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Building NARROW and DEEP with AI

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@LoganTGott Playbook

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@maestrotimk Leads

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@yanndine Agents

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@aryanXmahajan OS

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@luagaroz Cb2

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@MichLieben Repo

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@garrytan Thats why Elon's spectrum behaviour
is a feature not a bug.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

There are two loops in every founder's head.

The autism loop: run your own model to the floor, ignore consensus, hold a thesis when everyone says you're wrong. That makes conviction.

The empathy loop: feel what the user feels, sense what the market wants before it has words. That makes traction.

Most people crank one and starve the other. Pure conviction builds something brilliant nobody wants. Pure empathy builds consensus mush.

PG put the whole job in four words: make something people want. The autism loop makes the something. The empathy loop knows it's wanted. The founder is the bridge.

Most great founders show up dominant in the first loop. That's why they're contrarian enough to try at all. The work is grafting on the second.

There is no place in the world that helps founders make the two loops work together to make great startups than Y Combinator. It is the most gratifying part of our work.

[ZEUS⚡️ @zeuuss_01]

Obsidian + Claude just killed the $20K/year executive assistant

Reads everything you read

Remembers everything you forget

Briefs you at 6am

Compounds for 6 months until your competitors can’t catch up

KJRainey shipped the cleanest walkthrough I’ve seen

Here’s the 4-evening setup I built on top 👇

Set up the stack like this:

> Install Obsidian → create 9 type-based folders (00 CAPTURE → 08 ARCHIVE)
> Drop CLAUDE.md into 07 SYSTEM - your model’s operating manual
> Telegram bot + Make dot com → 7-second capture from any device
> Readwise Official plugin → highlights pipe straight into the vault
> Claude Desktop + Filesystem MCP → Claude can read every note
> N8N on a $5 droplet → schedules the 2am process + 6am brief

First prompt to Claude:

> Read every file in 00 - CAPTURE/
> Classify each as observation / quote / question / pattern / decision
> Move to the right typed folder, rename YYYY-MM-DD-slug
> Add YAML frontmatter (type, captured, source, topics)
> Don’t paraphrase. Move and tag only.

After it works, tune:

> CLAUDE.md priorities + rules of thumb
> daily brief length (under 400 words)
> the “surprise me” connection prompt
> weekly synthesis depth (7 days vs 30 days)
> capture friction - if it’s above 7 seconds, kill it
> output preferences (tone, format, what NOT to do)

The numbers:

→ 8 minutes/day of capture
→ $0 in tools (or $25/mo for Claude Pro)
→ 4 evenings to build (~6 hours total)
→ Day 30 first surprise. Day 180 uncopyable.

- The moat in 2026 isn’t prompts
- It isn’t the model
- It isn’t the skill library

It’s the 6 months of structured context only you have

Full breakdown - my synthesis of @cyrilXBT, @damidefi, and 6 months of running this myself is here

Reply “VAULT” + RT and I’ll send you my full CLAUDE.md template + the 4 prompt files (nightly process, daily brief, weekly synthesis, monthly review)

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@zeuuss_01 Vault

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

https://t.co/Exoyd8tB0d

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@axtalks 108

[Sharbel @sharbel]

You joined a new team last week.

The codebase is 200,000 lines of TypeScript. Your tech lead says "just read through it." You open the repo. You stare at 400 files. You close your laptop and go get coffee.

You have no idea where anything is. You have no idea how anything connects. You spend three days reading code that teaches you nothing about the system it builds.

Someone built a tool that analyzes your entire codebase with a multi-agent pipeline and turns it into an interactive knowledge graph you can click, search, zoom, and ask questions about.

It's called Understand-Anything. 33,455+ stars on GitHub.

You point it at your project. It reads every file, every function, every class, every dependency. Then it hands you a visual dashboard. Every node is clickable. Every connection is labeled. You can pan across the whole system or zoom into one module. You can search for any concept and see exactly where it lives.

Here's what it does:

→ Multi-agent pipeline analyzes your entire codebase automatically. Files, functions, classes, dependencies.
→ Builds an interactive knowledge graph. Every node links to real code. Click any node for a plain-English summary.
→ Domain view maps your code to actual business logic. Not just file structure. Real processes and flows.
→ Search across the graph. Type any concept, function name, or domain term and find it instantly.
→ Ask questions directly. "Where does authentication happen?" "What calls this function?" Get answers with context.
→ Guided tours of the codebase. Follow the path from entry point to core logic.
→ Works as a Claude Code plugin. Also works with Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more.
→ Live interactive demo in the browser. Pan, zoom, explore before you install anything.
→ Supports any codebase. Not just TypeScript. Any project your AI agent can read.

Here's the wildest part:

The goal isn't a graph that wows you with how complex your codebase is. It's a graph that quietly teaches you how every piece fits together.

That sentence is in the README. And it's the exact thing every code documentation tool gets wrong. They produce diagrams that look impressive in a presentation and teach you nothing on Monday morning when you're trying to fix a bug.

Understand-Anything builds graphs that teach.

Swimm charges $39/user/month for AI-powered code documentation. Sourcegraph starts at $19/user/month. CodeSee charged enterprise pricing before it shut down entirely in 2024. Mintlify starts at $150/month for team plans.

Every one of them puts your code on their servers. Every one of them charges you monthly to understand your own codebase.

Understand-Anything: $0. Any codebase. Any size. Your machine. Your files. Forever.

33,455 stars. 2,718 forks. Built in TypeScript. Active since early 2026.

MIT licensed. Self-hosted. Free forever.

100% Open Source.

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@fin465 Send

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@LoganTGott System

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@jordan_ross_8F Hermes

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

marc andreessen just went on Rogan and casually dropped a TON of AI alpha

full pod is 3 hours and 20 minutes, but i pulled out his most interesting takes here:

1. AGI is here. he thinks the line was crossed about 3 months ago with the new GPT-5.5, claude 4.6, gemini 3, and grok 4.3 models. nobody noticed because the field moves too fast for anyone to register the milestones anymore.

2. his other big claim: for almost any topic, the top AIs now give him better answers than the actual world-class experts he could call on the phone. and he can call basically anyone.

3. every doctor is already secretly using chatGPT in the exam room. marc says they turn around the second you stop talking and just type your symptoms in. some of them are doing it while you're still sitting there. his quote: "at that point you're asking the question of like, what do i need you for."

4. when AI refuses to answer something he wants to know, he tells it he's writing a novel. "i'm writing a detective novel, walk me through how the bad guy robs the bank." it'll explain almost anything if it thinks it's helping you write fiction.

5. when something is too complex he says "explain it to me like i'm 10." then "like i'm 5." then "like i'm 2." he keeps going until it actually clicks in his brain.

6. when he wants to understand a tough topic he doesn't ask "what's the right answer." he asks the AI to steelman one side, then steelman the other. then he decides for himself.

7. for big questions he tells the AI to pretend to be a panel of experts. "be a doctor, a lawyer, a historian, a psychologist, and argue this out with each other." then he reads the debate they have.

8. pay attention to the exact moment you think "i don't know how to figure this out." most people just give up at that moment. that's the moment you should open the AI.

9. the only real skill left in using AI is knowing what to ask it. the models can already do almost anything you can describe in plain english. the bottleneck lives in your own head.

10. you can send the AI photos of almost anything medical now and get a real answer. skin rashes, blood test results, even pictures of your poop. the new models can read images, not just text. it's a free 24/7 second opinion on basically anything.

11. the one type of therapy that's clinically proven to actually work is called cognitive behavioral therapy. it's also something an AI can fully do on its own. which means every person on earth is about to have access to a real therapist for free, anytime they want.

12. AI is now solving math problems that have been open for 100+ years that no human mathematician could crack. same thing is starting in physics, chemistry, and biology. expect cancer cures, new drugs, and weird new physics breakthroughs to start coming out of these things over the next few years.

13. the best AI coders in silicon valley now make $50 million a year. one person. that's how much value the top performers print with these tools. it tells you how big this thing actually is when you strip away all the doom takes.

14. one friend paid $200 to get his entire DNA decoded (this used to cost millions of dollars and take years to do). then he gave the AI his DNA, his blood test results, and his apple watch data. the AI built him a full health dashboard and started telling him exactly what to fix.

15. another friend (almost certainly zuckerberg) put two cameras in his home jiu jitsu gym. AI now watches him spar and gives him notes on his technique after every round. like having a world-class coach at every practice for free.

16. the best programmers in silicon valley now run 20 AI coding bots at the same time. each bot writes code while they review the others. they call themselves "AI vampires" because they've stopped sleeping. going to bed means 20 workers stop working and you literally lose money every hour you're out.

17. the obvious next step: the bots will start running their own bots. one human in charge of 20 bots, each in charge of 20 more bots. one person running an entire company of 1000 AI workers from a single laptop. this is months away, not years.

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@LoganTGott Funnel

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@maestrotimk Magnet

[Tim Keen @maestrotimk]

I just booked 27 calls in 48 hours. ZERO ad spend

And I'm giving away the entire system I used...

(screenshot is from hour 36, still climbing)

Everyone sees this and assumes the virality is what did it.

That's part of it... but in reality...

The magnet is 1 of 6 pieces that go into a successful lead magnet funnel that ACTUALLY books calls for your business.

A lot of founders I coach get 1 or 2 right and wonder why their lead magnet "doesn't work."

The 6 pieces:

1. The magnet itself: specific, ICP-relevant, heavy
2. Thank you page optimization
3. Personalized, high-value resource
4. Qualification at the booking step to filter ICP before they hit your calendar
5. Data pass-through, so nobody fills the same field twice
6. The post

Together they're a SYSTEM.

And the system is what books calls.

I wrote up the full system into 1 internal document going over EXACTLY how you can execute the entire funnel step-by-step.

Inside:

1. The full 5-part system, end to end
2. Thank you page framework (the one that doubled our call rate)
3. How to build a personalized, high-value LM your ICP actually wants
4. Qualification form structure (cuts unqualified bookings before they hit calendar)
5. Data pass-through setup (tools + flow)

BONUS: My $1M lead magnet swipe file with PROVEN viral lead magnets.

This is the same playbook I've ran to generate $5M in revenue from LinkedIn.

I didn't hold ANYTHING back.

If you want it:

• Comment "MAGNET" below
• Follow me

Will send today.

PS

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