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levelsio says he passed $10M/y at 94.5% profit

levelsio says he cut his SaaS bills by vibecoding his own replacements and now runs about 94.5% profit, with investment gains beating his business revenue. Plus fresh Next.js evals and a test suite cut in half.

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levelsio says he passed $10M this year at 94.5% profit

levelsio says he passed $10M in revenue plus investment gains this year at roughly 94.5% profit, after cutting his SaaS dependencies to a handful of companies by vibecoding his own replacements.

@levelsio
@levelsio
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My business revenue has remained very stable at about $200K-$250K/mo, but even with that investment returns have now surpassed that
Sep 23, 2026 · View on X

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Grok 4.7 scores 94% on Next.js evals at 2x to 7x cheaper

Guillermo Rauch posted fresh Next.js evals with Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Fable 5.1 all at 97% and Grok 4.7 at 94%, noting Grok is 2x to 7x cheaper. OpenAI says Sol and Luna ship at 50% lower API prices than GPT-5.6 promotional pricing.

Simon Willison
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Luna is my favorite model for building product features thanks to its cost (and speed)
Sep 22, 2026 · View on X

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Stolen playbooks

Arvid Kahl says Opus 5.5 cut his test suite from 15 minutes to 6

Arvid Kahl says he pointed Opus 5.5 at his test suite and it went from about 15 minutes to 6m27s. He says it found an inactive cache setting in his PHP runtime, a config flag slowing app load, and refactored several thousand serial tests to run in parallel.

Arvid Kahl
@arvidkahl
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Halving that time means almost 2x'ing my output, which is pretty sweet, knowing that nothing has broken.
Sep 23, 2026 · View on X

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