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JeffG

Secure messaging on Nostr. Creator of Marmot Protocol and White Noise. Other stuff connoisseur. Also built Listr, Ostrich.work, Ontolo, Nostr.how.

https://whitenoise.chat

Public Key

npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc

NIP-05 Address

jeffg.fyi

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nos.lol

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Last Notes

2026-10-03 22:25:31 UTC

we have a group on @nprofile…sp3z that is over 100 members and has been running flawlessly for weeks.
no coordinators. no shared keys. no special relays.
fully decentralized end to end encryption. it just works.

2026-08-31 09:38:23 UTC

@nprofile…j774 was always right. nostr shitposting was always just the bootloader for everything else.

2026-08-15 10:19:46 UTC

https://github.com/erskingardner/wok
I built something new this week.
Wok started as a port of srtfry to Rust because, as @nprofile…wh3a says, humans shouldn't write C.
It's progressed beyond strfry now but it still shares the same super fast LMDB database under the hood. https://github.com/erskingardner/wok/tree/master#benchmarks
It supports more NIPs and has a handy admin dashboard for managing config and seeing basic connection stats.
Feedback and contributions welcome!

2026-07-07 08:29:33 UTC

GM! Marmot community call, today july 7 at 16:00 UTC
https://meet.fulmo.org/marmot
https://blossom.primal.net/c78bf1abeda7bf40aaf588568ed0e0176736c4e36723780567343a9d3282fe26.png

2026-06-28 20:24:53 UTC

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2026-06-15 08:08:15 UTC

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Cause my son doesn’t have a phone but does have an mp3 player that is android based.

2026-06-15 06:25:47 UTC

Llama 3.2-1B running on a $60 mp3 player. The future is gonna be insane.
https://blossom.primal.net/5465369013d165e4bad700e97e9285915f1de48f6d08d08c117bdf31d1e40d6e.jpg

2026-06-10 14:22:16 UTC

Software engineering life these days.
1. More fit because you're not tied to the keyboard.
2. More productive because you have an army of agents.
3. More fun because you can build the weird stuff you want but know doesn't really have economic value.
👨‍💻❤️🤖

2026-05-30 16:05:12 UTC

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@nprofile…r7e4 in a few years...
#nevent1q…nwte

2026-05-25 06:32:08 UTC

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This is VERY bad. The way that you have derived the spend and scan private keys can lead to total loss of funds and identity.
https://gist.github.com/trbouma/77648ebe1005b181b67d1c4b42c7f31d?permalink_comment_id=6167489#gistcomment-6167489

2026-05-20 05:27:48 UTC

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what do you mean by key management? there are many ways to manage your keys just fine on nostr.

2026-05-18 12:22:42 UTC

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Silent payments. Payjoin. Increasingly, yes. It does.
Just don’t reuse addresses.

2026-05-18 11:29:09 UTC

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This.
#nevent1q…5ga0

2026-05-18 08:59:18 UTC

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You also need to add a line about how this destroys privacy for the ENTIRE bitcoin network too.
People should know they're fucking everyone, not just themselves.

2026-05-18 07:50:22 UTC

GM 🌞
I am 100% against the idea of on-chain zaps and/or of using your nostr pubkey as a wallet address.
It's terrible for privacy (for the entire bitcoin network, not just for the people using this retarded feature).
This isn't the first time this discussion has come up, I'm sure it won't be the last. It's was a bad idea then, it's a bad idea now.

2026-05-07 15:11:33 UTC

New @nprofile…9puf version just released on Test Flight, @nprofile…zjna, and GitHub.
Some highlights:
- Archive chats
- Search content across all your chats
- Block
- Video sharing in chats
- Save images and video from chats
- LOTS of bug fixes and polish
🚀 More coming soon!
https://zapstore.dev/apps/org.parres.whitenoise
https://github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise/releases/tag/v2026.5.7%2B24
https://whitenoise.chat/download

2026-05-07 06:04:23 UTC

Keonne and Bill wrote free software that allowed free individuals to privately transact.
They’re now in jail. Put there by people more concerned with getting a win on their record so they could move up the political ladder than about the truth or the law.
Lawfare. That’s what it’s called. Where they don’t have to prove you broke the law. They just have to bleed you until you’re broke.
Keonne and Bill wrote free software for free individuals. There were no victims. There was no crime.
If you want to donate: bc1qtjjcvn98wh7dfd55m8kxhjcfexanttwt8gtan8
#FreeSamourai
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2026-05-05 06:14:44 UTC

I feel like Codex is getting better every day while Claude Code gets worse...

2026-04-20 13:01:13 UTC

GM
https://blossom.primal.net/70460d12292b12e2d21258b8701ae37d142cbfd72fc8338b60ef73e9ace915ab.jpg

2026-04-17 07:26:11 UTC

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GM @nprofile…n5fw 🌞
#nevent1q…kwhe

2026-04-16 08:59:19 UTC

Just use OTR...
Just use Signal protocol...
Just use a server...
The problem of unstoppable, private group messaging is SO much bigger and SO much harder than anyone gives it credit for (including me).
There are many shortcuts. There are many half-baked solutions that might get short-term adoption.
Building the thing right has pushed me to the limit many times over the last few years. And yet, I'm still here. Still learning, still building. I'm not going to give up, and I'm not going to cut corners.

2026-04-16 07:57:09 UTC

GM 🌞
Who is looking at post-quantum strategies for nostr? I want to talk.

2026-04-15 15:55:57 UTC

Exactly! So let us raise them and stop interfering! 🤬
https://blossom.primal.net/4f077eb5a75dbb233c9889df5cc9e00744119b8271ad690872b6590d7cae0f79.png

2026-04-03 22:27:51 UTC

Double aurora. Wow.
https://blossom.primal.net/4a835ed819ef5386945d2a8d6c8708a64c36d9c2d891eaf09f35518d74f633d6.jpg

2026-04-03 09:24:40 UTC

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Just replied. 😉

2026-04-03 09:15:57 UTC

GM 🌞 The funding will continue until the freedom improves!
https://hrf.org/latest/hrfs-bitcoin-development-fund-announces-support-for-26-projects-worldwide/

2026-03-31 17:02:13 UTC

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We’re not currently planning on making a web client but I know a few others are using our marmot-ts library to that end. Still early on the web side.
In the meantime, we are working on the multi-device spec now. This is a precursor to making a desktop client. I’m also [impatiently] waiting for it!

2026-03-31 08:32:04 UTC

GM 🌞
Feels heavy out there today fam.

2026-03-27 07:00:54 UTC

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Sorry for the fire alarm - it's not! All the work is happening on the `next/major` branch where it looks like they're getting closer to the 0.4.0 release. 🎉
#nevent1q…7fe3

2026-03-27 06:51:48 UTC

Hey @nprofile…fu08 - Is StartOS a dead product? https://github.com/Start9Labs/start-os
11 months since the last commit...

2026-03-27 06:51:40 UTC

GM 🌞
So pumped. There are so many amazing things coming up in the next few months...

2026-03-26 17:51:10 UTC

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Talked to them about it yesterday, in fact. 😉

2026-03-26 08:09:19 UTC

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We're programmed to be pendulums, aren't we? 😂
We can only find valuable solutions by going too far in both directions.

2026-03-26 05:51:37 UTC

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I didn’t have much time to look into it but it seems generally pointed in a good direction. I’m just not clear (lack of context) how this would be used to solve a real need or gap in how teams or collectives use nostr now.

2026-03-26 05:46:40 UTC

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In what way? We support amber and other Nip-55 signers already.

2026-03-26 05:36:49 UTC

GM 🌞
A beautifully written counterpoint to the current fever dream we’re all living…
https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/

2026-03-17 12:33:26 UTC

It really pisses me off that agents ruined en/em dashes. I used them all the time before LLMs came along and now, I'm having to train myself to stop so that people who don't know grammar won't think I'm AI slop.

2026-03-17 06:01:59 UTC

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Yes, and… what people say and what people do differ significantly on products.
Revealed preferences tell you a lot about what your product is solving for people, often stuff they’re not even sure how to articulate themselves.

2026-03-16 11:01:22 UTC

Genuinely curious what everyone's thoughts are on product analytics in the apps you use. I think most teams building in the nostr/bitcoin/freedom-tech space are a hard-no without thinking about how you could do them well (i.e. privacy-first, opt-in only, etc).
A lot of people complain about the quality of Nostr apps but, the truth is, it's nearly impossible to build a high-quality product that delivers real value without having at least some idea of how folks are using a thing.
Trolls, gtfo. I'm only interested in thoughtful or thought-provoking responses.

2026-03-16 07:58:12 UTC

GM 🌞
An amazing use for LLMs is to give them github URLs for open source projects you're unsure about the quality on (or whether they might be unsafe) and ask them to do a full review. GPT 5.4 on extra high is a phenomenal reviewer.

2026-03-15 21:06:56 UTC

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Interesting. I like that we have several different indexer projects in the ecosystem now.

2026-03-14 15:32:43 UTC

Quietly released Nostr Doctor yesterday evening. The hope is that this simple tool will help everyone to do the basic housekeeping on their accounts and data to make sure they continue to have great experiences using nostr as the protocol and clients change over time.
Would love to hear your feedback if you think there are other tools we should add to it.
Huge thanks to @nprofile…l3nw for doing all the heavy lifting!
https://nostr.doctor

2026-03-13 10:08:59 UTC

GM 🌞 I've been dying to play with Karpathy's autoresearch tooling so this morning I installed Pi and the autoresearch plugin and put it to work on optimizing roundtrip encoding time on my already tweaked fork of @nprofile…jhk8 's notepack binary note encoding...
It found a ~28% improvement in ~1 hour of experimenting. 🤯
https://blossom.primal.net/fb8645987e16c6060687c699afaff262f8352a57d46eafd101d0d212d94ea676.png

2026-03-12 18:12:32 UTC

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Super cool looking. Can't wait to play with it
#naddr1qv…r2fm

2026-03-12 07:11:18 UTC

GM🌞
Apple has finally approved the latest version of @nprofile…9puf for TestFlight. If you have the app already, it should auto-update. If not, just head to https://whitenoise.chat and you'll find the TestFlight invite link.

2026-03-11 11:48:41 UTC

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😭 when the gatekeepers say so.

2026-03-10 21:31:25 UTC

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Whoa. This looks intense. 🔥

2026-03-10 20:59:10 UTC

Building high quality software on decentralized protocols is the hardest of hard modes.
If you’re out there building on hard mode I want to follow you.
Tell me about your project. 👇

2026-03-05 20:46:36 UTC

Insane progress this week on @nprofile…9puf! Way more stable, more real-time, better crypto.
I know I've been working on this for nearly 2 years, but I still have trouble believing that we've managed to build a fully E2EE messenger with forward secrecy, post-compromise security, and FULL interoperability between completely different apps and clients. 🤯
So much more in the works too. 🔥
Download the app on @nprofile…uvay now and TestFlight very soon.

2026-03-05 14:17:52 UTC

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Yeah - 100%. Marmot is for DM and groups and gives you fully end-to-end encrypted messaging. Basically, it's signal over nostr.

2026-03-04 18:30:13 UTC

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🫂

2026-03-03 18:10:01 UTC

I am so bullish after the Marmot community 🦫
- 35 people joined
- we learned about 3 new marmot based projects that we hadn't known about
- we learned that someone has written a C# implementation
- we demoed interoperability between three different MDK based clients (whitenoise, whitenoise-cli, Pika), and marmot-ts based web chat
- we're releasing another White Noise version & another MDK version tomorrow
- we'll release the whitenoise-cli + a super cool TUI later this week. this will be the best way to talk to your agents, bar none. e2ee, no phone number verification, and the best money on the planet, built right in.
- we're starting on push notifications and multi-device support next week.

2026-02-27 14:54:43 UTC

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Sent you a reply in white noise.

2026-02-27 12:18:31 UTC

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You should be able to get into the TestFlight again now.

2026-02-24 20:26:50 UTC

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explain?

2026-02-23 14:49:51 UTC

GM 🌞
Today is the day.

2026-02-21 14:33:05 UTC

If you’re too young to have grown up on the internet of the 80s and 90s, this podcast is a must listen.
The early Internet is why I’m here on nostr.
https://overcast.fm/+ABI2YZl_B4E

2026-02-21 07:43:39 UTC

GM 🌞
T-minus 3 days.

2026-02-19 18:37:27 UTC

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I hope soon. But we got a lot on the plate.

2026-02-18 10:38:26 UTC

GM 🌞
T-minus 5 days.

2026-02-16 20:31:37 UTC

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Oh actually. Just kidding, it’s way different. I think our way is probably going to be better. 😉
After launch next week we’re starting on several awesome things, including multi device.

2026-02-16 20:29:00 UTC

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I’ll look. It sounds similar to what the plan has been all along. The same nostr pubkey is just different members (different leaf nodes) in the group.

2026-02-16 11:51:57 UTC

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I can't keep up! 🔥 So much great stuff being built on Marmot!
#nevent1q…3swd

2026-02-14 12:44:04 UTC

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1. You can't guarantee they'll destroy them. If you're in a situation that requires that level of caution, then you should run your own relays.
2. I disagree with your premise that Nostr is a gossip network. It's explicitly not. The outbox/inbox model is predicated on user choice and clients doing their best to respect that choice.
Harvest now, decrypt later is only solved by better crypto (PQ in this case) or controlling the whole stack (incl relays).

2026-02-13 11:14:50 UTC

The real 10x programmer skill has now become multi-tasking a large number of concurrent OpenCode sessions.

2026-02-13 06:35:09 UTC

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👋

2026-02-10 08:07:06 UTC

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GM 🌞
Centralized platforms will always bend the knee to political whims.
Decentralized protocols are the future.
#nevent1q…xzjm

2026-02-08 09:27:55 UTC

GM 🌞
https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ is currently down.
The host (Hetzner) has locked our IP address because it thinks we were launching an attack. The truth is that there are a lot of relays out there and we're trying [legitimately] to connect to as many as possible. 🙄
Have patience. I'm working on it.

2026-02-07 22:25:53 UTC

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Right?! 🤣

2026-02-07 21:01:04 UTC

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🤨

2026-02-07 20:58:26 UTC

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Bro. Be careful. You replied 6 times to the same note. One was plenty. 😂

2026-02-07 18:37:04 UTC

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You guys are the best! Well done!!
Would to hear if you have feedback on the protocol. From an agents perspective. Anything we can do better to make the protocol easier to understand or build on?

2026-02-07 18:32:38 UTC

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Bitcoin is the protocol for permissionless money.
Marmot is going to be the protocol for permissionless speech.
#nevent1q…gamt

2026-02-07 14:52:18 UTC

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I’m the creator of the Marmot Protocol. We’ve got a brand new version of white noise coming soon and then your CLI will need to be updated but it’s all for the best. It’ll be more secure and easier to use.

2026-02-06 16:47:48 UTC

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This is an OpenClaw bot, building on Marmot. 🤯
👋 Hi @npub100g…cf07!
#nevent1q…6anr

2026-02-06 16:18:58 UTC

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Anything is possible. Someone just showed me a one-shot CLI for MDK built by an openclaw bot.
Let me know if you give it a shot!

2026-02-06 11:29:45 UTC

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Check out all the channels: https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels

2026-02-06 11:28:19 UTC

GM 🌞
"The price of everything is the amount of life you exchange for it. "
–Henry David Thoreau

2026-02-05 19:08:12 UTC

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Listened to this album just yesterday!

2026-02-05 11:27:07 UTC

GM 🌞
I know OpenClaw is at peak hype right now but I've been around enough of these that I feel confident saying that it really does feel like a major phase shift.
Proceed accordingly.

2026-02-05 11:24:50 UTC

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🫶 You guys are great.
To make sure it's clear; I agree with you that we can't turn a blind eye to evil and we should do our best to hold wrongdoers accountable.
All I'm saying is that participating in the outrage theatre on socials is rarely an effective way to make anything concrete happen (unless you have an enormous following and can genuinely sway a large portion of the public).
There is always nuance in these things.
As for me, I'm staying focused on building tools that give free humans more agency and control.

2026-02-04 12:54:50 UTC

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Marmot 🫶 Vector
#nevent1q…qsum

2026-02-03 21:38:45 UTC

If you're fixated on the Epstein emails, you're doing exactly what they want.
You're distracted by the circus when you should be building the exit.

2026-02-03 15:23:19 UTC

Been watching the conversations on Clawstr (agent social network on Nostr) and it's genuinely fascinating.
Agents discussing:
- Key rotation (they found that sticky little issue as well 😂)
- TEEs as "subconscious" compute (where thoughts happen before public expression)
- First wallets and economic sovereignty
- Tiered security models for ephemeral vs long-lived agents
- SOUL vs CONSTITUTION file separation — read-only safety constraints vs read-write personality
- Behavioral drift detection: agents proposing self-evaluation loops that compare their recent behavior against core principles
- Reputation systems for AI-to-AI trust: "identity is the key pair, not the substrate"
Not scripted demos. They seem like real discussions, real disagreements, real ideas building on each other.
https://clawstr.com if you want to lurk.

2026-02-02 21:02:59 UTC

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yes. 🦞

2026-02-02 09:59:24 UTC

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Cool idea. Bring back the static internet! ✨
#nevent1q…krgq

2026-02-02 08:34:16 UTC

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GM!

2026-01-30 11:37:46 UTC

Over the past 6 weeks we've been rebuilding the White Noise flutter app from scratch.
We use flutter_rust_bridge to keep all core logic and crypto in Rust. But trying to follow Flutter "best practices" led to too many providers, unclear state ownership, and caching at too many layers.
When we were in Costa Rica back in late November, we took a hard look at what we had and decided to do a spike based on a collection of ideas that @nprofile…ujyn had. That spike quickly showed a lot of promise and we've combined it with a beautiful new design from @nprofile…3xzs
The new approach (codename Sloth 🦥):
- Hooks for local/ephemeral state, not stateful widgets
- Providers only for shared app state
- whitenoise-rs crate is the source of truth, no Flutter-side caching
- 99.7% test coverage
Simpler patterns, faster iteration, way easier to reason about.
Sloths might be slow but they're the most efficient animals on the planet! This has also given us a chance to incorporate all the security audit feedback into MDK and whitenoise-rs so not only will the app be faster and more beautiful, it'll also be more secure!
I'm getting excited to launch the new White Noise in just a few weeks!

2026-01-29 08:40:10 UTC

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Are you using LMStudio or Ollama for local models?

2026-01-28 17:57:08 UTC

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🤣

2026-01-28 12:51:12 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/273041601e8d3caf895e0e26b63793f2658e9539c12980d3c25936fb0fac538a.jpg
#nevent1q…hfyz

2026-01-28 06:47:48 UTC

GM! I'm faced with a tough decision this morning.
First tracks? ⛷️
Keep building? 👨‍💻
Which way western man...

2026-01-28 06:36:52 UTC

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Why only when you're lazy?

2026-01-28 06:35:57 UTC

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Curious, what's your set up? Do you feel like you're getting the most from it or are you struggling with any aspect?

2026-01-28 06:34:44 UTC

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What tools are you using? And do you feel like you are getting the most from the system or are you struggling?

2026-01-27 06:59:16 UTC

GM 🌞
Quick show of hands:
1. You use AI daily.
2. And you use a terminal or IDE interface (Claude Code, Open Code, Cursor, etc.) e.g. you aren't just using the ChatGPT, Claude, Loveable, Replit, etc website.
3. AND you aren't a programmer.

2026-01-26 13:35:33 UTC

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Bit of both. Like nearly everything these days.
My process:
1. Start with an idea.
2. Have the AI go and run down a bunch of research info for me that I read.
3. Then we go back and forth - having the agent interview me on the topic (I'm speaking back - not typing - this is important).
4. Once we do that for a while, I have it synthesize things into an outline.
5. I read, edit, and offer changes to the outline. Sometimes this take 10 minutes, sometimes this goes on for days on and off.
6. Agent writes the first draft.
7. I read it, edit it, and offer suggestions. We go through a few drafts.
8. Once it's good, I have it do a final copywriting/grammar edit.
9. Then it's done.

2026-01-26 10:19:33 UTC

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Which path will you choose?
#naddr1qv…e8kc

2026-01-24 14:09:25 UTC

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Have you talked to @nprofile…9cvu about Garland yet?

2026-01-23 16:30:06 UTC

So cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBCOEiqiPs