BowTiedBrogrammer

@BowTiedStack Agent skills are truly redacted. These things are just going to be irrelevant in 6 months when the next model comes out. Unless you have a very reproduceable purpose. they wont ever last long enough to give you a return. Thats why it will never have place in active dev.

10 years ago, they would have been meticulously maintaining their personal dotfiles and zshrc plugins. Now, they apply the same autism to "agentic engineering". Neither produced any economic value or was a signal that they are a 10x engineer. Often the opposite since they waste so much time on the inconsequential. The best engineers I've worked with use basic terminal raw. Fiddling with everything endlessly is engineer version of "nails day wth the girlies, what color am I going do today?! ooooh sparklesss"

@BowTiedFox Tutoring +1. I always thought the upside of all the default secretary behavior was that it had near infinite patience with topics some would consider trivial.

the highest-leverage use of AI is discovering opportunities to make money, NOT automation and generation automation and generation usually assume the problem is already fixed: automate customer support, generate an ad, write the copy but the deeper value of AI is that it can help reformulate the problem itself it can surface hidden opportunities, reveal alternative framings, and show that different people will pay for different versions of a solution. the same problem can often be represented in multiple ways, and those different representations create different markets, offers, and paths to value so to me, the top uses are: 1. searching over an idea space AI is good at searching through concepts, not just keywords. which means it can be useful for hidden ancestors of an idea, differnet framing, cross-domain analogies, and finding adjacent theories let's say I'm trying to sell a magnesium supplement. don't just ask for ad copy ask: "what related concepts cluster around 'better sleep' for different customer segments?" you might get clusters like nervous system regulation, revenge bedtime procrastination, cortisol management, night routine identity, recovery, emotional decompression, and next-day sharpness all ad angles! 2. question generation and problem formation I wrote about this in my article called "AI can solve any problem if you're specific enough" on my blog most people misuse AI by asking it for answers before properly DEFINING THE PROBLEM. the gap is usually not the answer but the question architecture luckily, AI can fix this! you can ask it for decision-relevant questions, diagnosis, disambiguating, falsifying, or questions that separate symptoms from the cause this is why it's taking over product, research, and strategy, because bad questions create overconfident answers so if an ad gets strong CTR but weak purchase conversion, you can ask AI: "what are the most likely reasons an ad can generate curiosity without purchase intent" you'll get categories like curiosity-gap clicks, poor offer-message match, wrong audience psychographics, weak landing page continuity, high perceived risk, or low urgency 3. task breakdowns this is great for ADHD or procrastinators. AI can map what exactly you need to do first, what can happen at the same time, what's reversible, what's blocked by missing information, what's necessary versus what's optional, and what's hidden behind a simple task so you can turn a vague project into a checklist instead of a pile of anxiety so instead of "I need to launch a marketing campaign" you can have it break it down into market research, angle extraction, message hierarchy, offer design, landing page continuity, creative variants, testing plan 4. prioritization with constraints related to the last one, you can also figure out what to prioritize based on your constraints on time and money. this matters because people don't need MORE ideas, they need to CHOOSE an idea so this includes: - finding the highest ROI next step - what to learn in what order - choosing between ideas - ranking skills by leverage - identifying the smallest thing that resolves the most uncertainty 5. distillation and compression this is the most obvious one imo. you can take a huge amount of text and just compress it into the most important ideas, the assumptions, when a claim doesn't work, or checklists example: turning a bunch of customer reviews into groups of wants and complaints 6. evaluation and critique not only do people don't ask themselves how they could be wrong IRL, but they don't do it with AI either. when's the last time you asked it whether something was wrong? you can ask it whether you made a bad assumption, a logical mistake, made ambiguous wording, simulate how someone might interpret a message one example is how you can ask it to be ruthless about one of your ads 7. what-if similar to the last one, ask it what happens when variables change. what if the problem isn't user acquisition but retention instead? what if the market is smaller than you thought? 8. comparison this one is easy if you just ask it to compare two things, but it can go even further if you personalize it you can ask to compare cities based on cost, network effects, and lifestyle fit or you can ask it to compare workflows based on how it's compatible with your existing setup instead of surface features 9. brain dumping just talk into your phone using the speech-to-text dictation tool, copy-paste it into chat, have it organize everything turn your brain dumps into actual plans, meeting notes into next steps, schizo rants into patterns, customer complaints into product issues 10. tutoring this one is why I started freaking out years ago, because 1-1 personalized tutoring is so stupidly powerful that every ultra wealthy person throws money at it, whether it's for their kids or for hiring coaches you can ask AI to walk you through a concept, explain it differently, answer any questions that you might have if you still don't understand it and the best part is that it won't get annoyed! these are a few of the reasons that I think about AI all the time I'll post more of my notes on my website bowtiedfox․com

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A lot of my Euro homies in the @sportfun Discord have been asking for NFL rankings so I'll be sharing mine, starting with QBs These rankings are based on the FDF scoring system (top 3 for QB/TE and top 5 for RB/WR earn Tournament Points each week) S Tier 🔹 Jackson - top 3 in 50% of games, easy schedule, rushing QB. My #1 🔹 Mahomes - 4 top 3s and 3 more in the top 5. Having a career year A Tier 🔹 Allen - S-tier skillset but only one top 3 this year. I'm betting he bounces back 🔹 Maye - insane year for the rookie with 3 top 3 finishes and the highest completion percentage in the league. And doing it without a true alpha WR. Easy schedule 🔹 Hurts - Eagles O has been down this year but he always has the chance to place top 3 with his legs B Tier 🔹 Herbert - career year, 2 top 3s, and plenty of offensive weapons. Tough schedule besides Dallas 🔹 Prescott - 3 top 3s thanks to good weapons and a horrendous defense. Has cooled off but won't stop airing it out C Tier 🔹 Goff - great weapons but the Lions rely heavily on their ground game 🔹 Mayfield - hot and cold this year with so many WR injuries, but Baker magic is real D Tier 🔹 Love - great player but they usually win through their running game and defense 🔹 Nix - incredible in the 4th quarter and pretty terrible otherwise. Inconsistent and Denver relies on running game/defense to win 🔹 Williams - much improved this year but not a top option, though he does have rushing upside

Sells at 4500 price target, 4600 1 hour later

@9mmsmg 100% a family of 4 with stay at home mom needs six figures with a decent healthcare plan. If low six figures needs to just stay home all the time and have family that supports

How many of you can say you can own a home and support a family of four on a single income right now? The number will be dramatically less than if we asked your grandparents when they were young. They destroyed the American dream and, with it, damaged the nuclear family. Be angry.

@voncosmic Gotta Spend it all

it cost me $769 to ship 6 pokemon cards 🤯

Lmao the noose

Shorting ETH now, thanks

"Congrat buddy, Bitcoin almost 120K, you must be rich now"

Sydney Sweeney is betting on me dying :/ Bitch

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Nothing ever happens #WBS

Happy White Boy Summer for those that celebrate.

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A member of the Tigers grounds crew got hurt in between innings. The cameras weren’t ready for what he was gonna do

@blastr_xyz Goldmillio

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