Bill Mabry

Stageshow: a skill that helps your agent make better faux UI stills, animations, bento grids, and more. npx skills add benjitaylor/skills --skill stageshow

The personal agent is about to become the most valuable piece of software real estate since the iPhone home screen.

I met the guy behind Paperclip. he won't show his face, but he just built one of the FASTEST growing open-source projects in AI. how to use Paperclip to hire AI agents to ACTUALLY run a startup with 0 employees: 1. with paperclip, you hire a team of AI agents like CEO, engineer, QA, video editor, content strategist and manage them from one dashboard. it works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or any model on OpenRouter. you're not locked into one provider. 2. your AI agents wake up capable but with zero memory. they don't know who they are, where they are, or what they're supposed to be doing. kinda like that movie memento from back in the day you need to leave them Polaroids like heartbeat checklists, persona prompts, written context. that's how you keep them on track. 3. when an agent makes a mistake, you don't rewrite everything. you add one rule to their persona prompt. "always define a success condition for every task." "always pass work to QA before closing." you're training them like you'd train a junior hire. one correction at a time. 4. skills extend what your agents can do. want a video editor who can produce animated content? install the Remotion skill. want security reviews? there's a skill for that. 5. the biggest lever for quality is encoding your own taste. AI can do everything except know your values. design sensibility, brand voice, success criteria but you have to write it down. 6. don't one-shot your startup. agentic design patterns matter. the simplest one: after the engineer builds something, QA reviews it. structure prevents compounding errors. one-shotting an entire app is fun for 30 minutes, then it falls apart. 7. Paperclip tracks every token spent and every task completed. you can use your existing subscriptions (Claude, Codex) so spend shows as $0, or hook into API credits for real dollar tracking. 8. importable companies are coming. Gary Tan's G-Stack, a full game studio, 300+ agent repos... you can "acqui-hire" a proven agent team into your Paperclip instance instead of building from scratch. the future is downloading a tested org that actually works. 9. routines let you automate recurring work. "every day at 10am, read what was merged into the main branch and write a Discord update celebrating community contributors." it runs, you review, you improve. every task is traceable. 10. maximizer mode is next. you tell the CEO "build this game" and it does whatever it takes and hires who it needs, keeps pressing until it's done. no token anxiety. just outcomes. use @ideabrowser for startup ideas/trends to get started thank you for @dotta for doing this podcast and breaking down exactly how people can hire ai agent teams with paperclip you won't find an episode like this anywhere else episode is live on @startupideaspod on your fav platforms (follow for more) is this not the greatest time in history to be building? im rooting for you now go watch my frien

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I've been using voice-to-text with my AI/productivity tools lately and I can't go back. Not because I'm lazy, but because I finally realized how absolutely insane it is that we've spent the last 40 years forcing ourselves to translate thoughts into finger movements on tiny plastic squares. Think about it....when you have an idea, it exists in your head as language. Words, sentences, concepts. But to get it into a computer, you have to break it down into individual letter presses, hunting and pecking across a keyboard, constantly interrupting your flow to fix typos and formatting. It's like having a conversation through morse code. I used to think voice interfaces were gimmicky. Siri was frustrating, dictation software was clunky, and talking to your computer felt weird. I honestly didnt get it. But something shifted in the 4 months. The AI actually understands context now. It gets what I mean, not just what I said. And I can do things on the go. Yesterday I used voice with claude code to spin up sub agents that design, code, and market my app. I literally just talked to my computer and told it what I wanted built, and it coordinated an entire team of AI workers to make it happen. No typing, no clicking through interfaces, no managing different tools. It felt like the future finally arrived. We're moving from a world where humans had to learn computer language to a world where computers learned human language. And honestly, I'm here for it. If voice input goes from 0.1% to 10% (not crazy...) of all computer interactions in the next few years, every interface we know becomes obsolete overnight. The entire software industry will have to rebuild around conversation, not clicks. Wouldn't be surprised to see it happen. What do you think?

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