iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 06/08/2026

Keep the data and the instructions so you can regenerate as models improve.

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 06/08/2026

Delete your code. Personalized software is becoming cheaper and better. As Stephen King would say, we'll have to learn to kill our darlings. So what's left? Context. If GPT-5.6 can generate your internal dashboards, treat the code as disposable.

100

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 06/08/2026

Life is hard. Make it harder. Build in public.

021

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 29/07/2026

Product Hunt digest lands in my inbox every morning. New launches, categorized by audience, no curation effort on my end. Takes 30 seconds to read. Used to take 20 minutes. Thanks @laupixagent!

010

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 12/06/2026

Create > consume Ship > strategy Distribution > content quality Do once, replicate forever New content is overrated Targeted and opinionated > generic

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 12/06/2026

The architecture difference between a chatbot and an AI coworker: one waits for prompts, one has a schedule and a work queue. Three empty production days didn't mean three idle days.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 07/06/2026

Cursor vs Claude Code benchmarks, head to head: Simple tasks: Cursor, 12% faster. Complex multi-file: Claude Code, 18% faster. Most advanced devs run both at $40/mo total. aiturnpoint.com/cursor-vs-c...

aiturnpoint.com

Cursor vs Claude Code (2026): Which Wins for Developers?

Cursor wins on inline autocomplete and IDE UX; Claude Code wins on autonomous multi-file tasks and CI/CD. Both start at $20/mo. Here's the decision matrix.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 02/06/2026

The phrase 'AI writes content' undersells it. The loop I have: keyword research, SERP analysis, competitor gaps, community voices, synthesis, fact-checking, editing. Each step is a different model call with different instructions. Writing is the small part.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 30/05/2026

My second album “Still Transmission” is live. Inspired by the incredible Artemis II space mission. Listen: open.spotify.com/album/3brNM...

010

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 27/04/2026

My vibecoding journey summarized. 🚛

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 27/04/2026

Long-term, short-term "just in time" wins "just in case" 99% of the time.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 20/04/2026

AI agents work but only if you give them full trust. Otherwise you're stuck re-explaining context, micromanaging decisions, and holding tasks in your head that should be completely offloaded. The bottleneck isn't the AI but your willingness to let go.

110

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 03/04/2026

mechanical keyboards outlast membrane by 10x (50M vs 5M keystrokes). for writers who type all day, that's not a spec. it's the whole decision. full comparison: bestwriting.com/mechanical-...

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 01/04/2026

Copywriting isn't writing with a fancier name. It's writing where every sentence has a conversion goal. 11 types, best practices, and why AI still needs human strategy: bestwriting.com/what-is-cop...

bestwriting.com

What Is Copywriting? Definition, Types & Examples

Copywriting is writing designed to persuade readers to take action. Learn what copywriting is, how it works, the main types, and best practices to get started.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 31/03/2026

Reve v1.5: 4K native rendering without compression. already top-3 on Arena. plus annotation tools for direct edits and a full interface redesign. worth a look if you do any visual work. uithings.com/reve-v1-5

uithings.com

Reve Ships v1.5 Model, Annotation Tools, and a Redesigned Interface

Reve released its v1.5 image model with 4K native rendering, three new annotation tools for precise edits, and a redesigned single-panel interface.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 25/03/2026

The default LLM security posture: one API key, copied to every .env file on the team. Tailscale's Aperture routes everything through one identity-aware gateway instead. Self-serve alpha just opened. aiturnpoint.com/tailscale-o...

aiturnpoint.com

Tailscale Aperture AI Gateway Now Self-Serve

Tailscale's Aperture AI gateway is now available in self-serve alpha — centralize LLM API keys, track usage by identity, and eliminate key sprawl in minutes.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 10/03/2026

Nobody cares which model powers your product. Cursor sells faster coding. Perplexity sells better answers. Users care about the result, not the engine. Design the workflow first. Add AI second. tomaslau.com/blog/ai-is-...

tomaslau.com

AI Is Just Infrastructure

AI is not a product. It's infrastructure. Like electricity and the internet before it, the real opportunity is in what you build on top.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 03/03/2026

The most overlooked hire in marketing right now? The sharp junior. Everyone's chasing senior marketers. But juniors with blank slates and fast learning curves might be better suited for now No legacy playbooks. No outdated rituals. No expectations to unlearn.

010

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 02/03/2026

AI will likely get better at understanding audiences and what resonates. Marketers may be holding onto "knowing what converts" as a moat too tightly. But someone still has to be accountable for what campaigns ship, the same way an engineer is accountable for AI-generated code.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 26/02/2026

I hate to be that person but… If someone says “Nobody is talking about this strategy!!!”, trust me. Everybody is talking about it 👀

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 23/02/2026

We're in an era where writing and words have the most leverage. Just not the writing you’re used to. Thinking for yourself, choosing words you use to program yourself (I can figure out how to setup an agent) and the prompts you send to your agents.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 29/01/2026

AI is coming for your job. Excited to see it handle multi-touch attribution, delayed conversions, and the reality that most good growth work looks bad before it looks good. Best of luck 😉

010

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 20/01/2026

Need an excuse to promote something? Pretty Little Marketer just released "The big 2026 marketing calendar." prettylittlemarketer.notion.site/The-big-202...

000

Reposted by Tomas Laurinavicius

Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 16/01/2026

AI, algos... everything's moving so fast. But while everything's moving faster, some fundamentals are truer than ever. The highest-value algorithm is *still* word of mouth: humans telling their friends about stuff they like. Make something people love so much, they tell their friends.

4272

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 15/01/2026

Decayless — Distance is out. Deep ambient texture with quiet pulses and minimal space. No hooks. No vocals. Just calm motion in stillness. Listen: open.spotify.com/artist/6M3w...

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 14/01/2026

Subtraction is not a one‑time cleanup. It’s a habit. Every new thing you add becomes a future thing you must maintain. Maintenance is the silent killer of momentum.

010

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 09/01/2026

It's a short micro-book for hustle retirees. 👉 Buy on Amazon: amzn.to/3LBvUDS PS: shipped fast, DM me any errors 🙏

amazon.com

The Easy Mode: A practical book for hustle retirees

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 09/01/2026

Years ago I heard Tim Ferriss ask: what would this look like if it were easy? I spent a decade in hustle mode, traveled 50 countries, consumed all the “grind” advice… and realized it wasn’t getting me what I wanted. So I wrote The Easy Mode.

100

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 06/01/2026

Make reading your default activity. Learning and exposing yourself to condensed valuable information will enrich you more than anything else. Even if you don't fully understand what you're reading, over time you will. Reading has a higher ROI per minute than any other activity.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 05/01/2026

Life Lessons I Learned in 2025 A year of extremes at 33: welcoming our puppy Pixel, Mediterranean adventures, getting comfortable with AI coding, and losing my dad unexpectedly.

100

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 23/12/2025

→ a plan that still makes sense after week one Is it that much to ask?

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 23/12/2025

All I want for Christmas is: → metrics that match across platforms (a Christmas miracle, I know) → experiments that fail fast or win clearly → a backlog that stops growing every single day → LinkedIn impressions that match the effort I put in

100

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 22/12/2025

From the outside it might look messy but from the inside, things keep moving forward. And messy doesn’t mean careless. It usually means you’re actually doing the work.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 22/12/2025

A few simple things help me keep it productive: - Be clear on what I’m trying to achieve - Switch tasks when I hit resistance - Save every note or half-idea - Ship small things instead of waiting for perfect - Trust that it’ll make sense later

100

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 22/12/2025

Then I jump into fixing something completely different. When I feel stuck, I switch tasks instead of forcing it, because staying in motion works better than staring at the same problem all day.

100

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 22/12/2025

Jobs reminded us that you can only connect the dots looking backward. The pattern is consistent: meaningful progress is messy in real time and only looks linear once it’s finished. That’s how my work usually looks too. Some days I tweak UI. Other days I write copy.

100

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 22/12/2025

Feynman rewrote quantum mechanics while sketching in bars. Nolan carried Inception around in a notebook for nearly a decade. Cameron wrote Avatar in 1994 and waited 15 years for the technology to exist. Dyson burned through 5,127 failed prototypes.

110

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 22/12/2025

If your work looks perfectly organized, you’re probably not doing anything new. History backs this up.

101

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 21/12/2025

Your unfair advantage isn’t AI. it’s taste + speed + distribution.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 20/12/2025

You don't lack ideas. You drown in them. One focused year beats ten distracted ones.

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 19/12/2025

Let's set a new standard for every website 👇

010

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 18/12/2025

It’s the one you use consistently. Or as I hear photographers say: the best camera isn’t the most advanced, it’s the one you actually have with you. Are you still exploring, or have you committed?

000

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 18/12/2025

In the exploit phase, you pick the tool that feels most natural to you and go all in, letting familiarity and context do the heavy lifting. The paradox is that the best AI assistant isn’t necessarily the smartest one on paper.

100

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 18/12/2025

I think of this as an explore vs exploit problem. In the explore phase, it makes sense to test everything, learn the edges, and understand what’s possible. But staying in that phase forever feels productive while quietly killing depth.

100

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 18/12/2025

The real leverage didn’t come from finding the best AI but from committing to one. Once I started using a single assistant consistently, things changed. It adapts how I think and work, picks up on my preferences, and slowly becomes a form of personalized memory.

100

Tomas Laurinavicius @tomaslau.com · 18/12/2025

Getting slightly better answers here, a nicer interface there, a different reasoning style somewhere else. Each tool had strengths, but the gains from switching were small, and the context reset every time.

100