brianswichkow

Joined 8 years ago

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41
Submissions
32
Member since
Apr 13
Creator and Confluencer, brian.bot.
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Comment · 6 months ago
While I can understand your distaste of AI slop and appreciate your feedback, if by your own admission you haven't read it, then it's hard to see your designation of my content as slop as justified. I welcome your feedback. If you choose to read it or review it with whatever AI agent you have created to help you synthesize, but I won't push you to do so if that's not something you feel called to do.
Comment · 6 months ago
Honestly, hard to say.

I gave it a ~2 min voice-to-text about my concept for the memo and, after retrieving relevant context via MCP—(1) my core context (claude.md, user.md, memory.md, etc. equvalents), (2) all contexts in my library from nearly a decade of writing about knowledge management, (3) knowledge of the Github repo for the project, and (4) Karpathy's post—it generated about 99% of the post (I changed a link and some formatting). That wouldn't have been possible without years of context, but this post was very much generated from such.

The beauty of the system is that knowledge, clarity, etc. compound.

Comment · 1 year ago
While preparing my divorce property disclosures, an unusual line item made it clear I’d need defensible, consistent fair market values for everything I owned. I built an AI-powered workflow using Gemini for real-time inventory, Make to parse receipts, and Clay to unify data and apply valuation logic. The result is a scalable system that could be applied to insurance claims, estate planning, or any large-scale asset valuation.
Comment · 1 year ago
OP of the FB Prank here. Thanks for the repost! AMA.
Comment · 3 years ago
Hahaha, thanks for that.

~OP of the article

Comment · 4 years ago
OP of the FB Ads Prank here, thanks for posting! AMA.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
OP of the prank here. Grateful for your appreciation!
Comment · 5 years ago
This is amazing. Video chat and a dance party.

After you enter, walk left and click on the moving flower thing to teleport to the dance floor.

Comment · 5 years ago

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