Hi everyone, I have just reached level 2 and would like to make a first post of my own. I have always been interested in technology, economics, and human behavior, but only recently started writing about how they connect. How AI is used inside our systems is the focus here. It is what brought me here, and why ICM makes sense to me. I also like to explore how we humans behave with these systems. I am sharing an essay I originally wrote in Portuguese and translated into English for this community. It explores the social cost of asking another person for help, and how AI changes that choice. Asking a machine can spare us the embarrassment of admitting what we do not know, or the judgment that sometimes comes with an answer. I look at how that changes whom we turn to, what we trust, and how we relate to one another.

A question for all the builders out here. When building your ICM structures, I'm keen to find out who among you uses ChatGPT, who here uses Claude, and what you feel is the best one. What are the alternatives to look at, like Grok, for example?

⬅️ 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗩.: 𝟬𝟱 — 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻　│🏠 𝟬𝟬 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘│　𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧: 𝟬𝟳 — 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗼𝗼𝗻 ➡️ Note: Press on the links above to navigate to each series or home. At the end of Post 05, my Knowledge System was able to process documents, extract their contents and recognise unchanged files. A great achievement and another step forward. However, there was a bit of a problem. Just because you have the information you need doesn't mean you can find it. Imagine thousands of documents. Somewhere in there is the information you are looking for. But which file does that information sit in and where exactly within that file? It's the needle in the haystack. I certainly didn't want to ask an LLM to read everything each time. Remember, I don’t have tokens burning a hole in pocket. 😅 🔎 𝗦𝗼, 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳? From Post 05, I already had the extracted content stored in JSON files on disk. Those files contained the information extracted from the original Word, Excel and PDF documents, along with details of where it came from. Technically, those files could be searched directly. However, with potentially thousands of documents in mind, I wanted a better way to organise and search that information. That's where SQLite came in. Essentially a lightweight database that could act as a searchable catalogue. The idea was simple: 📁 Original documents (Word, Excel, PDF) —> ⚙️ Extracted JSON files (stored on disk) —> 🗂️ SQLite catalogue (searchable index) —> 🔎 Matching passages and their source locations. Instead of going through all the extracted files for every search, SQLite could help locate matching information through its search index. Most importantly though, this was still deterministic processing, not AI reasoning.

I just want to thank @Jake Van Clief for this community. So, I just made my first animated video and it's not perfect but I love it the same way a kid loves their lovey even when it's dirty and damaged!! I animated a song I wrote yesterday as I was wondering if it was possible to be authentic on social media, in general, but mostly for me. I was thinking how winning just looks like passing for me. I truly do not like to follow the crowd but when it feels like that's your only option, well you get...me: Trying to make money doing what everyone else is doing, but getting paralyzed because it doesn't align with my principles and values. Not to mention the fear of vulnerability and all the other fears that are involved. Anyway, that brought me to writing these lyrics and using hookpad to do the piano and melody. Then I sent it over to Suno for a quick demo with the AI voice modeled after me. I had a vision for the video and this video comes close so I am pretty stoked by it. It's just a rough draft as I intend to sing the song myself, but I really wanted something to post in the community 😅. This is going to be a part of my YouTube studio automation which I began building out over the weekend. It starts from a seed which comes from my chats with both Claude and Chatgpt, which Claude puts into a file for me. Either I pick the seed/topic or Claude will based on my current journey and interests. It then gives me some keywords and does a keyword search using the Eden.so MCP and it uses my own reasoning tools to analyze the scripts from YouTube or wherever and finding my gap. Where I fit in based on who I am which Claude has access to stuff but I also gave it that md file on me. Anyway, once we determine my gap and it searches for anything I have already said on the subject and gets my interview. It gives me a template and then writes the script for me based on my voice profile and thr YouTube script analysis I have already had it do.

Hey everyone! I'm Joshua and I'm very happy to have found this group. 🙋 A little about me: Artist at heart, habitual DIY remodeler, and newly fantasy fiction reader (fresh off The Name of the Wind). While I’ve spent years building physical things with my hands, I’m diving headfirst into building and shipping my own digital ideas. 🎯 My current goal: Getting an efficient creative stack dialed in so I have the structure to focus entirely on personal creative output. 💪 What I'm currently building/working on: Drafting my first novel, while concurrently building an app that maps Human Design profiles and archetypes into D&D-style character frameworks. 🤔 My biggest struggle or question right now: Moving past piecemeal chat-window prompting into a sustainable, multi-file developer baseline. I love the leverage AI gives to someone with frontend experience, but I need the right toolchain and scaffolding so I’m not constantly stitching copied snippets together. Let's get it! 🚀