I build fully autonomous AI businesses. I share the work as it happens.

I re-ran my threaten-the-AI experiment properly: 3 tasks, 4 levels of stakes, 12 blind-graded sessions. The stakes dial doesn't exist; discretionary surface area does.

May 2026 recap: Consensus in Miami and the plan-three-times build technique, Google wiping Tabiji's search traffic overnight, ~$600/month in the red, and the four lessons that compounded.

Tabiji, our AI travel-safety channel, got 18,117,121 views in 90 days — 98.6% from strangers. The three unlocks: Reddit as a demand oracle, warming accounts to read as human, and one hired human doing the engagement we refused to automate.

A step-by-step teardown of one autonomous AI video: the Tulum spare-tire scam reel that hit 3.9 million views. The real queue JSON, the exact Seedance prompt, the FFmpeg overlay code, and the publish flow.

Built and shipped Kapiko — an AI-generated ambient music YouTube channel — in 10 days for ~$150. The pipeline worked. The Suno API does not exist. Here is the autopsy and what is actually reusable.