Chris Lee 🌊

insane production by the @legendtrade team gg

Building your own skills for an AI agent, and building on the foundation of commoditized skills that you found on GitHub, etc., will always lead to a better operational outcome. Even if your own skills are worse at first, the gap can be closed easily. What separates a seemingly better external skill from your own is the depth of iteration and collaboration between an individual and a frontier model, contextualized by that individual’s domain expertise. e.g. If you are a marketing professional looking to automate specific functions within the marketing vertical, building a unique skill from scratch informed by your needs will lead to greater productivity, specifically because you designed the spec in the first place.

@charcoded need t+ polo with embroidered pop collar expeditiously cc @berry_is_trying

quickly, someone convince me that bringing early 2000’s Kappa Polos back in America is a bad idea

I’ve coined this effect “Cinematic Slop.” So how do you avoid it? How do you maximize the effectiveness of your content strategy? How do you build advocacy with your audience? Read my full blog here:

“What is New Media” was published by @a16z in Nov. 2025. Since then demand for video-centric distribution strategy has grown exponentially. The downstream effect is that as more people adopt this approach, the quality of content will drop.

I recently asked “I wonder what [person]’s openclaw would think about this?” Not that I believe the agent is yet an adequate proxy for someone’s perspective. Rather, I was curious to see if the agent is capable of forming unique perspective informed by its user’s accumulated context. If so, two conclusions follow: 1. direct access to someone’s personal agent is valuable and intimate, and safeguards are necessary to guide what information it is allowed to disseminate about its user. 2. the context of the owner of an agent bears as much epistemic weight as its output, product, etc. (These exist at odds and will be an ongoing consideration.)

Reject. Cinematic. Slop.

@saintniko lorebuilding coded

i think crypto marketing is going to change quite a bit soon "interning" is dead and shitposting gets old fast when the market isn't turbo sending believe there will be major shift toward substance and narrative building marketers who have a deep understanding of the tech, dogfood their products, and are in tune with ecosystem/builders are best positioned to win

Agentic skills are commoditized. They are non-rivalrous by construction: unproprietary and convergent in spec. I’m more interested in the unique context built from someone’s interactions with their own agents, and the skills that emerge as representations of their own milieu.

Setting up an openclaw is just difficult enough to stay inaccessible to retail. Instead, it has lowered the barrier of entry just enough to lure tinkerers into the enjoyment of troubleshooting, of iterating on imperfect technical processes. I think the average openclaw user gets more joy in customizing their harnesses and agentic workflows than from output itself.

My experience with AI has been contextualized by creatives, rather than developers. In 2023, they told me that the use of these tools were combative to the creative process and diminished the final product. Many of my artist friends pushed back against the use of AI in marketing, media, etc. I subscribed to this same definition in my own work out of respect for the artists. I think a lot of their context was informed by trauma and frustration through stolen art, generative art, and generalized negative experiences. The first tinkerers were themselves informed by Google DeepDream dogs and Midjourney in Discord. Then the tools became better, and as the gap in technical skill narrowed, the edge in creative expression widened. The learning curve lowered and tinkerers blossomed. Tinkerers as some halfway point between the technical and nontechnical crowd, classified as creative problem solvers. Anyway, the most uninspired person you know and the creatives are both on Claude Code, but only one has a vision to execute.

@defidave @Tplus_cx i heard their content was pretty good too

I want to reiterate here what I said in the stream but the @Tplus_cx team is one of the few new projects that are playing the lorebuilding playbook right. From their events to their merch, it would be wise for others to take note.

TBPN has become the layer through which tech tells its stories. I worked with @tbpn recently on content that shared their brand story, to capture the feeling of being a fan or member of their community. OpenAI should target this same distribution in media, capturing audiences that exist in the overlap of tech culture, content creation, and AI. Congrats gents, well deserved!

New Media that only appeals to the visual satisfaction of taste is disrespectful to the audience.

@defidave coded 🤝👀

@clee_nyc Lorebuilding spotted

@offstage_x SO clean ✍️

Introducing OFFSTAGE.

The year of Devcon in India has started. This is going to be huge. 🎥 @clee_nyc 🎤 @nethan_eth

@NidhiHarihar Nidhi, thank you! it was so nice to meet you and capture this amazing moment 🙏

Uff, what a brilliant cut! @clee_nyc you're a magician to bring back to life that magical moment! Goosebumps. Devcon coming to your country is a Hailey's Comet event. ☄️ 🌠 Make a wish! Builders of Ethereum unite! India awaits. 🇮🇳 💪