# "Are You Utilizing AI or Fading It?" — Slick Ric's Workflow Talk

Host: SLICK RIC (@richj530) · Wed, Oct 7 · 1:26:42 · 8 speakers on stage (plus one who never unmuted)

## TL;DR
- The room's framing: AI is already here, so the only real question is whether you're building a workflow with it or watching other people pull away. Slick Ric opened with a hard conversion story — two days into Claude and he's shipped websites, a YouTube channel, and a game prototype [20:49].
- CeoTim.eth supplied the counterweight: frontier models still make catastrophic mistakes, and if you can't reverse-engineer what the AI handed you, you're at a structural disadvantage [29:41] [32:36].
- Burningbush walked through the actual tech stack behind Regen Noir — ChatGPT for images, Claude as "the brain," Suno for music — and revealed the site itself came out of a two-sentence prompt because months of context were already loaded [59:12] [1:02:04].
- Jed dropped in on connections over code ("trust with a capital T"), then laid out the plan to pay community builders ~85% of what they generate instead of the usual "go build our IP for free" arrangement [40:29] [43:39].
- BeeCuzFuture has used AI to file five patents and turn a maintenance doc into something accounting and estimating now use — and closed the night on what you can leave behind for your kids [17:55] [1:17:38].
- Lyss made the case for talking to AI rather than typing at it; Bizl opened the room with a crypto/NFT trending-metrics prototype he's looking for feedback on [27:39] [19:10].

## Highlights

**[10:40] — The premise, from a recent convert.** Slick Ric admitted he'd been fading AI until a couple of days before this Space, and has since bought "all the subscriptions" with no particular restraint. The topic wasn't theoretical for him — it was the week he was living in.

**[12:16] — Woof's morning brief.** Woof described a routine he's built over the past week: he types "give me the Woof morning brief" and gets a rundown of Web3/crypto/NFT news, a few world stories, potential Space topics, conversation starters, and three to five things worth paying attention to. "It makes things like way easier… it saves me a lot of extra work" [14:07].

**[16:25] — BeeCuzFuture: patents, spreadsheets, and roasting coworkers.** He's building a maintenance management profile for the construction company he works for that's since been picked up by accounting and estimating. His honest ranking of the fun, though, was the group chat — AI pictures of coworkers with the boss laughing. Then: "it's helped me put out five patents so far" [17:55]. His framing on fear: the people worried AI takes their job probably will lose it, but using it shows you it still takes a technical expert. "I can make a song on Suno, but I'm not a musician" [16:25].

**[20:49] — The 24-hour build receipts.** Slick Ric walked through one day's output: scraping the top-viewed kids' songs on YouTube, generating a similar track through Suno, having Claude assemble the video and spin up the channel; then scraping three surrounding cities for local businesses with no website, picking one he already knows, and building them a full site in about ten minutes [22:15]. Plus a clothing line setup and a game he declined to describe in detail.

**[29:41] — CeoTim.eth on the gap.** A Midjourney-beta-in-2022 veteran, he made the case that AI *enhances* people who already have a knowledge base and *flatters* people who don't — they get an output, take it into a meeting, and it's full of formula errors and wrong answers. His test [32:36]: can you reverse-engineer what the model gave you? If not, you're losing to the engineer who could have coded it themselves and just saved time instead.

**[36:48] — "Social context" and why your trading bot catches the top.** Tim extended the point to trading bots: a model can read a chart and call a cup-and-handle, but it has no idea who's on the deployer team or which side wallets came in at a $10k market cap. He described a friend outside crypto Twitter asking why he keeps buying the tops — "you're missing the social context… your bot's always gonna catch it after it runs."

**[40:29] — Jed arrives, challenges all bots to a fight.** Introducing himself as "Jed GPT," he offered to beat any AI agent in the room hands down, then made the serious version of the point: tooling without network, reputation, and trust gets you nowhere. Slick Ric matched it with food trucks — you can own the nicest truck selling the best food, but with no contracts and no events you make no money [41:...]. At [43:39] Jed moved to timing and to the incubation model he and the team are working on: builders like Lee and Dan keeping ~85% of what they generate, scaled across 15 community builders, rather than "build our IP" with zero financial support.

**[52:17] — "You're typically the exit liquidity."** Jed and Tim compared notes on the ICO-era playbook repeating itself through TGEs, with Tim landing on the bluntest line of the night about insiders, exit liquidity, and the course-sellers promising microwave riches. Jed also took a detour to warn the room off Woof's AI voice clones, which apparently render Woof, his dog, and Meow as roughly the same person [50:56].

**[55:29] — Burningbush's unusual complaint: it's too fast.** Fresh off minting out and clearly running on fumes, he described the new headache — the tools are so efficient he has to deliberately stagger releases and hop between projects, or he burns through a roadmap before he's had a chance to enjoy any of it.

**[59:12] — The human centipede tech stack.** Tim asked him to open the hood on Regen Noir, and he did: ChatGPT for base images and as his note-taker, Claude as the brain, and a chain of tools wired together. His self-image while working: the tiny kid in the cockpit of a giant mecha. The punchline came at [1:02:04] — the site was a two-sentence prompt and about an hour and 45 minutes of build, because six-to-eight chapters of Regen Noir context were already in there. His method when the model refuses: tell it to build the bridge anyway [1:03:32]. At [1:06:55], Tim asked whether he has a software/process engineering background; the answer was outdoor recreation administration and postgame analytics for pro soccer.

**[1:09:31] — The credits segment.** Tim, who maxes out Opus and Higgsfield on multiple accounts and buys extra credits on top of his plans, asked how Slick Ric built so much without hitting the wall. Burningbush, running the $100 Claude tier and two-to-four-hour prompts, checked live and reported 34% usage — and confessed he's never once run out, possibly because he told Claude early on to be conservative with its own credits. (Mr_CryptoNest was brought up for a turn but never came through the mic; the room gave him a going-once before moving on [1:09:08].)

**[1:17:38] — The closing note nobody expected.** BeeCuzFuture: a lot of us barely have pictures of the people we've lost — think about what the Spaces you host and the time you spend with your AI could leave behind for your kids. Slick Ric followed with his daughter, who's been having a rough stretch, lighting up at the idea of making songs and cartoon characters with him for the new channel [1:17:59].

## Topic timeline

| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| [0:31] – [5:31] | Opening music set / freestyle |
| [5:31] – [10:13] | Room rules, Bizl intro: magic, books, buying his first Bitcoin |
| [10:40] – [16:25] | Topic framing; Woof's AI morning brief; fear-mongering vs. getting on the train |
| [16:25] – [19:10] | BeeCuzFuture: maintenance docs, group-chat mischief, five patents |
| [19:10] – [24:50] | Bizl's coin-metrics prototype; Slick Ric's 24-hour build spree |
| [24:50] – [29:41] | Lyss: when it clicked, voice-first logging, "Lyss-coded" AI |
| [29:41] – [36:07] | CeoTim.eth: model errors, knowledge-base gap, reverse-engineering your output |
| [36:48] – [39:52] | Social context AI can't see; trading bots and deployer teams |
| [40:29] – [48:...] | Jed: trust, timing, builder revenue splits; layer-twos that didn't need to exist |
| [50:56] – [54:17] | Insiders, exit liquidity, and "no such thing as get rich quickly" |
| [55:29] – [1:09:10] | Burningbush on Regen Noir's stack, the two-sentence prompt, the think tank |
| [1:09:31] – [1:13:42] | Credit usage, Opus, Higgsfield, who's actually maxing out |
| [1:13:42] – [1:26:00] | Closing rounds: legacy, family, tomorrow's Spaces, unhackable code |

## Notable quotes

- "You just gotta learn it, figure out how to utilize it and get on the train or get ran over, because it's already here." — SLICK RIC [14:20]
- "I can make a song on Suno, but I'm not a musician, you know, there's levels of it." — BeeCuzFuture [16:25]
- "I don't give a shit what you build — if you don't have the connections, you don't have the network, you don't have the trust, trust with a capital T, in this space you ain't going nowhere." — Jed [40:29]
- "If you're not an insider, you're typically the exit liquidity." — CeoTim.eth [52:17]
- "Claude is the brain. Claude's always the brain. Claude is just my boy." — Burningbush [59:12]
- "Make sure my site is unhackable." — CeoTim.eth, on the prompt line people forget [1:24:40]

## Who said what

- **SLICK RIC (@richj530)** — host. Ran the ten-point framework, but mostly played new convert in public: two days into Claude, buying every subscription, building websites for local businesses who don't have one, and openly calling himself the dumbest guy in the room on purpose.
- **Woof (@WoofArmyXX)** — co-host. Shared his daily "Woof morning brief" prompt and traced the arc from goofy AI pictures a year and a half ago to idea vaults, spreadsheets, and comic books.
- **BeeCuzFuture (@BeeCuzFuture)** — turned a maintenance management build into a cross-department tool, five patents, and the night's most grounded closing thought about what you leave behind.
- **Lyss (@Lysss302)** — made the case for voice-first use: talking through ideas while doing dishes, logging updates, asking for PDF reviews, with a model trained enough on her year to function as a second her. Also held the line that AI doesn't excuse you from reading.
- **CeoTim.eth (@ceotim)** — the technical skeptic-in-good-faith. Midjourney beta, consultant IRL; argued for knowledge base, proofreading, social context, proper "mind dumps," and checking your AI-written code for exploits.
- **Burningbush (@BurningBush_eth)** — minted out that day and still in the Discord grinding. Opened up the Regen Noir stack, the two-sentence prompt, the ADHD-friendly four-Claude-windows workflow, and the think tank he's considering widening into a regen builder group.
- **Jed (@jed_131)** — dropped in to challenge every bot in the room, then talked timing, poking holes in your own ideas before shipping, and routing the majority of value to community builders.
- **Bizl (@bizlcompany)** — first guest up; building a prototype that scores coins across eight-plus metrics, plus NFT and stock trending, and looking for people to critique it.

## Worth a full listen

- **[29:41] – [39:52]** — CeoTim.eth's two-part case, uninterrupted: why AI levels people up right past their own competence, and why a well-built trading bot still can't see the deployer team's side wallets. The best-structured stretch of the night.
- **[59:12] – [1:07:19]** — Burningbush narrating his stack in real time, from "human centipede of AI" through the two-sentence prompt to Tim's background question and the answer nobody saw coming. Energetic, specific, and funnier than a summary can carry.
- **[1:17:38] – [1:19:27]** — BeeCuzFuture on photos of people we've lost, then Slick Ric on his daughter picking out cartoon characters for their new channel. The room changed temperature.