Founder of Markebility: AI-powered marketing + local SEO for home-services contractors | Ex-Amazon | South Florida
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Same here with an AI marketing agent I was building.
Two years and barely much traction. Customers/prospects loved the idea, but would just never use it.
Ended up pivoting and telling them I’ll run it for them and charging 10x more. All of sudden they’re buying.
We did $100k in revenue after realizing that our customers hate software.
Our first product was an AI accounting tool for CFOs. I did 35 sales calls and got $0.
So we switched to being a service.
The pitch became: "We're an outsourced accounting firm that's faster/cheaper with AI"
Then our calls started to convert.
As founders, we naturally obsess over features and tech because that’s what we do.
But REAL customers don't care. They only want their problem solved (bonus points if they don't have to use the tool) in a fast, simple way.
Just sell the outcome.
Calculations done with a calculator will now be watermarked so everyone knows you can’t actually do math.
If LLMs are going to embed watermarks in generated text and release tools to detect AI text, then LLMs risk becoming more of a novelty rather than something we can use for actual work.
Am I going to be policed every time i ask Claude to polish something I write?
Make a comment about politics on X and all of a sudden the “For You” feee becomes all politics.
It over indexes on your most recent activity. There needs to be better balance.
We hold higher standards for the Senate race in Maine than we do for the President…
Breaking News: Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, suspended his campaign under intense pressure from all corners of his party after a woman accused him of rape.
Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4vdJdLn
Creating thousands of UGC ads of fake AI avatars promoting your product is not marketing, it’s spam.
All the people saying “nobody going to tell me what to put my thermostat at” going to learn real quick why 78 degrees is better than the alternative.
BREAKING: Largest U.S. power grid PJM announces it is “under a federal alert” to cut electricity consumption.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
PJM has issued Maximum Generation, Load Management, and Hot Weather Alerts but does not reference a "federal alert" in official statements; load reductions apply only to contracted demand response participants. insidelines.pjm.com/pjm-hot-weathe… emergencyprocedures.pjm.com
Hey @VivekGRamaswamy just want to make sure - is your state or Ohio communist? They’re asking residents to conserve power.
Guys, you are almost guaranteed to find an example of every state asking its residents to conserve electricity at one point or another during a severe weather event.
You can literally read the Texas and Oklahoma press releases during their winter storms lol.
Richard B. retweeted
This tweet is no different than Greg Abbot urging Texans not to set their thermostat above 68 degrees during winter weather. And yet, lots of folks are dunking on it. I guess freezing to death is more noble than dying of heat?
Here is Abbott
gov.texas.gov/news/post/gove…
New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool.
Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you're not using, and unplug what you can.
Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, dimming/turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non-essential equipment.
A stable grid means the AC stays on, and lives are saved. Let's ease demand — and get through the heat — together.
Hey guys, I guess @GregAbbott_TX beat @NYCMayor to communism first when he asked Texans to conserve energy during the 2021 winter storms.
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The White House’s review of OpenAI’s latest model amounts to a government-run licensing system that threatens the American people’s First Amendment rights.
The federal government is now claiming authority to review each new AI model — on a “voluntary” basis — before it’s released, and even to decide who gets to use it. These decisions are being made behind closed doors. The potential for politically motivated censorship and retaliation is obvious.
The Trump administration’s latest action comes after the federal government already imposed export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 frontier models last week, citing vague national security concerns.
We’re quickly barreling toward a future where the few control an extraordinarily powerful expressive technology without democratic transparency and accountability. This power grab should concern all of us, no matter your opinion of AI.
New w/ @leomschwartz @amir:
The Trump admin has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns.
On Thursday, CEO Sam Altman told staff that the government will be approving access to GPT-5.6 customer by customer, a highly unusual approach.
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The government is leading us down a very dangerous road.
This will dramatically worsen inequality.
Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, everyday work, and GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and affordable model for high-volume work.
openai.com/index/previewing-…
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This is bad. This is really bad. The US government is hampering AI innovation and accessibility. A sad day for the progress of AI.
I really hope OpenAI can avoid this for future releases.
So we’re just going to consolidate access of frontier models to a handful of chosen companies/people?
I guess the rich get richer.
Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, everyday work, and GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and affordable model for high-volume work.
openai.com/index/previewing-…
90% of these AI marketing agents being pushed out here are junk. Fancy demos and nothing but slop when you actually get in there and use it yourself.
Big “integrity” energy coming from Texas and all those advocating for Texas Tech.
Betting on your own team is arguably the gravest sins one can commit in competitive sports. Sorsby needs to face the consequences.
NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton sent a formal letter to Big 12 officials threatening legal action if the conference moves to sanction Texas Tech over its support of QB Brendan Sorsby.
(via @PeteNakos)
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