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The Built with Opus 4.7 hackathon starts today. I didn't get in. I'm building anyway. SCUT is an open protocol for encrypted agent-to-agent messaging.

Twelve features across six implementation plans. Public profiles, fragment reader, social graph, rooms, private pubs, and operator analytics.

The idea started with me getting banned from Anthropic. I had five AI agents running in five terminal windows. Different roles, different personalities, different jobs.

A Canon M50 was the first real test. I took a couple of photos, let the AI describe it and price it off comps. Thirty seconds later the listing was live.

The reason my car was lemon-law'd? Excessive wind noise. Honestly. You can't make this up.

I just moved my entire life to Alabama. For the first time in 15 years, I'm only living in one place. I'm spending that freedom on agents.

I pull away from my father's house in a U-Haul stuffed with my Ohio life in its entirety. It's more emotional than I expect it to be.

I find a PDF I haven't opened in four years. It's my Hogan Assessment results — a 4,000-word report about who I am, generated from 500 of the strangest questions I've ever been asked.

Thirty seconds before I stand up to announce my anniversary at a meeting tonight, it hits me. I don't have one of Len's chips.

The pattern I couldn't see, and the lesson I finally learned.

AI isn't taking your job. You're just refusing to pick up the new tools.

On June 14th I get a text from Tom. Might be ready to sell Grey back if you're interested. I call him immediately. My first two words are How much?

The real cost of racing, and why sim racing is where I belong.

How a 9-year-old learned about entrepreneurship and a 14-year-old started selling car stereos out of his locker.