Greg McL

ai / startups / m&a / golf • building practical ai for non-technical businesses

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@nazzari ✋ i feel seen

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@_DavidHead @endorsed_ai @FortuneMagazine congrats man! love seeing you build! @_DavidHead

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@JourneyGMG @WomanDefiner Those “flaws” are features. No judge can force a verdict because one official shouldn’t control guilt. Unanimity + secrecy exist for a reason. Hung jury ≠ failure.

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@MatthewBerman @bot Yes please! @MatthewBerman

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@kobyof https://t.co/Tm763WVSd7

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United's inflight wifi page wouldn't load on my Macbook
and I couldn't google the fix, because, well, no wifi.

Then I remembered texting is free up here. So I texted Instinct from 35,000 feet. It searched, found the DNS setting blocking my Mac, walked me through it line by line. Page loaded, paid the $10, online.

I never got on the internet. I just texted something that was already on it. Fun little hack.

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@iterpraxis Enjoy!
https://t.co/Tm763WVSd7

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https://t.co/Tm763WVSd7

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FYI, Instinct is still invite-only and I have 10 invites so lmk if you want one!

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@LeopoldTracker_ Who is the corpse on the right?

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@theo i don’t think it’s really an in-between. it has Fable’s taste, but unlike Fable it doesn’t trust its own cleverness, so it audits every instinct like Sol. higher floor, lower variance, way more friction.

Opus 5 is basically OSHA 5 lol

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@Mike_kim714 059

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@tenobrus half agree. Opus 5 is a killer technical subagent. a permanent Fable→Opus hierarchy is too neat tho. gpt 5.6 sol will find holes all over both of them. you need an independent auditor with veto power.

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@yacineMTB same. dropped 5.6 cold into a codebase Opus 4.8/Opus 5/Fable 5 had built for months. it found the context rot, shrank active project state 147KB→18KB (~32K tokens/session), called 98% confidence on its corrections, then went 3/3 when Opus checked. ridiculous.

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companies have no idea how much ai they’re actually using. products, employee tools, vendors, random workflows nobody owns. eventually someone important is going to ask what all of it is doing and the answer will be a spreadsheet nobody has updated in six months

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AI did not just make content cheap.

It made a lot of business “moats” legibly fake.

After spending time around companies being bought, sold, and valued, I keep coming back to one question:

If someone showed up tomorrow with $100M and the best AI tools money can rent, how long would this business last?

I think only 4 assets really survive that test:

trust, access, proprietary data, and a license.

Wrote about why here: https://t.co/XLACdw5WOT

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A lot of businesses are about to find out they were never as defensible as they thought.

AI did not just make content cheap.

It made fake moats obvious.

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@stephsmithio Do you find baseball interesting? Genuinely curious. I’m 100% biased bc I’ve played my whole life and in college, but the least suspecting (and my favorite) baseball fans I’ve come across in life are past coworkers (typically swes) at startups.

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@theharshith_ Not my client, but I did! Only so much you can do once the LOI is signed… He made out very well nonetheless.