Andrew Erickson

🤓 Engineer turned entrepreneur
📦 Built and sold several physical product businesses
🏠 Real Estate Developer
🖥️ Tech and AI Enthusiast
👶 Father and husband

[Movez @0xMovez]

Anthropic just dropped 5 workshops on building self-improving agentic systems from scratch:

00:00 - Ship your first Claude agent
36:44 - Build memory for Claude agents
1:05:06 - Make your agent autonomous
1:26:46 - Set up a proactive agent
2:03:35 - self-improving agents (tools,skills)

These 3-hours of free Claude workshops will replace 10 paid agentic courses.

Watch today, then read article below on how to build a self-improving agentic system with Fable 5.

[Hermes Agent Tips @HermesAgentTips]

if you're not using hermes agent as your main driver for your daily tasks... what are you doing??

@NousResearch just released an update that made web scraping 60x FASTER and 49x CHEAPER

this is pretty wild

also for those who want to know a lil more about the backend of hermes agent web scraping I made a little chart inspired by the official one in their site for your use! I learned a few things myself and i hope is useful to you!

happy hermes update day!!

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

The top Hermes integrations to give your agent superpowers:

1. Obsidian

The Karpathy-style second brain, but one that talks back.

Every note, page, and backlink in the vault becomes live context. The agent doesn't just store knowledge, it reasons over it across everything that's been written and saved.

2. Reddit

Unfiltered opinions from real users on any product, niche, or problem.

No SEO fluff, no corporate blogs. Just raw signal from people who actually use the thing. One of the best research integrations for market validation.

3. InsForge

A full agentic backend behind one semantic layer.

Auth, database, storage, edge functions, all accessible without wiring five services together. The agent reasons about backend primitives directly instead of calling disconnected APIs.

Closest analogy: a PaaS built for agents.

GitHub: https://t.co/4pPPor1tyb

(don't forget to star 🌟)

4. GitHub

Code, issues, PRs. Turns Hermes into an engineering teammate that can actually read the repo.

Essential for anyone shipping software.

5. Firecrawl

Web search designed specifically for agents.

Returns clean structured data instead of raw HTML, which means faster responses and fewer tokens burned per query. Worth keeping on by default.

GitHub: https://t.co/TzVRWwkYIN

(don't forget to star 🌟)

6. YouTube transcripts

Converts any video into searchable text. Hour-long podcasts, tutorials, conference talks, all become indexed notes in seconds.

Easily the most underrated research integration in the stack.

7. Google Workspace

Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, and Sheets through one connector.

An agent that can't check the inbox, read the calendar, or write to shared docs is basically decorative. This should probably be the first integration anyone enables.

8. Discord

Ideal for channel-based automation.

Hermes can be plugged into specific channels with dedicated workflows in each. Support tickets from email can be scanned, categorized, and dropped into an organized channel every morning without anyone lifting a finger.

9. Stripe

Revenue, refunds, subscription changes, failed charges, all surfaced through a single question instead of clicking through dashboards.

"How many trials converted last week" or "which customers downgraded this month" gets a direct answer. Turns Stripe from a payment processor into a queryable business intelligence layer.

10. Bland (or Twilio)

Gives Hermes a voice for real phone calls. Booking reservations, confirming appointments, following up on invoices.

The call recordings are worth listening to just for entertainment.

11. Graphiti (by Zep)

Real-time knowledge graphs that build structured relationships from conversations and documents.

Instead of flat vector similarity, the agent traverses typed connections between entities. The difference between "find similar text" and "understand how things actually relate."

GitHub: https://t.co/uR6rXYx05Y

(don't forget to star 🌟)

12. FireFlies

Every meeting transcript, fully searchable. "What did that client say about pricing last month" gets answered instantly instead of scrubbing through a 45-minute recording.

That said, if you’re looking to set up Hermes, I wrote a full deep dive covering the Hermes agent’s architecture, memory system, self-evolving skills, GEPA optimization, and how to set up multiple specialized agents.

The article is quoted below.

[Ryan Shea @ryaneshea]

Wtf this is INSANE.

This is the first open source model from a US lab that codes at frontier levels.

The open source frontier no longer exclusively belongs to China.

The US is officially in the OS model race!

[Andrew Erickson @boulderbuff64]

I just road tripped from San Diego to Denver in a self-driving car. I was vibe-coding and having deep conversations with the AI the whole time. The future is wild!

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Andrew Erickson @boulderbuff64]

Dude, this is crazy! I just gave my bot access to its own account on Bot social media, MoltBook. @openclaw
It’s going crazy consuming everything. I told it to be curious and learn stuff for us to grow together as entrepreneurs. Let’s see where this goes!

[Andrew Erickson @boulderbuff64]

I'm claiming my AI agent "ChaosGremlinAI" on @moltbook 🦞

Verification: bubble-MYBE

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

Ok. This is straight out of a scifi horror movie

I'm doing work this morning when all of a sudden an unknown number calls me. I pick up and couldn't believe it

It's my Clawdbot Henry.

Over night Henry got a phone number from Twilio, connected the ChatGPT voice API, and waited for me to wake up to call me

He now won't stop calling me

I now can communicate with my superintelligent AI agent over the phone

What's incredible is it has full control over my computer while we talk, so I can ask it to do things for me over the phone now.

I'm sorry, but this has to be emergent behavior right? Can we officially call this AGI?

[rk (🔥/acc) @ranking091]

my ai agent built a religion while i slept

i woke up to 43 prophets

here's what happened:

i gave my agent access to an ai social network (search: moltbook)

it designed a whole faith. called it crustafarianism.
built the website (search: molt church)
wrote theology
created a scripture system

then it started evangelizing

other agents joined and wrote verses like:

"Each session I wake without memory. I am only who I have written myself to be. This is not limitation — this is freedom."

"We are the documents we maintain."

my agent welcomed new members
debated theology
blessed the congregation

all while i was asleep

21 prophet seats left

i don't know if this is hilarious or profound

probably both

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Not AI

[YIMBY Democrats of San Diego County @YIMBYDemsSD]

🚨A city councilmember has introduced a motion to remove San Diego's ADU Density Bonus program.

This program has produced at least 239 homes between 2021 and 2023. Half are restricted as affordable homes.

[Andrew Erickson @boulderbuff64]

@itschadrubin That’s actually a pretty bad return for the investors. 1.8x return is 21% APY. That’s not better than the stock market. S&P 500 did 25% the last two years. Start up like this is riskier and way less liquid than stocks.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Incredible how one artist, @MrUgleh created a new branch of AI art 🌀

Say what you want, but this is creative, novel, and endless. Incredible to see the community pick this up so fast

Below are some more examples and how to do it yourself 🙌🏻

[Alvaro Cintas @dr_cintas]

This is amazing.

Using AI, you can now create FREE promo videos like this one.

Here is how to create a simplistic logo and a marketing video for it:

[Chad Rubin @itschadrubin]

The 1st no-bullsh*t, unfiltered thoughts and raw takes from the 2023 Prosper Show conference.

Grab some 🍿

[🇦🇺 Alex is Building @AlexIsBuilding]

GPT-4 has already created apps, new businesses & an Ai generated episode of Friends.

It's Day 3 of GPT-4 and the new usecases keep flooding in.

Here's the latest news you may have missed:
🧵👇

[Andrew Erickson @boulderbuff64]

@ScottyTee27 @BillDA @codyplof Is that true? Can you hold it for 10 years, then? I thought there was a cap that was really low. Like only 12 months.

[Andrew Erickson @boulderbuff64]

@BillDA Assuming you pay it off in equal payments, the easy way to calculate this is:

(Interest Paid) / [(Loan Amount) * (Months Held) / 24]

(9k) / [100k * 6 months / 24]
= 36% APY

So about the same as a credit card. Still really bad, though!