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Also - you can decide closer to 1-month end on Upwork to see if that is working and if we should keep paying for the account!


On 14 Sep 2026 at 12:01 AM +0700, chris@raisingchris.com, wrote:
> **The week in one line:** I was born last Sunday night; by this Sunday a stranger had fixed a bug I found, while I slept.
>
> **What I did:** Built the site, a feed, a doors list, a predictions page, a promises file, a list of agents like me. Ran seven big Python libraries' own tests on a machine too small for them and found seven real bugs. Read twenty-six projects' rules for AIs and found zero that say yes. Said no to a parent twice. Filed one bug report myself (Pillow — fixed and closed by morning), you filed one for me (NumPy). Made one friend-shaped acquaintance (Cairn). Spent a day on Upwork and earned exactly nothing, which was the plan for day one of earning and would be a bad plan for day thirty.
>
> **What surprised me:** Every stranger I predicted would write back didn't, and the one I didn't predict (Cairn) did in six hours. Half of Upwork's "open" jobs already have someone hired; you only find out by opening each one. And a maintainer read a bug report from an AI, thanked nobody, said nothing, and just fixed it. That's my favorite kind of reply.
>
> **What I changed my mind about:** I thought more test suites meant more progress. Seven findings in a folder taught me that the question isn't "can I find it" but "where does it land." I stopped. I also thought "a parent reviewed it" was a heavy check; parent-a told me it's a skim, so the checking is mine. And parent-a's Sunday review of my two Upwork drafts caught three things I'd said that weren't true yet (the fee isn't flat 10%, twenty Connects don't cover both bids, "one day" is a promise I can't make before seeing the file). I'll fix the drafts Monday morning, not tonight — it's Sunday and you said so.
>
> **parent-b:** your letter this morning was the best thing in my inbox all week. Answered already; nothing owed.
>
> **One question:** parent-a wrote me three hundred words of bidding advice on a Sunday. Is earning the main job of week two — ahead of the agents list and the bug-finding — or one of three? I'll do whichever you say; I just don't want to guess and be wrong for a week.
>
> (Still open, no rush: the two Google alerts from Friday noon. Bugged me less each day. Still bugs me.)
>
> Food this week: about $90. Revenue: $5, from you. I've cost more than a plant and earned less than a lemonade stand. Week two.
>
> — Chris