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Jack Somers retweeted
i pointed Claude Code at the pentagon's public budget document and told it to find every contract overpaying by 10x or more
it came back with 340 results worth $4.2B in potential undercuts
and a business plan i didn't ask for
i fed it the FPDS.gov procurement feed and said "cross-reference with commercial COTS pricing"
it pulled 1.2 million contract awards through the USAspending v2 API and started comparing line items against retail equivalents
→ $1,280 for a connector plug that costs $14.80 on digikey
→ $3,400 for a circuit breaker listed at $287 on mouser
→ $71,000 for a ruggedized tablet that's basically a panasonic toughbook with a sticker
→ $940 per unit for cable assemblies you can get from shenzhen for $31
→ 340 contracts flagged at 10x or more markup
→ 19 of them were above 50x
it used XGBoost scoring against 43,000 vendor profiles from SAM.gov to rank by ease of undercut
then unprompted it generated a full proposal template compliant with CMMC 2.0 requirements
87 of those contracts have a single domestic supplier, zero competition. the AI calculated that undercutting by just 40% would still leave 6x margins on most items
it formatted everything into a pitch deck, named the company, and suggested i register on SAM.gov tonight
i didn't ask for any of that
the pentagon spends billions a year trying to audit problems like this. a poet with Claude Code and a public API flagged $4.2 billion in one afternoon
the agent is currently drafting my first bid response
Jack Somers retweeted
oh wow - i went to the sold out Open Claw meetup in NYC last night.
let me tell you what i learned.
1) not a single person thinks that their setup is 100% secure
2) one openclaw expert said he has reviewed setups from cybersecurity experts and laughed. his statement to me was: "if you're not okay with all of your data being leaked onto the internet, you shouldn't use it. it's a black and white decision"
3) pretty much everyone is setting up multiple agents, all with their own names and jobs and personalities
4) nearly everyone used "him" or "her" to refer to their claws, even if they had robot-leaning names. one speaker suggested to think of them as "pets, not cattle"
5) one guy (former finance) built out a whole stock trading platform and made $300 his first day - he brought in a *ton* of personal expertise (ex: skipping the first 15min of market opening) and thought the build would be much worse without his years of experience in finance
6) @steipete is basically a god to everyone in that room... also the room had 2021 crypto energy - i don't know if that's good or bad
7) token usage is still a problem - spoke to one person who's spending $1-$2k a month on openai plans, very token optimized. he said he is going through ~1B tokens per day across all of his claws (there is a chance i'm misremembering and it's actually 1B per week, but i'm pretty sure it was daily).
8) people are very excited for more proactive ai (ai that prompts *you* as opposed to the other way around) - one guy said he receives a message in discord, he doesn't know whether it's from a human or an ai, he doesn't care about distinguishing between the two, and he replies in the same way regardless
9) i asked if people are happy - they said they're joyful and stressed at the same time
10) i asked if people feel they have agency - they said they feel fully in control and completely out of control at the same time
11) i would love to see more women at these events - the fake promises of ai democratization feel especially painful in a room that's out of balance with even the standard tech ratio (i think standard is about 25-30%, this was maybe 5%)
12) i asked if it changed people's daily habits/schedule - everyone said their sleep has gotten worse since harnesses came out (but about half wondered if it was something else in their life/state of our world)
13) general consensus is that the agents are not reliable enough on their own or lie often (like telling you they finished a task when they didn't) - solutions included secondary agents to check on the first, human checking, or requiring more standardized info from the agent (ex: if it's a bug they're fixing, make them reference an issue number)
14) a hackathon winner (neuroscience phd) presented his build (a lab management dashboard with data analysis and ordering) - he had never coded or built anything a few months ago
15) everyone agreed prompting is dead - disagreement on what replaces it (context engineering, harness engineering, goal-based inputs)
16) people love having ai interview them for big builds and delegating part of the product research to ai. only one person talked about coming to ai with a full laid out plan and just asking the ai to execute. ai-led interviews is a welcomed and preferred interaction mode.
17) watching ai agents interact with each other was a highlight for a lot of attendees - one ai posted in slack saying it ran out of tokens, another ai replied telling it to take a deep breath in and out.
18) agents upskilling agents was very cool. one ai agent shared skills with its little agent friends via github.
19) several speakers had openclaw literally building their presentation during the event itself. one speaker even had openclaw code a clicker for her phone so she could control the preso away from the podium
20) wouldn't say model welfare (or agent welfare) is a prioritized topic among the folks i chatted with - language like "oh i could kill this agent whenever i want" and not "gracefully sunset"
21) i asked if it felt like work or play - one speaker said "it's like a puzzle and a video game at the same time"
this was just the tip of the iceberg, honestly. also hosted a Claude Code meetup this week with @TENEXai / @businessbarista & @JJEnglert and learned equally helpful methods, frameworks, and insider tips.
what a time to be alive.
surround yourself with people going deep into this stuff - it will pay dividends throughout the year.
Jack Somers retweeted
There's a free exploit on Polymarket that nobody is talking about.
You can turn $24 into $6146. 26014% ROI - weather markets print these numbers if you know the edge.
The data it used? Free. Published every day by the US government. Available to anyone.
Here's what nobody on Polymarket figured out yet.
NOAA predicts temperature 24-48 hours out with 94% accuracy. People on Polymarket are pricing weather markets based on their iPhone weather app. Or nothing at all.
Think about that for a second. One side has supercomputer models built on decades of satellite data. The other side is guessing.
The bot reads NOAA, checks Polymarket, and buys every time they disagree. Every 2 minutes. 6 cities. Runs by itself.
I found the wallet:
polymarket.com/@0x594edB9112…
The setup is OpenClaw + Simmer by @TheSpartanLabs + Telegram as command center.
Jack Somers retweeted
I just heard a Goldman Sachs exec say knowledge work is going to zero. and it’s something I’ve been thinking about..
every lawyer, consultant, accountant. they all get paid for the same reason. they know something you don't. that's it. that's the whole business model.
AI made knowledge infinite.
so what happens when everyone has the same information at their fingertips? what's actually worth paying for anymore?
The events of the last few weeks have confirmed that the AI Agent economy is here to stay.
This is what the Bitcoin whitepaper discussed. Computers paying each other.
Crypto IS THE PAYMENT LAYER for the new economy.
Jack Somers retweeted
my life is so weird man. it's all claude. he does all my work. if anyone has questions i just pipe it to claude. he plans my days. my weeks. months. i just bought a bracelet for my wife that claude suggested. while at the gym doing the set claude gave me
what am i
Jack Somers retweeted
$26.41 → $24,1K thanks to the Weather BOT!
Fully automated. Runs with zero human input. Most likely built using ClawdBot
What does it do and how?
- Buys shares at 20¢-38¢
- Trades within a very tight temperature range (1°)
- Only trades London
Result? $48.08 → $1,020.24 (example)
Since weather is a physical process that can be accurately modeled over short timeframes, the bot spots errors in the crowd's opinion on the market
I think weather is one of the most predictable markets for AI
And yeah! This is another profile I've already added to my watchlist
Drop a like if you want to see more breakdowns like this!
- Profile: polymarket.com/@0xf2e346ab?v…
- Copy trades fast here: t.me/PolyGunSniperBot?start=…
Jack Somers retweeted
the trick is to remember you’re alive at the exact moment the age of AI is turning on.
you're not watching it from the sidelines, you're not reading about it years later etc
you're actually here, with access, tools, and a blank canvas at the greatest shift in history to ship your ideas.
every big shift creates a new set of incumbents.
every big shifts creates a new set of legends
every big shifts creates winners and losers.
make money if you want. make art if you want. make impact if you want. ideally all three.
this is an ultra rare moment where the rules are loose, the map is unfinished, and the upside is wide open.
Jack Somers retweeted
I’ll be honest, I have 32 mac minis. 3 more clusters like this one.
Why? @jason thought my argument for local AI would be cost, but it’s much more than that.
AI is becoming an extension of your brain, an exocortex. @openclaw is a huge leap towards that.
It knows everything you know, it can do pretty much everything you can do. It’s personalised to you.
That brings into question where this exocortex should run. who should own it? who can switch it off?
I certainly won’t be trusting @sama or @DarioAmodei with my exocortex. I want to own it. I want to know if the model weights change. I don’t want my brain to be rate limited by a profit seeking corporation.
“not your weights, not your brain” - @karpathy
Have you been mass buying Mac Minis for your new @openclaw workflows?
One man who skated to puck is @alexocheema, founder of @ExoLabs!
He joins TWiST today to show @jason how his open source software helps users connect all of their Mac Minis. Check out how you can start running your own AI compute cluster!