biznickman
Joined 19 years ago
Joined 19 years ago
This seems more like a marketing stunt than anything else. They previously "banned vibecoded projects".
They didn't acquire Moltbook because of the software. Meta is far behind on the AI front especially as it applies to usage adoption. OpenClaw has begun showing new consumer use cases and Moltbook is directionally down a similar path.
They get the team that built it and have more people on the AI initiative who are consumer-centric.
I've watched Matt Schlicht from the team always experiment with cool new use cases of AI and other technologies and now him and Ben have a bigger lab with resources to potentially spawn out larger initiatives.
The lesson here is to spend less time focused on doing what you think is the right thing and spend more time tinkering.
Making it easy for engineers, experienced OR aspiring is huge.
Instead communication skills and a willingness to learn have been much bigger indicators. There are plenty of startups that will LOVE to have you. Focus on getting a job at earlier stage startups. Create your own projects as well. People like seeing those projects to show that you're passionate about coding.
Yes, there are shitcoins but there are real things being built as well.
I’ve written thousands of blog posts and happy to point you in the right direction!
Also, as a side note, it would be interesting if you had an LTSE index fund!
I don't know where the joke is from but if there is one about how engineers set up a blog it would go like this.
Normal person:
Goes to Medium, Wordpress, or somewhere else, starts writing and clicks publish.
Developer:
1. Set up ReactJS for the front end
2. Set up a build system for automated deployments
3. Sets up MongoDB to store the articles they'll be writing
4. Sets up the backend to serve up the various articles
5. Builds an integration for Wordpress that enables Wordpress to pull and push (make sure both ways) to the MongoDB system that's storing the newsletters
6. Sets up all the integrations required for SEO
7. Sets up the integration testing framework
8. Write an article
9. Clicks publish
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