It’s this constant internal struggle as the biggest operators I know have no presence whatsoever nor do they care to. I lean that way very hard - but do appreciate the connections on here (ie you guys) and X especially is helpful for tech related info.
FB is good for pics for family/friends. That’s about it!
The other piece people are missing out on is the only true MOATs will be your own personalized company knowledge graph and automations/SOPs, etc. and OWNING the digital infrastructure underneath (I'm building basically a Clawbot) within the Microsoft ecosystem all on our infrastructure that we own. It's also model agnostic so no frontier model provider can limit or control our operations.
The space to understand is that these digital assets are as valuable as our physical world ones so why would I lease when I can own?
That's exactly right. They make up for my lack of traditional coding experience.
Think of this...I own and operate a commercial real estate investment company. I literally play real world Monopoly. I just need discernment of what I'm attempting to create to build physical world/operations heavy business workflow automations and efficiencies for my employees. Not a digital company in the least.
My most important skillset is knowing the vision I'm creating in my company and having a technical enough background to combine cutting edge AI with my 20+ years of physical domain expertise.
Just figuring out how to make the most physical world companies (mine anyways) AI native and pull as much alpha by crushing my competitors leaning in in a way few will ever be obsessed enough to do.
Love it and def agree. I've gone from vibe coding to infrastructure level production code as follows:
Before a single line of code gets written:
1) Spec-First Planning: phases, targets, build seq.
2) Verification Contract: Define "Done" - Build gets score/graded.
3) Self-Critique Pass: Claude tears itself apart to find bugs
4) Codex Counter Analysis: A rival AI catches model blind spots
5) Final "Fresh Eyes" Analysis: Reviews all critques and code to close out final bugs
6) Pre-Mortem Run: What do I wish I would have added/built 6 months from now?
7) Phased Build: Stages with auto saves
8) Contract Review: Review code against tests from Step 2
9) Proof of Execution: Validates, Checks logs, etc.
10) Human Adoption Gate: Human uses finished product and asks "Is this good and will people actually use it"
Craziest thing about all this? Jarvis is my Chief Coding Engineer and runs steps 1-9 and I'm only responsible for Step #10. THIS is the future.
Way deep down this rabbit hole and have 6 & 9 year olds. My 9 year old needs some foundational gaps filled and then hyper-accelerated into 5th/6th grade level math and my 6 year old is working on basics (Level 1 Kumon). Let's see how Koji works on lower levels. Thanks for the invite!
@loganjrankin@shawngorham It’s just another risk variable you have to manage - which takes up cognitive load and space - I haven’t found an upside delta worth the additional risk factor to me on deals.
I’m on team fixed but I’m also playing for the long term balance sheet as well.
Hot Take: Something happened to @claudeai again as the 5 hour limits are garbage currently. Less than 1 hour of work and running a 20X Max account. (Have a second one and a Codex) but this is the 3rd/4th time this week). Been a power user for over a year, something isn't right
The single most misunderstood thing about AI in an operating business is what it's actually for.
It's not for replacing my team. It's for giving them superpowers.
Every system was built with one filter: does this make a teammate better at their job and free them to do what humans actually do best — judgment, taste, relationships, hard conversations, and care.
The work that drains them is process, lookup, status reporting, formatting, scheduling, follow-up tracking, data reconciliation, and triage.
AI eats the second list so my team can spend their day on the first one.
Hey @AnthropicAI - Just drained a 5HR 20X Max account token usage in 2 prompts (Literally in 20 minutes) using Code 4.7 in CLI - Is there still a bug going around? @bcherny@trq212
20X Max Plan Power User. Weekly just reset 25 min ago. Why is Sonnet on a different schedule than the others? It doesn't match either the 5 Hr. or Weekly limits. @claudeai@bcherny
@trq212 I'm a CEO of a multifamily management company. No clue how to code but have self taught a lot of trial and error building of real workflows, and processed I wanted automated for my company. I'd be totally down to figure out better ways to build.
@robbiehendricks@Apartment_bro Hahahah, @loganjrankin 's getting to you. (PS - I agree with his philosophy myself so no shade. Just like watching the wheels turn). You're converting everyone Logan!
Running TWO (2) MAX 20x plans - one interactive, one for automation (28 scheduled Claude Code tasks via Windows Task Scheduler). The automation plan (which normally gets LESS usage) hit the cap, resets Apr 10.
I've already optimized aggressively - 8 tasks on Haiku, 6 on Sonnet, only 4 on Opus, and offloaded 3 tasks to pure PowerShell with zero Claude dependency. Still found a retry loop that burned 262 sessions in a single day vs ~50 normal.
Happy to screenshare and walk through the architecture.
PS - NO OpenClaw, etc.