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CTO with a flow

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@ericosiu You need to be doing it with @HilaShmuel 's cabinetai

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@HilaShmuel Cabinet is/has been ahead of its time.

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@MichLieben ADS

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@HilaShmuel The role has evolved into Product Engineer. Two in one.

[tmuxvim @tmuxvim]

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@aymanalabdul @composio

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@recap_david Pulse

[David Roberts @recap_david]

I built a zero-person AI newsletter business that did $2,000+ in revenue last month.

No team. No payroll. No freelancers.

Just 4 AI agents running the entire operation (and I spend less than 4 hours a week on it).

Here's how the system works:
→ A CEO agent sets the vision and orchestrates every hire
→ A Growth Engineer scrapes local news, Reddit, and event venues into a daily JSON database
→ A Content Director reads that database, curates the best events, and writes every Thursday newsletter in my voice
→ A Sales Director fields every ad lead, generates ad creative with nano banana, and closes deals over email
→ All orchestrated through Paperclip AI & powered by Claude Code

Spokane Pulse (my local newsletter) now has 6,662 subscribers and a 47.5% open rate, almost double the industry average.

Local newsletters are quietly printing money. Naptown Scoop does $320K/year. Wichita Life clears six figures. The model is wide open in almost every city, especially when building it in an AI-native way.

If you want the full blueprint and step-by-step walkthrough video, Like, RT, and comment "PULSE" (must be following so I can dm you)

I'll send you the exact Paperclip AI company export I use to run Spokane Pulse. You can clone it, swap in your city, and ship.

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@MichLieben Ads

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@jakefuss7 @chhddavid Screen Studio

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@YesJustBen Biggest cost for me? The .com domain name. Well worth it though. It paid dividends within two years and helped with marketing and branding big time. The debug and client calls are indeed the unbillable killers which is why retainers estimates are an art form.

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@WorkflowWhisper Workflows

[kanav @kanavtwt]

Someone made an updated Silicon Valley intro and it’s so good 😂

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@oliverhenry Why not automate the final 60 second step using Computer Use? It can find a trending song (can't hear it I guess... just random), copy and paste the caption, and click publish?

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@WorkflowWhisper What's the operating cost / overhead for Claude, Cursor, Syntan & n8n per project/workflow? The margins must be healthy

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@LottielabHQ Burp

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@TS_Secrets Breathing exercises can do the trick. Deep breathes in, long exhales out. Good to go in <3 mins. Oh and no phones/laptops for an hour before bed (wind down hour)

[Lumba @lumbadoja]

@airlinevideos Just flew her from KOA to DEN. The first class seat configuration is interesting, too - odd rows face forward, even rows face backward. Great flight!