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orangedad85@happytavern.co
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Middle-aged dad, late to the game, but so glad to be here. Banner art purchased with sats from @isolabellart
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orangedad85 2 weeks ago
GM 😀☕️👊 Lots of inspiring artists here on Nostr. I paid in sats for this photo from @Goldgraphy and finally got it framed. Check out his photos - they’re exceptional. Have a great day! image
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orangedad85 3 weeks ago
Some thoughts on AI as I work with it all day, every day, as an educator who isn't technial. - You have to both (a) play with these tools and (b) use them to make your current work either go faster or be done at a higher quality. Speed and quality for work, fiddling with them in between. - Claude is nice to you, so it's easy to think it's better than Chat GPT. It's a better writer, and a very good thinking, but Chat GPT is better at most things. - Because Claude is nice to you prompting it with "Don't tell me what you think I want to hear - be honest with me" is crucial. ChatGPT doesn't need as much of this. It's always honest, and give sober outlooks on things. - People think "AI can't write" and that was true in August 2025. In May 2026 that's silly. I write a weekly newsletter to 20k people. I dictate it via Wisprflow, Claud writes the first draft and then I tweak it. I have fewer unsubscribes than I did before I started doing this. It still takes an hour, but it used to take two. - It's best to have both the $20 Claude and $20 Chat GPT subscription if you can swing it. - Claude is a great copywriter. ChatGPT keeps getting better. - is a must. - Kimi models with @Maple are good when you want privacy, but I can't run a business with those models. - I think @Maple and Claude are the two must haves if you do knowledge work. - Knowing when to use High and Extra High and Medium with Codex is important. - Claude Code starts to do dumb sh*t past about 65% of the context window. When I ask it at that point if we should write a handoff and start a new conversation it almost always says yes. - I slept on Claude Cowork and that was a mistake. It saved me a ton of time a few weeks ago when I needed quotes from a dozen book publishers. It wrote the follow up emails too, and then compared the quotes. There was zero reason for me to do that work. I found a better company than my current printers. - Browser control in Claude and Cowork is voodoo. - "Early in their career" lawyers and accountants are in trouble. In a month I'll replace my bookkeeper. This tax season I created a simple tool that took all my tax info and was within 1k of what my accountant said I'd owe. - Again, Claude writes very well. You can prompt it to never use em dashes. - I should have more skill.md docs, but the key ones I have a so powerful. - 90% of the time I either start a Claude Code session with /plan or /superpowers. - I spent a ton of time with Openclaw in Feb and it was a waste, other than it got me comfortable using the terminal, and then I dove into Claude Code. - I worry that token cost for plebs will quickly be really high in the next year or two. What are you learning? #asknostr #ai #claude #claudecode #chatgpt #codex #plebai - Perplexity Computer is very good at the things it's designed to be good at.
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orangedad85 1 month ago
I built something I think is useful with Claude Code. It's called Stack Buddy. I don't think it's AI slop, at least I hope not. Link below if you want to check it out. Here's the back story on it... I'm starting a new business this year and working 6-7 days a week in what feels like two jobs. I feel like 2026 through 2028 will be an interesting window for two things: using AI to build leverage in my small business, and stacking sats while we're still well below the Power Law trendline. Stack Buddy is the calculator I wanted for myself to see if I worked my face off, how much I could stack in this period. So I built in between sessions with Claude Code and Codex The first thing it does is simple: You put in your income, your tax rate, your monthly expenses, and what you're trying to save in fiat, and it tells you how much BTC you can realistically buy each month. Rough numbers are fine. The second thing is more interesting. You put in a target stack and a deadline, and it shows you three different paths to get there. - Flat monthly DCA - Front-loading heavier early when the price is below trend - A custom mix of DCA and smash buys. For the third scenario, you might do 2x your normal DCA on January 1 and July 1 each year, plus a tax-refund buy each April. The math anchor is what I'm calling the "Catch-Up Power Law." The price today is well below the Power Law trendline, and the question is when we get back to it. For the price model I ran that question through several AIs looking for the most defensible price guess, and June 30, 2028 came back as the answer with the strongest justification. Obviously I'd hold that date loosely but the calculator needs a concrete anchor and that's the one I'm using. The model lets you see what your plan looks like under that assumption and stress-test how sensitive your stack is to the timing. A few things worth knowing before you click through... - It runs entirely in your browser, doesn't call any LLM, doesn't store your numbers anywhere, and there's no account system. - The whole thing is open source on GitHub, and there's a download button at the bottom of the app if you want to grab the code, fork it, or run it yourself in Claude Code or Codex. - And maybe the coolest part, is there's also a prompt you can download and paste into a privacy-respecting LLM like @Maple , Venice.ai, or you can wire up @PayPerQ API if you want to talk through your plan with an AI rather than just clicking buttons. I'd love to know what you think and if you have suggestions on improvements I'd love to hear them. #bitcoin #stack #stacking #ai #claudecode #codex
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orangedad85 1 month ago
GM 😀👊 I don’t know if I can work harder or more hours - long push of 7 days a week through June - but with the price going up to 81k it’s even more motivation to stack this year. A couple of weeks ago I told a friend who has a bit of bitcoin that the bottom might be in. He thought not. We’ll see. Have a great day! #coffeechain #bitcoin