i text my friends about building SaaS content on YT multiple times a day

they’re basically getting their own personalized “Ben’s news feed” 😂

what’s interesting is that AI powered product building will become the new slot machine for normies

i'm starting to really like self-reflecting; understanding where i went and where i need to go.

i went ahead and wrote out my "2025 wrapped". learned a lot this year. looking forward to making tons of progress next year!

cheers to everyone and to a happy new year!

benjaminscott.dev/blog/my-202...

ive been thinking about digging into robotics. it’s actually the original reason I got into programming

curious, where should I start as a programmer?

pure functions, ETC paradigm (easy to change), and knowing how to write good software in general gets you further now than ever before

for the love of god, take a step back, throw away the ego, and use your engineer brains to rationally analyze the opportunity in front of you.

ai doesn't dampen your skills. if done right, it scales it.

most programmers will sadly get this wrong.

Claude is expensive and slow. Companies are running into this problem where they’re inserting limits and increasing costs when all they needed to figure out is how to use smaller models to get more of the work done.

Example: I’m using open source LLMs to write most of my code…

I've used AI to build out 80% of the software I wrote in 2025.

Building the wrong way can lead to tremendous amounts of problems:

1. Frequent bugs
2. Unscalable designs
3. Broken features

Simply put: Great code scales, bad code does not.

Why? AI is a gap filler.

Philosophy, specifically stoicism, has probably been the most influential thing in terms of changing the course of my life for the better.

Good software scales, more now than ever.

- It takes me under a minute to spin up several working Figma plugins.
- Hundreds of marketing templates within a day.
- Several new features in a span of an hour.

The catch? It takes the work to get there.

Building with AI is f*cking hard.

I've been building software on a nonstop, 12+hour everyday grind for the last 5 years (including learning on weekends because I LOVE it).

You'll never beat the "getting a programming job" game without knowing *and loving* the rules.

The job market (especially WFH) requires you to be the top 10% of programmers in the world.

You need to play the game without hating it. It's the only way you'll win.

I dropped 60+lbs- it did a number!

Thought that there wasn’t much of a difference…

I was wrong 🤣

Call me crazy!

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