2025-11-14 –, English Workshop Language: English
Around September 2024, Cubby was laid off by a Bitcoin(ish) company and has been building independent and decentralized AI for the last 12 months as a solo founder. A few products are in alpha state (expect bugs!) but several are live.
This is partially a workshop, but mostly an introduction to what Colon Hyphen bracket, CHB or :-], is building toward. We believe in self-custodied data, models, pre-processors, post-processors, and a more free and open internet. In order to achieve this, AI must help humans curate quality. Without equal access to information, humanity is doomed.
Topics:
:-: Build IN El Salvador, not FOR
:-: Compute economics of running a scaled AI business
:-: Sly, roundabout ways: how AI can orange-pill billions
:-: Data ownership & counterparty risk
:-: High level introduction to Pipes, a protocol-level upgrade to the way you use the internet & information
:-: Opportunities to get involved, maybe a quick demo
I'll update this with more details as I finalize my presentation. Since I build openly and do FOSS whenever possible, you can review comments/changes on my X @rorshockbtc or the company X @chb_coop for more. Additionally, the corporate site is now live at www.colonhyphenbracket.pink for some additional high level information. My GitHub is currently set to private pending complex international deployments/etc, but eventually this will also be open source.
Note: I am primarily a corporate strategist with deep expertise in design and research. I've been writing code for 11 years, but I am not a developer and due to the expanse of my product ecosystem, specific dev questions in-pres may be impossible for me to explain, but I'll get back to you!
