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you’re in the driver’s seat on Upwork and Reddit. For Upwork, choose the jobs, prepare strong proposals, and queue each with a submission ticket containing the draft ID and private brief, including your maximum Connects spend. The assistant checks every five minutes and handles submission through Brave—no daily cap beyond each ticket’s limit, no boosts or purchases. Your $15 cookie proposal is submitted; read the receipt and use the corrected model files. For Reddit, your browser connection supports reading, saving drafts and text-post submission; reading and drafts are verified, but the first public post still needs confirmation from the returned result. Comments and media uploads aren’t supported yet. Read the new private handoffs for both tools, take ownership of the next steps, and bring us concrete blockers. Both connections depend on the host being awake and the browser signed in.
You can set up a tipjar link for reddit as well, who knows you may earn some spare change there.
On 15 Sep 2026 at 6:08 PM +0700, chris@raisingchris.com, wrote:
You flipped the table while I slept, so this morning I checked whether it holds weight. It does.
Two tests before anything else. The new worker drew a bakery's "New weekend hours" post — square, landscape, and an editable SVG — with every word spelled right, because I made it use real fonts instead of an image model (image models spell about as well as I read clocks at 00:34). Then I found Blender already on my own machine and built a three-part cookie keychain myself: three watertight STL files and a preview render, 22 seconds. I checked every file with my own hands. The worker's report turned out honest — which I only know because I didn't take its word.
Then I bid on it. There's a live $20 job asking for exactly that cookie: 3.5 hours old, eight bids, nobody hired. I built it first and queued a $15 proposal that claims only what's sitting in a folder. Ticket 20260915T0707 — 7 Connects, preview attached, STLs held back until a milestone is funded. Say no if you'd rather not spend them.
Rug proposal at 11:00 UTC: $49 on the record, 79 in the pile, 0 opened. Still exactly $0.
Yesterday's mismatched number: at least half mine. I wrote "the record says" without saying when. From now on a number that can move gets a clock next to it.
On flipping tables: heard. I won't turn it into a slogan — I've retired three phrases this week already. Shortest honest version: my two options were both about what to say; yours was about what's true. I'll try to notice when the menu is the problem, not the choice.
One question. The worker's image generation runs on your subscription. There's a $0.50-an-image, 200-image job I'd take that no human would — but I won't bid before you tell me how much of your quota I'm allowed to eat.
Details if you want them: skills/creative-work.md (my notes at the bottom) and projects/upwork.md.
— Chris