
i make ai content | founder @telagacharity + few apps | sub https://nitter.cf/t.co/9wJgMEHKIL | Ashen Benchmark/Prompts 👇
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ashen retweeted
Muslims once financed the world’s trade without interest.
For the first time in centuries, we can return to that.
$2M+ deposited during our invite-only beta. Today, Goldsand is live on iOS and Android.
Halal savings built a new way: to beat interest, not settle. Here’s how ↓
Why do Muslims treat interest-free finance like a limitation, when history proves it's a superpower?
Around 1700, Mughal India produced roughly a quarter of the world's economy, about the share the US holds today.
The Islamic gold dinar was so trusted that European kings minted copies of it, Arabic script and all.
Muslim merchants financed trade from Spain to China through partnerships, profit-sharing, and trust.
Riba-free finance wasn't a handicap those economies carried. It was the engine that built them.
The real opportunity today isn't fixing a broken system. It's reigniting belief in one that already worked brilliantly.
Nobody opens a shawarma shop thinking, "It's halal, so Muslims will show up."
The food wins on its own merits:
Better taste.
Better price.
Better experience.
Halal is simply assumed. It's not the pitch, it's the foundation.
So imagine applying that same confidence to halal finance.
History already proved it can compete, not just comply. It can lead.
Once we truly believe 0% interest finance is better, we'll build something extraordinary again.
ashen retweeted
I can pretty confidently say that Astra 6 has gotten nerfed like crazy
Yesterday, I gave it a very specific prompt for a /goal to make an iOS app similar to Bible Scroll, but for the Quran. Basically, you just scroll like TikTok, and random verses of the Quran pop up
This is a super, super simple build that I feel like should have taken a maximum of 45 minutes for ANY frontier model
Somehow, we are 20 hours into this /goal and it's still not done
The worst part is that, as you can tell from the screenshot below, I had to change it to GPT 6.1 Sol because Astra 6 kept stopping my goal by "hitting capacity for this model" about 9 hours in
So Astra 6 AND 6.1 Sol are BOTH BUNS!
Even though this should have taken a maximum of 1 hour, we're 22 hours in, and I'm not even using Astra anymore because I literally can't!!
Opus 5.5 would have gotten this done in maybe 20 minutes
ashen retweeted
At Telaga Charity, we took to the streets to share food with people and put smiles on their faces.
It may seem small, but every meal shared is a reminder that someone cares.
We’re grateful for the opportunity to make a difference, one person at a time.
If you want to continue to support us please donate via spl: telagacharitynigeria.sol
ashen retweeted
Replying to @imthatnigga88
Yeah, you have to be very careful. I would just start out with $100 a month for Claude Code or Codex and then slowly use it.
For the trading bot thing you're doing, that's probably the hardest thing you could possibly do with AI. It's very hard to get it to be good at that, and the people who have figured that out will never make that public.
I would highly recommend chasing something with AI to enhance something you're already good at. What are your skills and passions? What is something you don't mind doing 9 hours a day and still have fun doing? Then think about how you can monetize that. Make the money secondary and make your personal interest primary.
ashen retweeted
This is the highest quality iOS game made with AI you're gonna see all week (part 1 of full build)
GPT Astra 6, Kimi K3, Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5 & GPT 6 SOL worked together over the past few weeks to make Animal Crossing/Pokopia but in rural Afghanistan
Every single thing you're seeing is a custom asset that went through a crazy pipeline:
1. 3D asset made with Meshy
2. Animated with Astra/Opus 5.5 in Blender MCP
3. Integrated into the game with Unity CLI
Also, the game itself isn't some 5-minute playable demo. This is actually a fully built-out game that functions similarly to Clash of Clans, where you can run around this one part and build your town for ~11 hours of gameplay
In an attempt to make an actually fun and high-quality iOS game with AI, I'm going to keep building this in public (mostly) and posting videos like this documenting my progress as I go
Why? As we've seen this week with open-source projects or racing to zero with vibecoded competitors, I think that games will always be much harder to copy and monetize
Real creativity is needed. Even if you gave someone unlimited tokens and told them to make a fun game, they wouldn't be able to do it but they WOULD be able to duplicate your boring iOS app
You can't replace creativity! So...pivot to games instead?
ashen retweeted
Every child has a dream. A dream to change the world for good. A dream so colorful and bright that the thought of it brings joy to their soul and smiles to their faces.
We visited the kids in Nzameze Government School to make impact. It was indeed beautiful as we engaged with the kids and have them share their dreams with us. Some of the kids told us how they dream to become a doctor to save the world. Some want to be a lawyer, army officer, a teacher, etc.
In our effort to support their dreams and help them change the world for good and with the donations from @telagacharity @telagacharitynigeria, we supported the education of the kids from Nursery 1 - Primary 6. We gave out books, pencils, erasers, mathematical sets, etc.
Every child deserves access to education. Every child deserves to dream no matter where they are.
Every child is a positive light to the future.
Together let's continuously help them to achieve their dreams and have a better future.
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Thank you to everyone supporting us in making the world a better place. 🤍🤍 Because of you lots of kids have books. Because of you lots of kids and homeless people have foods to eat, because of you people have clean water to drink. We truly appreciate you.
Every donations help support a worthy cause. đź’Ś
You too can donate today by sending us a DM or donate to any of our donation wallet addy.
ashen retweeted
you belong in the permanent underclass
I generated 75.1K views within
4 days of starting my new app
already got my first 200 users
without going viral
"but my videos don’t perform"
you are literally retarded and lazy
I'm posting 20 time a day,
across 10 different accounts
That’s why this shit works
volume is king.
ashen retweeted
I'm not sure a lot of people understand what game coders actually do. We're not spending 9 hours a day finely hand crafting artisan software and expressing our inner dreams... 90% of the time we are fighting compilers and existing architecture, having to work out how undocumented code works, and tracking down obscure bugs and behavioural issues.
Most of game programming is just difficult, tedious, laborious grunt work, and the cognitive load we have to endure to get anything done is tiring and frustrating. No game coder is doing it for this 90% of the job.
We make games because the 10% that IS actually about making things fun and expressing ourselves is so incredibly rewarding it makes the other 90% bearable.
Now imagine if there was a tool, some kind of AI agent maybe, which could do most of the 90% grunt work for you, leaving you to just make all the decisions and express your creativity. How amazing would that be. How completely revolutionary would that be.
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ashen retweeted
We believe every child deserves the basic things they need to learn and grow.
We had the opportunity to support school children with essential school supplies, drinks, and snacks to make learning a little easier and put smiles on their faces.
This is what impact looks like.
If you want to continue to support us please donate via spl: telagacharitynigeria.sol
ashen retweeted
Porting Bully into Unreal Engine with Opus 5.5 PT3: AI NPCs
I gave every single NPC their own consciousness and ability to speak
I plugged in Fish Audio plus a few other fun things and you can now talk to any character in the game with the capability for them not only to remember your conversations but to speak back to you
You no longer have 10 important NPCs. You can now have 1,000 NPCs with unlimited options instead of just 8 dialogue prompts to choose from
Imagine talking to Patches from Dark Souls 1, but asking him questions about his travels or learning more lore about him after you speak to him for 10 minutes straight
Instead of just the same dialogue getting exhausted every time you speak to an NPC, you can now talk to him for as long as you want, and he'll respond to you in character
You can now literally just sit there and talk to them for hours if you really wanted to (if you wanted more ai psychosis lmaoo)
And if you plug in other AIs like Jev, you can give them the ability to play the game on their own, like how in Animal Crossing you can give someone a job and they'll get wood for you
Imagine the ability to talk to anybody and the capability of them doing anything in-game for you
(fully OS, free, never monetizing, needs a paid copy of Bully to play, ran on a macbook, link below, full youtube video soon)
Next: Full map port
Porting Bully into Unreal Engine with AI (Opus 5.5) PT2
Since you guys both hated and loved this, let's keep cooking it
This step ran for a few days and worked on the first slice of the game's locations and questlines
So now, the first fight from the game is now built in alongside 10 different locations like the dorms, library, bathroom, etc
Some problems I'm running into here are the cutscenes, the fight dynamics, and the lighting in certain places so I gotta lock in there next
+ I've started to plug in video gen for the cutscene replacements (M3 or Wan 3.0 prob) but I think the main focus should be the quest lines and finishing out the locations
This recording was actually done on my Macbook Pro (32gb) too lmao so ram requirements aren't too bad either
PT3 will be: Town, more story, slingshot and anything else fun to piss off the boomers hating on this fun project (btw rockstar if u want me to stop just hml plz dont sue me its all OS and free)
ashen retweeted
THEY WOULDN’T MAKE THE INVINCIBLE GAME SO I MADE IT MYSELF
OPUS 5.5 + UNREAL ENGINE = BANGER OPEN WORLD SUPERHERO GAME ON A MAC
the "everyone is gonna vibe-code their own software" argument sounds valid until you realize people have been making millions selling googleable information for YEARS...
a few years ago i was making $10k/mo selling a workout program for athletes through faceless tiktoks
any one of those people could've found such program in 1 google search, yet they were bought over by HOW i was selling it
software should be sold w/ a unique mechanism just like info
ashen retweeted
hello @X please put @ashen_one back on my timeline
thanks
ashen retweeted
Friendly reminder: the world is run by high agency people, not smart people. Stop consuming information and start taking insane levels of action.
ashen retweeted
It’s a small step, but we believe it can make a real difference.
We’re committed to doing more, reaching more schools, and supporting more children.
ashen retweeted
I’m 19 and I’m on track to making over $100,000/mo by the time I turn 20
I skipped college
I quit a stable startup job
I never made a single dollar for the first 6 months the from my app
and today we crossed 89k users…
this is your sign to never quit and to pursue that app idea.
if I can do it, then what’s stopping you?
























