18 people fired, AI replaced all
An entrepreneur Dr. Dan met at Network School fired 18 people — 15 customer support staff replaced by AI, and remaining developers replaced by Claude Code.
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SpaceX's $2T IPO, Karpathy Joins Anthropic & the SaaSpocalypse — ft. Dr Dan | EP14
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May 22, 2026
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AI Coding Tools: Cursor vs. Codex vs. Claude Code
At 17:00 · chapter starts 12:40
Codex Built an Entire ERP System Overnight — Without Human Input
Dan gave Codex a detailed plan for a full ERP system and went to sleep. Seven hours and 25 minutes later, it was done — end-to-end tested, click-through verified. Claude Code can't do this. We are entering the era of fast fashion software.
Codex ran 7h 25m autonomously
Dr. Dan used OpenAI Codex to autonomously implement a full ERP system for a friend; it ran for 7 hours and 25 minutes overnight and finished end-to-end tested.
$34,000/yr SaaS cloned overnight
An entrepreneur cloned a $34,000/year B2B SaaS product by transcribing the sales call and feeding it to Claude Code, which rebuilt the product using the same APIs.
$34,000 SaaS Product Cloned in One Evening From a Sales Call
One entrepreneur attended a $34,000/year B2B SaaS demo, transcribed the call, fed it to Claude Code, and had a working clone by morning. The product used the same public APIs. This is now the template — your sales pitch is your product spec.
OpenAI's $2M YC Credits: Customer Acquisition or Competitive Intelligence?
OpenAI is giving $2M in credits to every YC startup — roughly $400M total. The real play: startups use those tokens to onboard users, burning through the credits and locking into OpenAI's ecosystem. When the credits run out, they keep paying. Sam gets a hand in every promising YC company.
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