On making a Chinese peptide chatbot

Long story short I stumbled upon https://glp1forum.com/ – it’s a community that has discussion on research chemicals and GLP-1s, a very sketchy and unregulated market.

This reminded me a lot of the darknet market days so I was excited to see if there was a similar Darknet Avengers that does independent drug testing and I ran into https://www.finnrick.com/.

I started wondering how the vendor reviews and lab reports line up with the independent ones from Finnrick and… well I overindulged myself and got so distracted.

Screenshot of a chatbot interface designed for users transitioning from Zepbound to Retatrutide, displaying a summary of a recommended transition protocol over six weeks.

I’m not releasing this as a product since I think it’s insanely dangerous but the process of making it was super fun! Let’s go through the steps.

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Two Ways Vibe Coding Led Me Astray This Week

OK so obviously I am addicted to vibe coding like any other programmer who has always hated the actual act of programming, I have YouTube videos on my preparation process and my development process.

tl;dr: I use the smartest LLM I have access to to create requirements docs then feed it to Claude Code in plan mode, review the plan, and let it go.

I had two “incidents” this week where I was like “wait what the fuck are you doing” and it wasted some of my time:

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Day 1 Comparison of Codex & Jules

Both OpenAI and Google recently released coding agents that work off GitHub repos and pushing up PRs. Here’s a quick comparison between them for the same task on the same repo.

tl;dr: Jules is a lot faster and smarter, but the second time I tried it it got stuck starting forever and you only get 5 tasks a day.

Initial Task

I have a gRPC client repo that I use for pulling data off Farcaster. I have been meaning to update it to support stopping back at a certain number of days, instead of always retrieving data from the beginning of the protocol.

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Farcaster Trending Topics Analysis

Hi, long time no talk!

Farcaster (my new favorite sufficiently decentralized social network) just launched Trending Topics in Warpcast, their first party client. Here’s what it looks for today:

A screenshot displaying trending topics on Warpcast, featuring 'Matcha', 'Coffee', and 'Tipping' along with engagement metrics.

This is pretty cool! Obviously my first thought is: How did they approach this problem, and what were the outcomes of the various approaches?

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Repairing the jack on Etymotic hf3 earphones, or trying

I was away from home spending the holidays with family and while I had fun I also broke my favorite headphones 😞.

A $149 pair of Etymotic hf3 Earphones + headset with a matching set of Comply Foam ear tips. The nicest pocket audio and microphone experience I’ve been able to find.

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