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Pieter Levels

What Pieter Levels thinks about the cloud

@pieter-levels · 128 positions · 2 changes of mind

Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  1. Our readingAI agents and AI coding will run on servers and from the cloud first, not on your laptop.

    AnthropicAI agents

    Their wordsI agree with @theo completely, it's clear to me this is where it's going, also seeing @karpathy with Claude moving to the cloud (via Slack etc), I think AI "agents" and AI coding will operate on servers / from the cloud first

    ↗I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year nowlevels.io

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  3. Our readingThe campaign to get young developers onto new frameworks is a business model: give away the framework, then charge the startups that build on it to host it.

    startups

    Their wordsSo, there’s obviously a monetary incentive here. We want to get a lot of developers to use this technology, and then we need to charge them money, because they’re going to use it in startups, and then the startups can pay for the bills.

    ↗Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440youtube.com 7th of 30 in this recording

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