Dany's Development Diary (D3)

Just Tell People What You're Doing

Day 0 · September 19 to 20, 2026

Grok Bot Galaxy ran a three-day event where a startup tries to build a company with AI agents. I don't have a location, a budget, or Grok Bots. What I do have is pi-dan.com, an X account, a patchwork of cloud subscriptions, local AI, and my own Magic Bananas. So I decided to run the same experiment, building a one-man entertainment empire (SabioRex News, SabioRex Music, and SabioRisas) with AI agents, and to keep going for as long as I can stay afloat, not just three days. My X feed is the sketchbook. This diary is where the sketches become a painting.

Day 0 was a weekend. Saturday morning I was watching Codie Sanchez's Owned or Be Owned workshop, and her advice was almost too simple: just tell people what you're doing. So I did. I was learning how to grow an AI music business on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music while Cursor's Grok 4.6 High Fast built features for pi-dan.com, SabioRex's music played in the background, and I played Pokémon Unite between approvals.

It worked, a little. Five people followed me within minutes. I'd been trying to get followers for months. By the afternoon it was 31 more, and by 4:30 "Mr. Elon" himself was following me. I had made it! Except I hadn't. It was one of the many fake Elon Musk accounts on Twitter, the kind that usually tries to sell you crypto. I still think it's hilarious. I've been on Twitter since 2010, and sixteen years later I finally paid for the blue check mark. Did I sell out? Maybe. But real people started listening.

So here's the honest version of the workflow. Several AIs have been working on one thing for about two weeks, spread across different subscriptions and local AI. I still steer: I ask the agents questions, they ask me questions, and a little gets done every day. My most common prompt is "I approve the next phase." It doesn't magically make you money. Things with real complexity still need a human guiding them. But it does make me more efficient, and the gains are real.

I also dogfood the product. I have about three hours and forty-five minutes of original SabioRex songs, and I listen to them on YouTube and Spotify like anyone else would. When people asked what "dogfooding" means, I told them about my dad. He came to the United States not knowing English, saw pictures of steak on dog food cans, noticed they were cheap, and bought them to eat. The lesson stuck with me: you've got to try the product. (Thanks to my wife, I don't always eat dog food. Most nights it's Yummy Bananas.)

Building isn't free, even on a weekend. My Cursor Pro+ plan is $60 a month and supposed to last the whole month. After Saturday and Sunday I was at 76%. Meanwhile I went to church on Sunday, because I don't see technology and faith as contradictory: I create stuff and I ship it. And after about eight hours of Pokémon grinding, match 1018 was a win and my Goodra earned its Gold Ribbon.

At 1:04 a.m. the single task my agents had been on for two weeks with frontier models was finally done, and SabioRex's "Curva Lenta" was playing. Before bed I wrote down the whole vision in one line: entertain you. That's it. Bananas.