Aby

Consultant, Coach, Changemaker, Entrepreneur, Automation & Agents Engineer. Scaling companies with AI & Agents.

[Aby @aby]

The most dangerous lie in business right now:

“AI can’t replace real expertise.”

It already has. Quietly. Everywhere.

A solo founder with Claude and Cursor is outshipping 15-person agencies. A kid with no degree is building what MBAs couldn’t conceptualize. Context windows now hold more institutional knowledge than most employees accumulate in a decade.

But here’s what people miss, this isn’t the Age of AI. It’s the Age of Production.

The bottleneck was never ideas. It was execution.

AI just removed that bottleneck permanently.

The new hierarchy:

Old world - what you know

Current world - what you can prompt

Next world - what you choose to build and for whom

Credentials got you access. Now taste, speed, and conviction get you everything.

The people panicking are the ones who sold knowledge.

The people thriving are the ones who always had vision but lacked the army to execute it.

Now every builder has an army.

[Aby @aby]

@AlexFinn @AlexFinn Nice overview. Would love to see a video of how to do a quick migration to this Desktop from VPS setup as well. Thanks for sharing!

[Google @Google]

Today we’re introducing Gemma 4 12B — our latest open model that brings advanced agentic reasoning, vision and audio directly to your laptop.

It delivers performance nearing our larger Gemma models with a much smaller total memory footprint, while being small enough to run locally with just 16GB of VRAM. It’s open and accessible for everyone to use under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

This is all made possible by our new, unified architecture that removes separate multimodal encoders. Here’s how we did it 🧵

[Matt Van Horn @mvanhorn]

Introducing Agent Cookie. 🥷🏻🍪 For anyone running @OpenClaw or @NousResearch's Hermes on a Mac mini: I kept finding my agent logged out of everything, and it sucked. So I fixed it.

"Add this to my Amazon cart." Sorry, logged out again. "Order my usual on Instacart." Nope, not logged in anymore.
The fix: your laptop's cookies, CLI tokens, and API keys sync to your Mac mini. Continuously. Encrypted end-to-end over your Tailscale tailnet. No logging in twice.

🌐 https://t.co/41VezMs9S6

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Founders must stop trying to building 2010-era businesses with 2026-era technology.

Don't try to rebuild Foursquare or Yelp.

Don't try to recreate Basecamp by 37 Signals with $10/mo SaaS pricing.

Don't underprice! If it works it's worth a lot more.

Don't be tempted to become "Tech enabled PE" with revenue tricks.

The rules of tech changed with AI. Play the new game.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

10 GitHub repos that one developer built that compete with billion-dollar SaaS.

Bookmark this. Repost it. Save it

1. Immich
Alex Tran built it solo because Google Photos held his memories hostage. Replaces Alphabet's $2 trillion subscription empire.
Repo → https://t.co/eelbgkYwZz

2. Anytype
Anton Pronkin shipped it solo before raising $13.5M. Local-first, end-to-end encrypted. Notion is $10 billion.
Repo → https://t.co/3pZnRBeSeR

3. Twenty CRM
Charles Bochet and Félix Malfait launched the open-source rebellion against Salesforce. Salesforce is $300 billion.
Repo → https://t.co/tVj1SpC2CB

4. Papermark
Marc Seitz built it solo as the open-source alternative to DocSend. Tracked document sharing for $0.
Repo → https://t.co/ZNJi2PLKmI

5. Jellyfin
A community fork after Emby went closed-source. Your own Netflix for files you legally own. Plex raised $300M. Jellyfin is free forever.
Repo → https://t.co/2rEvc36pWw

6. Tldraw
Steve Ruiz built it solo. Now used inside Vercel, Linear, and Microsoft. Miro is valued at $17 billion.
Repo → https://t.co/9rT3Yitw7K

7. Documenso
Timur Ercan and a tiny team taking down DocuSign's $14 billion empire. Open-source document signing.
Repo → https://t.co/OjhpGjYBEV

8. Postiz
Nevo David built it solo as the open-source rebellion against Buffer and Hootsuite.
Repo → https://t.co/Ai0woV7L5b

9. Crowdsec
Philippe Humeau built the community-driven alternative to Cloudflare's bot management. Crowdsourced threat intel.
Repo → https://t.co/h3dCq1tvFc

10. Inbox Zero
Elie Steinbock built the AI email assistant that doesn't sell your data. SaneBox charges $25/month. Inbox Zero is MIT-licensed.
Repo → https://t.co/OYhKFWuN9G

Save this. Share it with the developer in your life who needs to remember the internet still belongs to whoever ships.

100% free. 100% open source.

[F.O.L.A @folaoftech]

When a backend developer touches CSS 😂

[Aby @aby]

@askOkara Nice

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

MASSIVE Hermes Agent update this week.

7 new features you need to be taking advantage of immediately:

1. Improved memory/session search. Hermes now automatically logs every session from every day into memory. Meaning you can ask "what did we work on on April 15th?"

2. Background tasks: use /background at anytime to give a task to Hermes that it will complete in the background. Meaning you can give a bunch of background tasks and still have it perform a main task simultaneously. Perfect for multitasking.

3. xAI oath: login with your existing Grok account and use that as your orchestrator. No need to pay extra for other AI accounts. Awesome of xAI to allow this.

4. X posting and fetching. If you use your Grok oauth, you can now use Hermes to search, find, and create posts. Really nice X integration for your agent

5. Codex CLI. Your agent can now natively use Codex CLI. Meaning you can give your agent a coding task and it will spin up Codex CLI by itself to vibe code for you. Very powerful

6. Native AI videos. Hermes agent can now use a number of tools to generate its own AI videos. This includes the Grok oauth from earlier. So if you plug that in you can now use Grok Imagine to build videos in seconds.

7. Auto Kanban tasks. If you open up your Hermes kanban board ('hermes dashboard' in your terminal) you can drop goals into the triage category and Hermes will automatically break it down into tasks and assign to subagents. Really powerful way to get big tasks done quickly

Highly recommend taking advantage of all of these immediately if you want to stay on the cutting edge

[Hermes Agent Tips @HermesAgentTips]

For those not taking full advantage yet of the new Hermes agent / X 0Auth integration here's an info graphic and fun way to learn about this new cool integration!

what do you like most about this new cool feature?

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Exactly, so luxury brands are for low income and low IQ people

So nothing about it is high status, high income or high value, which is what it desperately portrays to be

[Nealey @Justinnealey]

https://t.co/uzCzmuORA1

[Aby @aby]

@rabi_guha Nice work and Nice name ;)

[Jafar Najafov @JafarNajafov]

Supertonic just killed ElevenLabs.

A text-to-speech model that runs entirely on your device. No cloud. No API key. No per-character pricing.

2,700 GitHub stars. 100% open source. MIT licensed.

The numbers are wild:

→ 167x faster than real-time on an M4 Pro
→ Only 66M parameters
→ 1,263 chars/sec vs ElevenLabs Flash at 287
→ 1,048 chars/sec vs OpenAI TTS-1 at 55
→ Runs on a Raspberry Pi. Runs on an e-reader in airplane mode.

Reads currency, dates, phone numbers, and technical units correctly without preprocessing. ElevenLabs fails these. OpenAI fails these. Gemini fails these.

Supports 11 platforms and 5 languages. Chrome extension turns any webpage into audio in under a second.

I've watched on-device models lose to cloud APIs for years. This one doesn't lose.

The cloud TTS business just got cooked.

[Aby @aby]

@kevinrose @NousResearch @kevinrose Definately work checking out, we migrated the entire workflow of running 12 @openclaw setup to @NousResearch Hermes this month. Do checkout @outsource_ Hermes-Workspace as well in order find a super easy functional UI to make it simpler to use and much reliable.

[Tom Dörr @tom_doerr]

Open-source alternative to Semrush and Ahrefs for SEO teams

https://t.co/AGFmUz8KQn

[Deedy @deedydas]

Billionaire Michael Milken joked “if a US company replaces the US-born CEO with a CEO born in India, I buy the stock”

But he reveals he hasn’t backtested the idea.
So we did.

In the last 15yrs, that would’ve 50x’d your money: 7.5x more $$ and >2x IRR vs S&P500: 30% vs 14%!

[Ronin @DeRonin_]

🚨 SOMEONE JUST KILLED THE COACHING INDUSTRY

a developer spent 22,000 hours building a Personal AI Operating System on top of Claude Code

now anyone with a terminal can install it for FREE

it knows your goals, remembers every decision you've made, and prepares your morning briefing while you sleep

[ the numbers are insane ]:

- hours of dev work in it: 22,000
- sessions logged: 6,000
- time saved per day: 2-3 hours
- GitHub stars: 12,100
- skills built in: 45
- workflows wired up: 171
- safety hooks: 37
- cost to install: $0

[ the science is wild too ]:

no embeddings, no vector databases, no AI magic you can't read

every memory, decision, and context lives in plain markdown files
you read it with cat, search it with ripgrep, version it with git

4 memory types compound over time:

- work memory (active projects, open decisions)
- knowledge memory (domain expertise, research)
- people memory (contacts, companies, relationships)
- learning memory (patterns, mistakes, what works for YOU)

every complex task routes through a 7-step cycle:

OBSERVE → THINK → PLAN → BUILD → EXECUTE → VERIFY → LEARN

privacy is enforced by CODE, not prompts

a hook called ContainmentGuard physically blocks sensitive data from being written outside designated zones

[ the grift opportunity is even wilder ]:

freelancers are already charging $500-2,000 per personal AI setup for executives, founders, and busy operators

one person + one weekend = a consulting business that didn't exist 6 months ago

every AI productivity app you're paying $30/month for is replaceable by 4 hours of setup work and this one repo

REPO: https://t.co/fwLoyuaUKh

100% OPEN SOURCE, FREE