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13 contributions to Clief Notes
What If I Gave You 50x More AI Usage Capacity?
What would you do with it? Would you become 50x more productive? Or would you just waste 50x more resources? If you’re already wasting your current AI quota on poor planning, repeated prompts, lost context and unfinished projects, why would 50x more suddenly change that? You’re not scaling productivity. You’re scaling inefficiency. Now imagine you had to build a system capable of managing that 50x quota intelligently. Persistent memory. Structured workflows. Task prioritization. Agent orchestration. Verification loops. Resource allocation. And it needs to scale to 100x or 200x without falling apart. Now comes the real twist. What happens when you take everything you’ve learned and apply it to your regular 1x account? Same structure. Same intelligence. Same efficiency. Suddenly, you can accomplish far more with the exact same quota. The real challenge was never how to use 50x more AI. It was learning how to get more out of the 1x you already had. So let me ask you: Do you actually need a bigger AI quota, or do you need a better system to manage it? That's the whole point: learn how to get more out of the 1x you already have. That's how you turn 1x into 50x, not 50x into 1x.
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@Pascal Pollack Thanks, I'll give that a try. I’m researching a lot of things—right now, mostly about AI and LLM models—because I want to find and compare the best value-for-money models for every purpose. That way, I don’t spend too much money on APIs but still get good results and answers. And the longer I delve into this topic, the more I realize how contradictory my goals and approach are: I research, compare, and consider which model is the “best” for the purpose. In the process, I have to constantly reevaluate the latest models and get lost in these comparisons without moving on to any productive activity (and end up using exactly the tokens I actually wanted to save).
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@Pascal Pollack You're right about the sources, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Some of my research comes from YouTube, and some of these content creators are either selling something or jumping on the hype train without fully understanding the product; however, I usually don't take these videos as the absolute truth but rather as inspiration. I can’t verify every source, and sometimes I trust a video more than I should. That’s another reason why I keep going in circles with my comparisons: I lack a solid foundation for my decision. The bicycle analogy makes sense to me. I’m not looking for someone to hand me a perfect setup, but just a starting point that I can gradually adjust. That’s why I’m starting by creating the smallest possible version: A folder, a set of instructions, a task: “Research topic X and create a comparison table with: pros and cons, price, potential out-of-pocket costs, safety concerns, and sources.” Thanks for the free tips—I won’t charge you for the insights you’ve gained from them either 😉
Need help with Decster
I made my first post. But on decster.ai, when I try to complete the challenge and paste the link to the post , I always get the message: "This post is too old. Write a new one." But the post was only 3 hours old at the time, and now it’s been 19 hours, and it still doesn’t work. What can I do? Is it because I didn’t use the template, or because I posted it in “Help & Troubleshooting”?
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I just pasted the link to this post into Dexter, and it worked 🫠
What Can We Build Together?
Over the past few days, I’ve had some fascinating conversations here in this community, including a private chat with @Bryson Bossley . Those conversations got me thinking. And last night, I couldn’t stop thinking. One thought led to another. Ideas connected. Questions became bigger. And somehow, I ended up writing a speech and turning it into a video. So please, WATCH THE VIDEO FIRST. And if you recognize yourself in what I’m saying, if something in that message resonates with you… Come back and read this. ——— What Can We Build Together? 50,000 minds. Thousands of skills. Countless ideas. And yet… most of us are still trying to succeed alone. Think about that for a moment. What if the greatest opportunity in this community isn’t the next AI tool, another course, or another business? What if it’s the person reading this right now? Someone here might have exactly the knowledge you’re missing. Someone else might need exactly what you already know. And the strange thing is… Neither of you even knows the other exists. Isn’t that a tremendous waste of potential? I made this video because I believe we’re overlooking something extraordinary. It’s not another tutorial. It’s not a sales pitch. It’s a question we should all be asking ourselves. What could we achieve if we stopped trying to do everything alone and started combining what we’re already good at? Maybe we don’t need another thousand ideas. Maybe we need to connect the people who can bring them to life. And maybe it starts right here. Not with another complicated system. Not with another promise of success. But with people discovering each other. So let me ask you three simple questions. 1. What are you genuinely good at? 2. What do you need help with? 3. What would you build with others? Don’t overthink your answers. You don’t need to impress anyone. You don’t need to sell yourself. Just be yourself. Because somewhere among the people reading this, someone might have exactly the missing piece you’ve been searching for.
What Can We Build Together?
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@Pascal Pollack Hmmm... I'd say if 27 emails in a row were correctly moved to the “Discard” folder—where they belong—and not a single one was placed there by mistake, I'd “trust” the system.
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@Pascal Pollack There isn't an instruction file yet where I could write this down. Of course, I would carefully check every error. And if I understand why a particular error occurred and can fix it, I might not start from scratch—but I'd probably need to get about 10 to 15 of them right before I could trust the system.
A little bit about me
Hello everyone, I’m Michael from Switzerland and I speak German, so please excuse my English. I joined this group to learn how to use AI and set up an ICM system, but right now I don’t have the energy for it. I suffer from anxiety, depression, and migraines, and I have a wife and two very young children. My greatest wish is to help people with technology and to feel useful again. Most days I feel overwhelmed: I’ve started way too many projects, and my perfectionism, combined with severe self-doubt, blocks every decision. Here’s what I’ve managed to do over the last few days: - I wrote a 30-day decision memo: one agent, no sub-agents, pay-as-you-go with a monthly limit, no comparisons or rebuilding until December 4. - I found an offline speech-to-text solution in German that even works when I whisper (MolyEcho), and I sent the developer an email with a feature request. It's not perfect, and part of me feels like I've failed, even though I tested it myself and it works. I notice I keep needing someone else to confirm that. My question: How do you get started with ICM when you have very little energy? What would be the smallest first step you’d take? Thanks for reading.
The social cost of asking another person
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.
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Thank you so much for sharing this post with us. That’s exactly the uneasy feeling I get every time I have to decide who to ask, but until now I hadn’t been able to put a name to it. This essay describes exactly what my gut is trying to tell me. It’s written in a very clear and insightful way.
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@Valmor Ricardo Reichel No, then I would always choose the person (unless it’s 3 a.m. and I want the answer right away, and it’s not a critical decision)
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