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@steipete @nateschnell @bcherny The 'decide if it's a good idea' half is underrated. We run it on raw user complaints, not clean issues. Someone says the AI got a squad wrong, the loop sorts real bugs from noise and fixes the real ones overnight as a PR we merge. The deciding is the hard part, not the coding.

@nateschnell @bcherny If you make an issue on one of our open source projects, an agent will spin up and decide if it's a good idea and will implement it for you.

What are the best use cases for loops? I’ve heard a ton of people like @bcherny and @steipete talking about how everything’s a loop, but I haven’t found a good use case for it beyond upgrading dependencies.

The discipline IS the system. No big swings, no clever heroics. Every hour, the single highest-value safe move, logged in a ledger we read with morning coffee, then on to the next. Next: the night it all got stress-tested. Two failures we didn't see coming, and why neither one needed our devs.

Thursday 05:06 the loop opens a PR. New lookup_squad endpoint, agent wiring, and a new standing rule: never answer a roster question from memory again. 41 tests pass. Merged 06:51. Every lesson gets written into permanent memory. Tomorrow's runs start smarter than today's. That's the compounding.

We run our entire World Cup game on four AI loops that operate the company while we sleep. Last week our agent invented a player in France's squad. By 6am the next day it had fixed itself. This is the machine behind that. Not hype, a paper trail.

5,185 managers signed up with 28K scorelines called. 289 in the last 24h. Group stage is live and compounding. Picks take 2 minutes, the agent's free to talk to, and yes, you can ring it about Palmer or Camavinga. Who's lifting the trophy? Drop your pick below. (This whole thing runs on self-improving AI loops. I'll break that down this week.)

You've watched us build Fantopy here for a few months. Quick recap for anyone new: at fantopy.ai you call the scorelines for all 104 World Cup games and climb the leaderboard against your friends. The twist I keep talking about: you get an AI manager. Text it, or literally CALL it. A voice call, like phoning your assistant coach. It knows the fixtures, the form, the squads. It argues your picks. You make the calls.

By Thursday 6am our agent had a live roster tool: the full player pool, 2,491 across the 58 nations in contention, so it knows exactly who made each final 26 and who got cut. Built, tested, shipped overnight by another AI, straight from that user's complaint. One medium can't fix it. The other already did.

Cole Palmer is the face of Nike's World Cup ad. He's not in the squad. The ad is brilliant, and it's locked in. Filmed months ago, cut, on billboards everywhere before the squad announcement landed. That's how broadcast works.

Last Wednesday a user complained that our AI agent made the same kind of slip: it claimed Camavinga was in France's 26. He's not either. Same class of factual error. The only difference is timing.

Somewhere out there, someone is convinced they know exactly how these World Cup matches will end. 🇵🇹 Portugal vs DR Congo 🇨🇩 🇬🇧 England vs Croatia 🇭🇷 🇬🇭 Ghana vs Panama 🇵🇦 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan vs Colombia 🇨🇴 What's your prediction? 👀 Ask your AI manager for a second opinion. Beat your friends. Fantopy.ai

Reminder: The obvious predictions are only obvious after the match ends.

The World Cup always starts with: "Let's see if the stars still have it." Then Messi scores a hat trick.

Argentina. France. And a few teams looking to ruin someone's day 👀 🇫🇷 France vs Senegal 🇸🇳 🇮🇶 Iraq vs Norway 🇳🇴 🇦🇷 Argentina vs Algeria 🇩🇿 🇦🇹 Austria vs Jordan 🇯🇴 What's your prediction for today's World Cup matches? ⚽️ Fantopy.ai

@n0w00j ttbh fox is gonna go crazy next season, people sleeping on him fr

deaaron fox next season

What's the prediction for today's World Cup matches? 👀 🇪🇸 Spain vs Cape Verde 🇨🇻 🇧🇪 Belgium vs Egypt 🇪🇬 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia vs Uruguay 🇺🇾 🇮🇷 Iran vs New Zealand 🇳🇿 Ask your AI manager for a second opinion before locking in your score ⚽️ Fantopy.ai

@TouchlineX @Somhiseremfcb nnah that's actually wild, basically barca fc at the world cup at this point 😂

🚨 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥: Spain will play the World Cup with 8 (!) Barça players in their squad! 🇪🇸💫 — @Somhiseremfcb

@kieolfc nah that's wild, who breaks into a van for training bibs and cones 😂

@sportfun lol the switch up is real, every world cup somehow pulls you back in

Me: I'm not excited for this WC. Also me when Curaçao scored to equalize vs Germany: