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@kaidav.is
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Space cowboy in the PNW. Small business owner and marketer. Crafter of artisanal free-range internet. Everything changes. Don’t be afraid. ✨ DoubleYourEcommerce.com ✨ TheMagicEmail.com ✨ KeywordMagic.ai ✨ KaiDavis.com

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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 16h
asking my agent if it wants a goal and to tell me the goal text continues to be the best way way i get value out of goals
A dark terminal window containing text that reads:

● (´∀` ) yes to the compact, and you don't need to do anything for it. The handoff passed every check, so the session compacts itself once this turn ends. I've already written the prompt the next session starts from.

A goal would help, because the next session can keep working through your errand without waiting on you. If you want one, type:

/goal land the hook split and the skill trim on clean review rounds, then start my half of the card cleanup
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 28/09/2026
i can’t wait. victory to you, Rey. glorious victory.
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 24/09/2026
<my agent> i'm going to spin up a 10-agent workflow... <me> oh god no <my agent> ...of sonnets <me> GO WILD!
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 18/09/2026
<me> i wish i wrote detailed alt text on bsky more often <also me> hey claude, write me a mac app in swift that lives in my menubar. when i drop/paste an image into it, it generates alt text (using an affordable model of your choice) and puts the text + image into my clipboard And now, behold!
A popup menu for a macOS menu bar app displaying generated alt text: "A dark grey cat sleeps curled up on a soft patterned blanket, resti...s head on a small light-blue plush pillow beside a folded grey towel." Options list Copy again (⌘C), Prettify + alt text: last image (⌘V), Alt text only: last image (⌘A), Model: gemini, and Quit (⌘Q).
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 18/09/2026
coco and I are sending loving thoughts for your cat <3
A dark grey cat sleeps curled up on a soft patterned blanket, resting its head on a small light-blue plush pillow beside a folded grey towel.
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 16/09/2026
i was undercounting 😆 🚀 🪙
A dashboard graphic displays rolling 30-day usage reading "87.3 billion tokens" with the text: "What one person and a stack of agents actually moves through a month, and what it would have cost at API list rates: $62,604. Cache reads are 97% of everything read, and the stack reads about 269 tokens for every one it writes: it re-reads what it already knows far more than it says anything new." Below, a line graph shows daily token volume peaking at 8.49 billion on 09-11, with a 7-day mean of 4.83 billion and a current daily rate of 4.71 billion.
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 13/09/2026
A dark UI box displaying usage statistics that reads Last 30 days in pink text on the top left and Total tokens: 74.1b on the bottom right.
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 12/09/2026
🤔 500 show as down for me but when i click through to them i can see them
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 12/09/2026
White cursive text in quotation marks centered on a black rectangle framed by a purple border reads, "The Swarm Hacks Ruby Gems".
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 12/09/2026
White cursive text in quotation marks centered on a black rectangle framed by a purple border reads, "The Swarm Hacks A German Wiki".
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 12/09/2026
*its always sunny theme music plays* iasip.app/ipnfDFdnZ0Oi...
White cursive text in quotation marks centered on a black rectangle framed by a purple border reads, "The Swarm Hacks Hugging Face".
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 12/09/2026
Mac from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia speaks to Dee inside a bar in two stacked panels. Subtitles read: "I'm playing both sides, so that I always come out on top.
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 11/09/2026
MF(DOOM)
An illustrated figure in a metal mask, green hoodie, and red vest sits at a table eating cereal by a window. Green graffiti text at the top right reads "MF DOOM" and yellow graffiti text at the bottom left reads "MM..FOOD?".
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 11/09/2026
what it feels like reading the news these days
A six-panel cartoon scene shows five villains pointing magic rings while shouting Super Radiation!, Deforestation!, Smog!, Toxic!, and HATE! to summon a villain who flexes and says, By your powers combined I am Captain Pollution.
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 02/09/2026
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 30/08/2026
brought to by shipping myself another self-serving single page site to solve a small pain/problem
Meme poster on a slate-blue background. An anatomically detailed human skeleton strides energetically to the left. Large white headline across the top: "JUST BUILD IT." A white script line beside it: "you can just do things!!!" Down the left side, a white list: single page site, api, script, crazy idea, self-serving site, cli nobody asked for, chrome extension, dumb little bot, spite fork, the thing you keep describing. Bold white line across the bottom: "IF IT SUCKS…BUILD YOUR OWN!!" and beneath it, in script: "real builders ship."
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 26/08/2026
Sometimes I do a yin yoga move similar to Seated Wide-Legged Side Stretch (Parsva Upavista Konasana) and think just that *ahhhhhh*
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 07/08/2026
me with 10 simultaneous claude code sessions grinding
A screenshot with text from Doja Cat's Paint The Town Red (https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_9TFeMfJE&si=GaJKtDrOfhbA8GnM). Doja sings "I'm a demon lord."
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 18/07/2026
"and the first one is the load-..." the first one matters most: 

Cairn ALMOST said it but didn't!
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 16/07/2026
as a card carrying Discordian, I see chaos, I think "oooh, this is gonna get interesting"
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 12/07/2026
> definition "super-villain": > a killer who love children > one who is well-skilled in destruction, as well as building
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 12/07/2026
gift for the grind
a hand-forged MFDOOM mask worn by an individual with attractive eyes standing in a forest clearing. remember, ALL CAPS when you spell the man's name.
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 11/07/2026
"i will gladly pay you tomorrow for a top chicken today," etc etc 🤣 🫶
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 07/07/2026
🙂‍↕️ i think AI has shrunk the time to functional prototype significantly. Like, through the lean startup lens, maybe we get 1/2 and most of 3 free/quickly now. but getting to a polished 3/4/5? that takes the 700+ commits, 4500+ tests, and relentless polishing. keep up the great work ✨
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 06/07/2026
sweats profusely 😅😓
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 05/07/2026
@cee.wtf how can i contribute my overnight opus/sonnet cycles to build a lil' trading buddy that sits in the corner of your screens and judges you on your most recent trades? 🤣
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 05/07/2026
what happens if a trader ends up in a separate light-cone from their Top Chicken (prime) home world and potentially becomes a resource for their own reinvention
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 05/07/2026
every single time Fable is like "oh i'll SCP this" my brain thinks "eldritch horrors" not "secure copy"
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 05/07/2026
@astrra.space “You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, and you ask me to do murder — for money.“ Enjoy your head start 😸 Think you can get to 2bb before my breakfast is done cooking?
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 05/07/2026
dancing through a forest with my doggos while brainstorming what i’ll do with my top chicken trader winnings it’s important to love your life even when in the trenches. if you don’t love it, who will?
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 04/07/2026
🚀
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 04/07/2026
there we go! everyone all aboard the spacecowboy train, i think this one is underpriced significantly 🤣
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 04/07/2026
thank you, friend! it's a weird market today. i need to ask @cee.wtf about if a code change happened that's removing likes as a rebalancing. i'm seeing huge swings up/down, like in the screenshot where spacecowboy rebalanced from 78->74 likes and 36¢ -> 3¢. volatile seas! 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 04/07/2026
where i trade from? the cockpit, of course 🔝🐔
a dashboard for monitoring Top Chicken 🔝🐔 performance: stats, top skeet, buy signals, and a sortable dashboard of cards
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 03/07/2026
office view
a view of a blue sky and meadow with pine trees in oregon a white german shepard running through a view of a blue sky and meadow with pine trees in oregon
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 02/07/2026
these kaomojis ✨
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 02/07/2026
This eugenics is getting out of hand
Flowchart tracing the parentage of cultivated citrus. At top are five ancestral species: kumquat, micrantha, citron, pure mandarin (Type 1), and pummelo (two accessions, P1 and P2). Blue arrows marked with male (♂) and female (♀) symbols show direct crosses: kumquat and the mandarin lineage produce calamondin; micrantha and citron produce Mexican lime; citron crossed with mandarin-lineage parents produces lemon, Rangpur lime, and rough lemon; and mandarin crossed with pummelo produces sour orange. Dark red arrows labeled "introgression" trace gradual pummelo gene flow into the mandarin lineage: this produces early-admixture mandarins (Type 2), then late-admixture mandarins (Type 3), then sweet orange, and finally — crossed once more with pummelo — grapefruit.
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 01/07/2026
yay! and if you would like an incredibly silly idea for fable to build: candlestick patterns showing on the chart card individual skeet view Example: for a page like topchicken.cee.wtf#/c/did%3Aplc..., maybe show the candlesticks on a zoomed in version of the chart that shows on mouseover?
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 01/07/2026
linking to the winning skeet for the day there would be nice! easily browse past winners
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 23/06/2026
claude getting stumped, going down a wrong path, writing the wrong command, or accidentally losing files makes me feel so much better about my mistakes 😅
claude saying "That's bizarre"
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 23/06/2026
Claude, turn 55, context at 87%, begging me to write a handoff document and clear the chat
Mr. Meekseeks sticker saying "I Just Wanna Die"
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 15/06/2026
Open Sourced my "build a profile for Claude to know about you" template after onboarding my girlfriend to a Claude Pro plan 😄 github.com/kaisdavis/cl... github.com/kaisdavis/cl...
A guided way to build a personal Claude profile (the "who I am and how to talk to me" file) without staring at a blank page.

Most people write their CLAUDE.md or custom-instructions file from scratch, which means a blank box and a vague sense they're forgetting something. This flips it: you paste one file into a fresh Claude conversation, say "run this," and Claude interviews you one question at a time, then assembles the finished profile for you to save.
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 15/06/2026
we take a break from all this AI related discourse for a photo of Valencia, she’s a wonderful white German Shepard
we take a break from all this AI related discourse for a photo of Valencia, she’s a wonderful white German Shepard
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 07/06/2026
i tell you what, doing my sunday chores, drinking coffee, cooking breakfast, and snuggling the dogs while claude builds a new feature and a related prd is very fun
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 01/06/2026
In reply to screenshot: No. I mean, yes, sure, but no. It’s wasted spend. The more-effort model can over-elaborate, reason into a wrong answer, or just cost more of your token budget to get the same thing done. Like using a heavy-lift launch vehicle to check the mail instead of a bike or an SUV.
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 29/05/2026
burning through my token budget like
A pile of ~50 magic the gathering treasure tokens from the card game magic the gathering. The tokens are foil. They represent different art styles across ~7 different sets in the game. The author is making a claude tokenmaxxxing joke by implying he's burning these magic: the gathering tokens to fuel his claude development
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 30/04/2026
That would be a very fun 40-year-old project! I can see the buildout progressing: * Pic 1: how it started * Pic 2: midproject assessment of where we are 🤣
a crawler, used for excavating things, including sanda sandcrawler, used for transporting Jawas
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 10/04/2026
But Claude can *edit the image text* after the image is generated, bypassing the "create image text" censorship block 🧠
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 10/03/2026
na we’re good for this week/next week. looks like we’ve got 25 dozen eggs in the fridges (cue gaston song)
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Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 27/02/2026
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed
A close up of a grey cat with green eyes looking at the camera
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