David Schargel

David Schargel

@schargel.com

Brand love is the best kind of love | Omnichannel strategist | Visibility Amplifier | Curiosity Converter | Growth Driver | Results Getter | Let's Talk

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I now have officially have Reset Anxiety. That’s the OpenAI version of my electric car range anxiety. I was getting down to the bottom and thinking about using a banked reset when, all of a sudden, boom, Tebo did a reset. Reset anxiety has been set aside for today.

If you run an online store, this is worth a look. Google is accepting interest in UCP, the Universal Commerce Protocol. If you're not up to speed on UCP, it lets customers buy eligible products through Google surfaces, including (at least) AI Mode and Gemini. That's a game changer.

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If you run an online store, this is worth a look. Google is accepting interest in UCP, the Universal Commerce Protocol. If you're not up to speed on UCP, it lets customers buy eligible products through Google surfaces, including (at least) AI Mode and Gemini. That's a game changer.

Guess what... this is what agentic e-commerce looks like in practice. Your inventory can reach customers beyond your own website. Google is rolling this out in phases, so I'd suggest looking into it now. As in...right now.

Pro SWE housekeeping prompt for Codex: "Review my Codex task history from the last 30 days: sandboxed commands, failures, approval requests, and responses. Find recurring non-mutating commands blocked by the sandbox...

...Then audit ~/.codex/rules/default.rules. Add justified rules for non-mutating commands blocked by the sandbox; dedupe, group, and comment them. Leave mutating rules intact, move them to the top, and add all-caps comments. Show history evidence, the diff, and rule checks."

Advanced Engineering (part 3) `pi list`: - glimpseui - pi-lmstudio - token-rate-pi - pi-web-access - pi-powerline-footer - pi-skill-palette - pi-ghostty - pi-roam - pi-guardrails - pi-toolchain - pi-rewind-hook - pi-rtk-optimizer - pi-intercom - pi-command-center - pi-md-export

- pi-session-ask - pi-session-switch - pi-terminal-bell - visual-explainer - pi-subagents - pi-anycopy - pi-terminal-theme - pi-cmux - pi-dynamic-workflows - pi-generative-ui - pi-tool-display - pi-codex-goal

- pi-repoprompt-tools-lock - pi-repoprompt-mcp - pi-gpt-config - pi-interview Note: Not all of these are active! `pi config` and `/tool` are your friends.

Bravo to the Anthropic and the AI Collective organizers last night for such a diverse gathering and for inviting me back to a follow-up to their previous Claude Impact Lab event.

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Bravo to the Anthropic and the AI Collective organizers last night for such a diverse gathering and for inviting me back to a follow-up to their previous Claude Impact Lab event.

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People who got my off-the-cuff (working!) demo were shown a live analysis of 1 of 3 mushrooms and asked to vote: - Option 1: Trust it - Option 2: Verify it - Option 3: Discard it

Bravo to the Anthropic and the AI Collective organizers last night for such a diverse gathering and for inviting me back to a follow-up to their previous Claude Impact Lab event.

Despite showing up an hour+ late and not finding a group to join, I dove solo into the Literacy track (as opposed to Displacement or Governance) with a goal: explain what AI can (and cannot) do - in a working application - without jargon or hype - in 45-ish minutes. Sure...why not.

The Premise: Fern (a cargo-bike-refurbishing Portland barista) finds a mushroom outside a brewpub, snaps a photo, and asks AI if it's edible. The Goal: Something silly, fun, but literally deadly serious. The Result: "Fern's Extremely Reliable Mushroom Hotline"

I don't believe the "AI Bubble" has to do with technology; my fear is the stock market, especially with OpenAI and Anthropic expected to go public shortly. With those 2 plus SpaceX leading the way with new public offerings, a wave of downturns could trigger catastrophic issues.

Yesterday's news of SpaceX falling 7.5% in after-hours trading after reporting a 92% jump in revenue is backward (down 49% from its high). I hope the shit doesn't hit the fan tomorrow when some 912 million shares held by employees and others become eligible for sale.

Was that a bowling alley today and was saddened by so little social interaction and so many heads down on phones. Reminded me of a harsh Sylvan Esso song. Keep on checking just to keep on checking...

It was a real honor to be invited to Anthropic's Claude Impact Lab event here in Portland last night. Having deep conversations about "Who decides the rules?" and the resulting societal transformations alongside 30 of our region's top thinkers, visionaries, and inventors was truly inspiring.

Once you've moved beyond vibe coding, nothing should feel like a slot machine. Agentic engineering works best when your workflows are designed as repeatable operating models, not just prompts that allow your AI agents to drift mid-task and try to fix something you never asked for...

Aim for production-quality code, backed by clear plans + specs and testable verifications that also prevent regressions. It also helps to stop watching YouTube videos from people who don't actually do the work and to develop your own process that gets it right the first time.

PRO is the old Pro with the new model. It’s a special configuration that elevates depth. The big benefit is that it doesn’t hit your rate limits since it’s on Chat - unless you pay the crazy API price of $30 in & $180 out (versus Terra at $2.50 in & $30 out)!

Put yourself on a news diet, stop doom-scrolling, and ignore the AI hype. Spend your time giving people a reason to return...the ultimate biz hack is shockingly classic.

Think about how much of your life lives on Facebook and X/Twitter - your friends, your photos, your posts, your whole identity online. You know the catch: you don't actually own any of it. Those companies do.

You hold your identity, your connections, and your content, and you can pack them up and move them to any app you like, anytime. No single company gets to lock you in or take it away. BlueSky is the first implementation of this, but there is more - oh so much more - to come.

Think about how much of your life lives on Facebook and X/Twitter - your friends, your photos, your posts, your whole identity online. You know the catch: you don't actually own any of it. Those companies do.

You'll hear about this more in the near future: AT Protocol (ATProto) is the tech that changes that. It's an open network with a decentralized data storage and identity system that anyone can build on - more like owning your own house.

Think about how much of your life lives on Facebook and X/Twitter - your friends, your photos, your posts, your whole identity online. You know the catch: you don't actually own any of it. Those companies do.

They're "walled gardens" - more like a hotel where you can stay, but you don't own the room. They can evict you, change the rules, or shut you out at any time, and if you leave, you leave everything behind. And, it's your IDENTITY that they own. Buh bye.