roast

🔥 Roast

This time, the AI interrogates YOU.

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"The unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." — Feynman

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🤔 The Problem

You have ideas. Some are brilliant. Some are terrible. You can't tell which is which because you're inside your own head.

AI assistants make this worse — they're sycophants. Ask for feedback and they'll say "That's a great idea!" Ask for concerns and they'll give you a polite list of "things to consider."

You don't need agreement. You need interrogation.

💡 The Solution

Roast is an AI agent skill that flips the script. Instead of answering your questions, your AI asks them — progressively deeper, relentlessly sharper — until it excavates the insights buried in your subconscious.

You: I want to build an AI tool for developers.

🔥 D1: "There are 10,000 AI tools for developers. In one sentence,
        no buzzwords — what makes yours different?"

You: We use a novel RAG approach that...

🔥 D2: "You said 'novel.' What specifically is novel about it?
        How is it different from what Cursor and Copilot already do?"

You: Well, we focus on enterprise customers who need...

🔥 D3: "You just pivoted from 'novel tech' to 'enterprise focus.'
        Which is it — are you a technology company or a sales company?
        You can't be both with a seed-stage team."

You: ...I think we're actually more of a—

🔥 D4: "You've been working on this for six months but haven't launched.
        You say you're 'perfecting the product.' Is that the real reason?
        Or are you afraid that if you launch and nobody cares, you'll
        know for certain the idea doesn't work?"

You: ...honestly? Yeah. I think I'm afraid of finding out.

That's the insight. That's what Roast is for.

📐 How It Works

5 Depth Levels

Every session starts at D1 and progresses. No skipping — each layer builds on the last.

D1  Surface      "What do you mean by X?"
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D2  Structure    "What's the causal chain? What evidence?"
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D3  Assumptions  "You're assuming X. What if X is wrong?"
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D4  Conflicts    "You said X but also Y. Both can't be true."
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D5  Core         "Strip everything away. What's the REAL reason?"

7 Roast Flavors

	Flavor	Best for	Style
🏛️	Socratic	Everything (default)	Pure questions. Pretend ignorance.
🔬	First Principles	Tech, startups	Strip to atoms. Rebuild from truth.
😈	Devil's Advocate	Decisions, debates	Oppose everything. Stress-test.
💰	VC Mode	Startups, products	"What's your moat? TAM? Why you? Why now?"
🧠	CBT	Life decisions	Spot cognitive distortions gently.
🪞	Mirror	Blind spots	Reflect your own words back at you.
🔥	Feynman	Understanding	"Explain it to a 12-year-old."

🛡️ Anti-Deflection System

Every common dodge has a counter. No escape.