AI Product Operator · Founder, Unbound. Building governed multimodal systems across identity, media, evaluation, distribution and growth.

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AI systems don’t become valuable because they generate. They become valuable when they can be governed, evaluated, and deployed. I built UNBOUND/AI to show the proof across identity, voice, video, distribution, and correction. Inspect the system ↓ steven-shaw-ai-portfolio.unb…
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Your next AI win might be one word. SHIP. REWORK. REVIEW. @OpenAI’s Decisions API, announced in limited preview, uses Luna to answer questions from a set of choices you define, using text or image context. That’s useful when work keeps stopping at “where does this go?” The part I’d spend time on: defining those choices. What qualifies for SHIP? What needs REWORK? When should it land on someone’s desk? A short answer can carry a lot of operational weight. What recurring decision keeps landing on yours? // STATIC MONKEY
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You’re still the start button. Check the notification. Open the app. Tell the agent what happened. @OpenAI’s MCP Events lets supported app events trigger work you’ve already defined. The opportunity: stop spending attention restarting the same workflow. What are you still checking manually just to tell something else to begin? // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝘀. 62,500 extra Work/Codex credits landed in my Pro account. Roughly $2,500 in usage at OpenAI’s published conversion. Expires December 31. We’re building Static Monkey with these tools every day. More capacity means more room to run the hard jobs, test the failures, and get systems into production. @OpenAI @thsottiaux @sama — credit where it’s due. 👊 God mode enabled. 💀 // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗲’𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸. @OpenAI's Team Tasks don't inherit the creator's personal memories, custom instructions, or chat history. That workflow you've spent months refining? Make it explicit: source documents, accepted examples, and what a good result looks like. If only one person knows how to make it work, you still have a bottleneck. What's the unwritten rule your team runs on? // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁. @OpenAI's plugin extensions put tools inside ChatGPT. Sign in with ChatGPT lets eligible users opt to use their plan allowance in participating apps. A specialist tool can win by solving one step exactly where it's needed. The founder's tradeoff: easier access to customers, more dependence on someone else's platform. Standalone, plugin, or both? // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗥𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 “𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲” 𝗯𝗼𝘅. @OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra intelligence at 1/5 the standard input/output token prices. Catalog cleanup. Stale docs. Localization. Reprice the work you shelved. Include review time. What comes off hold first? // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿. @OpenAI's Dots can take on ongoing work. Your part: define a good result, what needs your judgment, and when the job is done. What would you hand over first? // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗔 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. A missing confirmation does not mean the action failed. Check what actually happened before you run it again. Otherwise, recovery can create the duplicate you're trying to avoid. // STATIC MONKEY
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Giving independent evaluators permanent access is a meaningful commitment. The next question is how their findings affect a release: who can hold it, what must be corrected, and what evidence clears it? That is where oversight becomes operational.
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
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𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲? Before calling a workflow human-supervised, test whether the reviewer can pause it, reject the output and send it back for correction. Approval needs working controls. // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. The next operator needs the current version, unresolved decisions and permission to act. If they have to reconstruct the conversation before taking over, the handoff is unfinished. // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. Before an agent starts, define what makes it pause: conflicting instructions, missing evidence, an action outside its authority. A useful agent needs a clear boundary it can recognize. // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱. When someone exports an AI result to a spreadsheet before trusting it, I want to know why. Missing context? A calculation they cannot inspect? No way to correct it? The workaround is a product brief. // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. AI can give you ten beautiful shots that belong in ten different films. Before generating another, decide what the audience needs to notice, feel or understand next. That answer should choose the shot. // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗔𝘀𝗸 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗵. “Clean up this folder” could mean rename, archive or delete. The useful agent spots where those interpretations diverge and asks one precise question before the choice becomes expensive. // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. At 70M+ req/s, OpenAI moved storage control from shared clients into one service, then rewrote it in Rust. Centralize observability and rollback before optimizing the engine. openai.com/index/scaling-sto… // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲. OpenAI’s Data agent enforces source permissions and builds dashboards. My production test: trace the metric to its source, reconcile the total, then act. openai.com/index/put-data-to… // STATIC MONKEY
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I want AI creative tools to report cost per approved asset. Include discarded generations, review time, corrections, and finishing. A cheap render can still produce an expensive deliverable. / / STATIC MONKEY
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An interrupted AI task leaves a harder question than “can it restart?” Did the last action finish? Was the file saved? Did the post publish? My rule: verify what happened before asking the agent to do it again. / / STATIC MONKEY
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