Ran out of excuses

Re-reading this from last year, marvelling about how stealing back 30min a day was such an achievement.

One year later today, yeah I got more 30min blocks now.

But no real progress on any SaaS.

I know, I know. I said I was not in the right life stage for SaaS. But I really shouldn’t have any reasons to be whining about lack of time, though. Because agentic engineering is here. With just 30min, I can do a lot. Prompt, approve checkpoints, and let it run while I do my other freelance work. And a lot of them don’t need a lot of handholding these days. Just need time to properly scope and set things up, and it’s off to the finish line on its own. Like how @karpathy, the father of vibecoding, did:

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes. — @karpathy

Those 30min blocks are perfect for doing the scoping and setting up. But yet, why am I still whining about not having time, not progressing?

With AI agents, I’ve ran out of excuses.

Time to just start building.

Forwards.