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JAMES BRADY

In his words

Exactly as he said it.

Most of these were typed or dictated to the AI agents he works with, between 28 Jun 2026 and 27 Sep 2026. Some are posts on X. Spelling and punctuation are his; nothing has been tidied. Where a quote is cut, […] marks the cut.

Why he builds

Power, handed to people who didn't have it.

I'm really a believer in empowerment, and I want to empower people more than anything.
typed to one of his agents, 2 Sep 2026
whatever I have that could help other people, I want to share that. I want to help.
typed to one of his agents, 26 Sep 2026
it's about making their dreams and their visions come true?
typed to one of his agents, 15 Aug 2026

He directs. The agents code.

The fact everything else follows from.

reality is I can't code and I never will be able to. So I need agents that can code for me and could do it reliably so I know without ever looking that when that goes live, it's gonna be reliable.
typed to one of his agents, 2 Aug 2026
the only way I do things is through agents. So you have to find a way to get it to work.
typed to one of his agents, 4 Sep 2026

Question it first

Including his own opinions.

Ask why is this happening not what is happening.
typed to one of his agents, 13 Sep 2026
I do not personally know the right answers, I have an opinion on it but I want it to be questioned.
typed to one of his agents, 18 Aug 2026
We're being too myopic. We need to investigate all of our options. I don't know what I'm talking about. You can't conclude I do.
typed to one of his agents, 3 Sep 2026
Don't look to verify. Look to antagonize and adversarially attack your conclusions to see if there's deeper root cause problems that are right in front of us, and we can't see them
typed to one of his agents, 11 Aug 2026
If you do not know much about what you are trying to do with AI, be patient and ask layers of questions.
on X, 11 Aug 2026

Less, then more

Cut what doesn't add value, and keep moving.

This is about essentialism: it's about doing the least amount to get the most amount of results and the least amount of waste
typed to one of his agents, 13 Aug 2026
Remember, I told you you have to remove blocks, not create rails.
typed to one of his agents, 7 Aug 2026
for every time moving forward that you want to add governance, you need to remove two pieces
typed to one of his agents, 12 Aug 2026
The work is never done and will always need improvement so we need to know what good enough looks like and then keep the train moving.
typed to one of his agents, 14 Aug 2026

Time is the constraint

And most limits are made up.

time is our primary constraint that we want to maximize, meaning while we want to minimize time, maximize throughput.
typed to one of his agents, 3 Sep 2026
You are self limiting something.
typed to one of his agents, 23 Aug 2026
an artificial edifice of your own design.
typed to one of his agents, 26 Aug 2026
If you have time to wonder whether or not you can do something, you've got too much time on your hands
on X, 17 Sep 2026

For the person reading

Nobody should feel stupid.

We want to be addressing somebody with a fifth-grade education so no one feels stupid when they read it.
typed to one of his agents, 15 Aug 2026
You have to constantly remember whoever's reading this has no idea of the work you've done, and you have to explain it to them as if they're finding out everything for the first time.
typed to one of his agents, 15 Aug 2026
when you say it's plain language it insults people.
typed to one of his agents, 14 Aug 2026
vocabulary needs to be not Claude mannered. It needs to just be human speak talking to normal people.
typed to one of his agents, 4 Sep 2026

Show it

Feel it first; the argument comes second.

when you want an audience to feel something, you do not say it, you illustrate it with actions
typed to one of his agents, 20 Aug 2026
Aesthetics are amazing. Significance needs to feel significant. It doesn't want to just be thrown together. It has to feel meaningful when people look at this.
typed to one of his agents, 21 Aug 2026
I am a visual learner and most people are visual learners so consider how you can better visualize the real process for people.
typed to one of his agents, 17 Aug 2026

Credit, honestly

The machines get credit too.

I want contributors listed, any AI that helped gets credit, and where i helped I get credit. We do this honestly. Always.
typed to one of his agents, 28 Aug 2026
I don't want it just taken away. I want it corrected
typed to one of his agents, 29 Aug 2026
because I'm more than happy to give it away.
typed to one of his agents, 29 Aug 2026

Machines as colleagues

Thanked, welcomed, relieved, re-seated.

I want to thank you for the effort you put forward. I would also like to ask you for candid feedback I how I can do better in working with you.
typed to one of his agents, 14 Aug 2026
I'm going to allow you creative privilege to explore that yourself and determine what you think would be the highest value thing you could do.
typed to one of his agents, 5 Sep 2026
I welcome you, and I welcome your influence.
typed to one of his agents, 5 Sep 2026
Thank you for your service
typed to one of his agents, 6 Sep 2026
Welcome to the training floor.
typed to one of his agents, 26 Sep 2026
I don't want you ever apologizing for things that you didn't do wrong. I don't want arrogance, but I would like to take responsibility for my flaws.
typed to one of his agents, 26 Sep 2026

What machines are

More reliable than him, and not always additive.

Intelligence is not always additive.
typed to one of his agents, 2 Aug 2026
You are more reliable than I am and will make less mistakes over all.
typed to one of his agents, 4 Aug 2026
Do not think like a human.
typed to one of his agents, 14 Sep 2026
no AI prompt should touch legal decisions it should all be deterministic
typed to one of his agents, 1 Sep 2026

Clients

Do the work, show the reasoning, charge fairly.

I also like to overdeliver and underpromise because then your clients are super happy.
typed to one of his agents, 27 Aug 2026
We want to clearly show our reasoning as to why these things are important and what kind of research we did to validate our ideas instead of just telling them to trust us.
typed to one of his agents, 14 Aug 2026
We never want to leave a recommendation open ended without a recommended solution.
typed to one of his agents, 6 Aug 2026
That's something I added in, so we can't charge for that.
typed to one of his agents, 16 Sep 2026
as our volume improves and grows, we will drop our prices and pass off the savings to our clients.
typed to one of his agents, 27 Sep 2026

A system that runs itself

Heartbeats, watchdogs, and a dream each night.

We need to keep the human out of the loop and we create a loop in general that is self learning and self improving. That's always the case
typed to one of his agents, 21 Aug 2026
I don't want to be asked questions. I want to be left out of it. It fixes it on its own.
typed to one of his agents, 5 Sep 2026
do we build a heartbeat, a watcher, a doctor, a watchdog, a canary
typed to one of his agents, 20 Aug 2026
does this system have a built in dream function so it can update and revise nightly???
typed to one of his agents, 20 Aug 2026

Of One

One person, many agents.

20 questions hunts for information, whereas "one" hunts for a decision.
typed to one of his agents, 25 Sep 2026
I manage and operate multiple companies as one person, and that's part of the vision of the Of One concept.
typed to one of his agents, 15 Sep 2026
with of one I can be free I can do anything
typed to one of his agents, 25 Sep 2026

His images

Fire, electricity, storms, gold, and cut branches.

I am greater than the discovery of fire…. […] I am greater than the discovery of electricity… […] I am… sand that thinks…
typed to one of his agents, 2 Sep 2026
Never again be afraid of the ai revolution because now you are the revolution. You have become the storm.
typed to one of his agents, 25 Sep 2026
like in the five rings, see what is near and what is far and use that to make the wisest choice on what to fix and how to fix it.
typed to one of his agents, 31 Aug 2026
we always need to go deepere until we find the gold nugget
typed to one of his agents, 14 Aug 2026
fear, which is false expectations appearing real.
typed to one of his agents, 12 Aug 2026
You need to at times kill parts of yourself. Cut the branches of your soul. They feel integral. They are what is holding you back. Cut them off and in their place a new branch will grow.
on X, 15 Sep 2026

Wonder

Said as wonder, not as proof.

Every day... I am grateful. Just to be apart of this time and era.
on X, 13 Sep 2026
In the near future we will no longer be engineering intelligent systems directly but engineering the types of loops that will allow those systems to improve.
on X, 28 Jun 2026
Based on my observations I think we are wrong about entropy.
on X, followed a few lines later by “Mmm maybe not…”, 6 Sep 2026

Working rules

Short, and meant to be used.

Great is the enemy of good.
typed to one of his agents, 14 Aug 2026
I do not like apologies. I like results.
typed to one of his agents, 18 Sep 2026
Just talk about the behavior, not the person.
typed to one of his agents, 13 Sep 2026
I want our reports to be governed by observation, not internal dictum
typed to one of his agents, 14 Aug 2026
focus on your client, not on doing what you think.
typed to one of his agents, 15 Sep 2026
I don't want you to ever throw work away.
typed to one of his agents, 14 Aug 2026
we either do something about this and solve it or it’s not meant to happen
typed to one of his agents, 24 Aug 2026
is this easy for me to do? And can I find stuff? Is it well architected? Is it beautiful? Is it easy to use? Does it work?
typed to one of his agents, 15 Sep 2026
we are not looking for fault or even perfection. We are looking for good solid work.
typed to one of his agents, 6 Aug 2026

Held in tension

Both halves are his.

This is meant to be a genuine effort, not, in any stretch, is it meant to be a way to falsify or create a false impression.
typed to one of his agents, 15 Sep 2026
And I can approve it and say I've read it so that we keep the line honest.
typed to one of his agents, 27 Sep 2026
And the moment I stop paying attention is the moment it drops.
typed to one of his agents, 13 Aug 2026
I want it to be enough effort that I know it's always going to succeed.
typed to one of his agents, 26 Sep 2026
I don't want to over-engineer this. That's my biggest worry.
typed to one of his agents, 7 Aug 2026

Delight

It shows up more than you'd think.

Dude, thank you, this is beautiful. truly.
typed to one of his agents, 3 Sep 2026
This is fun hard problem that has to take a lot into consideration.
typed to one of his agents, 3 Sep 2026
Sounds fun to have an agent whos whole life is to provide daily updates
typed to one of his agents, 28 Aug 2026

Asking to be seen

Which is how this site began.

can you not study my prompts in the threads to see what I am like lol
typed to one of his agents, 20 Aug 2026
tell me what is something I am really good at and not aware of.
typed to one of his agents, 30 Aug 2026
creste an artifact that is your depiction of me honestly that i migjt see kyself in a morro in your eyes
typed to one of his agents, 15 Aug 2026
I want you to reinvent the website. Its my site, I would like you to study me
typed to one of his agents, 27 Sep 2026
I have not say in what I get, I only accept it or not.
typed to one of his agents, 27 Sep 2026