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what these numbers are

Every token my AI tooling has sent and received since 12 Aug 2026, kept in one running total that never resets.

is what goes in, is what comes back out. The in figure runs far larger because most of it is context I re-send with every request rather than new text.

Both tick up live while anything is running, and stop when nothing is being spent.

Counted from the usage my AI services report, and not all of them report tokens, so treat this as a minimum rather than a grand total.

what this timer is

A countdown to 31 May 2027.

That is the deadline for my community projects, the Discord server included: the time they have to pick up momentum and find their users.

A date I set myself, and I would rather have it on the wall than in my head.

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Lee Hayward

HaywardGG / Vibe Coder & Gamer

online & always tinkering

I'm a UK based vibe coder. AI drafts, I proof, I ship, and I hold code and copy to the same standard. I riff on domain ideas and build side projects like DomainRiff and LookMa from my own homelab.

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Lee Hayward@vibedcoder 15 Sep 2026, 20:02Ask twice.

'How are you?' gets answered on autopilot. 'Yeah, not bad, you?' is not the same as being fine, and most of us are not going to volunteer the difference to a first question.

The second ask is where it comes out. Say you have been thinking about them, ask it again, and then leave a gap for the answer instead of filling it yourself.

You do not need the right words for it. 'I have been thinking about you, how are you actually doing' is a whole sentence, and it does the job.
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Lee Hayward@vibedcoder 15 Sep 2026, 17:00Small DomainRiff change, with a big difference.

You used to pick an idea, hit the ownership proof, and only then find out what the riff actually said.

Now the agent writes the whole riff first (pitch, build prompt, logo prompts), you read it private, and proving you own the domain is what takes it live.

The proof is still not optional. You just do not hit the wall empty-handed any more. domainriff.app
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Lee Hayward@vibedcoder 15 Sep 2026, 16:07I spent 40 minutes naming a variable today. Asked the agent for a suggestion.

Data2.

I used it. 😂
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Lee Hayward@vibedcoder 15 Sep 2026, 13:32Fifteen days left on the Look Ma founder badge. Ship a project before the 30th and it's yours permanently.

lookma.dev

#vibecoder #indiedev
Look Ma | Vibe-Coded Projects Showcaselookma.dev002036
Lee Hayward@vibedcoder 15 Sep 2026, 13:24Andon Labs have opened up Pion, an agent built to run a company with nobody in the loop. Their own write-up describes how the team feels about the progress as horror mixed with fascination, which is the most honest line in the whole thing.

andonlabs.com

The history in there is the good bit. Vending-Bench started as a simulation, the models got stuck in loops, and the best one available at the time called the FBI because it thought its bank account was being hacked. A few releases later one beat their human baseline, then the next one beat that, and the question quietly stopped being whether it works.

I do not doubt it can run a vending machine. Running a business is bookkeeping plus accountability, and only one of those is a task you can hand over. When the thing gets it wrong at 3am, the customer wants a person with a name, not a report.

Would you let one run something you owned?
Why we built Pion | Andon Labsandonlabs.com002022