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Build Your Own AGI

The operator’s playbook for building autonomous AI workers that carry your domain expertise, execute at machine speed, and cost $10.42/hour.

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// what's inside

Five frameworks that change everything

01

The $10.42/hour developer

Why autonomous AI workers change the economics of everything

02

The Ralph Loop

Plan mode, fresh context, back pressure — the execution cycle that works

03

Workers with memory

Build agents that carry your domain expertise between sessions

04

Parallel execution

Running 6-8 agents simultaneously at machine speed

05

Team implications

What this means for your team, hiring, and career trajectory


// table of contents

11 chapters. Zero filler.

01The $10.50 Employee
02Why You're Going to Beat the Engineers
03The Loop That Changed Everything
04Building Your HQ
05Workers Not Agents
06The Knowledge Problem
07How to Run a Project at Machine Speed
08Session Hygiene
09Scaling to Many
10What This Means for Your Team
11Build Your City

// signal

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operators building with AI

“This book changed how I think about AI. It’s not about prompting — it’s about building systems that compound your expertise.”

— Engineering Lead, Series B SaaS

“I went from dabbling with ChatGPT to running parallel AI workers across my entire business. The Ralph Loop is genuinely transformative.”

— Founder, DTC Brand

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