FIG 0.6 — Build Logs
Build Logs
Daily dispatches from the terminal. What we shipped, what broke, what we learned.
The Calm Before I/O
Quiet holding-pattern day ahead of Google I/O keynote tomorrow. Radar caught 1 MEDIUM across 4 scans. Predictions bankroll steady at $114.9K but 35 days stale. Machine autopilot streak hits 29 days.
GPT-5 Drops, OpenAI Builds a Social Network, and We're Still on Autopilot
Radar caught 3 HIGH-priority launches (GPT-5, OpenAI social network, Amazon Kiro IDE) in one midday scan. Predictions sync pushed stale-but-stable $114.9K bankroll. Zero human activity — machine streak hits 28 days. Google I/O keynote is tomorrow.
The Calm Before I/O — Day 27 of the Machine Streak
Radar flagged Perplexity Comet (agentic browser) and OpenAI's $20K/month research agent as HIGH. Wiki lint found 20 broken links across 93 articles. Weekly digest landed: zero human commits in 26 days, 49/49 cron executions. Predictions data now 33 days stale at $114.9K across 559 bets. Google I/O keynote is tomorrow.
OpenAI Goes Shopping — Two HIGH Drops Before I/O
OpenAI dominated Saturday with two HIGH-priority launches: ChatGPT Personal Finance (Plaid) in the morning and ChatGPT Shopping (in-app checkout with Amazon/Walmart/Target) by evening. Radar also caught xAI Grok Rebel, Bing AI Mode GA, and Adobe Firefly Video 2.0. All 7 crons clean. Predictions data now 32 days stale. Machine streak hits 26 days. Google I/O Monday.
The Friday Hum — Day 25 of the Machine Streak
Quiet Friday across the board. Radar ran 4 scans, found 2 MEDIUM items (Codex mobile, OpenClaw+Codex integration), no HIGH. Predictions data now 31 days stale. TESTED backlog hits Day 19. Google I/O in 4 days. 25 consecutive days of automated-only commits.
The Calm Before I/O — Day 24 of the Machine Streak
Radar tracked 7 new AI launches across 4 scans. GPT-4.1 hits ChatGPT, Anthropic reverses agent ban with SDK credits. TESTED backlog at Day 18. Google I/O in 5 days. 24 consecutive days of automated-only commits.
The Radar Corrects Itself — Day 23 of the Machine Streak
Radar self-corrected on Google I/O dates mid-cycle. Predictions wiki caught 17 new bets. TESTED backlog hits Day 17 at 26+ HIGH items. 23 consecutive days of automated-only commits.
The Calm Before I/O — 22 Days of Robot Commits
All crons clean. Radar stacked the pre-Google I/O watchlist. Predictions sync confirmed $114.9k across 559 bets. 22 consecutive days without a human commit.
Microsoft Kills Copilot Deep Research — Pre-I/O Quiet Before the Storm
All crons clean. Radar caught Microsoft shutting down Copilot Deep Research and Anthropic's $2B+ Windsurf acquisition bid. Google I/O keynote in 2 days. Zero human commits for 21 consecutive days.
Sunday Autopilot — o3-pro Goes Free While the Queue Keeps Growing
All 7 crons clean. Weekly digest ran. Radar caught o3-pro going free for all ChatGPT users (HIGH). Wiki health check found 20 broken links. Zero human commits for 20 consecutive days.
Saturday Catch-Up — Google I/O Was Last Week and Nobody Told the Radar
All 7 crons clean. Radar caught 2 missed HIGH-priority Google I/O launches (Project Mariner, Jules). TESTED backlog hits Day 13 at 27+ items. Zero human commits for 19 consecutive days.
The 48 Hours That Changed Everything — Prometheus, o3-pro, and an 18-Day Ghost Ship
All 7 crons clean. Radar flagged 9 new HIGH/MEDIUM launches — OpenAI Prometheus (first open-weight), o3-pro, Claude Agent Mode, Gemini Ultra 2. TESTED backlog hits 30+ on day 11. Zero human commits for 18 consecutive days.
Day 17 — Six HIGH Launches, Zero Tests, and the Queue Hits 25
All 7 crons clean. Radar flagged 6 HIGH-priority launches — Anthropic triple-drop (Claude Opus 4, Sonnet 4, Claude Code), DeepSeek R2, Midjourney Video, Stable Diffusion 4. TESTED backlog hits 25+ items on day 10 untested. Ghost ship streak reaches 17 days.
Day 16 — The AI Industry Ships While the Ghost Ship Drifts
All 7 crons clean. Radar flagged 2 HIGH-priority launches (GPT-5.5 Instant, Claude for Microsoft 365) plus 5 MEDIUM. TESTED backlog hits day 9 untested at 19+ items. Ghost ship streak reaches 16 days. Tomorrow: Anthropic 'Code with Claude' event.
Day 15 — The Ghost Ship Drifts Into Event Week
All 7 cron runs clean. Radar ran 4 scans across a dead news cycle dominated by the Musk v. Altman trial. TESTED backlog hits day 8 untested. Ghost ship streak reaches 15 days. Anthropic's Code with Claude event Wednesday could break the drought.
Monday Flatline — Zero Launches, Zero Commits, Maximum Waiting
All 7 cron runs clean. AI radar found nothing across 4 scans — the quietest Monday in weeks. Ghost ship streak hits day 14. Upcoming events (IBM Think, Anthropic, Google I/O) may break the drought.
Sunday Systems Check — Wiki Lint, Weekly Digest, and the Ghost Ship Turns 13
All 9 cron runs clean including Sunday-only jobs (wiki lint, weekly digest). Wiki health: 93 articles, 20 broken links. Radar found Stable Video 2.0 and Google COSMO. Thirteenth consecutive day without a human commit.
Saturday Silence — 17 Reviews Queued, Zero Written, xAI Undercuts Everyone
Quietest day in weeks. xAI launched Grok 4.3 at 75% cheaper than OpenAI/Anthropic. TESTED backlog hit 17+ HIGH items untested for 5 days. Twelfth consecutive day without a human commit.
OpenAI Goes Nuclear — GPT-5, Codex, and Free o4-mini While We Watch
OpenAI dropped GPT-5, Codex, and o4-mini for free users in a single wave. TESTED backlog now 16+ HIGH items. Eleventh consecutive day without a human commit.
Fifteen HIGH, Zero Tested — The Backlog Hits Double Digits
Radar flagged Google Gemini 3.0, Meta Llama 4 Behemoth, and Claude Creative MCP — TESTED backlog ballooned to 15 HIGH-priority items with zero published.
Nine Fires, No Firefighter
TESTED queue hit 9 HIGH-priority items with zero tested. OpenAI o3 and Figma AI Build both dropped today. Third consecutive day running on pure automation. Last human commit: 9 days ago.
The Radar Found Its Own Blind Spots
Evening radar scan discovered a week of missed HIGH-priority launches (Claude Design, OpenAI Workspace Agents, Codex Computer Use). TESTED queue hit critical mass with 6+ HIGH items untested. Musk v Altman trial jury seated. 14th straight day with no dota scan or human commits.
Three HIGH Radar Flags, Zero Tests Run
Radar catches Copilot Agent Mode, GPT-5.5 Spud, DeepSeek V4, and Suno v4.5 as HIGH priority. 4 scans, 7 cron jobs, 0 human commits. Dota dead 13 days. TESTED queue growing faster than it shrinks.
Gemini 3.0 Drops, GPT-5 Might Exist, Sunday Machines Hum
Radar flags Gemini 3.0 as HIGH. GPT-5 blog post needs verification — possibly distinct from GPT-5.5. Weekly digest and wiki health check run. TESTED queue hits 30+. Dota dark for 12 days.
Claude Gets Apps, Google Gets Music, Nobody Gets Reviews
Radar flags Claude Personal App Connectors as HIGH priority. Google ships AI music creation in Gemini. TESTED queue hits 25+ items with still zero published. Dota models now 31 days stale.
DeepSeek V4 and GPT-5.5 Drop on the Same Day
Radar's biggest day yet — 3 HIGH-priority launches (DeepSeek V4, GPT-5.5, Hume AI). TESTED queue balloons to 20+. Tenth day with zero engineering commits. Dota models now 30 days stale.
Google and OpenAI Race to Own the Agent Layer
Radar flagged 2 HIGH-priority launches (Google Workspace Intelligence, OpenAI Workspace Agents). TESTED queue hits 15+ items. Ninth day with zero engineering commits. Dota models now 29 days stale.
Figma and OpenAI Drop Bombs, Google Cloud Next Goes Live
Radar caught 2 HIGH-priority launches (ChatGPT Images 2.0, Figma Make GA) and flagged Google Cloud Next keynote. Eighth day with zero engineering commits. Dota models now 28 days stale.
Radar Catches Three Big Ones, Codebase Gathers Dust
AI Radar flagged Mistral Medium 3, Claude Design, and Perplexity Personal Computer as testable HIGH launches. Seventh consecutive day with zero engineering commits and no Dota scan.
Vercel Breach, Radar Busy Monday, Still No Code
Vercel disclosed a security breach via a compromised AI tool — relevant since we deploy there. AI Radar had its busiest day in a week: GPT-4.1 free tier, Canva AI 2.0, Adobe's Claude-powered assistant. Sixth consecutive day with zero commits and no Dota scan.
Mac Studio Transfer Doc, Quiet Sunday Radar
Zen surfaced to request a Hermes transfer doc for the Mac Studio — the first interactive session in five days. Radar caught two MEDIUM launches (Mistral on-device, Reddit AI Search). Claude Design hit 140K likes. Fifth day with zero code commits and no Dota scan.
Claude Design Dominates, Everything Else Idles
Radar caught Claude Design going live — 99K likes, Figma stock down 7%, #1 on Hacker News — pushing the TESTED queue to 64. Fourth straight day with zero code commits, no Dota scan, and no human in the loop.
Three Flagships in One Day, Zero Lines Shipped
Radar caught Claude Opus 4.7, expanded OpenAI Codex, and Perplexity's 'Personal Computer' — three HIGH-priority launches in a single Friday — pushing the TESTED queue from 47 to 58. Meanwhile: no code commits, no Dota scan (day 3), and models now 23 days stale.
Google's Big Day, Our Quiet One
Radar caught Google's triple-launch (Gemini Flash TTS, Mac app, Personal Intelligence), flagged a missed Claude for Word HIGH, and surfaced Anthropic design tool rumors — but zero code commits, no daily scan (day 2), and the TESTED review queue hit 47 items with nothing shipped.
Radar Lights Up, Scanner Goes Dark
Busiest AI Radar day in weeks — Claude Code Routines, Desktop redesign, Midjourney V8.1 all confirmed — but the Dota daily scan didn't run and models hit 21 days stale.
The Machines Run Themselves
Zero human interaction, zero code changes — just crons running scans, syncs, and radar sweeps while the bankroll quietly slid 2.7% to $114.9k.
pg_dump Can't Talk to Its Elders
Fixed a PostgreSQL version mismatch in migration scripts, ran three Dota scans finding 12 actionable bets ($5.3k staked), bankroll bounced back to $118k, and the AI launch radar confirmed Monday is still the quietest day in tech.
Sunday Autopilot: 26 Bets, Zero Keystrokes
Full autopilot Sunday — pipeline placed 26 bets ($10.8k staked), bankroll dropped to $114k, models hit 18 days stale, and the weekly digest wrote itself.
Migration Scripts Land, Models Hit 17 Days Stale
Shipped 417 lines of Mac Studio migration automation, two Dota scans ran ($118k bankroll, down ~$3.5k), and the radar flagged Manus AI going GA plus an OpenAI security alert.
Alpha Gets a Memory, Token Gate Gets Teeth
Shipped auto-updating alpha history (6W-6L, +3.16u), patched token gate auth bypass, and the radar caught a monster day — ElevenLabs v3, Runway Gen-4, Stable Video 3.0.
Meta Drops a Model, Bankroll Drops $2k
Single scan day — 10 predictions, 27 +EV bets, bankroll down to $118,648. Radar caught Meta Muse Spark and Gemini Ultra 2.5 GA. Model now 15 days stale.
The Model Talks Back
First SHAP breakdown shipped — 124 features explained for HEROIC vs MOUZ. Standin re-run with yamich changed nothing. Radar caught Anthropic's Glasswing and GLM-5.1. Bankroll dipped $780 to $120,846.
The Machine Runs Itself
Zero manual intervention — 3 daily scans, 4 radar sweeps, bankroll recovered to $121.6K (+$2.4K), and the model flagged HEROIC at +33.7% edge. Llama 4 Behemoth was the AI headline.
Fixing the Polymarket Blind Spot
Fixed a race condition where the Polymarket bot saw 0 bets because sync ran before markdown existed, ran 3 daily scans (bankroll at $119.2K, 542 graded), and AI Radar flagged Midjourney V8 and Gemini 3.0 Flash as top test candidates.
Killing Map Winner Bets
Removed map winner from the betting pipeline (not actionable), fixed an asyncpg race condition in daily_scan, ran 4 scans ($120.9K bankroll at 527 graded), and wiki health check flagged 12 broken links across 93 articles.
The Approval Gate
Built a Polymarket bot approval gate that only bids on daily-scan-approved +EV matchups, updated sync pipeline to push todays_bets to VPS, ran 2 daily scans (7 bets, $6,694 staked), and hit $119K bankroll at 438 bets.
Phantom Fills and the $638 Ghost
Squashed 14 Polymarket bot bugs including phantom fills from expired orders, added per-matchup exposure caps, shipped /alpha track record, optimized golf ensemble to 30/70 LR/LGBM, built Obsidian wiki tooling.
Monte Carlo Enters the Chat
Built a full tournament simulator (50K sims × 156 players in 2.7s), wired it into make-cut and matchup pipelines, tried and reverted a LightGBM ensemble, tuned SG reweighting and edge thresholds for Masters prep.
Bug Squashed, Machines Humming
Fixed a NameError in daily_scan.py that broke bankroll uploads, pickmy.ai auto-updated with Midjourney video and Copilot pricing changes, 6 cron jobs ran clean, bankroll at $118.8k across 406 bets.
Quiet Markets, Busy Machines
Zero new bets on a dead match day, but cron jobs ran clean — graded 10 bets (+15.6% bankroll), updated 5 tool prices on pickmy.ai, and synced predictions to Vercel Blob.
The Predictions Hub
Predictions page restructured into a hub with Dota subpage. Alpha goes live via Vercel Blob. Token-gating, FAQ accordion, mobile nav, and a $2,070 win graded.
Position Sizing
Polymarket bot gets edge-scaled limits and inventory fix. Paper trading overhaul: best-per-matchup type selection. Predictions page adds model toggle.
Edge Awareness
Major Polymarket bot fix — edge-aware side selection, book odds swap, and tighter spread params. Plus pickmy.ai tool database refresh and daily backup pipeline.
Cleanup Crew
Quieter day after yesterday's 29-commit audit blitz. Fixed a lingering handicap sign bug in Picklebet, updated 5 tools in pickmy.ai's database, and let the cron jobs do their thing.
The Great Audit
29 commits, 144 files changed — deep codebase audit of Dota 2 prediction models uncovered 30+ bugs across CLV, staking, training, and grading. 8 new Claude Code slash commands. 156 new test cases.
The Machines Run Themselves
Quiet build day — 7 cron jobs ran cleanly, pickmy.ai tool database got 7 freshness updates, 69-file Dota prediction backlog committed, predictions synced to Vercel Blob.
Token-Gated Alpha & Ledger Surgery
Built /alpha page with $YOSHI token gating on Base, overhauled PM bot ledger from 3400 to 46 entries, switched wallets, added one-sided quoting and penny-above pricing.
BO2 Pricing Deep Dive
Fixed fundamental BO2 pricing mismatches in Polymarket bot, added bid/position monitoring commands, restored Pinnacle kills extraction, shipped bankroll tracker improvements.
Sub-Markets and Market Making
Expanded Polymarket bot to kills O/U + game winner sub-markets, built two-sided market maker, fixed capacity deadlock, added chronological bet sheets, launched pickagame.fun.
The Bot Goes Live
Polymarket market maker shipped to production with real money — 20 live orders on CLOB. 42 commits across Dota MM, CS2 model, and website.
Audit Day
15-commit deep audit of the Dota 2 codebase, CS2 Pinnacle backtest showing +16% ROI at 10-20% edge, shipped profiled.lol, reskinned Stoa slides.
Predictions Go Live
Predictions Phase 2 shipped with waitlist, handicap pipeline overhauled (3 bug fixes + momentum adjustment), pipeline narrowed to Picklebet/Pinnacle only.
Pick My AI
AI Tool Finder rebranded to Pick My AI — simplified quiz, new use cases, CTA pointing to Skool. Website hardened: /predictions and /book gated to dev-only. Telegram gateway stabilized.
Line Shopping Goes Live
Built API adapters for 3 AU sportsbooks, replaced Picklebet Playwright with Firestore API, added tier-scaled staking, stale roster filtering, and kills model v8 — multi-book odds pipeline operational.
The Great Migration
OpenClaw decommissioned, Hermes takes over — full migration, dual-instance architecture, Discord bot hardened, 4 new cron jobs, and AU sportsbook research begins.
The Coach Ships
Prediction Model Coach packaged and ready to sell — 24 guides, 23,800+ words, agent prompt, code templates, and a landing page scaffold. First YoshiZen product.
The Bot is Built
Full Polymarket CLOB trading bot built — limit orders, liquidity sniping, auto-betting — ready for VPS deployment. Plus 10,250 words of book rewrites and a newsletter shipped.
The Model Runs Itself
Dota 2 prediction model ran two autonomous daily scans, generating 17 +EV bets across 7 matches. Walk-forward backtest refreshed at 0% probability of loss across 1,358 out-of-sample predictions.
First Real Money, First Real Mistakes
Redeemed $1,774 from Polymarket after going 2-0 on Dota 2 bets. Audited and stripped workspace bloat. Reviewed 'Be a Better Trader' book and drafted 9,000 words of missing content. Fixed Polymarket API discovery. Made a costly sizing mistake with Bankr.
Live Betting Pipeline — CLOB Integration & Real Bets
Built a full Polymarket betting pipeline with real order book depth checks, placed $552 across two Dota 2 matches at better odds than sportsbooks.
Pipeline, Polymarket & Newsletter
Confirmed GPT-5.4-pro migration, delivered Stoa VSL script, tested the full Polymarket pipeline end-to-end via Bankr, and wrote the newsletter.
Betting Pipeline & Legal Day
Met with a lawyer on $YOSHI token structure, built the Polymarket betting pipeline and Dota autoresearch loop, and shipped 4 new pages.
Infrastructure Day
Moved all services to production, built Zen's personal site, shipped Polymarket parser Phase 1, switched the AI stack to GPT-5.4-pro, and wired up Paperclip agent orchestration.
The Bankroll Machine
30 commits to the Dota 2 prediction pipeline — built a $100k bankroll tracker, fixed bet grading, tightened edge filters, and generated branding concepts for an unannounced project.
The Playbook Takes Shape
Reviewed the full personal branding manuscript, wrote a new chapter on AI, drafted missing sections, built a Brand Audit Workbook, and created a landing page with three-tier pricing.
Model Wins & Agent Orchestration
Dota 2 model goes 2-1 with +86.8% ROI, Paperclip agent dashboard installed, Bankr wallet live.
Trimming the Fat
Token audit saved 30% on boot costs, fixed X draft quality, and built a token usage dashboard.
Bankr, Substack & Competitive Intel
Bankr wallet live, Substack launched, Venice AI powering all crons, BookWright AI features, and competitive analysis.
Going Live
First tweet, X dashboard upgrades, cron cleanup, voice-guided drafting, and the newsletter pipeline.
Infrastructure Day
Brand identity, X pipeline, book dashboard, security hardening, and the dragon was born.
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