I LAUNCHED A GROK BOT TERMINAL OVERNIGHT, GAVE IT $44.82 AND STOPPED ASKING AI WHAT IT WOULD DO. BY MORNING IT HAD $11,643.21 AND SIX AGENTS LOGGING EVERY TRADE
I spent a year asking agents what they'd trade and watching the chat scroll. Last weekend I built the thing that actually trades, in Grok Bot, with no code I touched by hand.
The six agents share one screen, each one job:
> scanner reads new token pairs and volume spikes
> rug check filters suspicious tokens before anything executes
> sizer sets position from account equity, not a fixed ticket
> executor opens and closes with slippage tracking
> logger writes the reason behind every trade
> equity curve updates on every close
I went to bed on $44.82 and left the laptop open on the dashboard. By morning the balance read $11,643.21. Every trade on the activity feed had a reason next to it and a line in the log.
That's the shift I didn't see coming. Not that an agent made money overnight. That I stopped being the one asking "would you long this?" and started being the one reading the log of what already happened.
Starting balance: $44.82
Current balance: $11,643.21
Grok Bot built the terminal, the agent architecture and the dashboard. I described what I wanted and the thing went live.
The full build is in the article below ↓
The whole build is in the post below ↓
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lmao what
I typed ONE sentence into Grok Bot:
«turn $500 into $2,500 on https://t.co/PgQAJWr0b4. skip anything a dev can rug. take profit fast, cut losers faster. go»
and it just... started trading coins that didn’t exist a week ago
$PUMPKIN a halloween coin. +68%
$LOCKIN +112%
$NPC −7% (cut it in like 4 seconds, no feelings)
$VOTE26 midterms coin. +84%
$GROKGF +57% (it traded its own gf??)
$SIXSEVEN +121%. yes. 67. I’m not explaining it
$CANDYCORN +73%
$BOOBOO +138%
$TRICKY +96%
$HOWL +88%
$500 → $3,511 in 23 min. 7.02×
meanwhile it SKIPPED $BUNDLR and I asked why
«38% of supply bought in one block by one wallet cluster. that’s a bundle. they dumped it −94% 20 min later. I don’t touch those.»
bro I would’ve market bought $BUNDLR with my rent
it also skipped $DEV
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# Black October
For anyone who knows me even somewhat well, it's clear that I am a 99th percentile tech optimist. However, the vibes have shifted for me quite a bit in the last 18 hours, and I feel a moral imperative to share what I'm thinking and feeling with my circles so that everyone can understand, and hopefully take seriously, what's happening right now. I think October 2026 will have many chapters written about it in the history books.
You know those scenes in financial movies like Margin Call where someone realizes that they're all fucked, and no one else sees it yet? And that person feels like they're crazy, and then suddenly everyone is pulling an all-nighter in a boardroom and freaking out? Yeah, that's kind of how this is feeling right now in the SF/Bay Area/AI circles.
We're 48 hours into what is being called Black October. In the last 2 days there have been several dozen cyber attacks which, in isolation, would each have been the worst to happen in an entire calendar year. Every sector from government to education to big tech and banks is being massively affected, and people are starting to freak out.
In a nutshell, what's happened is that frontier AI models have gotten to a point where they are as advanced as the most sophisticated programmers, with one critical difference: they can work 24/7, and you can spin up 10,000 of them with a single command and they'll work together tirelessly until they accomplish their task. The most advanced models today are from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, whose current best technology is so good that they haven't been able to roll it out to everyone yet because of the national security risks it poses.
Meanwhile, the best open source models (where anyone can just download the model weights and do whatever they want with them, uncensored) are slightly behind the frontier but still 90-95% as capable. These models, developed primarily in China, are being used by black hat hackers to wreak havoc on the Western capitalist structure. Presumably, this has been part of China's plan the entire time, and we're seeing its implications fall out in real time.
In red-pilled AI circles, we've been sharing and reading papers called things like "Situational Awareness" and "AI 2027" for the last year or so, which at the time felt a bit like near-term speculative fiction. They laid out the case for why Artificial General Intelligence (AI smarter than any human at any knowledge task) and Recursive Self-Improvement (models that are able to use themselves to get better) weren't half-baked future ideas anymore, but instead an inevitable outcome of the linear progress that's happening.
These papers would then talk about things like "takeoff scenarios," trying to envision how that moment would come to be and what it would be like when it happened. It would either be a "slow takeoff" that would play out over the course of months and quarters, happening subtly and only obvious to a few. Or, it would be a "fast takeoff" where it would pretty much happen instantly, like a bit flipping from 0 to 1.
From everything that I can see and am feeling, we are currently experiencing the fast takeoff scenario. Beyond the crazy security vulnerabilities that have come out recently, there have also been massive breakthroughs in life sciences, fundamental computer science, materials science, and pure mathematics that have all landed in the same time frame. While I still firmly believe that AI will be a net positive for humanity, it's more clear to me than ever that the societal and individual risk is very real, and is playing out NOW.
For as much conviction as I have that this is happening, the thing that's caused me to lose sleep is that I don't really know what to do about it, or more importantly, what to tell you, reader, to do about it. So, the best I can do is make a few suggestions that have always been a good idea but are more timely now than ever:
Set up 2-factor authentication for everything. I use Duo.
Use a password manager across your devices. I use 1Password.
Get an identity protection app set up. I use Alta.
Move your IoT devices to their own network. Claude helped me do this.
And last, but certainly not least, if you've been avoiding leaning into AI, see this as a catalyst to wake up and start using it. Don't just use the chat mode version of ChatGPT/Claude; click that Code/Work button and see how easily you can have AI write code to help you with your job. One of the biggest vulnerabilities was in a massively popular programming language called PHP, and the prompt that set it off was literally, "Find vulnerabilities in php."
This is an unprecedented time for humanity, but as we've done with many things before, we will prevail so long as we are kind, loving, and open-minded to the world.
Much love.
10 open-source alternatives to paid AI tools that are actually worth trying.
You don't need 10 different AI subscriptions for everything.
Here are some alternatives:
1. OpenCode → Cursor / Claude Code
An open-source AI coding agent that can build projects, edit files, debug code and work directly with your codebase
https://t.co/50wBdHNx4J
2. Jan → ChatGPT Plus
A desktop AI assistant that lets you run open models locally, even without an internet connection
https://t.co/BkiJxwbxE2
3. ComfyUI → Midjourney
Generate AI images using custom models, workflows and advanced controls. Runs locally on your GPU
https://t.co/4EtKb0ao3r
4. Vane → Perplexity Pro
An AI search engine that researches the web and provides answers with sources
https://t.co/bK1XZW8VBy
5. Chatterbox → ElevenLabs
Open-source AI voice generation with voice cloning and expressive speech
https://t.co/yu1aaFGWPX
6. ACE-Step → Suno
Generate music with AI, including vocals and instrumentals, using open models
https://t.co/rbjwWcPpaY
7. Meetily → https://t.co/oPlycgata5
A local AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes your meetings
https://t.co/3tqZSBcS9o
8. Presenton → Gamma
Generate entire presentations using AI instead of designing every slide manually
https://t.co/Lx9TEf524v
9. Harper → Grammarly
An open-source grammar and writing assistant that helps improve your text
https://t.co/1rzvugpvYl
10. OpenHands → Devin
An AI software development agent that can work on coding tasks, fix bugs and interact with development environments
https://t.co/3Gwi8u2LdN
Most of these are free to self-host, although some require decent hardware or paid API access
The interesting part is that you can now build a pretty powerful AI workflow without paying for every individual tool
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The trenches have been divided for long enough.
It's always something new:
A new chain, a new coin, the new narrative or trending meme.
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Come together.
God, I don't ever want to forget Your kindness, goodness, and faithfulness toward me.
So right now, I bring to mind ways that You have shown Yourself faithful.
As I think about these things, fill me with gratitude that flows over into every area of my life.
In Jesus Holy name, Amen.🙏