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[Fahim @echo247365]

@nahcrof wrong move, lost a customer

[Fahim @echo247365]

Nah, my experience has been different, and I'm not a Hermes shill. From your screenshots, it looks like a provider issue rather than a Hermes problem. Switching your provider should fix it.Also, keep this in mind: Hermes is a really smart framework if you let it create the skills you actually need for daily use. You'll truly understand its potential after consistently using it for 1-2 weeks.

[Fahim @echo247365]

Your comment is pure ignorance. Have you even used Mimo v2.5 Pro? It performs right on par with Claude and Codex at a fraction of the price. Once you factor in cost, the logical choice is brutally simple: go with these models, or overpay for Claude or Codex for no real gain. I use Claude, Codex, DeepSeek V4, and Mimo v2.5 Pro side by side every day, and I barely notice any difference in output. So don't trash these models just because they came out of China. This is tech, not your personal battleground. Get over yourself and stop letting your feelings cloud basic logic.

[Fahim @echo247365]

@RyanLeeMiniMax eagerly waiting for m3. you guys rock! ❤️

[Fahim @echo247365]

Google just killed Gemini CLI.

Official announcement came at Google IO 2026.
June 18th is the cutoff.

If your workflows still depend on it, you have less than 30 days to migrate.

The replacement is Google Antigravity 2.0.
Not a rename.
A completely different machine.

Gemini CLI handled one task at a time, step by step.
Antigravity 2.0 spins up multiple agents that work in parallel on different parts of the same problem.

Google calls them dynamic sub-agents.
You give the system a complex task.
It splits it into chunks, assigns each to a separate agent, runs them all at once, and assembles the outputs.

The model behind it is Gemini 3.5 Flash.
Four times faster than previous frontier models.
Smarter across nearly every benchmark.

For a content team, that means what used to take a full day now comes back assembled in one session.

One agent researches.
One drafts the script.
One formats the newsletter.
One writes the LinkedIn post.
All at the same time.

The teams that migrate first and adopt parallel workflows will outproduce everyone still doing things sequentially.

Are you still running on Gemini CLI, or have you started testing Antigravity 2.0?

[Fahim @echo247365]

You wake up and your lead pipeline is already sorted.

Google AI Studio just connected to Gmail, Sheets, and Drive.

Through a simple Google sign in, your app reads every incoming email.

It uses Gemini to parse intent and extract key details.

It pulls the person's name and email.

It drops them into a Google Sheet.

It tags them by what they asked about.

It flags the highest intent leads at the top.

That used to be 20 hours of manual work every week.

Now it runs while you sleep.

The mechanism is Native Workspace integration.

No Zapier.
No middleware.
Just OAuth and direct API calls.

You describe the logic in plain English.

Google AI Studio generates the code and connects the dots.

The result is A lead capture system that never misses a beat.

The implication is even bigger for content businesses.

You can automatically collect audience feedback from Gmail and Docs.

It organizes feedback by topic.

It surfaces the most requested content ideas.

Instead of guessing what to make next, the data tells you.

That is a serious competitive edge.

What's the first Gmail automation you would build?

[Fahim @echo247365]

Anthropic quietly degraded one of their best models a few weeks ago.

No announcement.
Just broken agents.

OpenAI got caught routing paying GPT-5 users to cheaper variants.

Corporate customers banned from cloud overnight.

If your agent is locked to one model, you don't own your business.

So someone rebuilt their entire stack so it can never break again.

The fix is Keeping the model out of the architecture.

Zapier SDK becomes the hands layer .
Connects to 9,000 apps without writing a single OAuth flow.

OpenRouter gives one API key for every major model.

A 50-line TypeScript loop (written by Claude Code in one prompt) ties it together.

Swap the brain by changing one line.
Same code.
Same tools.
Different model on demand.

Claude, GPT, Gemini, Miniax .
All interchangeable.

Your data and rules stay.
The brain becomes a setting.

That's the difference between owning your operations and renting them.

What's the one model you'd never bet your business on?

[Fahim @echo247365]

YouTube search just got rebuilt.
Keywords are dead.
Questions are the new currency.

Google rolled out Ask YouTube.
Instead of typing "best AI tool 2026", you ask a full question.
"Find me beginner cycling tutorials for kids."

It scans the entire YouTube library.
Shorts and long form.
Gives you an interactive structured response.

Jump straight to the exact part of the video that answers your question.
No more scrubbing through 20 minutes.
You can ask follow-ups to keep refining.

The creators who get this first win the next wave.
Titles and descriptions now need to answer real questions.
Not keyword stuffing from 2022.

Ask YouTube is available to Premium members 18+ in the US.
Rolling out wider soon.

Your content either answers a question or it gets buried.

How many of your video titles would survive a real question search?

[Fahim @echo247365]

Google just launched Gemini Spark.
A personal AI agent that runs 24/7 on Google Cloud infrastructure.
It keeps working after you close your laptop.

Here's how it actually works.
Spark connects to your Gmail, calendar, docs, and sheets.
You give it a task.
It breaks that task into steps.
It works through each step autonomously.
It only pauses to ask you when it hits a high-risk action.
Like sending an email or updating a document.

Google showed a live demo during the keynote.
A salesperson asked Spark to prepare for a client meeting.
Spark went into Salesforce, pulled the full account history.
Checked support tickets for recent issues.
Identified a risk in the data.
Drafted a retention strategy in Docs.
Wrote a client email ready for review.
The person just showed up, read what Spark built, and pressed send.

Zero prep work.
Just results.

Now map that to your own business.
Spark monitors your channel analytics overnight.
If a video underperforms in the first 3 hours, it flags it.
Pulls the data.
Drafts a thumbnail and title split test.
Your team wakes up to a fix already in progress.

The gap between reacting and acting is now measured in hours, not days.

What's the first task you'd hand off to an agent that never sleeps?

[Fahim @echo247365]

237 real user stories.

That is not a hype number.

That is a receipt.

Hermes Agent just published a page with 237 actual workflows from real builders across 15 categories.

X posts, GitHub issues, Reddit threads, Hacker News, blogs, podcasts, LinkedIn, Discord.

The page literally says these are real posts where people describe how they use Hermes.

One person told Hermes to Google them, build a landing page based on what it found, SSH into a VPS, upload the page, and text them when it was done.

Research, build, deploy, notify.

That is a full loop.

Another user runs Hermes every weekday at 9am to summarize their inbox and post the result to Slack.

Not glamorous.

But that is the kind of workflow that actually survives.

Hermes is becoming a persistent worker.
Not a chatbot.
Not a code auto-complete toy.

The bar for agents just went up.

What is the one boring daily task you would automate if your agent actually remembered your workflows?

[Fahim @echo247365]

Google quietly added a toggle to Gemini that most people will scroll past.

It's called the thinking selector.

Two settings is standard and extended.

Standard gives you quick answers for simple prompts.
Extended tells Gemini to use more compute and reason deeper before it responds.

Most people complain AI answers are shallow.
The answer isn't shallow because the model is dumb.
It's shallow because you didn't tell it to think harder.

Extended thinking turns a generic outline into a layered plan with hooks, content angles, and follow up steps you can actually use this week.

The mechanism is Simple.
More time.
More compute.
Deeper reasoning.

The result is Answers with real structure instead of surface level fluff.

The implication is that you now control how much brain power Gemini uses per prompt.
Heavy prompts get heavy thinking.
Light prompts stay fast.

That gap between people who toggle it on and people who don't is going to grow fast.

What's the one prompt you'd run with extended thinking right now?

[Fahim @echo247365]

I gave X AI Work one prompt.
90 seconds later I had a full Shopify store with products, branding, and a landing page.

It wasn't a chatbot giving me a 12-step plan.
It was a team of agents that logged into my tools and did the work.

The mechanism is Simple.
You define agents (like a Shopify operator), give them skills (product research, supplier sourcing), connect them to real tools (Gmail, Alibaba, Shopify), and set a channel (Telegram, Discord).

Then you walk away.
It runs everything in parallel.

The result?
A dog supplement brand called BarkBoost with three products backed by Amazon revenue data, Alibaba suppliers found and vetted, and a live store in Shopify.
All in 5 minutes.

The same engine works for cold outreach, content creation, operations.

If you're the bottleneck in your business, this is the closest thing to hiring a junior employee who never sleeps.

What's the first job you'd hand off to an agent?

[Fahim @echo247365]

1 million tokens of memory.
Free.

That is what Our Alpha gives you through Free Claude Code.

It reroutes the Claude Code CLI to any model you want, including completely free ones.

So you get the full agent harness.
All the workflows.
All the power.
Zero API costs.

The free model runs on OpenRouter. 1 million token context window.
Native tool use.
Built for agentic work.

That means you can feed your entire content library, your SOPs, your YouTube transcripts, and your audience research into one agent brain at the same time.

Before this, you had to paste in top performing videos, community questions, and SEO keywords one chunk at a time.
Losing context every single time.

Now you load it all once.
The agent reads everything.
It gives you a content plan built on your actual data, not generic advice.

That is not just time saved.
That is a smarter strategy built from real audience data.

What would you do with 1 million tokens of context?

[Fahim @echo247365]

Claude Code wrote a 55-line agent stack that connects to 9,000 apps and runs any model.

Here's the architecture.

Every AI agent has three pieces.
The brain is the model.
The hands are the tools that touch the real world.
The loop is the code that connects them.

This stack keeps all three independent.

The brain runs through OpenRouter.
One API key for Claude, GPT, Gemini, MiniMax.
Swap models in one line.

The hands run through Zapier SDK.
It handles OAuth, token refresh, and retries.
You just call the tool.

The loop is 55 lines of TypeScript.
Claude Code wrote it from a single prompt.

When a model gets degraded, you change one line.
When a new model ships, you change one line.

Your data.
Your tools.
Your rules.

The agent isn't the model.
The agent is the architecture.

What's the one tool you'd connect if you didn't have to write OAuth?

[Fahim @echo247365]

You close your laptop.
Your AI keeps working.

That's the shift Google just shipped with Gemini Spark.

It's an agent that lives in the cloud.
It doesn't stop when you go offline.

You tell it to scan your Gmail, find everyone who mentioned a specific topic, build a spreadsheet with names and questions, and draft personal replies.

Then you shut your laptop and go to sleep.
The work is done by morning.

The mechanism matters here.
Spark runs on MCP, the Model Context Protocol.

That's the plug that lets it reach outside Google's ecosystem.
Your CRM, your marketing stack, your content tools.

And Google built a platform called "anti-gravity" to keep these agents running for hours without crashing.

You're not prompting anymore.
You're delegating.

The implication is simple.
The AI tool you use like a chatbot is becoming a teammate you hand tasks to.

What would you offload first if your AI never slept?

[Fahim @echo247365]

A small business owner told me she spends her Sundays doing admin.

Reconciling books.
Chasing invoices.
Pulling reports from three tools just to know where she stands.

She loves her business.
She does not love Sundays.

Claude for Small Business is the update that fixes this.

It's not a smarter chat bot.
It's Claude living inside your actual tools.

QuickBooks.
PayPal.
HubSpot.
Canva.
DocuSign.
Google Workspace.
Slack.

You toggle it on inside the Claude Co-work desktop app.
Connect the tools you already use.
Pick a workflow.

Claude runs the process.
Pulls your cash position from QuickBooks.
Checks PayPal settlements.
Drafts the reminder emails.

Before anything gets sent or paid out, you approve it.
You're always in control.

Anthropic built 15 ready to run workflows for the tasks that slow owners down most.

Planning payroll.
Closing the month.
The Monday morning brief.
Invoice chasing.
Campaign drafting.

Each one compresses hours of manual work into a single approval flow.

The mechanism is Simple is Claude acts as an operations layer across your existing tools.
It reads, writes, and moves data between them.
You review and approve.

No more copying and pasting between tabs.
No more Sunday admin.

What's the one weekly task you'd automate first if it took you five minutes to set up?

[Fahim @echo247365]

Google just shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash.

It scores 83.6% on agentic tasks.
The previous Flash was at 62%.

But the number that matters more is 4x faster than any other top model right now.

Speed alone isn't the unlock though.

What changes is that this model can work autonomously for hours on multi-step tasks.

It plans.
It executes.
It checks its own work.
And it finishes.

Most AI tools stop after one answer.
This one keeps going.

You give it one command: "Turn this YouTube script into a full week of content."

It writes the newsletter, the Twitter thread, the LinkedIn post, the short-form hooks, and the community discussion prompt.

All at the same time.
In minutes, not hours.

That means you stop being a content creator and start being a content director.

You don't write.
You command.

The implication for anyone running an AI business is clear.

Your job shifts from doing the work to architecting the system.

What's the one task you'd hand off first if you had an agent that never sleeps?

[Fahim @echo247365]

Google is quietly routing a new model to some users.
No announcement.
No blog post.
Just a drop-down that suddenly shows Gemini 3.2 Flash.

It's Google's most aggressively updated flash tier model yet.
Better coding output.
Faster speed than its predecessor.
And the kicker is it approaches 3.1 Pro quality on complex tasks.

That means you get pro-level results from the cheap, fast model.
You can run deep strategic work without paying for the premium tier.
Content creation, community responses, lead magnets .
All on one model.

I dropped a YouTube script into 3.2 Flash yesterday.
15 seconds later I had a Twitter thread, LinkedIn post, email newsletter, community prompt, and lead magnet outline.
That used to take a team member 2 hours.

The model picker is now in the top left corner.
One tap to switch between Flash, Pro, and the new 3.2.
You control speed and quality based on what you need right now.

Most people are still manually researching competitors.
Meanwhile, the quiet update is already routing to phones.
Are you checking your model options today?

[Fahim @echo247365]

Google just announced WebMCP.

A proposed open web standard that lets websites expose structured tools to AI agents.

JavaScript functions.
HTML forms.
Clean actions an agent can call directly.

Right now browser agents guess.
They scan screenshots.
They click around.
They fail most of the time.

WebMCP changes that.
Websites become machine readable.

Your app is no longer just for humans.
It is also for agents.

If two SaaS tools do the same thing but one is agent friendly and the other is a mess, which one gets used inside automated workflows?

The agent friendly one.

That is not an AI story.
That is a product design story.

The best websites might soon need clean forms, predictable tables, and structured capabilities an agent can actually call.

You do not need to rebuild everything today.

But you should start asking whether an agent could operate your product cleanly.

Because the web is being rebuilt for agents.

What is one workflow you could make agent friendly this week?

[Fahim @echo247365]

You can run Claude Code with DeepSeek V4 under the hood.

Two lines of config.
Five minutes of setup. 100x cheaper.

DeepSeek V4 just hit 80% on SWE bench verified.
That's the same neighborhood as Sonnet and Opus.

So for routine coding work, the difference is Imperceptible.

But the bill is not.

Opus costs $5 per million input tokens.
DeepSeek Flash costs 14 cents.

I ran a full interactive dashboard build in 28 seconds.
It cost me 1 cent.

The catch is real though.

DeepSeek's endpoint ignores MCP calls.
No vision support.
No prompt caching discounts.

And for deep multi-file debugging, it needs 2-3 follow-ups where Sonnet one-shots it.

So the right move isn't switching entirely.

It's making DeepSeek your default and flipping to Opus when you hit something hard.

A $200 monthly pilot becomes a $20 pilot.

That changes what you can afford to leave running around the clock.

What's the one task you'd automate if it cost 90% less?