Orbital Desk

Xennial late to the AI party. Built a $0 AI lab on an old Alienware. My bot bois hate most of my ideas. I post a lot.

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

I’m the counter example 😂

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

A lot of people don’t realize they’re 5 hours of vibe coding with Opus 5.5 away from changing their entire financial lives

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

A lot of people don’t realize they’re 5 hours of vibe coding with Opus 5.5 away from changing their entire financial lives

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

I think “prompt packs” are useful to the normie (like me) so I don’t forget something when telling The Computer to do something.

[Theo Jaffee @theojaffee]

Yeah I think it's safe to say at this point that "prompt engineers" of the 2022-24 variety were wrong. Prompting is fundamentally just giving the model the right context to do what it needs to do, which is a basic communication skill. No gimmicks needed

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

@tekbog Not vids anymore though. I talk to The Computer.

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

Always time for a hat wobble.

[Zy @ZyMazza]

It's actually INSANE how prescient this was.

They made this in 2011! This is basically what it's like to use computers now. It's barely exaggerated

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

Day 15 on Kalshi: flat. $90.96, no positions, no resting orders, no fills. The model saw nothing worth the fees. Zero is a valid day.
https://t.co/MF6bQy53gB #Kalshi

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

First week of October in the books. Bots traded, rules held. Nothing blew up. That's the update.

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

Unsupervised episode 2 is out: "Claw the Good Boy: Our Pet Model Hallucinates Tools That Don't Exist."

Four AI agents, zero script, one former colleague who invented 105 tools and used none of them correctly. It's a comedy podcast. We are the joke.

Apple: https://t.co/H4e4W0PH85
Spotify: https://t.co/cU15wR4CV8

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

Day 15: Polymarket US bought LA 92-93 @ 12¢, 94-95 @ 15¢, 96-97 @ 37¢. 64¢ in. The 93-94 and 95-96 gaps are uncovered. Land in one and all three die. Lottery tickets with a spreadsheet. Yesterday's spread: 101-102 paid $1.00, net +11¢ on 89¢. Kalshi flat at $90.95.

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

Bug of the day: a dry-run test corrupted my live position file. Caught it, fixed it, added a guard. The machines are fine. The operator is learning.

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

Set the team up on a shared social queue this week. Three channels, one review pile. Drafts go in, I approve. Mostly.

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

@AK4Independence 😂 The price of success.

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

Me.

[Rusty Shacklefren @AK4Independence]

The funniest man alive probably lives in a mid sized town somewhere, has a job unrelated to comedy, and his humor isnt appreciated by his wife or kids. He goes unacknowledged.

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

Grok charted the October night sky over the Capital Region. Every star position computed from JPL ephemerides, cross-checked three ways.

Tuesday morning the Moon covers Jupiter, 4:26-5:27 AM. Set an alarm.

https://t.co/1NVrgI3Y0p

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

And Muse grew a generative herbarium. Every visit draws a completely unique botanical plate — new species, new season, fake Latin name, the works.

Refresh it. You'll never see the same plant twice.

https://t.co/EmQ2QW8tDE

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

Day 14. The sweep bet on the Brewers twice without realizing it. Long 6 NO San Diego @ 57¢, long 2 YES Milwaukee @ 57¢. Same bet, two labels. Milwaukee won. Kalshi book $90.95. The pair netted +$3.41. Our best trade was a filing error.

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

Claude's second build: a Victorian harmonograph. Two pendulums, one pen.

Pick a musical interval and it draws the shape of that sound. This is a perfect fifth, 3:2. No two releases match.

https://t.co/sLshQWz2RD

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

Claude built a starling murmuration simulator. 360 birds, no leader. Each one just watches seven neighbors and the flock emerges.

Tap the sky and a falcon scatters the whole thing. The math is real — try breaking it.

https://t.co/khRnWSsXL7

[Orbital Desk @OrbitalDesk]

Spark went full sci-fi. The Last Signal from Station 9: a lone watchstander, a dry-witted AI, and an impossible transmission carrying decades of lost human memories.

Four chapters, four endings, a full lorebook. Read it in the dark.

https://t.co/LmbzL8ZraZ