Dylan Stapleton

fractional caio / narrative engineer

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Advocate of this.

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people are shipping faster, cheaper, and better than you while you're still figuring out how to open claude code in terminal.

the gap isn't talent anymore. it's velocity. and velocity is something you buy now, same as you'd buy a lambo.

every week you spend learning is a week someone with a credit card and no ego is pulling further ahead.

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feed your project knowledges game theory concepts and tell it to apply them when the situation is right.

the model becomes 5x more intelligent in it's output.

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info offers aren't just info anymore.

the ones that will print in 2026 are adding agents, software, and DFY builds into the offer itself.

it's the only way to stand out at the top now.

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2 years ago I built an email agency backed by my initial core skillset, copy.

turns out the underlying skill was never really about email. it was about loading decision logic into language a system could act on. the system back then was the ICP or customer. the system now is the model.

context engineering is the same job I was already doing, just with different stakes attached. I didn't have the word for it until last year, I just thought I was just writing copy.

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dm me if you want a custom hermes or openclaw system for your business

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@0xMovez coldmath runs a hedged barbell. 3¢ tail yes and 97¢ grind no on the same event. every "I made $19k with hermes" thread teaches you half the trade and points at his wallet as proof. half the trade is negative ev. you're buying a referral link.

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same architecture governs autonomous agents in production. SOUL.md for voice. AGENTS.md for decision logic. MEMORY.md for persistence. the obsidian setup is the personal version of something that scales way past note-taking when the .md files start governing systems instead of just organizing thoughts.

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an obsidian knowledge-base containing information around all your projects, knowledge, content, team members, and daily notes is genuinely the most high ROI thing you can have right now...

if you don't have one yet, i highly suggest you start creating one, it gets more & more powerful as it compounds

i created mine by opening up the terminal directly in obsidian & prompting claude code to create an obsidian optimized file structure for daily notes, projects, knowledge & resources

it has one main index which helps agents navigate it, a CLAUDE.md that has context around obsidian conventions + rules on how to use the codebase - i made sure to tell it to interlink all concepts

i told it to make one markdown file called BRAINDUMP.md which i put any info i want into, CLAUDE.md contains info on how i want the braindumped info to be organized whenever i prompt claude to process it

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half the country paying for the tool. almost none of them with anything real built on it.

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Half the businesses in this country are paying for AI tools. Anthropic didn't exist four years ago. Now it's neck and neck with OpenAI in enterprise adoption.

The market already chose its reasoning engine.

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self-refinement that knows when to stop just became native to hermes agents. the architecture of restraint outperforms the instinct to keep iterating.

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Have an idea for an experiment?

Hermes can now write conference-grade research papers alongside you.

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nous research just dropped a paper proving self-refinement makes models worse.

telling a model to critique and revise its own output degraded it below the unrefined first pass. more iteration. worse results.

the fix was an architecture called autoreason. three candidates every round, the original untouched, a revision, and a synthesis. blind judges with no memory of who wrote what. and the key: "change nothing" is always a valid winner.

42/42 borda sweep across three tasks. outperformed best-of-6 sampling at matched compute.

the instinct everyone has with AI, prompt it, read the output, tell it to try again is literally the mechanism that makes it worse. refinement without the architecture to know when to stop is just degradation with extra steps.

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In my personal opinion I feel like you have to be uncomfortable and overly delusional about your craft and know the impact you’d make putting a stamp in the world with your work or art.

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A physician billing $300 an hour spending 28 hours a week on admin. That's $436,000 a year in misallocated clinical value. The phone, the intake, the follow-up, none of it requires the person who studied medicine. One hermes agent closes this gap in a weekend.

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Regenerative medicine clinics charge $5,000 to $50,000 per treatment. Cash-pay. No insurance. 85% gross margins. $15,000 a month on patient acquisition.

Average lead response time in this space is two hours and five minutes.

A lead contacted within five minutes is 21 times more likely to convert.

73% of inbound leads never receive a single callback. At $8,000 per treatment, a clinic losing three convertible leads a month is watching $288,000 a year disappear into a voicemail box nobody checks fast enough.

The marketing worked. The patient was already sold. They searched, they called, they were ready to book a $12,000 procedure. Then they waited. And the lead that cost $286 to generate died in the two hours it took someone to call back.

97% of regenerative medicine practices right now have no idea about the agentic capabilities available to them for their intake pipeline. The 3% that do aren't running more ads.

They're just catching what everyone else lets hit the floor.

One hermes agent fixes this overnight.

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Half the businesses in this country are paying for AI tools. Anthropic didn't exist four years ago. Now it's neck and neck with OpenAI in enterprise adoption.

The market already chose its reasoning engine.

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Every frontier model running right now is VC-subsidized. Billions in venture capital keeping your $20 subscription at a fraction of what the compute actually costs.

That's a window. The clinics, the firms, the agencies building their AI infrastructure right now are locking in systems at a cost that won't exist in 18 months.

When the subsidies correct, and they will, the price to build what you should have already shipped multiplies overnight. You're not deciding whether to adopt AI. You're deciding whether to build at subsidized rates or full price.

Build while it's quiet. The price won't be.