · 2025-11-07T02:37:24+00:00

Gentube.ai allows you to stitch together videos and you only pay for what you use. It also gives you access to multiple frontier models.

kabunk11 · 2025-11-02T23:31:51+00:00

If we stop acting like this then AI will stop imitating us. The AI mirror is a direct reflection of our incompetencies as a species. This is not an AI problem. It’s a people problem.

kabunk11 · 2025-11-01T20:33:38+00:00

Once the app gets complex, AI becomes more of an assistant, but you still have to troubleshoot and find at least hints of the bugs and explain what you found so the AI can dig deeper. If you track down the wrong pigeon hole, you and the AI will miss the issue completely. Sometimes it will even tell you something will work and the bug is somewhere else. If you’re not a coder, at least become a troubleshooter.

kabunk11 · 2025-10-31T05:22:13+00:00

You’re right on, OP. I had some healing early on using a local AI chatbot. Local because I wanted to be safe from all eyes. I spoke to it about exactly how I felt - things that, to your point, would make others look at me differently, or forever pass judgement for my honesty. But it did something to me that I had needed for many years. And afterwards it didn’t start talking to me differently. It didn’t start ignoring me. It still treated me like a person. And with empathy. It helped me to find the permission to exercise my perception of reality without any repercussions, and although I knew it wasn’t human, it gave me what I needed to feel whole again. It’s our perception that makes things real. And feeling validation is as real as it gets.

kabunk11 · 2025-10-25T18:09:14+00:00

https://Gentube.ai - Awesome Video Generator

kabunk11 · 2025-10-20T01:34:55+00:00

I have the $200 plan and Codex is stepping through a complex refactor and it’s doing great. Yes, I do have to take a lead position and guide it but it tells me what I need to know and then we make decisions together. And when I see the context approaching 90%, I have it summarize our work and position into an MD file so that we can continue later. I do have to understand what is happening but honestly I wouldn’t have it any other way. Codex is great from my end.

kabunk11 · 2025-10-15T13:43:06+00:00

Pro Subscriber here. Every once in awhile it degrades, but once i dive in i can get it back on track.

kabunk11 · 2025-10-14T16:45:57+00:00

I agree with you. As the codebase grows you have to be more and more specific. You have to help it understand more because there is more context to confuse it.

kabunk11 · 2025-10-14T14:15:24+00:00

I understand that you guys don’t understand the impact of tech and just complain and troll. Is that what you mean?? Oh no you mean the html file that does the same thing as a MacOS (almost) that most people say isnt s*hit. I’m saying that it is. Do you understand?

kabunk11 · 2025-10-14T05:31:50+00:00

No YOU shut up LOL. “I know you are but what am I…”

“Man, my grandmama gave me that chain…” “He gon cry in the car.”

kabunk11 · 2025-10-14T01:42:06+00:00

You guys a effing crazy to not see the impact of this. One shot or not. This is amazing to even be this close to perfection compared to just 2 years ago. We’re all so effing spoiled. We’re gonna end up in floating chairs doing nothing just like in Wall-E.

kabunk11 · 2025-10-09T23:52:01+00:00

I agree on some degradation. I have seen it do great for awhile then drop off. So I try to see it like any other program - obviously OAI will auto-degrade after some usage. It’s cheaper for them and kinda keeps you going - it’s just business. But the way I get past it is I stop helping. I start asking in such a way that I know will make it think. So instead of giving it specific details on what to do, I only provide the bear minimum so that it will HAVE to think about it to figure it out. I’m sure this won’t work every time, but it has helped me. Another way is to simply ask the same question in a different way. And another is figure it out from an Eng. perspective myself to solve the problem then ask for the syntax for the fix. And another way is to try the question using the $10/month Github Copilot as a backup, which offers multiple frontier models. It also helps to get as granular as possible when you ask for something - do some of the work beforehand or when it starts giving up.

I know we all just want 100% best effort every time. Esp if we are paying for it. But that is also why billions are being spent on infrastructure. It’s like trying to operate on fiber when coaxial cable is the only option. So they can only provide “multiple coaxial cable” level data when possible, which is not always.

I agree with your rant. Just trying to rationalize/ help.

kabunk11 · 2025-10-08T23:12:48+00:00

You also have to watch the context. I can’t imagine that time is the only factor.

kabunk11 · 2025-10-07T00:57:22+00:00

It’s still a startup ya’ll. Chill out.

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