Exploring Life & Business with Aleks Bykhun of 2027.dev

Today we’d like to introduce you to Aleks Bykhun.

Hi Aleks, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
I started as a physics major at MIPT, one of the top universities in the post-Soviet space. But theoretical physics wasn’t calling me. I was more drawn to building things, solving real problems, and seeing immediate impact.
In 2019, I made the leap into entrepreneurship. Buildship (2021) was my first major project — a no-code web3 builder designed to democratize blockchain development. We grew to $10M in total NFT volume with 400,000+ NFTs minted. That taught me the power of removing barriers to entry.
After Buildship, I explored what’s possible at the intersection of AI and accessibility. Artgene (2023), an open marketplace for generative art. Dora AI (2024), an AI dating coach that organically acquired 20,000 users and hit $80,000 ARR.
Then 2025 changed everything. I spent the entire year talking to Claude Code more than I spoke to humans. While the rest of Twitter was discovering what AI coding could do, I was already six months ahead — using Claude to browse the internet, reply to emails, edit production databases with Supabase MCP, edit videos with Remotion. I built Yolocode.ai as an experiment — an IDE where 99% of the code is written by Claude. It got 500,000+ views on Reddit and taught me something I couldn’t unsee: the next wave of users isn’t humans. It’s agents.
Every devtool I was using — every API, every dashboard, every getting-started guide — was designed for a human sitting at a keyboard. But agents don’t read docs the way we do. They don’t click buttons. They don’t “get started” the same way. And most developer tools are completely unprepared for this shift.
Now I’m building 2027.dev — a platform that helps devtool companies become agent-ready. We run Agent Arena, benchmarking how AI coding agents actually experience developer onboarding. We run AX (Agent Experience) evals so companies can see where their product breaks when the user is Claude Code instead of a human. The name says it: by 2027, your most important users won’t be people.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The biggest practical challenge was remote work. I started building startups right before COVID, so from day one my co-founders and I never had an office. We traveled a lot, frequently ended up in different timezones. When you’re 9 hours apart and your overlap window is two hours a day, momentum dies. Decisions that should take five minutes take two days. You lose the energy that comes from being in the same room.
And there’s a personal layer. I have a deep meditation practice, and at some point I realized the same pattern I was working through on the cushion — attachment to control — was showing up in how I built products. I needed to write every line, understand every decision. Learning to delegate to AI wasn’t a technical shift, it was a psychological one. Same muscle as meditation: observe, trust, let go.
And honestly — when AI starts writing better code than you in some areas, it’s a weird experience. You spend 15 years building an identity around being technical, and then you have to update that. I’m still updating it.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about 2027.dev?
Right now I’m building something new in the AI infrastructure space. We’re still in stealth, so I can’t share too much yet.
What I can say is this: AI agents are already consuming more documentation, more APIs, more digital products than humans. They don’t read your carefully crafted UI. They parse, execute, and move on. Every devtool company spent years perfecting human-centric interfaces — and now their fastest-growing user segment isn’t human at all.
Most products are completely unprepared for this. We’re working on that problem. More details soon.

Are there any books, apps, podcasts or blogs that help you do your best?
Books: Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs.” That quote about simplicity guides everything I do: “To be truly simple, you have to go really deep.” It’s not about removing complexity; it’s about understanding it so deeply that you can reduce it to its essence.
Practice: Meditation. This is foundational. Meditation teaches you to notice when you’re holding on too tightly. Every major shift in my thinking—from control to delegation, from building features to building with AI—started in meditation.
Tools & Resources:

Claude Code – My primary development partner. I use it for everything: GCP infrastructure management, video editing with Remotion, database operations with Supabase MCP, API automation. It’s not a tool anymore. It’s a collaborator.
Twitter/X – For staying on the bleeding edge of what’s actually possible, not what’s being hyped.
My actual advice on development: Burn tokens. No, really. Don’t worry about dollars—just max out your subscription at least once. Give Claude your entire codebase. Feed it the full context you’d give a human colleague. Make it read 50 pages of documentation before asking your question. The interesting stuff happens when you push further. That’s how you develop intuitions—not by reading blog posts, but by understanding the shape of the thing through experimentation.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://me.bykhun.com
• LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/caffeinum
• Twitter: https://x.com/caffeinum
• Other: [https://github.com/caffeinum](https://github.com/caffeinum)