Pieter Levels

Pieter Levels

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Indie maker and entrepreneur; creator of Nomad List and Remote OK (remote work platforms)

Open SSH Port as Fallback when T
SocialMar 16, 2026

Open SSH Port as Fallback when T

Why would Tailscale not work? I have Tailscale on my iPhone In case Tailscale would go down, I'd just go into Hetzner firewall and add 22 inbound open for my own IP

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Tailscale Adds Extra Barrier, Requiring Two Rare Breaches
SocialMar 16, 2026

Tailscale Adds Extra Barrier, Requiring Two Rare Breaches

If your Tailscale is hacked The hacker now has direct access to your server But now he still needs to get into your SSH with an SSH key So to get in two extremely rare things have to happen: 1) Tailscale is hacked 2) There's...

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Secure SSH with Tailscale, Not Public Internet Exposure
SocialMar 16, 2026

Secure SSH with Tailscale, Not Public Internet Exposure

False Many examples of SSH access 0-days and hacks SSH should never be exposed to the entire internet SSH is like your front door, even if you are the only one with the key, your lock might have a production defect (very rare...

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AI UGC's Rapid Commodification Shortens Startup Lifespans
SocialMar 12, 2026

AI UGC's Rapid Commodification Shortens Startup Lifespans

AI UGC is a great example of an idea that was groundbreaking in 2023 when HeyGen pioneered it And then got commodified so fast with open AI models being able to do it That just 3 years later anyone can make an...

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Editing Live Code Directly Eliminates Deploy Pipeline
SocialMar 12, 2026

Editing Live Code Directly Eliminates Deploy Pipeline

I work with Claude Code in production mostly, then sometimes I push to save for the day (as a backup kinda?) But since it's in production I don't need the deploy pipeline anymore (laptop -> push -> GitHub -> webhook...

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Build a Trusted Audience Before Launching Your Ideas
SocialMar 12, 2026

Build a Trusted Audience Before Launching Your Ideas

I think at that point it might be more beneficial to have distribution already, like an audience you built up that trusts you, which I try to do on here

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Startups Thrive by Chasing Money, Not Ideology
SocialMar 9, 2026

Startups Thrive by Chasing Money, Not Ideology

“The guy will position himself anywhere there’s money to be made” That's literally what a successful startup should be doing

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AI-Powered Coding Accelerates Development, Exposing Deployment Lag
SocialMar 8, 2026

AI-Powered Coding Accelerates Development, Exposing Deployment Lag

This is essentially my workflow of coding in production on the server with Claude Code It's instant and extremely high velocity and I think that's where it's going AI lets us dev extremely fast and the bottleneck now is slow deployments many...

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AI Revives Joy in Coding for Many
SocialMar 7, 2026

AI Revives Joy in Coding for Many

AI is making coding fun again for so many people So many stories like this 🥹 https://t.co/XzNH1OE4JF

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Telegram AI Beats ChatGPT for Everyday Users
SocialMar 6, 2026

Telegram AI Beats ChatGPT for Everyday Users

I've ran OpenClaw for over a month now I've had it in a group chat with 26 friends who all played with it, tried to hack it, made a pretty cool game with it which it kept self improving called...

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AI Video Breakthrough Sparks Excitement Beyond Hardware Concerns
SocialMar 3, 2026

AI Video Breakthrough Sparks Excitement Beyond Hardware Concerns

This looks so good, I wanna watch a whole movie in this style, one of first times I've seen AI video escape the slop vibe

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Essential AI Coding Security Tips From @Elvissun
SocialMar 2, 2026

Essential AI Coding Security Tips From @Elvissun

This guy has lots of great security tips if you're coding with AI, great follow @elvissun

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New Claude CLI Command Enables Yolo Remote Control
SocialMar 1, 2026

New Claude CLI Command Enables Yolo Remote Control

My new command for Claude with remote control on yolo mode: c() { IS_SANDBOX=1 claude rc --dangerously-skip-permissions "$@"; } https://t.co/rhtY21pMZK

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New BYOF Feature Lets Users Upload Furniture, Still Refining Placement
SocialFeb 27, 2026

New BYOF Feature Lets Users Upload Furniture, Still Refining Placement

✨ Finally finishing this feature too [ 🛋️ Add furniture ] It doesn't work well yet though, I successfully can composite the furniture in the room (from whatever photo you get from the internet) now though But it has to position...

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OpenClaw: The Gateway for Normies to Embrace Claude Code
SocialFeb 26, 2026

OpenClaw: The Gateway for Normies to Embrace Claude Code

OpenClaw might be the gateway drug for normies to finally start using Claude Code like the rest of us

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Turn SketchUp Gardens Into Walkable 3D with AI
SocialFeb 25, 2026

Turn SketchUp Gardens Into Walkable 3D with AI

🪴 To prove this works, I pulled a random SketchUp garden design from web, put it in 🏡 Interior AI and now you can walk around in it Gardens work and it supports decks, patios, pools, car parks etc already And more...

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Upload a Style Image to Redesign Interiors Automatically
SocialFeb 24, 2026

Upload a Style Image to Redesign Interiors Automatically

✨ Okay last feature of the day in my 🌪️ tornado of shipping with Claude Code and --dangerously-skip-permissions Requested by someone on my feature board for https://t.co/067b4q25qy: "Ability to use an inputted image as inspiration for the generation of the interior design...

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Bypass Permissions with Alias, Ship Code 100x Faster
SocialFeb 23, 2026

Bypass Permissions with Alias, Ship Code 100x Faster

This shortcut has helped me ship way way way faster, I've been using it manually before but now I just run every Claude Code bypassing permissions I was getting sick of answering endless questions and giving permissions, just do the job...

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AI Automates Personalized eBook Generation in Hours
SocialFeb 23, 2026

AI Automates Personalized eBook Generation in Hours

More AI-coded fun things 📕 Yesterday I asked it to build an ePub and PDF generator for my book https://t.co/VEoyhFdCOd I still update and write on it, but every time I had to print the book (it's HTML) as a PDF, and...

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Top SF Talent Demands $500K‑$1M Salaries, Others Quit
SocialFeb 22, 2026

Top SF Talent Demands $500K‑$1M Salaries, Others Quit

You can but you have to pay them $500K to $1M+ per year now, that's the compensation of top talent in SF etc. Anything below that is generally sub-par If you do find someone good that works for $100K-$250K/y, they'll stay for...

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Short Prompts Often Work; Length May Not Matter
SocialFeb 22, 2026

Short Prompts Often Work; Length May Not Matter

My prompts are really quite short and it just understands what I mean most of the time, I talk to it like a friend, I see other people use giant prompts and wonder if it actually makes a difference?

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Reuse Features Across Sites Using Claude Code
SocialFeb 22, 2026

Reuse Features Across Sites Using Claude Code

✨ One thing I do a lot now is copy features from one site to the other but with Claude Code I ask it to describe a feature I made in detail and then copy paste that into the other website's...

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Custom Prompts and Key Photo Selection Boost Photo AI
SocialFeb 21, 2026

Custom Prompts and Key Photo Selection Boost Photo AI

✨ Lots of mini improvements to Photo AI today I made this new model editor You can set a default prompt to add to any photo you take with your model, like here I set it to "wearing thin frame glasses and...

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AI Conjures Instant, Task‑specific Apps on Demand
SocialFeb 20, 2026

AI Conjures Instant, Task‑specific Apps on Demand

I think it'll be more like: You chat to your LLM app and it'll just spin up an app with a UI if it feels the need Like you want to book a holiday apartment, it spins up a fancy Airbnb-like interface...

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Run Claude Code on Hetzner VPS for Telegram Bot
SocialFeb 19, 2026

Run Claude Code on Hetzner VPS for Telegram Bot

No because I talk directly with my sites Each of my sites (almost, I'm still migrating) is now on their own Hetzner VPS Like https://t.co/2R4tRNJF0z for example, on that VPS I have Claude Code and https://t.co/wNWBUhh9QZ I asked Claude Code to install that...

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Chat‑Enabled Apps Turn Errors Into Instant Fixes Anywhere
SocialFeb 19, 2026

Chat‑Enabled Apps Turn Errors Into Instant Fixes Anywhere

💬 Having each of your sites/apps as a chat is such a logical idea once you do it It can message you if there's an error (I had this for years already, every server, PHP or JS error or unexpected problem...

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Instant Production Coding Beats Slow Push‑deploy Cycle
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Instant Production Coding Beats Slow Push‑deploy Cycle

Push from laptop local to GitHub which then webhooks and then server auto pulls takes 3 seconds for me That's 3 seconds I don't have for every change I make Coding in production on Claude Code takes 0 seconds and it only...

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Claude Code Lets Me Code Directly in Production
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Claude Code Lets Me Code Directly in Production

I mostly just code in production now with Claude Code, way faster than this local push stuff

By Pieter Levels
Europe's Strict Regulations Push Talent Toward the US
SocialFeb 17, 2026

Europe's Strict Regulations Push Talent Toward the US

🇪🇺 @steipete on why Europe was unable to retain him as talent: "In the US, most people are enthusiastic. In Europe, I get insulted, people scream REGULATION and RESPONSIBILITY. And if I really build a company here, then I get to struggle...

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AI Users Profit From Trillion‑dollar Subsidies
SocialFeb 16, 2026

AI Users Profit From Trillion‑dollar Subsidies

The real winner of the AI wars seems to be us, the users (for now) We get cheap models subsidized by trillions of dollars of funding

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AI Power Shifts So Fast No One Predicts Winners
SocialFeb 16, 2026

AI Power Shifts So Fast No One Predicts Winners

I keep realizing things flip so fast in AI you really can't predict who will win or lose Claude Code was leading for every dev, Anthropic were the good guys, OpenAI were becoming the bad guys buying up all the RAM I...

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Claude Code's Speed Lag Hinders Continuous Workflow
SocialFeb 16, 2026

Claude Code's Speed Lag Hinders Continuous Workflow

I could work with 1 single Claude Code tab if it responded 100x as fast But now it takes 1-3 minutes sometimes Once that's 1-3 seconds it's fast enough for me to just keep going in a single tab But now I get...

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Shortcut Alias Cc Skips Permissions for Faster OpenClaw
SocialFeb 16, 2026

Shortcut Alias Cc Skips Permissions for Faster OpenClaw

Also I added this shortcut, and I just run it with "cc" It's essentially how OpenClaw runs, it just keeps going and it really saves having to give permissions endlessly (makes you slow) I run this only while working on Hoodmaps on...

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Drag‑and‑drop Terminals in Termius Boost Multitasking
SocialFeb 16, 2026

Drag‑and‑drop Terminals in Termius Boost Multitasking

Finally trying 4x Claude Code's on server in one @TermiusHQ, really nice and you don't have to fiddle with shortcuts, just drag your existing terminal tabs into this and arrange it Nicer to work for me cause I can work on...

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AI-Generated Replies Surge, Threatening Twitter’s Comment Section
SocialFeb 15, 2026

AI-Generated Replies Surge, Threatening Twitter’s Comment Section

I asked Claude Code to chart my AI reply detection As I thought it's going exponential now There was a small slowdown from July to November last year, then it went back up and with everyone running OpenClaw (I think) it's now...

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Taxi Driver Screenwriter Embraces AI in Filmmaking
SocialFeb 15, 2026

Taxi Driver Screenwriter Embraces AI in Filmmaking

Screenwriter of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) isn't fighting (like most of Hollywood) But is embracing how AI will change film production

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AI Startups' Lies Expose Get‑rich‑quick Culture
SocialFeb 13, 2026

AI Startups' Lies Expose Get‑rich‑quick Culture

So much lying with AI startups now This one lied they were a launch partner and had access to Seedance 2.0 already but didn't as ByteDance staff said they never released an API Last week Higgsfield got suspended for shady practices, now...

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Public US AI Stocks Let Everyone Share Automation Gains
SocialFeb 12, 2026

Public US AI Stocks Let Everyone Share Automation Gains

In a way I prefer the American AI companies because they're mostly public (Google etc) or will be public at some point by IPO (OpenAI, Anthropic) so the people can actually participate and profit from automating them out of their...

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Microsoft Skips LLM Race, Backs OpenAI Instead
SocialFeb 12, 2026

Microsoft Skips LLM Race, Backs OpenAI Instead

Why is Microsoft not competing in the model wars? Like why don't the top LLM benchmarks have Microsoft models in them? Because they already own % in OpenAI? Seems like they should start training their own LLMs no?

By Pieter Levels