Life update: my O1 visa got approved! We packed up and moved to New York last week. New city, new chapter - and a great excuse to finally rebuild my corner of the internet. minchi.co is now home to my writing, book reviews, and the bookmarks I keep coming back to. It will be a public archive of what I'm reading and thinking about, all in one place 🌻 If you are in NYC friends and building in AI or onchain finance, let's grab coffee!

I use Siri the most when I’m cooking usually to set a timer when both hands are busy. But now that I’ve been testing other personal agents I wish I could say “Hey Instinct" "Hey Bot" instead

X timeline over the weekend: jev jev jev

I found my favorite flour tortilla based taco spot in nyc

adding a paper trading mode has become so much easier with Jev

Jev is simply put an AI decision-maker that makes calls based on probability To test it, I wanted to build something quick and useful for me: a prototype where I enter the name of any NYC restaurant/coffee shop and it pulls 5 google reviews and opinions scattered across reddit (eg. from subreddits like /nycfood) It compares them using a set of parameters and then tells me whether the place is legitimately worth trying or just overhyped. I built this because I am officially done falling for overhyped places in this city 🫣 And! it genuinely felt like a natural use for Jev because restaurant reviews are noisy, full of paid content, and contradictory, so the real task is weighing imperfect signals and making a probabilistic call

Earlier this year when Claude managed agent launched, I built a "competitive intel analyst" agent and fed it with extensive context of our product, what I want the agent to compare and contrast and when the agent was done the report was shared to the entire team in a Slack channel I named competitive-analyst. The experience was far better than building a custom n8n but it still didn't solve the biggest bottleneck: me. Because I had to trigger the managed agent every time by opening a new session it was far from being an autonomous agent. The past couple of days I've been testing GrokBot in my workflow and tried the "stalk bot" (mentioned in their livestream yesterday) and I'm impressed that the bot goes and finds competitors, signs up for their products autonomously, and then reports back: - what they shipped - what they're posting on X - who they're hiring - what they're actually prioritizing and because the bot has access to its own computer it went through our competitors' onboarding process, compared them against ours, and pointed at where users would drop off. It even told me that: "If you want, next I can walk the live login → connect → first automation screens on video and mark exact drop-off steps." soooo cool! We've been revamping our onboarding behind the scenes, so the timing is absurd. Any other cool grokbot templates others have created for competitor analysis?

S&P Global acquiring OpenZeppelin is basically them saying “we will extend our trusted risk ratings to onchain capital markets”

We went to a Whop event last night thanks to @BobbyThakkar @camillenvargas 🫶🏻and came away with a slightly unexpected discovery (More surprising than the whop logo ice cubes in their cocktails!) did you know idle balances on whop can earn up to 6% yield through defi under the hood? I looked into it after the event because I was curious where the yield was coming from: whop treasury holds the funds in USDT, the vault was built by @veda_labs, the yield comes from @aave and it is all on @Plasma chain Whop also recently launched a stablecoin-powered card so users can spend from the same balance (< which makes sense) I found this interesting because @Whop isn't a crypto-native platform, yet its users are being onboarded to onchain finance without having to think about onramps, wallets, private keys or DeFi smart contracts

My husband jokingly calls my yogurt bowl “bird food” 😬

Personal agent = tailored skin care routine recommendations

Have you ever felt squeamish "killing" your agent when you migrate it to a new harness? say, from OpenClaw to Grok Bot? 🙃

I should be able to reply back with an “accept” in such situations 🤔

Did you know New York is the third largest wine producer in the US after California and Washington?? The deep glacial water of Finger Lakes and Long Island's North Fork keeps temperatures temperate, which is why grapes like Riesling thrives there 🍇

Kewttttttt

The Revolut story is more of a data-hoarding failure, not a security failure. Compliance handed over personal data of users like passports because that is what gets stored on their servers. Selective disclosure could have solved this: verify > attribute >store nothing > nothing gets leaked Shame zero-knowledge KYC was never implemented 🥲

I wonder how much Bloomberg paid to get @crypto and @business X handles 👀👀

Quote me on this: universal access to AI with subsidized tokens will become as important as universal healthcare to many nation states