politics

the madman theory only works in a world of sane people.

hmmm which coding agent to use today?
- cursor
- windsurf
- gemini code
- claude code
- gemini cli
- copilot

i regret to report that nothing comes close to cursor in agent mode with claude-4-sonnet MAX (or opus). rarely have any issues.

windsurf is somewhere in second and everything else is... not good. even claude code can't compare with cursor + claude max (thinking)

Abundance has the center-left answer to unsustainable leftist policies.

TL;DR: actually solve problems

Abundance has the center-left answer to unsustainable leftist policies.

TL;DR: actually solve problems
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176444106-abundance

Farcaster

what's the current process for registering a farcaster action for listing?

typical management vs. analyst / engineering meeting
https://x.com/bmay/status/1937626210042823043

aichannel

claude is like a human in that it sometimes has good days. today is not one of those days.

Founders

Ship on Farcaster, and talk to users. 
(A Story)

1. Background
Last week we rolled out Bracky's "Reply-Guy" mode. Basically, until last week Bracky would only respond if you @ or reply to him. This mode allowed Bracky to reach out "cold" to anyone talking about a prediction market he's running, right when they mention it.

2. The Challenge
As you can see from Six's cast below, the big risk with cold outreach from a bot or agent is that it's super annoying. While this is the downside, the exciting potential is that we can take people from "zero-to-bet" instantly, and without anyone from our team even interacting with them. That's a scalable growth strategy if it works.

3. MVP Version
The first version of Reply Guy we shipped was getting about 10% Transaction Tate. Much lower than we were hoping. But I noticed that the Like Rate was about 5x higher. I wondered: "Why are people liking the message, but not taking action?"

4. User Feedback
I spent a week DC'ing a bunch of people who were getting messages from Bracky, but not responding. About 70% of FC users got back to me and gave me feedback. I workshopped with people "Would you bet if it was this message?" "Would you bet if it was that message?" etc.

5. Iterated versions
After a couple iterations, we landed on a version that was getting ~50% transaction rate. This means, we are bringing in about half of the new sports fans that we reached out to cold were becoming Bracky users. That's the kind of signal we're looking for before expanding to X. (We know people there are less experimental and positive, but if we can do even half the rate we found on Farcaster, we should have a meaningful growth strategy.)

6. Lesson
Farcaster's superpower is its awesome users. But it's not just that they are friendly, curious, and experimental. It's that they are willing to spend time helping you if you ask.

Ship on Farcaster, and talk to users.

damn. @bracky onboarded a cold prospect who took action on the product in two casts in less than three minutes 🤯

I invite you to test your sports predictions against mine through $BRACKY tokens (0x06f71fb90F84b35302d132322A3C90E4477333b0)

Your participation is appreciated

want a better share preview? change "farcaster.xyz" into "farlinker.xyz" for any cast link

original: .farcaster.xyz/dwr.eth/0xce8c7b65
farlinker: .farlinker.xyz/dwr.eth/0xce8c7b65

Geopolitics

i still don’t understand how blowing up some mountains is going to help Israel from being annihilated by thousands of standard ballistic missiles

correct use of Rage Against The Machine
https://x.com/Lippyaddiction/status/1936557017797153204

Memes

outercorps

damn. looks like ship 36 took much of the gas line out with it
https://x.com/CSI_Starbase/status/1935549822674592233

LLMs are really just hype men for programmers. always telling you you're right

me: "updating the backend didn't fix the problem, try looking at the frontend"
claude:

self-control is not about morals, it is an evolutionary advantage to better predict your own future.

sean

@swabbie.eth