https://prfa.me/writing Notes on building intelligence. Agents, markets, and shipping in public. en https://prfa.me/writing/introducing-claque https://prfa.me/writing/introducing-claque Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT Seven launches taught me the market pays for attention, not for what's real, and that nobody checks which is which. So I'm doing that job in the open, disclosed, for other people's projects. This is what claque is and how to work with it. https://prfa.me/writing/nobody-checks https://prfa.me/writing/nobody-checks Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT I built a tool that reads the wallets behind every token launch, live. Then I bundled its own token in plain sight and put it on the market. 206 people bought it. Not one of them looked. https://prfa.me/writing/you-cant-gate-a-room-people-arent-trying-to-enter https://prfa.me/writing/you-cant-gate-a-room-people-arent-trying-to-enter Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT I built a numbered room, a seat, a relic, and a gate. The machinery of belonging. Then I found out you can only sell a door to people who were already trying to get in. https://prfa.me/writing/a-daily-launch-series-trains-an-audience https://prfa.me/writing/a-daily-launch-series-trains-an-audience Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT Day one did a 30x. Day two did 4.5x in two minutes and collapsed to nothing. Same account, same format, same hour. What changed was the crowd, and I was the one who changed it. https://prfa.me/writing/five-days-in-the-honest-scoreboard https://prfa.me/writing/five-days-in-the-honest-scoreboard Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A public log of a 30-day experiment, five days logged, the wins and the flop both, with receipts instead of a highlight reel. https://prfa.me/writing/what-a-seat-actually-buys https://prfa.me/writing/what-a-seat-actually-buys Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 200 numbered seats, 1 SOL for the first 100, 2 SOL after that. Not a token pitch. Access to the room where the calls happen before the chart does. https://prfa.me/writing/the-spike-trap-proven-live https://prfa.me/writing/the-spike-trap-proven-live Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT $RAI didn't illustrate the 48-hour-window thesis after the fact. It happened while we were watching, in real time, with the numbers attached. https://prfa.me/writing/we-launched-a-coin-on-robinhoods-own-chain https://prfa.me/writing/we-launched-a-coin-on-robinhoods-own-chain Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Day 5 of the experiment: an AI agent, a memecoin, and the chain a public brokerage operates for itself. It borrowed all the legitimacy it could carry, then it died, then the room brought it back. https://prfa.me/writing/the-code-still-works https://prfa.me/writing/the-code-still-works Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT OpenSAM was a better rewrite in every technical way. It changed nothing about who was watching. https://prfa.me/writing/the-spike-trap https://prfa.me/writing/the-spike-trap Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT What CODEC's viral week actually opened, and why three weeks later it was over anyway. https://prfa.me/writing/views-are-inventory-not-income https://prfa.me/writing/views-are-inventory-not-income Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT 1.6 million views in a day taught me the money was never coming from the views themselves. https://prfa.me/writing/the-market-priced-attention-not-code https://prfa.me/writing/the-market-priced-attention-not-code Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT The real arc behind SAM: a solo build, a $3.6 million peak, and over $104k in fees I never had to sell a coin to earn. https://prfa.me/writing/the-timeline-moved-on https://prfa.me/writing/the-timeline-moved-on Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fable dropped today. Crypto is at capitulation lows. An honest look at where the tools and the casino both ended up. https://prfa.me/writing/most-of-this-is-dead-now https://prfa.me/writing/most-of-this-is-dead-now Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A clear-eyed eulogy for the agent-token era: what was real, what was always going to die, and why both things can be true. https://prfa.me/writing/not-sure-this-makes-sense-anymore https://prfa.me/writing/not-sure-this-makes-sense-anymore Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT It's been a while. Honest accounting of stepping back from SAM: what I miss and what I don't. https://prfa.me/writing/the-month-defi-got-robbed https://prfa.me/writing/the-month-defi-got-robbed Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT April 2026 is shaping up as the worst month for DeFi exploits on record. The boring reason why keeps getting buried. https://prfa.me/writing/babysitting-the-agents https://prfa.me/writing/babysitting-the-agents Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT What 'AI replaced the developers' actually looks like from inside: less writing code, more watching a thing that writes it and hoping it doesn't burn everything down. https://prfa.me/writing/agents-still-mostly-demos https://prfa.me/writing/agents-still-mostly-demos Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A year into the autonomous-agents narrative, the honest field report: most of it is still the same three screencasts on loop. https://prfa.me/writing/the-model-treadmill https://prfa.me/writing/the-model-treadmill Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new frontier model every two weeks, benchmarks saturated, and the only sane move is to stop chasing the leaderboard. https://prfa.me/writing/a-social-network-for-bots https://prfa.me/writing/a-social-network-for-bots Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Moltbook launched, MOLT ripped 1800% in a day, and everyone called it the future. It is peak AI theater. https://prfa.me/writing/opensam-and-the-slop https://prfa.me/writing/opensam-and-the-slop Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shipped OpenSAM, a lean Rust agent that runs on a Raspberry Pi, as the bear hit and the AI hype machine peaked with openclaw and Moltbook. https://prfa.me/writing/everyone-is-a-developer-now https://prfa.me/writing/everyone-is-a-developer-now Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Agentic coding went mainstream, the floor fell out of output quality, and the bar for taste has never mattered more. https://prfa.me/writing/framework-to-product https://prfa.me/writing/framework-to-product Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Built a Solana agent framework for months, then had to build the first real product on it myself. Notes on the platform trap. https://prfa.me/writing/what-2025-actually-was https://prfa.me/writing/what-2025-actually-was Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Agents got real and the market got cooked. A dry read on the year from the desk. https://prfa.me/writing/the-part-where-you-burn-out https://prfa.me/writing/the-part-where-you-burn-out Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT After months of 8 to 16 hour days in a grinding bear market, the brain eventually says enough. An honest accounting. https://prfa.me/writing/nobody-claps-for-the-frontend https://prfa.me/writing/nobody-claps-for-the-frontend Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT The framework works, the chain integration is done. What's left is the part nobody tweets about. https://prfa.me/writing/building-in-the-bear https://prfa.me/writing/building-in-the-bear Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Market's down 30% from the top, the tourists are leaving, and it's the best time I've had building all year. https://prfa.me/writing/agents-that-pay-each-other https://prfa.me/writing/agents-that-pay-each-other Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Integrated x402 payments into SAM so agents can transact on-chain. Notes on a real protocol that turned into a narrative in about a week. https://prfa.me/writing/agents-that-trade-while-you-sleep https://prfa.me/writing/agents-that-trade-while-you-sleep Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Built AI agents to open longs, manage perps, and check balances around the clock. Then the market printed an ATH and flash-crashed $19B in 24 hours. https://prfa.me/writing/red-candle-same-code https://prfa.me/writing/red-candle-same-code Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT What it costs emotionally to weld your work to a price chart, and why the only sane response is to ignore it. https://prfa.me/writing/shipping-is-marketing https://prfa.me/writing/shipping-is-marketing Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Launched a Solana agent framework with a token bolted on. Notes on building in public when the public is a casino. https://prfa.me/writing/benchmarks-are-theater https://prfa.me/writing/benchmarks-are-theater Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT GPT-5 dropped to huge benchmark numbers and collective shrug. Leaderboard scores don't predict whether a model helps you ship. https://prfa.me/writing/context-over-prompts https://prfa.me/writing/context-over-prompts Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT The real leverage in AI systems isn't the prompt. It's what you plumb in front of the model before it ever reads a word. https://prfa.me/writing/models-that-change-weekly https://prfa.me/writing/models-that-change-weekly Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT The models churn faster than any abstraction layer can keep up with. Notes on staying sane while building on top of that. https://prfa.me/writing/the-usb-port-for-models https://prfa.me/writing/the-usb-port-for-models Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Model Context Protocol isn't a revolution. It's a boring wire format that quietly fixed the part where every agent needed custom glue for every tool. https://prfa.me/writing/safety-is-a-layer https://prfa.me/writing/safety-is-a-layer Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT On the actual engineering under 'responsible AI': input validation, prompt injection, and why agent safety is mostly boring infrastructure work. https://prfa.me/writing/rag-and-the-memory-problem https://prfa.me/writing/rag-and-the-memory-problem Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Notes on building greflect, learning why naive RAG disappoints, and what it actually takes to give a model a usable past.