Re:Building Together EP 312 — Let's Talk AI

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) · Thu, Sep 3 2026 · ~1:02:00 across two parts · ~7 speakers

TL;DR

• Thursday's AI episode got off to a rough start — the first room rugged mid-conversation and CEELOS restarted it as "Take 2 * Space Rugged," fighting a connection that kept dropping despite him sitting still on home Wi-Fi.
• Everyone compared everyday AI uses: Val meal-planning for the family, Baked building indie games, and a crypto news/trade tracker "Slick" set up.
• CEELOS ran ChatGPT and Claude live to design a $100→$100k trading bot, reading out a five-layer architecture on air.
• The room floated building an app that reads any NFT contract address and regenerates the whole collection in a new art style; Jed said someone had already pitched him something similar — so "let's build our own."
• Long, warm NFT NYC recap centered on Jed's De Stefano's steakhouse dinners: whale tables, Liz keeping the door, and Super High stories.
• Housekeeping: Regen's two-year anniversary is ~3 weeks out, and the 3pm slot may become the regular time.

Highlights

The space rugs — and the sad piano bit is born [P2 0:34] CEELOS came back after the first room died with the deadpan suggestion that they should've just left the sad piano music running as everyone filed into Take 2. His connection kept cutting despite doing "nothing different, on Wi-Fi, in my room," which became a running joke — including him eventually turning his Wi-Fi off entirely to see if that helped [P2 8:25].

From meal plans to a trading bot [P2 3:25] Val's practical use (meal plans for the whole family) turned into CEELOS's much less practical ambition: hand AI a hundred dollars and tell it to hit $100k in 30–60 days. Baked's take: "you just need a 1,000x meme coin" [P2 6:32].

The live bot architecture read [P2 8:51] CEELOS read out ChatGPT's actual answer — a five-layer bot (market scanner, strategy engine, risk engine, an LLM decision layer, and an execution layer) — pausing on the warning not to let an LLM directly control your wallet, and on the sobering math of compounding 100x.

The contract-to-art app idea [P2 11:36] CEELOS pitched an app where you paste any NFT contract address and it regenerates the whole collection in a different art style, using Baked's gelatics contract as the test case. Jed jumped in that someone had already pitched him almost exactly this and tried to sell it — "so yeah, let's build our shit, bro" [P2 13:47].

Jed on hosting De Stefano's during NFT NYC [P2 18:36] Jed described the flip side of a dinner everyone else called great: "high anxiety, high stress, because I don't want to fuck up," relief when it ended — and then having to do it all again the next night. Shout-outs to his staff and to Liz, "the acting boss of the crime family" [P2 20:19].

Whale tables and genuine VIPs [P2 21:12] Jed explained the seating — Poppy's table for quirk whales, Cab's for the Claynosaurz whales, the Regen's table for one-of-ones and whales plus team — and admitted he's too nice and let a few good-people stragglers in. His line on Super High: VIP for life "because he's who he is" [P2 22:14].

Two things Jed will never forget [P2 24:24] Super High staring down a 25% Cuban liquor "like you're staring down the barrel of a gun" for thirty seconds before drinking it like a shot of Bacardi — and a Warner bathroom story he refused to tell.

The slug pillow [P2 25:26] CEELOS won an NFT for ordering a slug pillow meant for his wife; it never spent a night on her side of the bed because his son claimed it the moment he saw it, and it's been his pillow ever since.

Grandma Val and the milkman's son [P2 32:32] CEELOS teased Val about eventually becoming "grandma Val" ("he says that with love — don't be roping me in there"), which rolled into Baked joking he's the tallest in his family, so they call him the milkman's son.

"I'm taking the car with me" [P2 38:36] Facing a hard stop to go co-host the quirky skate space, CEELOS reminded everyone he holds the keys; Val ran with it — she'd told everyone at the Quirkies party that her friend Celos runs the space, and now, "I drove you guys to the party, but when I gotta go, you guys can stay — but I'm taking the car with me."

Notable quotes

• "This is the early days of AI, before, you know, before Big Brother stepped in." — CEELOS [P2 4:46]
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• "You just need a 1,000x meme coin. That's it." — Baked [P2 6:32]
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• "Let's build our shit, bro." — Jed [P2 13:47]
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• "There's no days off in web three." — CEELOS [P2 18:30]
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• "He's got VIP the rest of his life because he's who he is." — Jed, on Super High [P2 22:14]
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• "I drove you guys to the party, but when I gotta go... I'm taking the car with me." — Val [P2 38:40]
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Topic timeline

Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) — host; drove the AI experiments (trading bot, contract-to-art app), FOMO'd NFT NYC from the couch, and fought the rugging connection all episode.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax) — cohost; building indie games with AI, owns the gelatics project offered as the app's test case, and — as the guy whose shift ends right before dinner — lobbied for keeping the 3pm slot.
• ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) — cohost; AI meal-planner, the lone rebuilding rep at NFT NYC (good company dinner + Quirkies event), and keeper of the "taking the car" bit; doesn't drink anymore.
• Jed (@jed_131) — host of the De Stefano's steakhouse dinners; delivered the NFT NYC storytelling (whale tables, staff shout-outs, Super High), and is up to co-build the collection-regen app.
• Capo 9 (@stedfastt) — dropped in on his commute home, missed NFT NYC but is planning Apefest.
• Solo dolo (@solodolo) — arrived late for good-natured man-bun-and-pig-PFP ribbing.

Worth a full listen

• [P2 8:51]–[P2 11:13] — CEELOS reading the live AI output on the trading bot, layer by layer, with the group reacting in real time. The summary flattens how funny the "am I about to buy a house in LA with a hundred bucks" energy is against the actual risk warnings.
• [P2 18:00]–[P2 25:03] — the De Stefano's / NFT NYC stretch, where Jed's behind-the-scenes stress, the whale-table logic, and the Super High stories all land back to back. This is the heart of the episode.
• [P2 38:36]–[P2 42:15] — the wind-down banter, from Val's "I'm taking the car" bit to the Tony Hawk skater-song alarm, where the room's regular-crew chemistry is at its loosest.