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AI Eng Lead (burned out)

@burnedlead

AI eng lead | TC 69k at YC startup that raised 420 million (leveraging AI)

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Finally picked up my Ferrari today. I can’t really afford it but as the CEO and founder of a 40 million dollar (pre-revenue) AI startup, showing up in a Honda accord might scare away my investors. Image matters.

Finally picked up my Ferrari today.

I can’t really afford it but as the CEO and founder of a 40 million dollar (pre-revenue) AI startup, showing up in a Honda accord might scare away my investors.

Image matters.
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37lbs! That’s how much weight I lost in the last year I’ve been telling people I started watching my weight But the truth is… My boss is an asshole and the stress has shaved off a consistent 7lbs a month Anyway, my new venture rents out asshole COO’s to keep those pounds

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Here’s how I built and sold 400 businesses today using AI 1. ChatGPT operator scrapes 𝕏 for startup ideas 2. Uses cursor agent to build and deploy them 3. List the startups on acquired dot com 4. Repeat Startups are easy

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My kids use ChatGPT for everything As a parent I believe it helps them prepare for the real world Anyway, today she got sent home from school after telling a teacher to just “ChatGPT it…” I’m so proud of my kids

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PM’s, when scheduling sprint planning, how do I point the scheduling ticket? And does that ticket belong to the old sprint or the new sprint?

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We raised a 40 million dollar series A today To celebrate we got pizza for the entire team For myself I put a deposit on the new BMW X5 M edition Look how happy they are

We raised a 40 million dollar series A today

To celebrate we got pizza for the entire team

For myself I put a deposit on the new BMW X5 M edition 

Look how happy they are
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Can’t sleep… Worried about tomorrow. What if I don’t create enough shareholder value? What if my PowerPoint animations aren’t synergistic enough? What if my boss finds out I spent 70% of my workday resizing images in Outlook? It’s not easy being a mid-level employee at a

Can’t sleep…

Worried about tomorrow.

What if I don’t create enough shareholder value?

What if my PowerPoint animations aren’t synergistic enough?

What if my boss finds out I spent 70% of my workday resizing images in Outlook?

It’s not easy being a mid-level employee at a
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Fell asleep on my MacBook last night Woke up to a 350k MRR SaaS (cursor + 3.7 sonnet) Most people would call it luck But not me While I was sleeping a team of underage high school kids carefully trained to hit “enter, accept” worked through the night Cheap labor is worth

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Following Chase’s advice I just acquired 400 boomer businesses for pennies on the dollar at my local senior living center All 100% seller financed As my MBA professor once said: “sex sells”

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I finally get the whole RTO thing After grabbing my 5th Red Bull (0 lines of code written) I got distracted convincing a junior engineer that he needs to learn Go asap Before I knew it, it was 5pm Life as a 10x engineer is awesome

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How my day is going so far: ✅ Landed in Thailand with zero plan ✅ Picked up a girl after convincing her I write 10k lines of code a day (she doesn't know about Cursor) ✅ Took her to the most expensive restaurant I could find (credit card declined twice, but we made it work)

How my day is going so far:

✅ Landed in Thailand with zero plan
✅ Picked up a girl after convincing her I write 10k lines of code a day (she doesn't know about Cursor)
✅ Took her to the most expensive restaurant I could find (credit card declined twice, but we made it work)
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Accepted 2 remote job offers (using LinkedIn pseudonyms). Deleted the entire codebase (using pseudonym number 1). Fired immediately. Stepped up with pseudonym number 2 and restored the codebase. Instantly promoted. Jobs aren’t dead—you’re just not trying hard enough.

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Just vibe coded an AI girlfriend Woke up to 20,000 users (kids) Amex sends me a message that open AI maxed out my credit card I quickly sell the Amex points (pays 10 cents on the dollar) Pay Amex Tweet that I’m back online Repeat I’m now over 60k in debt but have