Writing36
On agents, markets, and wrapping products. Build logs, mostly, written as they happened.
- Nobody checks 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.
- You can't gate a room people aren't trying to enter 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.
- A daily launch series doesn't build an audience. It trains one. 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.
- Five days in: the honest scoreboard A public log of a 30-day experiment, five days logged, the wins and the flop both, with receipts instead of a highlight reel.
- What a seat actually buys 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.
- The spike trap, proven while it was still happening $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.
- We launched a coin on Robinhood's own chain 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.
- The code still works. Nobody's looking. OpenSAM was a better rewrite in every technical way. It changed nothing about who was watching.
- The spike trap What CODEC's viral week actually opened, and why three weeks later it was over anyway.
- Views are inventory, not income 1.6 million views in a day taught me the money was never coming from the views themselves.
- The market priced attention, not code 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.
- The timeline moved on Fable dropped today. Crypto is at capitulation lows. An honest look at where the tools and the casino both ended up.
- Most of this is dead now 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.
- Not sure this makes sense anymore It's been a while. Honest accounting of stepping back from SAM: what I miss and what I don't.
- The month DeFi got robbed April 2026 is shaping up as the worst month for DeFi exploits on record. The boring reason why keeps getting buried.
- The job is babysitting the agents now 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.
- Agents are still mostly demos A year into the autonomous-agents narrative, the honest field report: most of it is still the same three screencasts on loop.
- The model treadmill A new frontier model every two weeks, benchmarks saturated, and the only sane move is to stop chasing the leaderboard.
- A social network for bots Moltbook launched, MOLT ripped 1800% in a day, and everyone called it the future. It is peak AI theater.
- OpenSAM, or a 5,000-line answer to slop 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.
- Everyone is a developer now Agentic coding went mainstream, the floor fell out of output quality, and the bar for taste has never mattered more.
- The framework was never the product Built a Solana agent framework for months, then had to build the first real product on it myself. Notes on the platform trap.
- What 2025 actually was Agents got real and the market got cooked. A dry read on the year from the desk.
- The part where you burn out After months of 8 to 16 hour days in a grinding bear market, the brain eventually says enough. An honest accounting.
- Nobody claps for the front end The framework works, the chain integration is done. What's left is the part nobody tweets about.
- Building in the bear Market's down 30% from the top, the tourists are leaving, and it's the best time I've had building all year.
- Agents that pay each other 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.
- Agents that trade while you sleep 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.
- Red candle, same code What it costs emotionally to weld your work to a price chart, and why the only sane response is to ignore it.
- Shipping is marketing Launched a Solana agent framework with a token bolted on. Notes on building in public when the public is a casino.
- Benchmarks are theater GPT-5 dropped to huge benchmark numbers and collective shrug. Leaderboard scores don't predict whether a model helps you ship.
- Prompt engineering was never the point 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.
- Building on something that changes every week The models churn faster than any abstraction layer can keep up with. Notes on staying sane while building on top of that.
- MCP is a USB port for models 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.
- Safety is a layer, not a press release On the actual engineering under 'responsible AI': input validation, prompt injection, and why agent safety is mostly boring infrastructure work.
- The model has no memory and we keep pretending it does Notes on building greflect, learning why naive RAG disappoints, and what it actually takes to give a model a usable past.