Working dad / builder 👨‍💻 🚀 Bangers & Bash: X analytics 🐛 Glowbug: keep what mattered 🛠️ Arc Labs: AI consulting

Building after bedtime 👉
Hey, I’m Alex 👋 I’m a working dad building with a full-time job and amazing family life. AI has let me try ideas I wouldn’t have known how to build a few years ago. My background is in advertising, product marketing, and CRM. I've always been fascinated by technology and learning new tools firsthand. I'll share what I’m trying, what breaks, and the tools that help. Outside of AI and coding, Im into the following. 🌌 space 🧪science 💻technology 🤔philosophy 💸investing 🎮video games 🥾hiking ♓️fishing ⛺️camping I’m here to meet other builders, parents, marketers, technologists, dreamers and insanely curious people figuring this out too. Say hello, and share your interests!
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Wow have been so busy this week I forgot to share my growth update on @X Over 800+ followers. Been really focused on building my authentic network here. On a mission to get to over 1k in the next few weeks, with my new platform to help. Not every metric is green and that’s okay. ✅ Cheers to everyone on this journey. Say hello and I’ll give you a growth tip!
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Keeping track of the X algorithm changes is becoming a full time job. save your spot today to get on the waitlist for bangers & bash. The best x analytics platform in the universe 😁 bangersandbash.com
X ALGORITHM UPDATE 🚨 The fresh posts pool I told you about is now LIVE, and X rebuilt the small account boost on the same day (I check the open source algorithm daily with Claude and share updates worth sharing with you) tl;dr: - fresh posts pool: off → ON - small account boost: up to 1,000 → up to 50,000 followers - boost window: 48 hours → 2 hours - boost view limit: 1,000 → 200 home views - boost winner: highest score → best like rate lesson learned: the first 2 hours of every post are now where it's won or lost, so post when your audience is actually online. full details: - The fresh posts pool is ON Last time I said I'd tell you when it goes live. It's live. Every time someone opens For You, X now pulls up to 200 posts from a pool of new stuff: under 8 likes, under 500 views, up to 2 hours old. Your post still has to be good enough to get shown. But until now a brand new post with no likes had no lane of its own. Now it does. - The small account boost now goes up to 50K followers It used to stop at 1,000. Now any account up to 50,000 followers can get it. It lifts one fresh original post to around 16th in someone's feed. - But it only lasts 2 hours The post has to be under 2 hours old (was 48) and have under 200 views from home feeds (was 1,000). After that you're on your own. - The winner is picked by like rate Before, the highest scoring post won. Now X looks at how many of the people who've seen your post liked it, adds a bit of randomness so brand new posts still get a shot, and picks from the best two. So the first people who see your post decide a lot. - Under 1,000 followers? Mixed news You still get the boost, but now you share it with much bigger accounts, and the window went from 2 days to 2 hours. - Next thing to watch X built a new way to find posts similar to what people recently engaged with. It's switched off. If it goes live, posts that stick to a clear topic win. I'll tell you.
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My codex Cloudflare API key broke this morning. Now I’m at a farmers market with the family and my tasks are stalled. I also run everything on my MacBook and Mac mini so have to enter credentials twice. Anyone have a better solution out there?
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The worst part of going viral is finding out late. When a post takes off, the first hour is when replying matters most. Justinas replied to everyone and it paid off. Most people are still refreshing analytics, or don’t get the notifications they need. That's what I'm building: know early with advanced analytics. 👉 Reply “banger” to get notified when it drops
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Codex vs Claude. I think it's clear at this point you need both. So it's really a matter of who is your driver, and who's the passenger. I'm using Claude for all strategy work. Codex is my engineer. What I really love is the ability to steer my codex /goal sessions - I've hit my limit 3x times this week, and shipped over 290 PRs in my GitHub repo. Will hit 300 this week alone! Steering your model prevents drift, and the results are significantly better than just running a goal prompt and walking away for a day. Curious how everyone is using multiple AI/SI systems, and their respective roles.
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Alex Reeder retweeted
Goodnight everyone. Except my codex and claude agents. You have work to do overnight. 😈
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Alex Reeder retweeted
Here is how I am using Claude and Codex. -Both tools are connected to GitHub Repo -Use Claude to build my v1 through v10 plan (that it says will take months) -create version specific prompts with claude -handoff prompts to codex using the goal feature -Iterate and have claude check codex work -Anytime I want to make a correction or update use steer to not interrupt the codex model (This is the big one) Sometimes you have to tell claude you want another goal run, but it works pretty well. Intelligence Levels Codex: GPT 6 Sol High Claude: Opus 5.5 MEDIUM!! *If you're coding it can last for days. Image gen seems to burn down usage like crazy still.
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Retailers aren’t ready for this.
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Muse is giving straight TED vibes right now

ALT Seth Macfarlane Ted GIF

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Today is the day. Are you ready?
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The AI Adults have entered the chat
Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry. Artificial intelligence is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to come. But its full promise can only be realized when people have confidence that AI is being built to be safe and deployed with wisdom and responsibility. This is bigger than a single product. It's the beginning of an open ecosystem to build the trust layer for safe agent systems. Together, we are building the foundation of the AI economy. Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned. We must build not only the most capable AI, but the most trusted AI, so that this extraordinary technology can realize its enormous promise for the world. nvda.ws/4hcoq7m
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Nothing like rotating API keys over the weekend, while your kids ask for their 5th snack before 9am. Anyone else?
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I'm 35. Solo founder, building bangers & bash, based in Raleigh, NC. Looking to connect with more founders, marketers & AI builders! Just put myself on the map 👇 @verbove makermap.lol/reeder1865?v=es…
drop your startup link 👇 i'll add it on the map & give you a backlink
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Breaking news: Its Tuesday
What day is DevDay? O?
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This week on the all in podcast @chamath floated the idea that frontier companies (not labs) may expand into verticalized services if revenue is under pressure. My alternative view is that @OpenAI OpenAI and @AnthropicAI will seed to Open Source and make open source models available in their apps (harness) as they will realize they are selling the monthly sub and intelligence and all people want is load balancing in reality. If they don’t do this NVIDIA, Amazon, Google and all the Neo clouds are right there to take the market and provide open source intelligence for significantly less cost.
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Open now accounts for 80% of usage vs 20% closed. Source:vercel
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What day is DevDay? O?
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