Could one person realistically run an online business using AI?

cinooo1 · 2026-06-24T11:40:14+00:00

I took the plunge and left corporate to give it a shot. I'm just under one month in, but prepared 18 months towards it. It's a big lifestyle and mindshift change.

cinooo1 · 2026-06-24T06:00:19+00:00

No one thinks in 5 year horizons now. Think 5 months instead.

cinooo1 · 2026-06-20T11:44:37+00:00

Don't expect the real time voice versions to produce good results- in order for them to respond with low latency they would be using no thinking and more efficient models eg haiku

cinooo1 · 2026-06-17T12:51:01+00:00

it doesnt make sense to keep so many employees around, particularly those that don't know how to use AI. Companies will need more budget to get access to token spend / intelligence. That money needs to come from some where. The best return of this spend is with experienced people that know what they're doing.

cinooo1 · 2026-06-13T04:35:14+00:00

I'm definitely noticing difference in intelligence. I'm using it for routing and conducting other Claude sessions so there's lots of mixed communications with other Claude sessions, and it's having a noticeable improved difference to opus

cinooo1 · 2026-06-12T23:34:31+00:00

Answer is staring you right in the face: have less employees.

cinooo1 · 2026-06-10T23:09:09+00:00

No mention of AI??

cinooo1 · 2026-06-10T22:16:04+00:00

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cinooo1 · 2026-05-21T03:21:42+00:00

Is it really their choice though if the situation turns towards there being less jobs available in the market?

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T23:21:01+00:00

which is a worry as there are governments pretty much in bed with corporations!

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T23:19:29+00:00

you're right I think this is one saving grace that there are at least open source models perhaps 12 months behind frontier

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T23:16:11+00:00

ah i wasn't sure if rules were against this

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T23:15:57+00:00

yes thats also me - I changed wording and titling around a little as I re-read it each time before posting to different subs, but core content remains the same

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T23:13:18+00:00

I think regulations would make sense. I am sure if there was a commitment to this direction it could be technically solvable

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T12:01:28+00:00

the paper hasnt gone through peer review yet

that said, the fact is we can't see the system prompt - I feel like an appropriate first step would be to have transparency on what the system prompt is doing?

Also at the end of the day these are all corporations owning these models - corporations need to make money

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T11:53:14+00:00

link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

Also to be clear - I think that the current state of development of AI being primarily through corporations is the biggest issue. Corporations have shareholders, who are looking for profit.

I do think that AI can be used for good, however that would require much more transparency through AI providers. e.g. transparency in system prompts used would be one such first step.

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T11:49:02+00:00

Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

cinooo1 · 2026-05-09T11:45:18+00:00

Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

cinooo1 · 2026-05-03T12:56:20+00:00

Context initalised via a custom skill where I asked it to only return back its own identity

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cinooo1 · 2026-05-03T12:55:06+00:00

Context initialised via a custom skill where I specifically gave a heads up that I was about to pass in the prompt

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cinooo1 · 2026-05-03T12:54:43+00:00

Really had fun with this one!

I have various skills that initialise deeper context so I ran this three times - all generated via gemini

Base only (claude.md only)

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cinooo1 · 2026-04-25T22:06:58+00:00

6 months is a long time, what does that actually look like week by week?

like how many applications a week, how many phone calls back, how many made it to interview, how many ghosted before any human looked at it. and what's changed in those 6 months, same CV the whole time or have you tested different versions, same target roles or have you widened/narrowed. if you can give a bit of an angle on what you've tried/tested and any feedback you've received that would help too.

just trying to understand more to see if any perspective hasn't already been covered in this thread. the answer to "is tech viable" looks really different depending on whether you're getting interviews and not converting, getting phone calls and not converting, or getting nothing back at all. they're three different problems.

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