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Freelance full-stack developer and AI engineer with 15+ years building web applications. My main lane is Laravel/Vue business software: SaaS products, internal tools, API-heavy apps, legacy PHP modernization, and projects that need an experienced person to stabilize them and move them forward.

I also build AI features into production software: OpenAI/Anthropic/Google API integrations, agent-style workflows, scraping/data pipelines, queues, and content/publishing systems.

Founder/operator background from SaaS, ecommerce, SEO/content, and marketplace projects, so I can help with product scope and business tradeoffs as well as implementation. Best fit: remote freelance or contract work, especially 20+ hours/week or focused rescue/build projects.

The amount of new shares for sale could be very large in those three IPOs:

SpaceX: up to $75B [1]

OpenAI: at least $60B [2]

Anthropic: more than $60B [3]

Together, that would be about $195B+ of IPO shares to buy.

For comparison, all U.S. IPOs together raised $44.0B in 2025 [4].

All IPOs in the world together raised $171.8B in 2025 [5].

So where should the money come from? Either from selling shares in other companies or from loaning money which would only make sense if the Fed brings back ZIRP.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-ta...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-lays-groundwork-jugg...

[3] https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/anthropic-c...

[4] https://www.renaissancecapital.com/review/2025USReview_Publi...

[5] https://www.ey.com/en_ie/newsroom/2026/01/global-ipo-market-...

Another scenario would be that they release very little shares but because of their market cap they make up a significant portion of an index so index funds are forced to buy a lot of their shares which would drive prices to insane heights.

Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX all want to IPO within this year. There's just not enough money in the market to buy all those shares. So people might sell their shares in other companies to buy in at the IPO, then when the next one goes public they might sell the shares they just bought to jump onto the next one and so on. I don't think that there was a situation like this ever before.

Yeah I'm worried about that too. Current SOTA models might just be too expensive for most use cases if we had to pay the real costs.

Well it will always be good in a way, but probably won't become better in the near future. Opus 4.7 was a downgrade in a way that gives Anthropic more control and better margins. And they keep Mythos away from the normies, giving access only to large corporations who pay millions for it.

I'd say it's a mixed bag. Yes, price increases are/were expected. But blocking 3rd party harnesses from their subscription and also moving SDK/claude-p access out of the subscription is blocking innovation and therefore future use of Claude models. What I mean is, while Claude models are SOTA, Claude Code is not. It's full of bugs and shortcomings and new innovative harnesses might make better use of the model, but this won't happen now as they are blocked. Same for all the people building their own scripts/workflows around claude -p or the SDK, they will now stop inventing new stuff on top of Claude.

Yes, agree. But if everyone is doing that it will tank productivity which is the point of the article.

From a user’s perspective 4.7 is a downgrade compared to 4.6 . It’s intended to give Anthropic more control about their compute resources and profitability:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072916

I’m working on what I call a Software Delegate [0].

You delegate a task or GitHub issue to it and it uses AI coding agents and developer tools to write the code, run checks, read failures, fix problems, and iterate until the result is good, then comes back with a pull request. It does everything a human dev would do, fully automated.

[0] https://www.vroni.com/

The effort parameter in Claude Code is essentially useless. It’s just an expression that you wish it to do deeper reasoning but Anthropic can and does ignore it without even telling you.

They also changed how they count tokens. So you could end up with less reasoning while paying for more tokens. Anthropic’s profit margin is definitely higher on 4.7 then it was an 4.6. I’m pretty sure this was the main driver behind this update.

Sent you an email.

Location: Germany (CET/CEST)

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Freelance full-stack developer and AI engineer with 15+ years building web applications. My main lane is Laravel/Vue business software: SaaS products, internal tools, API-heavy apps, legacy PHP modernization, and projects that need an experienced person to stabilize them and move them forward.

I also build AI features into production software: OpenAI/Anthropic/Google API integrations, agent-style workflows, scraping/data pipelines, queues, and content/publishing systems.

Founder/operator background from SaaS, ecommerce, SEO/content, and marketplace projects, so I can help with product scope and business tradeoffs as well as implementation. Best fit: remote freelance or contract work, especially 20+ hours/week or focused rescue/build projects.

Location: Munich, Germany

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Technologies: Laravel, Vue.js, PHP, Inertia.js, Livewire, Alpine.js | React, Next.js, Python (Django, FastAPI), Node.js (Express, NestJS) | MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis | TypeScript, Tailwind CSS | DevOps

Specialty: Laravel & Vue.js full-stack development. This is my bread and butter, but I take on projects across the modern web stack.

AI Expertise: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI API integration, agent orchestration, AI-powered tools, web scraping & anti-bot techniques

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15+ years building web applications. Former founder of SaaS startup, ecommerce marketplace, and high-traffic blog network. I ship working software and understand what makes a product viable.

Ha, this triggered me. I'm building exactly this.

It's a coding agent that takes a ticket from your tracker, does the work asynchronously, and replies with a pull request. It does progressively understand the codebase. There's a pre-warming step so it's already useful on the first ticket, but it gets better with each one it completes.

The agent itself is done and working well. Right now I'm building out the infrastructure to offer it as a SaaS.

If anyone wants to try it, hit me up. Email is in my profile. Website isn't live yet, but I'm putting together a waitlist.

Location: Munich, Germany

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Specialty: Laravel & Vue.js full-stack development. This is my bread and butter, but I take on projects across the modern web stack.

AI Expertise: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI API integration, agent orchestration, AI-powered tools, web scraping & anti-bot techniques

Services: Custom development, SaaS architecture, performance optimization, API development, legacy app modernization, project rescue, fractional CTO, technical team leadership

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15+ years building web applications. Former founder of SaaS startup, ecommerce marketplace, and high-traffic blog network. I ship working software and understand what makes a product viable.

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Location: Munich, Germany

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Technologies: Laravel, Vue.js, PHP, Inertia.js, Livewire, Alpine.js | React, Next.js, Python (Django, FastAPI), Node.js (Express, NestJS) | MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis | TypeScript, Tailwind CSS | DevOps

Specialty: Laravel & Vue.js full-stack development. This is my bread and butter, but I take on projects across the modern web stack.

AI Expertise: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI API integration, agent orchestration, AI-powered tools, web scraping & anti-bot techniques

Services: Custom development, SaaS architecture, performance optimization, API development, legacy app modernization, project rescue, fractional CTO, technical team leadership

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15+ years building web applications. Former founder of SaaS startup, ecommerce marketplace, and high-traffic blog network. I ship working software and understand what makes a product viable.

SEEKING WORK | Munich, Germany | REMOTE

Full Stack Developer & AI Engineer with 15+ YoE. Laravel/Vue.js specialist who also builds with React, Next.js, Python (Django/FastAPI), and Node.js.

I develop SaaS applications, integrate AI (OpenAI/Anthropic/Google APIs, agent orchestration), and rescue struggling projects. Background as a founder (SaaS, ecommerce, high-traffic blogs) means I understand business, not just code.

Available for long-term contracts (20+ hours/week), project-based work, fractional CTO roles, and technical consulting.

Core Stack: Laravel, Vue.js, PHP, Inertia.js, Tailwind | Also: React, Next.js, Python, Node.js, TypeScript | DevOps

AI: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI APIs, agent orchestration, web scraping

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SEEKING WORK | Munich, Germany | REMOTE

Full Stack Developer & AI Engineer with 15+ YoE. Laravel/Vue.js specialist who also builds with React, Next.js, Python (Django/FastAPI), and Node.js.

I develop SaaS applications, integrate AI (OpenAI/Anthropic/Google APIs, agent orchestration), and rescue struggling projects. Background as a founder (SaaS, ecommerce, high-traffic blogs) means I understand business, not just code.

Available for long-term contracts (20+ hours/week), project-based work, fractional CTO roles, and technical consulting.

Core Stack: Laravel, Vue.js, PHP, Inertia.js, Tailwind | Also: React, Next.js, Python, Node.js, TypeScript | DevOps

AI: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI APIs, agent orchestration, web scraping

Website: https://t1p.de/rqox2

Email: see profile

Location: Munich, Germany

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Technologies: Laravel, Vue.js, PHP, Inertia.js, Livewire, Alpine.js | React, Next.js, Python (Django, FastAPI), Node.js (Express, NestJS) | MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis | TypeScript, Tailwind CSS | DevOps

Specialty: Laravel & Vue.js full-stack development. This is my bread and butter, but I take on projects across the modern web stack.

AI Expertise: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI API integration, agent orchestration, AI-powered tools, web scraping & anti-bot techniques

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15+ years building web applications. Former founder of SaaS startup, ecommerce marketplace, and high-traffic blog network. I ship working software and understand what makes a product viable.

I think this might work for smaller codebases, but the main point of my article isn't really about vibe coding. Vibe coded apps are typically smaller anyway, so refactoring isn't that big of an issue there.

When we're talking about actual software that has been around for a while and has accumulated serious tech debt, it's not so easy. I've definitely worked on apps where your described approach doesn't lead to anything viable. It's just too much for an AI to grasp when you have years of accumulated complexity, dependencies, and business logic spread across a large codebase.

Regarding vibe coders specifically: I think people who can't code themselves often don't really know what "cleaner design" or "more reuse" actually means in practice. They can certainly learn, but once they do, they're probably not vibe coders anymore.

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Full Stack Laravel & Vue.js Engineer with 10+ YoE. I build SaaS applications, AI-powered tools, and integrate OpenAI/Anthropic APIs into business applications.

Grok 4 is now available in Cursor.

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Full Stack Laravel & Vue.js Engineer with 10+ YoE. I build SaaS applications, AI-powered tools, and integrate OpenAI/Anthropic APIs into business applications.

Finishing my book: https://www.rapid-saas-with-laravel.com/

No write-up yet - Cursor iterates so fast that any guide would be outdated in a few weeks.

My tips:

- Check out the Cursor docs. They're concise - read through them to understand the features and model/context behavior

- It's basically all chat now. Chat has manual mode (previously edit mode), ask mode, and agent mode

- For one-off file changes, use manual mode. Just tell it what to do, and it shows changes as diffs you can accept/reject

- Agent mode is similar but the model can use tools to read files not in context (plus some other stuff like run commands and search through files). It works in a loop until the task is complete - reading files, editing them, fixing lint errors, reading more files, etc.

- For agent mode, Claude Sonnet works best. Other models sometimes fail to use tools correctly or just stop mid-task

- Context is critical. Works best when you provide all necessary context, or at least file names/directory trees in agent mode

- Biggest issue is context cutting. Cursor truncates files and doesn't give the LLM all the code you think it does. Even in max mode, the read file tool only ingests up to 750 lines per file (though I think actively adding files to context lets it read more in max mode). Sometimes copy & paste the file contents into the chat prevents truncating.

- This is why I use max mode for almost anything beyond simple small file edits

Being inefficient with tokens actually makes you super productive. It's too expensive in the long run though.

The last few weeks have been quite frustrating with Cursor. I dove deep into the issue and figured that the most annoying problem - which leads to all those frustratingly poor replies from the LLM - is how Cursor cuts down the context. You can test this yourself: just add a long file to the chat and ask if it can see the file.

Recently I discovered that all these problems disappear with the "max" models. This is exactly what I wanted. The price of 5¢ per request is manageable, the real issue is the cost for tool use in agent mode (see my other comment).

Max requests are only an additional 5 cents each. The real cost is in tool calls that cost another 5 cents each, which adds up fast in agent mode.

From one day of coding with MAX models:

174 gemini-2.5-pro-exp-max requests × 5¢ = $8.70

1269 premium tool calls × 5¢ = $63.45

143 claude-3.7-sonnet-thinking-max requests × 5¢ = $7.15

Absolutely. I'm currently spending about $50 per workday in additional costs. But it's so much better - an entirely different experience.