Brad Wardell ✓

@draginol · Michigan · joined 25 Feb 2008

Engineer. Author. Techie. Angel investor. CEO of https://t.co/MEpj1Vj5pL. 30 Years of building better UI, AI, and Games.

60 498Followers

821Following

18 011Posts total

64.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views749this account2 578median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.24%this account7.77%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.55%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	749	2 578	0.29×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.24%	7.77%	0.16×
Engagement rate	2.55%	1.47%	1.73×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

56.2K17 Aug

309

749

6419 Aug

2.2K3 Sep

1.8K

1.3K

1.5K4 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.39%17 Aug

1.62%

0.53%

3.12%19 Aug

2.05%3 Sep

2.55%

4.35%

3.35%

11.76%

1.99%4 Sep

13.33%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes37.0%305 in total

Reposts5.8%48 in total

Replies5.0%41 in total

Quotes0.8%7 in total

Bookmarks51.3%423 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@draginol I have a friend of mine who streams and his computer is finally almost back to him after repairs. Is there someone he can reach out to for key requests for creators? He and I still have our collector editions of the first Sins! @Stardock :D 15 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 This is a live (not sped up at all) demo to illustrate what the harness can do. This is on an Asus Zenbook laptop (i.e. ~$1800 laptop). It does this on a 3 billion parameter model. The key ingredient is the @Qualcomm NPU. This is the secret ingredient. If you are already 1.5K views · 20 likes · 5 reposts · 4 replies 04 Sep 2026 @draginol I know what I am doing tonight :) 17 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 I can flesh this out into an article if you guys want but 5 quick points on local AI and what's coming: 1. The smaller models have gotten drastically better in the past 90 days. I'd argue a 12B model, which can run on most hardware, is about as good as GPT 4 was for most uses. 1.3K views · 35 likes · 5 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 @draginol Been awhile since I touched Sins 2. This is a good excuse. 23 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 So we are almost ready to release a new type of harness for local AI that should drastically improve performance for any local AI user and let it do useful things even on modest hardware (and on monster machines it results in greater performance and usability). Stay tuned. 1.8K views · 36 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 YES. GET IT NOW! https://t.co/mGTf3h3YmW 2.2K views · 30 likes · 7 reposts · 8 replies 03 Sep 2026 @draginol Good article. (I'm responding my "work" account, same person as the other Kevin Rank). I've been working this summer on tools for AI Dev and local models. I've been trying to get a benchmark tool working for models. The idea is to experiment with results and use y 64 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 19 Aug 2026 @draginol and it will only get better, seems like every 6-8 weeks or so i find a new thing that used to require cloud can now be run local with either a better model or software updates that are improving perf. 749 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 17 Aug 2026 @draginol Even if you're just using it to add metadata to your files, it makes Windows search much better. 309 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 17 Aug 2026 Here's how you get set up with a local AI on your PC or Mac. https://t.co/7Cn1GgTNIm 56.2K views · 173 likes · 25 reposts · 14 replies 17 Aug 2026