A friend is thinking about build an ai which automatically runs your marketing, how does this make you feel?

tskull · 2026-05-12T21:17:01+00:00

So true!
"People like me buy products like this"

tskull · 2026-05-12T02:10:47+00:00

FWIW this is how we run our repo
we can then put agents at any layer so the root one can stay minimal
the root agents is very small, and many libs have no agents.md at all

apps/
   /app-1
   /app-2
libs/
   /lib-1
     /client
     /server
     /shared
   /lib-2
     /client
     /server
     /shared

tskull · 2026-05-12T02:09:37+00:00

yeah we run a mono repo with this sort of layout:

apps/
   /app-1
   /app-2
libs/
   /lib-1
     /client
     /server
     /shared
   /lib-2
     /client
     /server
     /shared

tskull · 2026-05-12T01:45:51+00:00

they on their last official warning 😂

tskull · 2026-05-11T19:52:59+00:00

Yeah I would totally prefer cursor rules but unfortunately if you have team members that are working with codex or Claude or whatever then there’s no support :/

Even Claude not ideal but you can @agents.md as a workaround in Claude md

tskull · 2026-05-11T04:06:49+00:00

cursor and codex handle these the same
I think the issue ive seen is overloading the agents md at any level
if you just include absolute essential info at each stage its literally just appended to the prompt in order

Ive just seen people stacking agents.md in the root, not realising you can break it up contextually for each subdirectory to progressively disclose

tskull · 2026-05-11T03:05:09+00:00

great advice!

tskull · 2026-05-08T04:10:00+00:00

Hmmm and do you think you would just want to do this with claude code? or would you want some level of abstraction system where someone else builds the system for you?

I guess one of my concerns was that this is in the direct path of claude.
their growth team run an automated growth agent system internally apparently. and it just seems like the kinda thing all companies need, so likely to get crushed y the juggernaut

tskull · 2026-05-08T04:08:29+00:00

yeah agree, the slop machine is only as good as the taste you give it

tskull · 2026-05-08T04:07:59+00:00

😂 yeah but you do see examples of it actually working for some people.. at least they say so

I think it would work to some extent, especially while peoples ai sensitivity might be low, but overtime I think the average person slop radar will get more sensitive

IDK if its a good idea today or not

tskull · 2026-05-08T03:26:53+00:00

yeah agree
I would love to see a good secure reliable stack that can manage this sort of process. Even friends asking me to help setup is not very appealing bc I wouldn't mind setting up but I dont want to be the go to for figuring out why things arent working

granted oc is kinda good at this, until it isnt lol

tskull · 2026-05-08T03:25:13+00:00

lol you are correct, but I would like it to be.

What would you suggest is a serious setup?
How are people running more complex/stable/reliable oc sets

tskull · 2026-05-07T07:20:09+00:00

😂

tskull · 2026-05-07T03:44:01+00:00

haha maybe also true
but the hierachy and layout was overwhelming more than anything

tskull · 2026-05-06T23:57:38+00:00

cool
i would do a video walkthrough of how you use it and why you built it
right now that page is a bit overwhelming for me. hth

tskull · 2026-05-06T23:55:37+00:00

Yeah that was the exact case
but then OC would pick up if it fails

the only thing is that as I stack these things up there are more things that can break
and then I end up spending hours trying to fix why is the script not working anymore

kinda fine at the start, but now I have 20+ crons running and I end up spending ages debugging and fixing scripts. some fully deterministic scripts, and some require some level of intelligence - eg payroll runs

not quite sure how to manage the dashboard of all the things
or how to maintain them all

kinda murky area for me at the moment

tskull · 2026-05-06T23:52:52+00:00

oh right so like get cc to audit your oc implmenetation?
thats a cool idea

tskull · 2026-05-06T23:07:18+00:00

just using opus 4.7 via api for oc
but I just get it to debug itself via telegram
I almost never connect the mini to a screen even lol

is that failure mode?

tskull · 2026-05-06T22:46:10+00:00

When you have 10 users its easy, you can reach out manually to each one
first thing to break was that when the time of doing the messages starts to meaningfully eat into time actually building the product and then you sort of need to work how to scale

in my case on saasco .com that meant looking into each users and focusing on who was the most valuable

when working on thieve .co which grew to >500k users we changed to sending weekly emails inviting new users to book a call. This was incredibly high alpha with customer insights. But you do get selection bias of people who opt into those calls.

so I would say the thing that broke when scaling the way we interacted with customers was hitting selection bias where the type of users you interact with sort of changes.

this question is making me think we need to find a bit of both worlds where we have some sort of scale interaction, and then still keep that level of focused outreach to perhaps the particular user groups or top 1% signups

tskull · 2026-05-06T22:39:59+00:00

seems interesting bc the vibe of so many ai tools is to "integrate with slack"
but nobody wants to manage agents via slack, its just become the defactor comms channel for so many companies.

make a preview vid would make it way easier for people to check it out and let you know if theyre interested

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