Deacon Ridley

managed AI for small business | long form at | politics @yrplano

[Deacon Ridley @deaconridley07]

@nickvasiles Just got it wired in after I saw your first tweet - this thing is fast!

[Deacon Ridley @deaconridley07]

@nickvasiles have you been able to get imessage working with typing indicators and everything? I've much preferred telegram for that reason

[Deacon Ridley @deaconridley07]

I’ve been working with Hermes agent for the past four months and now manage over 30 agents for various small businesses.

Follow along as I’ll be posting as much as I can of cool stuff I’ve found to be helpful in building the business and fine tuning the management-infrastructure!

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Hermes Agent is built for sovereignty and constructing your AI stack how you want and need it to be.

No vendor lockins, no model limitations, and most importantly, your IP is built through the self improvement loop, automatically.

Hermes sets you free 🪽

[Deacon Ridley @deaconridley07]

@witcheer I have a capability router mcp / tool search catalog for keeping the per turn load low while still giving search access to everything it would need

[Emerson S @Em_Nomadic]

This robot can grow your groceries for you.

@farmbotio Genesis handles seeding, watering, and weeding on its own. Fully documented on @tnkrdotai hardware, software, electronics, deployment, all of it.

Clone it. Fork it. Build your own.

[Deacon Ridley @deaconridley07]

@nickvasiles Gbrain

[JB and family @SimmonsBart]

We’ve received increasing requests to certify our beef as halal. As Christians, we respectfully decline and focus exclusively on regenerative agriculture—restoring soil health, enhancing biodiversity, and producing exceptional beef—while keeping religious and ideological certifications out of our operation.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Do you agree with our decision?

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

When’s your next county GOP meeting? Is it on your calendar? Are you bringing a friend? Are you organized? Are you doing anything? Do you care about winning?

Get working. We have a country to save. Cut the online bullshit.

[Isaac Laster @IsaacJLaster]

There are too many excellent YRT group photos to post only one. RPT Convention this year was an incredible experience. We had a huge turn out of delegates, focusing our energy on two pieces of the platform which we crafted, banning non citizen truck drivers, and repealing the hart celler act.

Our YRT patriot hour was a smashing success with 250+ attending. We hosted so many of the best candidates including Paxton, Middleton, French, and more. YRT will continue to highlight which candidates appeal to young republicans, it’s the true believers, the needle movers, the patriots.

Keep your eyes open for a soon to be announced 2026 YRT convention.
Now back to activism, let’s lock in a victory in November! @YRsOfTexas @TexasGOP @CollinGOP @DallasYR @YRPlano

[Deacon Ridley @deaconridley07]

@0xSero How do you like codex app vs droid in warp?

[Deacon Ridley @deaconridley07]

no blackpilling boys. we need to be veggie-maxxing

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

i'm obsessed with AI DIY projects.

my favorite one right now is this broccoli farmer in hokkaido, japan using Codex to run his 100-hectare farm

this guy never studied agriculture, never inherited land, started out as a civil servant.

but he wanted his farm to run better, and instead of paying an engineering firm he couldn't afford, he just built the tools himself.

here's what he's built on his own:

> remote control of his greenhouse vents from a chat app, wired up with an esp32 board, a motor driver, and cloudflare workers

> a bot that checks each greenhouse's temperature and opens the vents when it gets too hot

> satellite crop-health data laid over a map of his own fields

> an airtable base linking his plots, tasks, materials, and sensors

> wiring diagrams of his electrical panels, generated from a photo

stuff like this used to be locked behind machinery and engineers only the big agribusinesses could pay for.

but this legend just breezed past all of it with a laptop and Codex lol

[Deacon Ridley @deaconridley07]

@nickvasiles Dude I feel this everyday - well put

[Deacon Ridley @deaconridley07]

@coreyganim Having them screen record their day and give the file to their agent has worked really well

[Deacon Ridley @deaconridley07]

I found this to be really helpful!

[Young Republicans of Texas @YRsOfTexas]

We're thrilled to see all four of our endorsed statewide candidates win their runoffs! The future is bright for America First candidates in Texas, and we will continue to endorse and support the strongest champions of our movement.

[ericosiu @ericosiu]

This is the new AI forward agency org chart.

The old model was functions, handoffs, reports, and labor arbitrage.

The new model is outcomes, loops, agent fleets, and systems memory.

Every role owns a number. Every loop has feedback. Every workflow writes back to the company brain.

This is how we're thinking about it:

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Bob McGrew has a framework I keep thinking about: in the AI future there are only two jobs. The Lone Genius and the Manager.

That's it. Everything else gets absorbed.

The Lone Genius is the person sitting alone at a computer, amplified 1000x by AI. One person with taste, vision, and relentless focus who can now do what used to take a team of 50.

The Manager is the person who becomes CEO of their own "firm" where most of the employees are AI agents. They define the goals. They decide what matters. They coordinate. The AI does the execution.

The Marxists will hear "two jobs" and panic. "What about everyone else?!" But here's what they're missing: AI doesn't shrink these two categories. It explodes them open. More people get to be geniuses. More people get to be managers. The barrier to entry for both just collapsed.

What actually gets eliminated? David Graeber called them "bullshit jobs." Graeber was no libertarian! He inspired Occupy Wall Street.

His words: "Huge swaths of people spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe don't really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul."

Graeber said bullshit jobs are "a form of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being." They induce "hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing."

This is who the left should be fighting for. Not to preserve those jobs. To liberate people from them and give them better ones.

The dirty secret of the modern economy: millions of people sit in roles so pointless that even they can't justify their existence. Compliance layers. Reporting layers. Coordination layers. Meeting-about-the-meeting layers. They know it's meaningless. It eats them alive.

AI eats those layers. Good. That's a jailbreak.

What I love about Bob's framework is where it points. The Lone Genius used to require a PhD, a lab, institutional backing. Now a 19-year-old with taste and Codex can ship what took a research team a year. The genius bottleneck was never talent. It was access.

The Manager used to mean you needed to hire 50 people, raise money, build an org chart. Now you can orchestrate a fleet of AI agents from your laptop. The management bottleneck was never skill. It was capital.

AI doesn't concentrate genius and management into fewer hands. It distributes them into more hands. The working class kid in West Virginia. The single mom in Ohio. The 55-year-old who got laid off and now builds software for the first time. Those are some of Bob's future geniuses and managers.

The best founders I see at YC are already living this. They toggle between both modes in the same day. Morning: lone genius, creative insight, the thing nobody else sees. Afternoon: manager, spinning up agents, steering, shipping.

The cycle time between genius and manager IS the new productivity metric.

So when someone tells you AI means "only two jobs and everyone else starves," quote Graeber to them, they’ll get it.

Graeber knew the real violence was making people do meaningless work and pretending it was dignity. AI ends that. More genius. More agency. Fewer spiritual prisons.

[Plano Young Republicans @YRPlano]

Beyond excited to announce our June 4th event featuring @PerfInjust. Mark your calendars. You won’t want to miss this one. @YRsOfTexas

[Nick Vasilescu @nickvasiles]

If you feel in control, you're not moving fast enough.