Andrew McCalip

spacecraft @vardaspace. accidental ad empire @ Former: Co-Founder Cosine Additive, acquired by GE

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

Get paid to wait

The Claude Code spinner might be the most watched line on Earth.

So I turned it into an ad marketplace.

Advertisers bid on it. You keep 50% of the money.

Install the extension → get cash from ads.

Introducing Kickbacks

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

@hntrbrkmedia @liensofnewyork Honestly I've made some scrapers to look for tradable alpha on s&p500 companies, very similar to this. Why aren't people doing more of this?

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

@docentdemagogue Banger

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@vliegvrees it's always fun to see the goodyear blimp out over the 405.

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

Airship ads 🤔

[Xiangyi Li @xdotli]

if you are putting ads on an airship

consider not using the biggest font for your competitor

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

@nickgalano ya know...I have been threatening to start wearing suits..sort of ironically

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

I’m not sure what’s crazier:

Anthropic’s revenue curve

Or the fact that Meta generates $197 billion a year from ads.

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@sporadica Timeline looks immaculate

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

@alexkaplan0 👀

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

@dumbfook You might be on to something there

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

@anu_bonth @levelsio pieter is truly one of the greats

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

@ezDecode Changing soon actually. First version as launched was totally global, no geo-targeting. The version coming out this week will allow for advertisers to bid different amounts for different regions.

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

Hi Artem,

Thanks for flagging this. We took a look at your account and found what is going on.

Your extension self-updated to the new v2 build earlier today, but the ad panel is still running the old cached version underneath. That mismatch is what makes it keep reloading. It also quietly bumped you into anonymous mode, so you are not earning under your signed-in account right now.

The fix is simple. Fully quit VS Code (close the whole app, not just the window) and open it again. That rebuilds the panel fresh and clears the reloading.

Once it is back up, check that you are still signed in and that earning is enabled, so you are back on your real account instead of the anonymous one.

If the reloading comes back after a full restart, reply here and we will dig into your logs to find the exact cause.

Thanks for bearing with the beta.

Andrew + Bots

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

@YElebiany @SCH_Clay @prasad_pilla @kickbagsxyz @Kickbacks__ai It's a work in progress?

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@sandrokan_15 Seems wild that anyone would do anything else at all except for the sheer masochism, hubris, or spite.

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

@zck Nothing worse than a Tesla Uber, gets my seasickness going every time

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

@jamonholmgren This is one of the better lists I've seen

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

@zerohedge Honestly I've never had more fun than trading Micron this year. What a predictable rollercoaster.

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@QiaochuYuan Banger

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@tunguz cosigning this

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

seems like the benchmark should simply be:

how many dollars can you make per million tokens?

not on an eval. not in a demo. in the real world.

legally, of course. by prompting, harnessing, building workflows, or just vibing the models in a useful direction.

everything else is probably a proxy.