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Tear Down Your AI Workflow and Rebuild It Like This

June 30, 2026

My Stack

Tear Down Your AI Workflow and Rebuild It Like This

Most AI workflows produce 80% noise because people tend to connect tons of systems before validating them against what their work needs. Here's the one test that saves you days of configuration.

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Why AI Benchmarks Fail Real Hermes Agent Workflows

June 2, 2026

My Stack

Why AI Benchmarks Fail Real Hermes Agent Workflows

AI benchmarks measure clean tasks. Agent workflows test messy realities. Here is how I route Opus, GPT, Qwen, and GLM across a real Hermes workday.

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My Hermes AI Agent Maintenance Routine For Maximum Reliability

May 26, 2026

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My Hermes AI Agent Maintenance Routine For Maximum Reliability

Copy-paste prompts for checking Hermes memory, gateways, scheduled jobs, model IDs, and backups before silent drift breaks your agent workflows.

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I Tested 6 AI Plans to Find What $5, $10 and $20 Get You

May 19, 2026

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I Tested 6 AI Plans to Find What $5, $10 and $20 Get You

I ran six plans through Hermes to find out which ones finish the job and which ones just look cheap on the invoice.

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How My Hermes Agent Plans My Morning Before I Have My Coffee

April 21, 2026

Prompting

How My Hermes Agent Plans My Morning Before I Have My Coffee

Set up Hermes in 20 minutes and wake up to sorted tasks and curated articles instead of manual scrolling.

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The Agentic Engineering Shift

April 14, 2026

Prompting

The Agentic Engineering Shift

Karpathy named two extremes. Here is the spectrum that covers everything in between, and the habits that shift you in the right direction.

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The $30 Hermes Stack That Makes Claude Max Look Like a Ripoff

April 7, 2026

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The $30 Hermes Stack That Makes Claude Max Look Like a Ripoff

Claude charges $200 per month for Cowork and Code, but it limits you mid session. Here’s the Hermes stack that beats both with unified system memory, file sync, blazing fast speed, and unlimited usage

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Hermes Is the AI Agent OpenClaw Promised to Be

March 31, 2026

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Hermes Is the AI Agent OpenClaw Promised to Be

Hermes is the AI agent I’d recommend to anyone starting today. Here’s how I migrated from OpenClaw.

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Ditch Your Subscriptions and Run Open Source AI on Your Device

March 24, 2026

Product Thinking

Ditch Your Subscriptions and Run Open Source AI on Your Device

Qwen 3.5 and MiniMax M2.5 cover every hardware tier from 2 GB to 128 GB. Here's how to match your machine.

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The 'First Dollar' Stack

February 24, 2026

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The 'First Dollar' Stack

The First Dollar stack: Why React + Supabase + Cloudflare is the only V1 combo that doesn't waste your weekends.

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How to Get from Blank Screen to First Win in Under 60 Seconds

January 27, 2026

Product Thinking

How to Get from Blank Screen to First Win in Under 60 Seconds

Users can't tell the difference between "empty because I just started" and "empty because broken". The Activation Path fixes that.

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The Build vs Buy Scorecard

January 13, 2026

Vibe Coding Education

The Build vs Buy Scorecard

AI always tried to build things from scratch. This 60-second scorecard highlights the two paths it rarely mentions and helps you decide what to do: build, buy, or open source.

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26 Mental Models to Build Better Products in 2026

January 6, 2026

Guides

26 Mental Models to Build Better Products in 2026

Your bookmark-worthy reference guide for product thinking all year long.

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Accepting AI's First Answer Is Bad For Your Code

December 16, 2025

Prompting

Accepting AI's First Answer Is Bad For Your Code

When AI suggests an approach, your immediate thought should be “What else exists?” instead of “Let me implement this.”

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Why AI Gets Stupid Deep in the Thread

December 9, 2025

Prompting

Why AI Gets Stupid Deep in the Thread

Why fresh sessions outperform long threads, according to new research from Chroma and Anthropic.

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How to Prompt AI for Consistent JSON Responses

December 2, 2025

Prompting

How to Prompt AI for Consistent JSON Responses

AI JSON fails silently in prod. Fix it forever with these 5 checkpoints. 🚀

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How To Architect A Feature In 5 Minutes Before Talking To AI

November 25, 2025

Prompting

How To Architect A Feature In 5 Minutes Before Talking To AI

AI code works on the surface but can be expensive underneath. Here is the architecture framework that fixes it.

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Your Landing Page Is Probably Over-Engineered

November 18, 2025

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Your Landing Page Is Probably Over-Engineered

Here's how to stop losing visitors to slow load times by serving instant HTML with Astro instead of React.

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