@semisol and @YODL perform in a thread the internal battle that we all feel right now as we utilize local and remote models.

The pitfall to a successful superbowl ad.

Worth watching if you’re keeping a finger on the pulse of AI model progression. Claude 4.6 is noteworthy. Anthropic also seems to understand the trust they need to maintain with their user base. Unless they’re only revealing the tiny bad part of the horrifying iceberg. 🥸

Full commitment.

Found a workflow I keep coming back to. When you're in a complex conversation, whether it's a strategy session or just working through a problem with people, the ideas are covered, but agreement may fall short and retention of any alignment is a huge challenge the more complex ideas. What I've been doing is recording it with Voice Memos on iOS and letting it auto-transcribe to text. Then I hand the transcript to Claude and ask it to distill the whole thing into key findings, decisions made, and open questions, key quotes, and next steps. I tell it to lose no nuance due to the need to refer back, but to organize the conversation well. That part alone has been a game changer. But, then there's a next step that I wasn't expecting to work as well as it does. You can take that distilled output and generate a visual representation of the conversation. A single image that maps how the ideas connect. I use a custom Claude skill that expertly writes optimized prompts for Google's Gemini image model (Nano Banana Pro v3) which is great at text and layouts. I paste the prompt into Google's AI Studio, where you access the Nano Banana Pro model with your API key, and what comes back is way more accurate and useful than you'd think. The group can look at one image and immediately see the shape of what they discussed. It becomes something to build on next session instead of starting from scratch. About ten minutes of work after the conversation ends. You walk away with a clean document and a visual, both shareable. I put together a short reference guide for the full workflow if anyone wants to try it. Images in this post are an exact example of what this can be. I even used the Voice Memo as a starting point. (The last one was the redirect prompt: "Now do prompt that focuses more on the team communications flow benefits of this workflow mixed into a planning process. ")

This is exactly why I’m heading down the path of pushing a 24/7 loop plus communication with Hegemon projects and guided goals instead of actual OpenClaw skills. I’m also minimizing the external exposure, especially outside 3rd party stuff in the wild. I’m going to have to secure this thing. So I’m all ears if anybody has reputable repositories of where I need to be researching prompt injection security and general tactics for running a tight ship.

Nate is awesome! This video of his is why I’ve built and maintained Hegemon (posted link earlier today) for my own use. I’m not really launching a software for you all that is to be a product, although I forked it from my local and sterilized it, branded it with grok, and made it public. But, I am really just openly sharing my homemade hacked together tool with you all. I’m loving it and evolving it alongside my use of the latest AI models. Nate is 99% signal. Enjoy.

Fresh release. Here’s the AI Development Orchestration Framework that I’ve been using and building for my own needs for the past year. Subagents, scope-driven, for when production goals need guided and maintained focus. I use it on my Mac with Claude in terminal in Cursor. But it’s IDE and model independent for the most part. I integrated a TTS local model via Ollama for local audio ease (poor ElevenLabs). I integrated Specify in a wrapper for taking. It’s all about getting work done where the deliverable matters. It lives in your project directory. Hegemon is the Ancient Greek task master that keeps all the workers on task. Seemed fitting. It’s a GitHub template so best to create your new project with this as the template and run from there. Enjoy!

GitHub

GitHub - swbratcher/hegemon: Hegemon Framework - AI Collaborative Development Orchestration System

Hegemon Framework - AI Collaborative Development Orchestration System - swbratcher/hegemon

How the USA and GRB are now settling our disputes.

GM and happy Saturday.

Just texted this Bear Market message to a close friend. You, too, could act like a close friend. Or send it to your close friend. But certain people need to hear this. It's so much better to teach in a bear market than a bull market. "With Bitcoin dipping like this, some people are panicking. I thought to myself who would actually listen to me if I said now is your time to buy more. You came to mind. So I will prod you. While Bitcoin is under $90 it is available cheaper than they can mine it with an active operation. What I would consider doing is setting $100,000 to buy $1000 per week for the next 100 weeks. With this set up, you are inclined to take full advantage of any bear market we're facing. You'll be happy when the price goes down. You'll be happy when the price goes up. Zero emotion. Buying an asset that has tremendous longevity during a bear market is one of the most fulfilling things I've ever done. If you don’t already have a River.com account, that’s a perfect place to do it. Park the $100k FDIC insured at River and that earns 3.75% in bitcoin while it waits to buy bitcoin and you set up your recurring buy strategy there. Last I looked they would even perform your DCA with fees waived on those transactions." Here’s the referral link I sent him so we'd both get rewards for the new account (but you would use yours if you have one, of course):

River

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Sign up for River using my link and earn up to $100 in bitcoin.

My monitoring of the cost to bring a new bitcoin to market is +/- $90k. That’s my hurdle rate for buying it vs mining it. If the price is less than 90k, buy it at market. If the price is over 90k, put capital to mining operations and earn it by running miners on network. That’s the threshold currently for my entities still this cycle.

This is why you borrow against your house and other recognized collateral assets to buy Bitcoin. Not the other way around. (Not a link. Just screenshotting my panicked YT feed.)

Didn’t know if we’d get any more Bitcoin Funeral content claiming that Bitcoin has died. But it actually already seems to be queuing up nicely. Let’s go ahead and run those articles so we can turn this bitch around. I only have 10 years left on this phase of my Low Time Preference clock.