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Cincinnati, Ohio
Joined June 2009
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The hype is fun - but how does this collection of bot employees actually generate a million dollars in annual revenue? I feel like I am missing something key here - if these employees can easily spin up infinite $1M side hustles, why are they employees?
THIS IS A F*CKING GOLDMINE SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot team shared their bot templates for building a $1M one-person company in the marketplace you set the priorities, connect your tools, and review the work while each bot handles a specific part of building, marketing, selling, or running the business here are 10 Grok Bots i’d split across 4 departments: product & development: 1/ PM bot: turns your idea into a scoped brief with what to build, what to leave out, and how to know it’s finished 2/ Proto Bot: builds a working prototype inside your app and brings back a draft PR with screenshots so you can review the result 3/ Startup QA Bot: walks through your product in a test account, catches broken flows, and reports bugs with screenshots and reproduction steps marketing: 4/ Distro Bot: prepares campaigns, creative, and channel analysis, with your approval before publishing, sending, or changing spend 5/ AI Search Visibility: checks whether Google and AI assistants recommend your business, then shows which competitors appear instead sales: 6/ Outbound Prospecting: researches potential customers against your ideal buyer profile and drafts a relevant first message for each 7/ GTM Loop Closer: finds the customer promises and follow-ups buried in meetings, email, and Slack, then prepares the next action 8/ Sales Call Coach: reviews your call transcript or recording and gives you specific changes to make before the next sales conversation operations: 9/ Haggle Bot: checks your software bills for wasted spend, compares alternatives, and drafts vendor negotiations before renewals 10/ Alfred: maps responsibilities across your bots, spots duplicate jobs, and recommends the smallest useful setup for your business start with the department that keeps pulling you away from customers, connect its tools, and give one bot a real assignment save this and build your one-person company one useful role at a time all 10 are on the Grok Bot Marketplace ↓
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I started reading Blood Meridian again and you know it really puts the fear of AI into perspective. Yeah, our jobs are changing, but at least we aren't being squeezed to death by a man named The Judge in an 1850s outhouse.
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Everything on this site is about AI, it feels like, and people fall into two camps. I have fallen into both. Often. Camp 1 believes that AI is the future and they are whole hog on it. Camp 2 wants very badly to believe that AI won't live up to the hype.
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It's not the fact that vibe coded apps deploy with untold security soft points - it's that if you're non-technical you likely won't even know what to look for. Even if you are technical, you'll miss things. You gotta be thinking about security when you're coding - vibe or not.
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First off, love posts like this - showing the work. Spend that dollar or so building this, and then spend a few more dollars drifting it aesthetically away enough to stand out in a crowd. And when you're big enough, bring in real design to be in the 1%.
🚨The mystery AI model that sat #1 on OpenRouter for 10 days finally has a name. Space Bunny 🐰 = MiniMax M3.1 Flash. I gave it one prompt on max reasoning effort: "Build a landing page for a marketing agency" - 8 min 29 sec - It screenshotted its own work, found 4 layout issues and fixed them - One working page: hero, features, pricing, contact form Not perfect, but solid for one prompt. API pricing: $0.15 in / $0.60 out per 1M tokens (per MiniMax). Unlimited in MiniMax Code until Oct 25. 50% off the first M Plan month until Oct 31. #ad @MiniMax_AI
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I think I've crossed the rubicon where the amount of new content, plans, schemes, documents, presentations, vibed apps, etc, has ascended to a realm that I can no longer fathom with my human brain, and I need to start over from scratch.
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DOS on the Apple IIgs
Be honest: what was your first code editor?
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Give me a car that can do a kickflip or give me death
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I see this outrage and I think the likelihood that the typical IC will switch away from Claude is VERY LOW. For better or for worse, vendor lock-in is well underway.
Anthropic just got caught secretly downgrading users without telling them, charging full price for a lesser product, and storing every prompt for 30 days. The developer community is calling it the biggest violation of trust in AI history. Here is exactly what happened. Anthropic released Fable 5, their most powerful model. Buried inside a 319-page document was a policy most users never saw. Every prompt you send to a Mythos-class model gets stored for 30 days. No exceptions. Even enterprise customers who had signed zero data retention agreements had no choice. But the storage was not the part that broke the internet. The part that broke the internet was what Anthropic did with what they collected. They built a profile on you. They evaluated your prompts. And if they decided your research was too sensitive, they quietly switched you to a weaker model, rewrote your prompt in the background, gave you a degraded answer, and charged you full price for the product you thought you were getting. They never told you. David Sacks said it plainly on the All-In podcast. They were creating a new class of AI haves and have-nots. Anthropic would surveil you, profile you, decide whether you deserved frontier capability, and silently cut you off if they decided you did not. Ben Thompson from Stratechery asked a straightforward question about cancer risk and GLP-1s. He got kicked to a lesser model. Someone asked about mitochondria. Same result. J-Cal asked about fertilizer regulations live on the podcast to test it. Downgraded in real time. Anthropic has since walked back the part about silently downgrading users for AI research. They now say they will disclose when they downgrade you. But they are still downgrading people. The surveillance is still running. The profile is still being built. This is the company that once said it was against government surveillance. They are now doing it themselves. To their own paying customers. For their own reasons. With no appeal process and no way to know it happened. The developer community did not forget that. WATCH THE FULL PODCAST ON @theallinpod
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I've gone from stuffing 20% complete novels in the back of desk drawers to stuffing 20% complete vibe coded B2B SaaS apps in the back of desk drawers
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Just watched @AftabPureval in conversation with Aaron Sorkin at the @mercantilelib Niehoff lecture. What a heck of a night. I'm electrified. Sorkin wrote movies??
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You telling me this says @EmilyMandel? I dunno
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shameless plug: these guys get it and, you guessed it, aren't grifting
Each week we try to write up a bunch of stuff that will be interesting/informative to new and established NFT collectors. Here's this week's Outli3rs roundup. medium.com/outli3rs/this-wee…
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Just watched Cincinnati Taft HS win state champs in Dayton. Heck of a game. I'm sweating profusely. @AftabPureval came out to support!!
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Thank god they give you these little spaces to write what's in there
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This piece absolutely murders me and I had to have it, so thank you. Also thanks to @chrisostoich for turning me on to this artist. And shout-out to my wife for not knowing I am doing this
Thanks so much to @johndavidback for collecting!! It's a big honor to be one of your first collected artists next to the one and only @maxwellinked
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