@degensing

Building @VoiceMOAT, the Personal Brand OS for LinkedIn and Twitter. One system to write, schedule, engage and grow. Try it here: https://xitter.cf/t.co/s8hNCpRCwG

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Joined April 2020
Everyone got faster at posting. Nobody got more recognisable. That's the problem I'm building @VoiceMOAT to fix. Here's the full story, pinned so you don't have to scroll for it. The problem A personal brand on @LinkedIn and @X / Twitter comes down to one thing: people know it's you before they see your name. AI was supposed to help with that. Instead: โ†’ Everyone writes with the same AI, so every feed reads the same โ†’ It copies your tone, then says things you'd never say โ†’ Your routine is split across separate apps: one to write, one to schedule, one to reply, one for analytics, and a notes app full of half ideas โ†’ None of them know how you write, so you start from zero every time โ†’ What works on Twitter flops on LinkedIn, and the other way round So most people pick one of two bad options. Post rarely, in their own words. Or post often, in words that aren't theirs. Why I built VoiceMoat I've spent years running social media and influencer campaigns. The founders and creators who grew were never the loudest. They were the ones you could recognise in two lines. I wanted AI that protects that instead of draining it. So I built VoiceMoat, the Personal Brand OS for LinkedIn and Twitter. What's inside One system to write, schedule, engage, analyse and grow, built around your voice: โ†’ audenAI learns how you write from your own posts, then drafts posts, threads and replies that read like you โ†’ Style and Stance check every draft: does it match your habits, and does it say what you'd actually say โ†’ Grow: set a goal, and audenAI plans your month and writes the posts for you to review โ†’ Calendar: schedule and publish to LinkedIn and Twitter from one place โ†’ Replies: find conversations worth joining and reply in your own words โ†’ Analytics: see what's working on both platforms and what to post next โ†’ Inspiration: a library of strong posts by category, so you never start from a blank page Why you need it Your personal brand isn't your posting schedule. It's how you think and how you say it. Generic AI can make you faster. It can't make you recognisable. VoiceMoat is built to do both, because everything in it starts from your voice. It's for founders, creators, consultants and ghostwriters who want to show up every day without blending in. Try it for $1 for 3 days at voicemoat.com Or DM me and I'll set it up with you. Your voice is your moat.
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I'm guilty of this too. AI made building so cheap that a new idea turns into a new project the same day. New idea? Build it. No customers? Build something else. No revenue? Start another project. Coding isn't the scarce skill in 2026. Knowing when to STOP building and start selling is.
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Everyone in my feed is asking how to grow without ads, and the answers are all tools. The tactic I'd bet on is the boring one: go find 20 people who already have the problem and talk to them before you build anything else.
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It seems Be10x team ran a paid LinkedIn campaign last week, everyone posting same AI image, with same template upgrade your AI skills. They went out used LinkedIn influencer who write in there BIO's Keywords like "HR", "AI & Tech Content", "Content Creator", "Helping founder write better content", "AI & Tech". My real question to there team your target audience to learn AI marketing is the same folks who have these keyword, and if you are paying them for a paid campaign. Then who your real target audience is? Cause next thing I know in your marketing campaign this is going to show up on Insta, and you'll lure in college kids, "looking for job" professionals to buy your 1k course. Like what's the ROI of this campaign.
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I used to feel guilty hanging up on cold callers. My logic was simple: โ€œIf Iโ€™m going to say no anyway, why waste 30 seconds of their time?โ€ Then AI cold calls arrived. Now, I hang up guilt-free. Turns out, robots are great for my mental health.
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How to vibe code from anywhere: โ†’ Get the $200 Claude Max plan โ†’ Install the Claude Mac app and open Claude Code โ†’ Create a repo and plug your laptop in โ†’ Install the Claude app on your iPhone and sign in to the same account โ†’ In Claude Code, run /rc (or claude remote-control) and scan the QR code โ†’ Open the Code tab on your phone and pick the session โ†’ Turn on voice dictation Your laptop does the work. Your phone is just the window. Now go for a walk, hit the gym, buy groceries, watch Netflix, or sit in the jacuzzi. All while vibe coding. Rest those fingers, frens. Codex has its own phone control now, but Opus 5.5 is better. Fight me.
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Sam Altman said in 2025 that customer support jobs would be "totally, totally gone." This year he admitted entry-level white-collar hiring hasn't dropped as fast as he thought.
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Three security incidents landed in the last 48 hours. Here is what actually happened, and what needs to be done. 1) The certificate incident An Indian certificate authority, eMudhra, generated weak private keys for 8 of its intermediate certificates during a key ceremony in April 2025. Anyone could recover those keys from the public certificates. Chrome, Firefox, Apple and Microsoft have now blocked them. 2) The iPhone Bluetooth flaw Apple has patched a Bluetooth flaw that could let a nearby attacker run code on iPhone 11 and later. The patch is already out, in iOS 27 and 26.7. Apple has not confirmed anyone exploited it. 3) The PHP bug Two flaws in PHP itself allow remote code execution with no login. Every PHP version back to 5.4 is affected. Patches landed yesterday. Attack attempts started before the patch did. Chrome also shipped version 156 this week, with 353 security fixes. What needs to be done: โ†’ Update your browser first โ†’ Update your phone and computer OS โ†’ iPhone 11 or later: update iOS now. Keep Bluetooth off only until you do โ†’ Update desktop apps like Slack, Cursor and Discord โ†’ Avoid untrusted Wi-Fi until your devices are updated โ†’ Ignore any email offering a "certificate fix". That is the phishing wave this incident creates โ†’ Developers: update pip, uv and npm, and update PHP. Updating is the only complete fix
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AI doesn't make you 10x faster on its own It makes you faster at whatever you were already doing, including the mistakes Speed only helps if the thinking came first
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I don't think Anthropic rushes Fable 5.5 this week Opus 5.5 is already way ahead, so they have no real reason to If Fable ends up costing twice what Opus does, I'd be more hyped for Opus 5.6, especially if the 50% Fable limits stay Happy to be wrong on this one
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Vibe coding gets you live in a weekend. Speed is what makes people stay ๐Ÿ‘‡ 20 things to fix in your vibe coded app: โ†’ Measure first: run Lighthouse and PageSpeed on mobile โ†’ Compress every image to WebP or AVIF โ†’ Lazy load images below the fold โ†’ Serve static files from a CDN โ†’ Remove packages your AI added but never used โ†’ Split your JavaScript so pages load only what they need โ†’ Preload your main font, and use only 1 or 2 fonts โ†’ Add database indexes on columns you filter by โ†’ Fix N+1 queries โ†’ Paginate lists instead of loading everything โ†’ Cache API responses that rarely change โ†’ Stream AI responses instead of waiting for the full answer โ†’ Show skeletons and loading states, not blank screens โ†’ Move heavy work to background jobs โ†’ Put your server close to your users โ†’ Kill cold starts on your main routes โ†’ Debounce search inputs โ†’ Remove third party scripts you don't need โ†’ Test on a cheap Android phone on 4G โ†’ Ask your AI: "What makes this app slow?" Users don't wait. Every extra second of load time costs you signups.
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Someone on LinkedIn said AI comments are everywhere, so your thoughtful comments carry less weight. I think that's backwards. He's right about one thing. Commenting isn't the most valuable move on this platform. โ†’ Posting content is worth more โ†’ DMs are worth more โ†’ Connection requests probably are too But that's a ranking of actions. It says nothing about whether comments still count. Here's the logic: AI comments flood the feed. They all sound the same. Generic praise. A neat restatement of the post. A polite question at the end. When most of what you scroll past is that, a comment with a real opinion in it is easy to spot. It's supply and demand. The more filler there is, the more a comment that sounds like an actual person is worth. AI didn't make thoughtful comments worthless. ๐—œ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€.
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Teaching an AI your voice is mostly a sourcing problem. Most people paste in 20 random posts and wonder why the output sounds like a stranger doing an impression. Here's how I'd do it instead. 1. Pick the posts that sound most like you Not your best performers. The ones where you read it back and think "yeah, that's exactly how I'd say it." A post can do well and still sound like someone else. Skip those. A handful you'd sign your name to beats a pile of average. 2. Point out what matters, leave the rest alone Tell it what you actually care about: how short your lines run, the words you keep coming back to, how you open, how you land. Don't explain every quirk. Over-explaining makes it exaggerate the quirks. A few clear patterns are enough, and it'll find the rest in your posts. 3. Run the check Take a draft and remove your name from it. Then ask: if this showed up in my feed, would I know it was mine? Better yet, mix it in with 3 of your real posts and see if you can still tell which one the AI wrote. If you can spot it in seconds, the source posts were wrong. Go back to step 1. It's slower than pasting and hoping. But the draft that comes out is one you only have to edit, not rewrite.
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I still write my first drafts by hand. Before any tool touches the post. Not because the tools are bad. Because the first draft is where I find out what I actually think. When I start with a generator, the post comes out smooth, and smooth is the problem. The rough edges are where my real opinions live. A generator sands them off. So the draft stays messy. I say the thing plainly, then tighten it. That's what keeps the post mine.
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The biggest AI builders are putting hundreds of billions behind it. Plenty of investors think they're making a mistake Odd part is most of those investors have struggled to beat a plain index fund for years, and now they're second guessing the people building the models Maybe the investors are right Maybe the builders are Never seen the stakes this high with the two sides this far apart
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Most founders post every day and wonder why nothing moves The account is busy. The profile doesn't say who it's for, the audience isn't the one they want, and the posts don't get any replies Fix one piece and it still won't grow. Profile, audience and engagement have to pull the same way
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"Software isn't dead. It's solved. Nobody will hire software engineers by 2028." That's the take going around. Here's what it misses ๐Ÿ‘‡ โ†’ Writing code is being automated โ†’ Defining what to build isn't โ†’ Debugging production at 3 AM isn't โ†’ Owning broken systems isn't โ†’ Solving vague business problems isn't AI didn't kill software engineers. It cut the ones whose only skill was typing code. The role is moving from "write code" to "own the outcome." That's the engineer who ends up managing 10 agents.
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Anthropic just launched Claude Duet. It's built on Opus 5.5, and it's up against Grok Bot, OpenAI Dots (GPT-6 Astra) and Meta Muse. Here's how the 4 compare on what the reports say so far: โ†’ Price: Duet has no separate price, it runs on your Claude plan. Grok Bot starts at $30 (SuperGrok). Dots starts at $100. Muse is free to start. โ†’ Multi-agent: Grok Bot lets you run several named agents. Duet is one ongoing thread. โ†’ Computer access: Dots can optionally use your laptop. Duet works on its own cloud computer. โ†’ Approvals: Duet asks before it sends, pays, signs or deletes. โ†’ Security: Duet uses a dedicated classifier to guard against sensitive data leaks. โ†’ Usage: Duet's background checks count toward your regular Claude limits. Duet is still a US waitlist research preview. Some of this will change once people test it. Opus 5.5 alone won't settle this race. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐˜.
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Can Claude Duet or OpenAI Dots run your Twitter? No. Neither even mentions Twitter. What they can do: โ†’ research and briefs before you post โ†’ inbox and calendar after โ†’ Duet from ~$20/mo (US, waitlist), Dots from ~$100/mo The full comparison:
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Getting engagement on Twitter is getting harder and harder everyday. Cause @elonmusk has made it so. If it was not, then why he would have boosted his own tweets, it seems people are bored of his tweets so he need to do his own engagement farming. ๐Ÿซ 
Some fools still think the legacy news is real. Amazing.
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Anthropic shipped another agent while we were asleep. Claude Duet is the proactive kind. It surfaces what actually needs you, keeps working while you're away, and only asks when it matters. It's a direct shot at Dots, Grok Bot, Hark and Muse. What it runs on: โ†’ your Claude memory and connected apps โ†’ Opus 5.5 for the judgement calls What it does: โ†’ morning brief โ†’ app monitoring โ†’ task completion โ†’ reports โ†’ building things Safety is baked in. No password access, a classifier on sensitive stuff, and the final say stays with you. It's an early research preview, but the product shape is clear. Anthropic is treating agents as a full product surface now. ๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ท๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฎ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ.
Weโ€™re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent. It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.
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