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Michael Ryan Thompson

@MRTBuilds

Built an eight-figure ecommerce business. Lost it. Went bankrupt. Let my health fall apart. Now I’m rebuilding in public—testing AI-powered businesses and s

 South East Asia
Joined March 2026
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Hit my Codex usage limit and lost 6 days of work. So I audited where the tokens went: only 9% was the actual work. The rest was re-reading a giant chat history, rebuilding everything for one-line fixes, and writing reports nobody read. Prompt to check yours below.
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Audit my recent agent sessions. Where did the tokens go? Split into: real work, re-reading context, repeated checks/builds, reports. Name each redundant loop and how to cut it. Then have an independent subagent check your findings for anything you missed.
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Has it been common knowledge this whole time for people to set up their AI stack for the proper tasks? I have a note on my whiteboard: "How is my thinking limiting my productivity?" It feels like hammering screws using the wrong LLM for the wrong task just burning tokens.
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Just killed my weeks usage on ChatGPT over total silliness, so frustrating. Should have been way more deliberate in my planning would have gotten everything done and still had plenty to spare. Back to Claude I go.
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And so it begins, bare with me I don't know how it works here. What are the rules?
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