I turned side questing into a modern prestige profession.
All it took was being cynical about everything except myself, then post-training my own policy to maximize expected return (serendipitous events (luck surface area)) by improving it until probability mass collapsed onto high-value action sequences, with mixed rollouts reserved for exploration.
That led me to attempt zero-employee companies as a way to build my way out of the permanent underclass, one day at a time.
If I had to give one piece of advice on carving your own path, and I mean truly your own, it’s this: protect your cogsec. The pendulum swings. The mind decays. They will tug at it, prompt-inject the latest psyop, and try to steer your internal model for you. Don’t let them.
Hold the line long enough and you win.
Co-founder @ Itô Markets: the agentic OTC desk for compute, the risk transfer layer for AI infrastructure. Lock a GPU-hour price for 30 to 365 days, we source, hedge, and deliver the other side. ECC is the distribution: agents find, price, and reserve compute from inside the harness instead of a sales call. First fixed-rate contracts are live. Compute inbound: affaan@itomarkets.com.
Creator of ECC: the most-starred open-source agent toolkit on GitHub. 212K+ stars, ~10k weekly downloads. Also a hosted GitHub App with private-repo support, paid tier from $19/mo. ecc.tools
The ito compute CLI: rent compute without leaving your agent.
ito find --gpu h200 --count 8 --days 3 # fixed-rate quotes on live capacity
ito lock <quote-id> # rate locked, block reserved
ito run --cluster <id> -- train.sh # kick the job at the clusterShips on npm as ito-compute-cli (coming soon).
Consulting: ECC enterprise rollout, agent-harness performance, security review. ecc.tools/pricing · DM @affaan
Author of the Claude Code guides and the agentic security guide: 5M+ views combined, 25M+ impressions across socials.
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| Shorthand Guide 9.8K likes · 1.2k reposts · 4.1M views |
Longform Guide 1.2K likes · 241 reposts · 459K views |
Security Guide 201 likes · 30 reposts · 54k views |
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ECC The Agent Harness resource · ecc.tools  
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agentshield AI agent security scanner · 1,609 tests · Cerebral Valley × Anthropic · GitHub Marketplace  
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JARVIS Real-time OSINT via autonomous web scraping + Meta Ray-Ban glasses  
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claude-swarm Multi-agent orchestration for Claude Code · standalone tool  
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stoictradingAI First autonomous trading agent on Solana · 70k peak live viewers  
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HyperMamba Hypernetworks + meta-learning for trading · SSRN paper  
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Papers / mentions: HyperMamba SSRN paper, ResearchGate
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| Ex-PMX Founding Engineer | Built pmx.trade to $250k+ MRR and 6-figure MAU |
| Open-Source Distribution | Built ECC (ecc.tools) and contributed to elizaOS/eliza + 0xPlaygrounds/rig |
| Autonomous Trading Systems | Built various agentic yield + trading platforms (@stoictradingai on X / repo / AYO-era) with $40M+ combined peak FDV; 70k peak live viewers building in public |
| Anthropic Hackathon Winner | Zenith Chat: 1st / 100+ people, $15k credits |
| Research / Academia | 3-degree path across UCSD (graduated with 2 B.S. before I was 20 + UW (dropped out) (B.S. Math-CS, B.S. Business Economics (M.S. into P.h.D track (dropped out) - Applied/Computational Math ): UCSD Econ Research Lab, UW AMATH, UCSD URC mention |
| Research Output | HyperMamba (SSRN), microcap sentiment/manipulation work (ResearchGate), and code in research / HyperMamba / Behavioral_RL / econ-research-wi24 / econ-research-ss24 / quranic-arabic-recognition-dl / supply-chain-ml-optimization / market-manipulation-microcap-crypto |
| $150k+ Bootstrapped | Founded DCUBE at 18 (UCSD Basement portfolio), self-funded tuition |
If ECC or the compute desk tooling saves you time, sponsor the work. Sponsorship funds ECC maintenance and the open agent-compute tooling around the fixed-rate desk. Current sponsors get named in the ECC README.
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