@thekevinqi Avatar @thekevinqi Kevin Qi

Kevin Qi posts on X about ai, in the, money, [--] months the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social Influence

Social category influence finance 18.63% technology brands 9.8% social networks 2.94% stocks 2.94% countries 2.94% vc firms 0.98% automotive brands 0.98%

Social topic influence ai 7.84%, in the 4.9%, money 4.9%, 6 months #252, windsurf 2.94%, if you 2.94%, kalshi 2.94%, llm #498, posts #1396, engineering 1.96%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @ahmadafterhours @devinbuild @dhanushnehru @hackerrank @leetcode @kalshi @mannupaaji @arjuns_chauhan @usefesta @ismaelfi @marclou @pcshipp @fazlerocks @shaig @dagreenhermit @windsurf @braelynai @corbinbraun @dwlz @michael11106713

Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) IBM (IBM) Shake Shack Inc. (SHAK) Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@TheGeorgePu When you gamble you aren't guaranteed to win every single time. These employees new the risk and they wouldn't be complaining had their options actually gone 10x in value"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:54Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"Celebrating [---] followers on Valentines day Over the past [--] months this has been my playbook for growing on X consistently. [--]. Reply to around 40-60 posts a day first. (popular posts that are gaining traction 100K or more views already) [--]. Concoct 3-5 posts for Communities (Build in Public Startups Software Engineering) and post those after the replies. [--]. Have some on-going series like Y-combinator rejection transparency Day X of building in public etc. [--]. Always reply to comments and start having conversations with people on here if they DM. [--]. For posts that you really want to go viral DM"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@ShaziGoalie Software engineering is turning into a career like being in the NBA. The top [---] people in the world are making all the money. Everybody else is fighting for scraps"
X Link 2026-02-01T01:58Z [---] followers, 18.5K engagements

"My company @usefesta recently went through an entire redesign. The reason why we don't trust AI is that AI is something that cannot come up with reasons behind why a design should be implemented. It only does what the boss says. When hiring a professional you are looking for someone that can produce both a pretty design as well as a reason for why the user would actually know how to navigate that design. https://www.usefesta.com/weddings https://www.usefesta.com/weddings"
X Link 2026-02-04T00:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@The_GreatBonnie Last I heard they own WindSurf. I think their product is doing good in the B2B market so no need to get twitter viral all the time"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:19Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@Codie_Sanchez for business owners it's favorable to scoop up the talent that wouldn't otherwise have worked for them"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@KobeissiLetter Are trillion dollar companies really what we should be normalizing Like there has to be some kind of limit to Market Cap grounded in reality. After all human population itself is capped so eventually you run out of consumers"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@Dividend_Dollar Big tech is safe in the long term because they are a monopoly that stifles innovation. Startups will never be able to compete because as soon as they start showing some promise Big Tech can just buy them. Or brain drain by hiring all their key employees"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:33Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@Geiger_Capital lmao. A multi-trillion dollar market cap is a far way from 0"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@baltic_dan Aren't [--] year olds a bit older than zoomers"
X Link 2026-02-07T02:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@a16z If Pinterest is so popular why is there stock doing so bad"
X Link 2026-02-07T02:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@metapreston The Claude Code example doesn't make sense since Anthropic has all the power in this equation"
X Link 2026-02-07T03:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@mykola Depends on the country you live in. But if you are unemployed and you really cannot find a job because nobody will hire you the government gives you free health insurance and at least some money to survive"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@krugermacro It does seem to be giving non-technical folk the ability to get a prototype into the app store for their entrepreneurial dreams when in the past it might've costed 10s of thousands of dollars to outsource"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:02Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@T3chFalcon Very poor UX. Lotta of non-technical folk gonna be looking at it and not knowing what half the stuff means"
X Link 2026-02-08T03:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Day [---] of building AI Event Coordination 🚀 📧 Migrated our email automation from Google Sheets to Brevo at this stage we need a real CRM. 🧭 Also calling an end to this daily series. Its not performing the way it was a few months ago. Still building. Just changing how I share the journey. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020334795541127542 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020334795541127542"
X Link 2026-02-08T03:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@ismael_fi @FazierHQ congrats"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Ive been on the side of hiring for engineers at Amazon and thats not the case. In order to hire you need consensus from 6-7 people. Its hard to use nepotism in that case. If they dont get the job they simply werent the best candidate from the interviews. Most people I interviewed failed the coding portion. And I did around [--] interviews when I was at the company. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020588724631773494 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020588724631773494"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@LeboChampu @Nithya_Shrii At big tech you do. Otherwise there is not way to figure out who is the best since there isnt enough data collected off just 2-3 interviews"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@Igger286007 @BarefootStudent My point is that from my experience the top American CS students from any background are usually getting jobs without much difficulty at all"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@marclou Are you handling the currency conversion in-house or using a 3rd party integration"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@Param_eth Why would someone by this when they can probably use their own Open Claw setup to vibe code it for less than $100"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@conor_ai I agree. It's very hard to trust a robot to swipe your credit card for you"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@pcshipp All of these jobs. If something as hard as coding can be easily replaced what else is safe"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@theo How do you know who is AI and who isn't Soon we might require biometric proof on who is human"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:07Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@ahmadafterhours this is a cloud based platform that you own. What do you think of Clawd bot taking control of people's computers and allow them to accomplish the same things without middle men involved"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"You still need a way to fundamentally cut the candidate pool down. My startup posted a job last year and we immediately got almost [----] candidates. Now imagine getting 10K or 100K candidates for [--] position. How can you manually review everybody fairly Unfortunately you probably cannot"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@Devinbuild @AforeVC The run a similar program as YC where they invest around 500k preseed"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@WrightFlow_AI @Devinbuild Other than the tech enthusiasts I don't see you typical old age grandma being able to set it up"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@bensig Are you now spending $200 on Claude Like your AI spend was constant and you just switching providers"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:03Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@mark_k @steipete Jumping over the wall more like it"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@ibuildthecloud You arent doing it right if at least 10x gain is not achieved"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@Dhanush_Nehru @hackerrank @LeetCode People used to memorize patterns Not derive them from base math"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:47Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@RashiShrivast18 Why wouldn't they pay creators if they are so flush with cash"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@pcshipp AI that hires UGC creators and manages them"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@jonathanbfine Don't LLMs also write words really well too Plus I thought an AI generated musician was on the bill board charts"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@Kalshi young people don't drink. instead they smoke stuff"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@Kalshi There is hiring just in fields that people don't want to work in"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@fazlerocks @shaig I think as software companies get larger they need to add more features to justify engineering spend. which ends up making the UX harder to use"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@ahmadafterhours what's the context window size that you are using"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@zerohedge will they be a trillion dollar startup like spaceX"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@feifei_qiu The reason why it's not outcome based is because the "guarantee" is something that people aren't confident in achieving yet. But as soon as that is plausible and proven I'm saying this hypothetical SAAS will be very profitable"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@arjuns_chauhan @Dhanush_Nehru @hackerrank @LeetCode They should just replace leetcode hards with an even harder test like Olympiad math. Then rote memorization wouldnt work anymore"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"I hit [---] followers after [--] months of consistent posting. This is what I did to grow. [--]. Reply between 40-60 times a day on posts with 100K views+. [--]. Purchase Premium+ [--]. Concoct [--] - [--] posts a day by trying to copy viral formats or tweeting about trending topics. [--]. Engage with all replies. [--]. Start long term series in communities like Build in Public. (Day X of building Y etc)"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@thdxr IBM is and has been a dinosaur company. Not surprising at all"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@unusual_whales Which college campuses are they talking about Cause I'm pretty sure this isn't the case at Harvard etc unless you are disabled"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@garrytan LLM + while (condition) loop crazy how this is something new"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@whoistife_x As you get better at working out it becomes and energizer like caffeine instead of something that drains you"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@mannupaaji Cursor $20 tier ain't like it used to"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@da_green_hermit @mannupaaji @windsurf Really They don't care if you constantly shove 10M tokens into each request and literally use up 100s of dollars for $20"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@da_green_hermit @mannupaaji @windsurf Thats good to know thanks"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@feelzyou It can keep you alive but it cannot solve problems of self and problems of the heart"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@CreeCoder I thought after the Twitter takeover headcount went down to like 1-2K according to the biography by walter issacson"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@painkillerbill Shake Shack is expensive as hell in Japan"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@braelyn_ai Do you also consider every other city in America irrelevant"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:42Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@SwiftYouTube_ Multi-tasking. The knowledge intake from audio books or podcasts gotta come during the busy day"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@parthsareen Great to see hackathon culture still happening [--] years later"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@mf_tomb @braelyn_ai Arguably middle America is more mainstream than expensive coastal cities"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@trikcode Its the same as being boss of real engineer and telling them to produce shit"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:44Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@GodsBurnt but the distribution isn't constant. Some people work [--] hours a week and cannot afford necessities whilst others can afford it [--] or 20x over"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@Dhanush_Nehru @hackerrank @LeetCode I mean like when learning the concept for the first time. It's better to learn from first principles than to just memorize a formula that your teacher gives you. One of the best classes I ever took didn't give you the formulas until you derive it on your own intuition first"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@redaction what about the people who serve you coffee at the coffee shops or food at the restaurants"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@rhodarun Is the employment market just shedding headcount and not creating any new ones to replace the lost ones"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:19Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@shaig We tried Hubspot ourselves last year and went back to using spreadsheets around a week into our first month. HupSpot's UI and UX are so hard I couldn't even find a button to save a new lead"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Your response inherently validates the main purpose of giving our LeetCode HARD questions during the interview. The goal is to filter the applicant pool for the top of the top intelligence. Top companies would rather hire an einstein level talent than a hard worker who is just a bit above average. You want innately talented people. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022730886412656836 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022730886412656836"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Left an explosive Amazon career to build AI in the real world. I ship a lot and train hard"
X Link 2026-01-30T00:44Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"YC application submitted Perhaps the 4th time is the charm. Wish us luck"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:55Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"Founders do you apply to YC every cycle"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Most founders think ads dont work. Reality: you just didnt spend enough to find the format. $5K is the entry fee for creative discovery in consumer. Anything less = random noise. Are you planning for that"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Talked to a few consumer founders ahead of us. Consensus: 💸 $5K minimum to find a working paid ad format 📉 Anything less is just sampling error Paid isnt about ROI at first. Its about creative iteration. Curious how others budget this early"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"The grass is always greener. When I was working the 9-5 I think a lotta folks dream about escape. But perhaps it also works vice-versa. Honest question Do you ever regret leaving 9-5 Honest question Do you ever regret leaving 9-5"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Who is still playing Clash of Clans in 2026"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Good thing I bought my Tesla shares when it was $50. One day $TSLA will offer dividends and initiate share buybacks. https://t.co/LC3G8UWUxV One day $TSLA will offer dividends and initiate share buybacks. https://t.co/LC3G8UWUxV"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Founders how are you preparing for future LLM token cost increases It might cost $200 to vibe code an app today but what about a future where it costs $20000"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Your 20s pass by in a blink of an eye"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"I asked Grok to make a line chart of my growth and this is what is produced. Not really descriptive IMO"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"0 [---] followers in [--] months. All from building @usefesta in public. The internet rewards consistency"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"I think you really need to have a passion to stick with something for decades and get hella good at it. Are you building for the money or because you love it Are you building for the money or because you love it"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@boxmining I never got why you even needed any hardware specs if the LLM computation is happening on the cloud anyways"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@TechCrunch are they getting courted by VC money instead I've heard being an AI researcher nowadays is like being an NBA free agent"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:36Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"Builders are you still working on Valentine's Day If so why or why not"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@corbin_braun How will you be able to assess and confirm that it is indeed .5 better"
X Link 2026-02-04T03:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@psomkar1 Once you reach established company status. AWS is a must"
X Link 2026-02-04T03:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@ismael_fi Everybody seems to be discounting coding. I mean if you are Richard Hendricks esk perhaps great coding is the difference between getting funded and not"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@cailynyongyong you can see the end result reflected in GDP growth"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@AnnieLiao_2000 I lived in SF for [--] years and normal people who aren't looking to make a billion dollars from tech exist. Try stepping out of the "tech bro" circle and checkout where the average resident lives. You know the people who might be working blue collar"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Real estate sales is an industry where the small group of winners makes all the money. Question is how does anybody become one of those realtors in charge of selling [--] million + dollar homes and being able to collect those 6-figure commission checks. Is it meritocratic or is it nepotistic https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019233048357986310 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019233048357986310"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:14Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"As models get smarter this isn't really a way to differentiate. Prompting an entire system design of a chat app may end up yielding the same results as someone prompting "I hate iMessage make me some beta stuf" Simply because the models can eventually have reasoning loops built in which forces it to come up with the system design before code implementation. Or maybe proactivity where it reaches back to the prompter for clarification on design requirements like currently what happens if you hire real developers to build an app for you as a non-techie."
X Link 2026-02-05T02:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@Simon_Ingari Risk tolerance is increasing"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@big_duca it's called hedging their bets"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@DrDominicNg It's pretty normal. Would be interesting to see how humans stack up compared to other comparable mammals. In the animal kingdom it's relatively normal to basically forget about your offspring pretty quickly so that you can reproduce again and again"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@Kalshi They can count robots in their statistics"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@shreyshahi people who got in early prob have their shares priced at [--] cents"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Big tech. Small tech. Startups. Engineering headcount is being cut everywhere. What are you doing right now to prepare for potential layoffs https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019242865918963733 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019242865918963733"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@aryanlabde Even worse if draining 10s of thousands of dollars with no ROI at all"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@dionizije_fa @GJarrosson I was quoted 12K for a [--] second video. This is from a firm that I got introduced to via word of mouth from a YC founder"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@dwlz what do you mean by long tail are you talking about the select few enthusiasts who may want to try new softwares all the time"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@dwlz oh I get what you mean now. You saying that the demand for software to solve niche problems will continue to grow because in the past perhaps it was too expensive to build for these small niches. I would consider any market under 100M ARR niche"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@corbin_braun who pays for the compute is there some kind of charity I don't know of giving free servers to the open source community"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@mrmikeMTL not getting sick is easy. just live like a hermit and have no contact with the outside world"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@DeItaone Median income of the parents of Yale's incoming class was like 196K"
X Link 2026-01-28T03:48Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@threads_ai71814 @marclou The founder seems to be [--] of [--] in terms of being in the right rooms at the right times. He was probably one of the only teenagers to have worked for Heritage auctions ever. That kind of rarity in experience adds conviction to stakeholders whether it's investors etc"
X Link 2026-02-02T01:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

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