paste this into Claude before you buy anything over $100.
it asks the 6 questions your brain skips when you want something.
the full prompt is in the image. here's why it works:
most impulse buys get through because nobody asks a second question. you see it, you want it, and the button is right there.
this slows that down to a few minutes.
the AI asks one question at a time and waits. no lecture, no budget spreadsheet. just the questions, then one verdict: buy now, wait 7 days, or skip.
the question that hits hardest is #5:
"if it were free, would I still use it every week?"
if the honest answer is no, the price was never the problem.
two places to use it:
→ anything over $100
→ any new subscription, even a $9 one. $9 a month is $108 a year
works the same in ChatGPT or Grok.
and $100 is just my line. put your own number in the prompt.
@gippp69 THE GRADING is the part nobody will copy.
Most AI setups never get a performance review, so they never get fired.
Which duty got the worst grade in week one? Demoted to draft-only or cut?
@vglonix the SD card part is the real lesson. internal storage on newer phones is encrypted, so deleted means gone. old phones and SD cards are where this still works.
@0xGenAi does it keep the brand font when you ask for "more premium", or does it drift after a few rounds? that's usually where AI ads start looking AI again.
@BercusNA best summary of tonight so far. actual timestamps, three separate estimates side by side, and a "treat every figure as a first estimate" warning. rare on this app.
@blakthor0 sleep adjusts in a few days for me. the 4:30pm darkness is what takes weeks. it's not tiredness, it's the day feeling over before it started.
@0xShoopy the hook rerunning tests on every edit is the quiet cost saver. catching a break in edit 3 is cheap. catching it in edit 40 burns the whole session.
you’re losing money to your AI bot every hour, and the subscription isn’t the leak.
the clock is.
7 bots asking “anything new?” 168 times a week each. mostly for nothing.
here’s how to plug it 👇
→ keep ONE clock. the scout runs once a week. that’s it
→ kill every other hourly schedule
→ every other bot gets a trigger instead: an email to its own alias, a new file in a shared folder, a PR that changes
→ each bot writes one line to a shared log when it’s done. the next bot wakes up on that line, not on the hour
→ give your main bot this rule:
“if nothing changed since yesterday, send nothing.”
one guide below did the math on a 7-bot team:
1,176 runs a week → about 60
~$54 → ~$2.80 at API rates
same work. 20x less burn.
the leak nobody checks: bots emailing each other. every send waits for your approval, so it piles up. hand off with files. they’re free.
your bot doesn’t need a clock.
it needs a reason to wake up.
you saw what happened to Binance!?
now here's the part that should scare every exchange:
an AI agent would have had 3 full minutes to stop it 👇
the timeline, simply:
→ a wallet funded through Tornado Cash gets permission to act for a Binance hot wallet
→ about 3 minutes later, billions start leaving
→ Tether and Circle freeze ~$1.8B. the rest keeps moving
those 3 minutes were public. anyone watching the chain could see the setup happen.
on a Thursday night, nobody did.
here's what an AI agent watching that wallet does in those 3 minutes:
→ second 1: sees a brand new permission on a hot wallet. that alone is a red flag
→ second 5: traces who funded the address. Tornado Cash. now it's two red flags
→ second 10: pauses withdrawals and pings a human: "approve or block?"
→ minute 3: the drain hits a locked door
would it have saved everything? nobody can promise that. how the attacker got the signature is still unknown, and that's a security problem AI doesn't magically fix.
but speed was the attacker's whole advantage. and speed is the one thing agents have more of than any human team.
this is where AI in finance is actually going. not chatbots giving stock tips. agents that sit on top of money and do one boring job: notice the weird thing before it's too late.
Binance had 3 minutes.
the next exchange that has an agent watching will need about 10 seconds.
Binance is 100% hacked❗️
the hacker has started selling the withdrawn USDT and USDC for ETH!
if it was Binance themselves, they would just hold them idly.
Only a hacker would sell freezable stablecoins for ETH onchain.
tx: [ETH]
0x290e94a9d14294b1c22bbc5d167343fd91fe91233e89434f20532fe5fe7e8668
@0xCodila I'd move step 2 to the top. the webcam is the scary part, but an AnyDesk left over from some "tech support" call in 2022 is the door that's actually open.
@JiquanNgiam@mintive@CowboyVC the scariest version of this: the person who set up the agent leaves the company.
their account gets offboarded. the agent quietly keeps running with their old access.
does Mintive tie an agent's lifecycle to an owner, or does it outlive them?
@jakejooyoung the expensive part isn't the wrong code. it's that nobody notices for three days while tokens burn.
so the real question: does Serro catch the drift before the agent spends, or after the PR lands?
copy-paste version:
I'm about to buy [item] for [$price]. Before I do, ask me these one at a time. Wait for my answer before the next one.
1. What problem does this solve, and when did I last actually have it?
2. What do I use right now instead, and what's really wrong with it?
3. What does it cost per year, with subscriptions, add-ons and upkeep?
4. What's the cheapest option that solves 80% of the same problem?
5. If it were free, would I still use it every week?
6. Will I still care about this in 30 days?
Then give one verdict: buy now, wait 7 days, or skip. One line of reasoning. Don't be nice about it.
paste this into Claude before you buy anything over $100.
it asks the 6 questions your brain skips when you want something.
the full prompt is in the image. here's why it works:
most impulse buys get through because nobody asks a second question. you see it, you want it, and the button is right there.
this slows that down to a few minutes.
the AI asks one question at a time and waits. no lecture, no budget spreadsheet. just the questions, then one verdict: buy now, wait 7 days, or skip.
the question that hits hardest is #5:
"if it were free, would I still use it every week?"
if the honest answer is no, the price was never the problem.
two places to use it:
→ anything over $100
→ any new subscription, even a $9 one. $9 a month is $108 a year
works the same in ChatGPT or Grok.
and $100 is just my line. put your own number in the prompt.