Conrad O'Connell

@godofprompt Excellent description / explanation

Everyone's losing their minds over this story. Let me be the guy who actually reads past the headline. This is not a "vibe coded" company. This is a lead-generation website for prescription weight-loss drugs. The AI stack built the marketing funnel. The actual business, the part that generates $401M, runs on licensed doctors, regulated pharmacies, and a pharmaceutical supply chain that no LLM on earth can replace. You cannot prompt your way around a medical license. You cannot automate FDA compliance with Claude. You cannot "vibe code" the physical logistics of dispensing GLP-1 injections to real human patients. Those things require real infrastructure, real liability, and real professionals who spent years earning the credentials to do it. "Automate fulfillment with AI agents" is a wild way to describe offloading every critical function of a healthcare company to actual healthcare professionals. That's not automation. That's outsourcing. There's a massive difference. The barrier to entry here was never "a laptop and $20K." The barrier is the entire medical and legal infrastructure required to legally prescribe and ship controlled pharmaceuticals. He didn't eliminate that barrier. He plugged into it. Every telehealth company does. What AI actually did here: built a website, wrote ad copy, generated images, handled customer service calls. That's real. That's impressive for a two-person operation. But framing a marketing layer on top of existing medical infrastructure as "the first billion-dollar one-person company" is terminal timeline delusion. Sam Altman calling this the future is like calling a Shopify dropshipper a "manufacturing company" because they have a nice storefront. The storefront isn't the business. The supply chain is the business. And that supply chain here is 100% human, 100% regulated, and 100% not built by ChatGPT. The GLP-1 market is what made this work. Not AI. Ozempic demand is so insane right now that you could build a lead-gen site with Wix and a Google Form and still print money if you had the medical partnerships in place. AI made the funnel prettier and faster. It didn't create the demand or solve the hard problem. And the part nobody wants to talk about: what happens when the FDA cracks down on telehealth GLP-1 prescribing? When state medical boards start auditing these operations? When one patient has a bad reaction and the lawsuits start? AI agents don't show up to court. Licensed doctors do. That's where "one-person company" falls apart instantly. I'm not anti-AI. I literally build AI tools and prompts for a living. But this narrative that "anyone with a laptop can build a billion-dollar company" is dangerous because it skips the part where the real money comes from real-world infrastructure that took decades to build and requires actual human expertise to operate. The real lesson from this story isn't "AI replaces everything." It's that AI is incredibly powerful at the marketing and distribution layer. Build faster. Test faster. Create content faster. Reach customers faster. That's where the magic is. Stop pretending it also replaces doctors, pharmacists, and regulatory compliance. You can't prompt your way around reality. And reality is where the actual business lives.

@JRRiggsGolf @Swingtheclubken @notRJdavis Would be a terrible outcome for sure

@Swingtheclubken @notRJdavis Yeah it’s too loose at the top. Goes way over the line with unnecessary movement. Extreme flying right elbow. Looks too lazy coming down to impact. Speaking of lazy, to wrap the club head far behind you on the backswing is lazy. Folks, this is not a good swing! DO NOT COPY IT!!

Am in the only one who doesn't like knapps swing?

@LinksGems I’ll be there in a few weeks and I cannot wait for it 😱😱

A buddy of mine played the Ocean Course at Kiawah today and said it was the nicest day of golf he’s ever had - mid-70s, little breeze, lots of sun. Kiawah Island seems to produce a lot of those kinds of days, along with the best sunsets on the east coast.

@GrantHorvatGolf @RobbyBerger A 5 gallon bucket on the line is the oldest this is second oldest 😂

I still can’t get over this. Got Bob with the oldest trick in the book. Can only use this one once. He was turning around the rest of the day @RobbyBerger

Michael Greller: "You just gotta accept 20 feet left. You know?" Jordan Spieth:

@ButlerCabin1894 Why do a growing number of pros carry them then?

Playing a mini driver with an index >3 is performative Minis are modern day snake oil from OEMs. Another product to squeeze every last dollar from unsuspecting Covidians

I wish I loved anything as much as Claude loves generating docx format responses to my questions.

@FlatironFlusher I call it an online garage sale but only for premium equipment

The GolfWRX Classifieds forum is a GREAT place to buy/sell golf clubs. Almost always cheaper than eBay and considerably less junk to sift through. You'll find that super rare listings appear week in and week out. Here is some heat that's still for sale:

@PatsPlanet_ What the heck is wrong with you

Drake Maye #12 is a whole different vibe

@BigHuncho3722 No 2016 AFC Championship game vs Steelers highlights tho?!

@brentandbecca Good to know he paid $500 but this was over almost two decades ago

@conradoconnell They go around $6-7k

I've heard PSA grading has gotten tougher. Well, here is a 1953 Mantle I just got back that received a 4.

@maxwellfinn Look no further than Google Ads “Recommendations” tab that’s littered with things that’ll tank performance.

I am convinced a lot of people building all these fancy AI solutions for advertising actually have 0 knowledge of advertising and what is most important. So it did 224 things...cool! What did it actually do? How did it improve performance? Was it even necessary to make the optimization in the first place? Who trained is on when to make an optimization, what the optimization should be and how to determine whether it was the right decision? Until one of these posts also includes the actual data on performance improvements (I am talking dollars) they should be ignored. It is like the people back in the day who would share screenshots of their ads managers to prove how good their strategy was and only show one ad or not show the ROAS column.

@Fit_For_Golf Is it a little bit odd that there’s so many players this week that are seemingly setting ball speed records? Are these trackmans just a little bit off?

Morikawa with this speed is a very interesting prospect. He’s picked a few mph in recent weeks. He used never break 175mph. Seems to be the norm recently. Will be very interesting to see if he can maintain that all season.

@celtics @ByAlFrancisco Bang

Injury Report Update: Jayson Tatum - AVAILABLE

@iPullRank @KingJames The thought of him and a Celtics jersey makes me extremely queasy

Bill Simmons said @KingJames should sign a week contract and start for every team as a retirement tour. It's a brilliant idea because it guarantees him a ring, will be great marketing, will be a boost to jersey sales, boost to all team's sales for that week, and will give Lebron another superlative no one will ever have. I'm here for it.

@jaredmckiernan This is not a world that I’m that familiar with as a very much public golfer, but my understanding is that that’s kind of literally the point of that site.

Oh no! Someone’s behaving transactionally on my transactional golf platform

Cc: @conradoconnell But Google is dead....🤔 Never gets old

@leftyzag Dm sent 👀

@conradoconnell I can probably deliver them all the way next week I’ll come down there and play some golf. 52F pre worn leading edge grind 56F heel relief grind 60T

Absolutely heroic save by the Mrs. today #sm11