You guys keep liking and commenting on my confession posts, so here's another one. I wish at least one of these confessions wasn't real. They're all real (sad face). For the AI nerds in here (so, all of us): I think I'm addicted. It's worse than being hooked on a video game. A game at least has the decency to feel like a waste of time. This feels productive. Sometimes it actually is. At 1am, running six seven sessions at once? Not so much. ------------------------------------ What my nights have turned into ------------------------------------ Multiple Claude sessions going at once. When it got late and I knew I should be in bed, I'd flip every one of them with the /remote-control command so I could keep feeding the machine from my phone. Lying there in the dark. Waiting for the little dot to show up that means it's done thinking. Fire off the next instruction. Wait for the dot again. It's a slot machine. Drop the coins, pull the lever, watch for the dot. Like a freaking addict. One evening this week (I think it was Tuesday) I had three sessions all editing the same end-of-day file, and they kept overwriting each other's work. I'm sitting there getting genuinely angry. Then I caught myself cursing out a piece of software. Out loud. "You BLEEP, you broke it again." And I stopped. It's a machine, Ruben. Why are you getting triggered by a machine? And who's really doing the breaking? ------------------------------------ So I asked the machine why I can't quit the machine ------------------------------------ I did what any self-respecting addict does. I used the thing I'm addicted to, to figure out why I'm addicted to it. I'd read The Goal a while back (the Theory of Constraints novel everybody in operations swears by). I reopened it, had Claude walk me through the main concepts and tie them back to my business. And it clicked: I'm the bottleneck. My time, my attention. Not my team. Not my tools. Me. Then came the part that actually stung. The optimizing itself was the bottleneck. I'd been spending multiple two-hour sessions buffing an end-of-day routine whose entire job is to take fifteen minutes. The thing I kept "improving" stopped being my constraint years ago. I just couldn't put it down.

I was messaging with @Bas Rosario and he shared a method he uses to share about himself and for others to learn about him. I thought it was really cool until I ran it on myself... Short version, give AI accurate and realistic context, then ask it to tell you what it thinks of you. So think of this an in-depth version of Jake's post on "Introduce yourself". Before I copy/paste the AI's output (again... I can't believe I keep doing this as a shortcut for not having time to think and write), I want to make two things very clear, and a bonus #3. #1 I did not realize how uncomfortable and vulnerable this was gonna make me feel. It's like I'm giving you a window into my soul. My real soul @Curtis Hays , not a soulless soul.md file... :D #2 I am VERY private about my faith, especially in public forums, even though I am absolutely drenched in it. Every decision is deeply rooted in my faith. My identity "file" is heavily shaped by it. My love for people, the lines I draw, the decisions I make, consciously and subconsciously are driven by my faith. I hint at it, but I NEVER talk about it, and it's not because I'm fearful of confrontation, disagreement, what others might think, or because I don't want people butting into my business. It's because I also believe that our faith, whatever that might be, should speak for itself with our actions before we EVER open our mouths about it. #3 In business, I'm more likely to get stabbed in the back by "people of faith" more than any atheist, agnostic, spiritualist, etc. In fact, the louder they are in a business setting, the more careful I am around them. And so I don't want to be thrown in the same dungpile as people like that, I keep my faith quiet. If I ever screw you over in business, it's because you really pissed me off and you deserved worse than what I did to you. But I've never done that to anyone, at least not intentionally and when I've made stupid mistake I work hard to make reparation.

If you’re deep in Level 3 “Building Your Stack” or just tired of wrestling with half-baked AI memory hacks, I’ve got something you’re going to love. **Meet OB1 — Open Brain** . It’s not another rabbit hole. It’s the infrastructure layer for your thinking: One database + one AI gateway + one chat channel — and any AI (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, whatever drops next month) plugs straight in. No middleware. No SaaS chains. No Zapier spaghetti. Why this matters right now (the pain we all feel) Right now “managed memories” are a vendor-lock-in trap: - Claude has its own memory. - ChatGPT has its own memory. - Cursor has its own. - Every new model that ships next quarter will have its own. Your life story, your household knowledge, your job-hunt pipeline, your taste preferences — they’re all trapped inside proprietary silos. Want to switch providers? Start from zero. Want to let two AIs talk about the same context? Build brittle integrations and pay for every hop. Want semantic recall across tools? Good luck.That’s not hacking — that’s renting brain space from landlords who can change the locks whenever they feel like it. OB1 flips the script You get one single source of truth: a Supabase Postgres table (thoughts) with built-in vector search. Every AI talks to the same persistent memory of you through an open Model Communication Protocol (MCP) gateway. - Capture thoughts via Slack/Discord/email → instantly embedded and indexed. - Any AI reads/writes with row-level security so your household data stays private. - No more copy-paste hell. No more “which model remembers what?” It’s literally the open brain layer that the big vendors refuse to give you — because once you own your memory, you own your stack. Built for us The repo is designed for exactly the kind of people in this skool: - 45-minute AI-assisted setup (Cursor or Claude Code can literally build it for you from the README). - Extensions folder with ready-to-extend modules (household KB, meal planner, CRM, job-hunt pipeline). - Primitives, schemas, recipes, and dashboards so you can fork, remix, and ship your own agent memory layers. - Full TypeScript + Python + Supabase stack — perfect for the “custom UIs + infrastructure” crowd.

My son and I have been building a baseball game together in Claude Code. He designed what he wants in a PRD, He drives the build while I watch, and we've gotten pretty far just describing what we want and letting the AI write it. It kinda works, he can kinda play it. But we've hit the limit of vibe-coding our way through it. Here's our problem: we don't actually understand the fundamentals of how a game is put together. So when something's off, we're guessing. We moved one base on the field across many separate sessions because we have no mental model for how this stuff is supposed to be structured.That's just one example of many. We're fighting it instead of building it. We don't want a quick fix. We want to learn the foundation so we stop flailing. What we're asking the community: 1. If you've built a game, what core concepts do we have to understand before anything else? We keep hearing "game loop," "state," "sprites," "collision" but we couldn't explain them to you. Explained to a 10 year old. 2. What's the right way to think about structuring a game so it's not one giant file? Ours is basically one 2,800-line file right now. 3. Best beginner resource you'd actually recommend for someone who learns by building, not by reading docs cover to cover? Course, YouTube, anything. Bonus if it's something a kid and a parent can work through together. 4. For someone using AI to write the code, what do we need to understand ourselves vs. what we can let the AI handle? For context, it's a React app drawing on a web canvas, but we think our gap is conceptual, not language-specific. We made the repo public and there's a full PRD if anyone wants to see what we're going for: - Repo: https://github.com/ruben-aguirre/diamond-scholar - The plan (PRD): https://github.com/ruben-aguirre/diamond-scholar/blob/master/docs/PRD-v2.1.md Not looking for someone to build it for us. We want to understand it well enough to direct it. My son and I are connecting, but now I'm getting frustrated because I can't help him the way I'd like, and the game isn't looking they way he wants it.

I turned one of my competition entries into a real business. That has been part of my goals with these comps—to see what I can drum up that’s been sitting in my head, waiting to escape into material reality. Like a true ADD entrepreneur, I have tried many other things while building my primary business. With every endeavor, I’ve either burnt out, or realized I didn’t have enough capital, or that I needed to stay focused on my original business. Well, I got my first lead ever (outside of the primary biz) for something I spun up here!!!! I will be mentioning ICM to them as “the final puzzle piece” since the core service I’m selling is marketing related, and I hope to upsell the client into the ICM later. I have the call on Friday. Even if they don’t buy, I’m so happy to get a lead. I have spent only $60 to test that business model and I got a lead. this is the best test I’ve conducted since my original business (luxury house cleaning, if you’re wondering) and I’m pumped. I’m looking for a 100/1 LTV/CAC ratio. I know it’s out there. Could this be it??? Let’s find out!