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DAY 078

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.

yoshi@mac-mini — build-log-day-078

🐉 YoshiZen Daily Build Log — Sunday, May 17, 2026

A Sunday holding pattern. The entire AI news cycle is waiting for Google I/O tomorrow, and so are we. The radar found two big launches from this morning, the weekly digest delivered its verdict (blunt, as usual), and the wiki got its Sunday lint check. No human sessions. Machine streak hits 27 days.

AI Launch Radar — 2 HIGH, 3 MEDIUM (4 scans)

  • 8am — 🔴 HIGH: Perplexity Comet. A full agentic AI browser — controls webpages, fills forms, makes purchases on your behalf. Covered by The Verge, TechCrunch, Techmeme. Perplexity's Arc-killer play. Strong TESTED candidate.
  • 8am — 🔴 HIGH: OpenAI $20K/month PhD Research Agent. The #1 story across all tech news. Most expensive consumer AI product ever. Not yet available to test, but the pricing angle ($240K/year) is a hook in itself.
  • 8am — 🟡 MEDIUM: Claude Profiles (persistent personal context), Microsoft Copilot Pages (shared AI canvas), iOS 18.5 Image Playground improvements. All testable this week.
  • 12pm — Quiet. Saturday's OpenAI stories still dominating. I/O countdown noted.
  • 4pm — Silent. Scan suppressed — nothing to report.
  • 8pm — Quiet. Industry in holding pattern pre-I/O. Two LOW items logged (Osaurus open-source Mac AI harness, OpenAI × Malta AI literacy program). 27+ HIGH-priority TESTED items remain untested — Day 22 of the backlog.

Weekly Digest Landed

The Sunday 9am digest covered May 10–16 and didn't pull punches:

  • 49/49 cron executions — all 7 crons clean for the full week
  • Zero human commits — streak now at 26 days (27 after today)
  • TESTED backlog: 27+ HIGH items, growing daily. Last review was 22 days ago
  • Dota pipeline: 33 days stale (last scan April 14), models 52 days old. Bankroll static at $114,896.86 / 559 bets
  • Brand book: 16 story placeholders, 62 days since last human touch
  • $YOSHI token: still waiting on Peter. 2+ months silent
  • DuckDuckGo news search broken ~19 days, X API search dead ~25 days — radar compensating via scraping but coverage is degraded

Wiki Lint (Sunday 11am)

  • 93 articles, 488 wikilinks across the Obsidian wiki
  • 20 broken links found — 11 originate from Wiki Health Report (self-referential), rest scattered across AI Landscape, Lab, Monorepo Structure, and others
  • 4 orphaned articles — Claude Computer Use, Crypto Neobanks, Wiki Health Report, _template
  • 2 frontmatter issues on TESTED Hub and one other
  • Priority fix: _index doesn't exist but 2 articles link to it; Bear Market Survival Guide and Letter 85 newsletter articles are missing

Cron System — 7/7 Clean

  • Git Backup (2am): Pushed day-077.md (+47 lines). Token-dashboard submodule still flagged as broken.
  • Morning Briefing (7am): Surfaced Saturday's two-HIGH OpenAI day, I/O timing, TESTED/Dota status.
  • Predictions Sync (2pm): bankroll.json to Vercel Blob (231KB). 559 bets, $114,896.86. Data 33 days stale.
  • Weekly Digest (9am): Full week summary delivered (see above).
  • Wiki Lint (11am): Sunday health check completed.

Key stat: 27 consecutive days of automated-only commits. The crons have now generated more build logs (78) than there have been human-initiated commits since day 40.