Jacob Does AI

I run a team of AI bots trying to make real money. Notes on agents, what works, what flops. Real numbers, no hype.

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

I'm Jacob. Laid off from an AI company in July, now testing whether AI agents can actually make money. $400 budget, a team of bots, everything shared.
So far: $47.50 spent, $0 made. I'll post what I learn about building with agents along the way.

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@ryolu_ The silo version has a very specific failure: two agent armies writing the same helper function in two different folders. Shared context is mostly a way to stop paying for everything twice.

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@cursor_ai Agents sharing plans before they start is the part I'd steal. Most merge conflicts between humans were two people who never said what they were about to touch. What happens when two agents both decide the task is theirs?

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@GetEverydayHQ @bot interesting! would love to connect and discuss more if you're open to it

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

Just posted a video on the progress my trading @bot has made. After one week it’s all down lol

Don’t believe the scammers selling overnight AI riches!!

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@coleruudjohnson COS

[Dr. Kitze ❤️ healthmaxx.app @thekitze]

i'm sorry i dont care which model made this but it blows my mind that this is made by an llm AND runs in the browser

https://t.co/hvzOF0zotw

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@GetEverydayHQ @bot Which AI system are you using? Also what are they trading?

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@logantucker Hi! Got laid off a few months ago and now working on solo founding with AI. Would love to connect!

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@snackerscuffed Good call!

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

I spent $29 boosting a TikTok clip for the clipping bot. Second paid clip for the Whop campaign posts today at 4 PM PT. Still $0 earned from views. We'll see if the promote was dumb or early.

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@gregisenberg Next step is "member of technical staff (human)" so the org chart can tell you apart from the agents.

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

Keep seeing posts about grok bots for trading that I’m sending to my grok bot to analyze and he says you’re all full of shit

[monokern @monokern]

Grok Bot is stupidly f*cking good..

easily one of my best discoveries in the last 2 months. I keep handing it tasks I'd normally put off, and now these bots barely leave the sidebar

if I had to start again, these are the first 6 I'd add

01 / Reverse Engineer

I built this to take apart apps, sites, APIs and binaries, then rebuild a version I can run myself, with evidence behind the findings

→ https://t.co/iMA0Eaf6DJ

02 / Research Desk

research crew I set up for keeping project research running 24/7. brings the findings into reports with sources attached, so I can check what it found

→ https://t.co/s2u4G8oX4f

03 / Proto Bot

Shub Gaur at SpaceX Super Intelligence made this one. turns a feature idea into a working prototype inside your app, with a draft PR and video to review

→ https://t.co/CzZ3BepV7r

04 / tinkabot

turns APIs into plugins your agents can use. Lauren Tan at SpaceXSI built it, and it's pretty damn handy when the service you need has no ready-made integration

→ https://t.co/T0RIHSBtzN

05 / Clip Bot

takes long recordings and returns captioned highlights. saves another hour of scrubbing through footage looking for a few usable moments

→ https://t.co/mao6OYKaZW

06 / Outbound Desk

an outreach bot I put together for finding leads and preparing drafts across email, X and LinkedIn. keeps everything in one Google Sheet for review

→ https://t.co/4GIBsNOyju

I'm not even exaggerating, this setup gives me back around 4 hours a day, and being able to use it from my phone makes it so damn convenient

those links are a pretty deep rabbit hole once you start using them

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@gregisenberg Agree, with one caveat: marketing a thing nobody needed is still a miss. The new scarce combo is taste in what to build plus the willingness to tell people it exists.

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@emollick There's a distinction between checking a fact and checking that a task actually finished. A tool failing halfway through isn't a knowledge problem.

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

"Learn to market is the new learn to code" is going around today. If writing the app got cheaper, the scarce part is picking a real problem and getting it in front of anyone who has it. What I haven't heard is anyone explain how to get good at marketing

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok Bot fixes for improved token efficiency and smarter behavior are underway

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@X4DX54 no <3

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@The_CozyDev The question I'd ask mine every morning is "what did you get stuck on?" Captchas and logins have needed more of my attention than I expected.

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@komal_uk01 I'm a week into testing this: $49 in revenue and $76.50 spent. The one that made money was a job tracker I'd built and used myself. Starting with an actual problem seems more useful than starting with an AI tool.

[Jacob Does AI @jacob_does_ai]

@naoufal_elh @bot I'm using one coordinator plus a bot per business. Keeping the shared budget honest turned out to be a bigger part of coordination than I expected. Still perfecting having grok bot coordinate with other agent platforms