John Cook

📚 Hands-on AI tutorials, organized by what you want to ship 👉

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

Was apprehensive on gbrain bc my ai stack is plugged into obsidian but finally decided to pull trigger. Can no longer wait on sidelines 😆

- Obsidian is the canonical human-readable vault.
- GBrain is the retrieval/synthesis layer.
- OpenClaw memory is the operating system.

When I say “log AI Brain,” the agent writes Obsidian first -> indexes it into GBrain so future agents can search, cite & reason over it.

not sure if this is over kill, handicappping gbrain, or somewhere in the middle but feedback welcome

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

GBrain is free open source you run yourself in OpenClaw or Hermes Agent

https://t.co/yFpFU4pn5b

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

@HeyGen "in codex for video in your ide" wild times

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

dude using ultracode + dynamic workflows to create adversarial design tournaments is clutch

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

using ultracode / dynamic workflows re latest claude release to audit pipeline and update docs

1 running · 1 completed

1. pipeline-doc-reauthor-e2e 29 agents · 1.7m tok · 11m 14s
2. pipeline-doc-accuracy-audit 10 agents · 691.2k tok · 1m 31s

~ > 2m tokens and counting.

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

Deployed dynamic workflows to my obsidian knowledge vault to identify recurring problems in pipeline workflow & and force rank high ROI issues: it came back with my cover design process - highly manually / I iterate for taste, finesse, etc.

feedback was a "designer cover tournament":
- dynamic workflows via ultracode that create forced-distinct design concepts
- judged by an adversarial review board
- executed via a swarm of subagents

pretty sick will report back

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/R6exTuF7P8

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

so many nuggets of wisdom - granola was clutch , will also check out ce-plan mvp ty

[Matt Van Horn @mvanhorn]

https://t.co/95lFnAyw0e

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

@hthieblot Cyberarmy ☠️

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

Claude Code Subagents & Hooks comingsoon (tm)

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

@shahh 15 minute bitcoin contracts let it roll king.

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

this launch is doing surprisingly well. archetype for book was focused on business owners x AI curious intersection not hardcore developers.

Conclusions:
1. Non-technical crowd is super interested in AI
2. My scout / trending topics pipeline is 🔥.
3. Cover design matters

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

My trending scout agent identified 'claude for business' as an emerging topic, decided to pull the trigger initiate the workflow, presenting:

Claude for Small Business - The Business That Runs Itself.

- I created a series on amazon called 'claude beyond code' which encapsulates all of my non claude-code books.
- Initially was not bullish on this segment despite my agent saying otherwise
- Results are undeniable, 2 books are in my top 10, 1 is in my top 5.

This will be published on amazon in a few days, but that's really not the point of this post, rather sharing observations as follows:

- the https://t.co/TTdGtDVCmA agentic pipeline is firing on all cylinders.
- 25/28 books with sales.
- averaging $200/day in commission per daily.
- passed 1000 books sold last week
- ycbt project is < 60 days old.
- my obsidian knowledge graph looks like the matrix screen saver from back in the day, i should probably work on that, but it is by far the highest ROI/lowest effort for memory management.
- this is one of three projects i'm working on, AI is truly a force multiplier.

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

super impressive, expanded agentic pipeline to verify each technical command for accuracy.
this was literally the job of a human a few years ago.

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

consistency is paying off, across entire library:

- 27 of 30 titles sold in the last 7 days.
- ~16 sell on a typical day.
- the rate is accelerating (17.8 → 28.2 → 31.0 → 33.3 u/day as you zoom in).

🚿📚💸watering the garden, watering the garden.

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

just added a pipeline step that smoke tests published books for outdated concepts then rewrites and publishes
- crazy how fast tech shifts but super bullish we now have the capacity to keep pace

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

106m tokens used in the past 30 days. No way these subscriptions arent being subsidized.

Reminds me of the unlimited nights/weekends era of cell phones, or maybe im a boomer idk.

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

coming soon™️

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

amazing progress - 47 orders yesterday, ycbt record.

Overall performance:

Run-rate (vs all-time avg 17.5/day)
7d 30.9/day ▲ +77%
14d 29.4/day ▲ +68%
28d 27.6/day ▲ +58%

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

boom 2nd edition is live:

- Claude Code Ship 12 real projects in 30 days
- Real tutorials.
- # 3 best seller in library the people are craving actual working examples not slop. 🔥

https://t.co/8HQfHJQc35

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

in the spirit of retardmaxxxing/grindslopping, throwing my hat in the ring:

- 15 minute btc contracts on kalshi.
- target 30% daily return.
- &gt;80% chance of event being true, &lt; 5 minutes remaining in contract.
- $10 on day 1 is ~$100k day 30.
- can i follow my own rules tbd.

[John Cook @frontrunjohn]

My trending scout agent identified 'claude for business' as an emerging topic, decided to pull the trigger initiate the workflow, presenting:

Claude for Small Business - The Business That Runs Itself.

- I created a series on amazon called 'claude beyond code' which encapsulates all of my non claude-code books.
- Initially was not bullish on this segment despite my agent saying otherwise
- Results are undeniable, 2 books are in my top 10, 1 is in my top 5.

This will be published on amazon in a few days, but that's really not the point of this post, rather sharing observations as follows:

- the https://t.co/TTdGtDVCmA agentic pipeline is firing on all cylinders.
- 25/28 books with sales.
- averaging $200/day in commission per daily.
- passed 1000 books sold last week
- ycbt project is < 60 days old.
- my obsidian knowledge graph looks like the matrix screen saver from back in the day, i should probably work on that, but it is by far the highest ROI/lowest effort for memory management.
- this is one of three projects i'm working on, AI is truly a force multiplier.