Leon van Zyl

AI Engineer & YouTuber

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

🎁 My FREE 7 Day AI Builder Challenge is Live!
Learn my RAMP workflow and ship a real app in a week 👇
https://t.co/xhxdhCpR3W

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

Your landing page doesn't have to sit there frozen.
In my new video I add a custom AI robot avatar to a static site and make it breathe, blink and move, all inside Claude Code using @higgsfield_ai .
Full build 👇 https://t.co/AXJYdXcCnw

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

Claude Opus is great, but running every AI coding workflow through expensive flagship models gets painful fast.

So I tested MiniMax M2.7 inside Claude Code.

Same workflow. Much cheaper model.

Really interesting results from @minimax_ai.

https://t.co/rpCp1Za83Z

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

Most people use Claude Code like a chatbot.

In my latest video, I show the workflow I’d use to build a production-style AI app, with real-time public web data from @Oxylabs_io, at scale, without getting stuck on captchas or limits.

https://t.co/nfw0SQcThZ

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

In 12 months, if your app can't talk to AI agents, no one's going to use it. That's why every major platform is racing to ship MCP servers + Agent Skills right now.

Full build + free GitHub repo:
https://t.co/dBqAG2goO3

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

This one walks through making a personal portfolio site that looks like a coding agent CLI. Full build in under 9 minutes, deployed live at the end.

https://t.co/OOAQZiha2i

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

@Walter94080981 @theo @AnthropicAI 😂

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

I really wished that @theo 's takes on Claude Code's CLI was not true. What is going on here @AnthropicAI ? Looks like CC is posessed 😂

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

Claude Code Agent View is finally here.

You can now manage multiple Claude Code sessions from one place, see what’s running, what needs input, and what’s done.

https://t.co/EucvYyqRPd

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

I built a full AI Image Studio app from scratch using Codex CLI.

Upload reference images like your face, logo, or style inspiration, write a prompt, and generate usable assets like thumbnails, banners, product shots, and branded visuals.

https://t.co/0qDlvecaVE

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

I turned Hermes Agent into a coding agent you can message from Telegram. It can build an app, deploy it to Vercel, and send back a live URL.

Wild experiment, but a fascinating glimpse at where AI assistants are going.

https://t.co/9Pvi932lH8

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

Claude Code is great… but it’s not the only AI coding tool worth paying attention to.

In my latest video, I walk through OpenCode from scratch - installation, provider setup, FREE models, MCP servers, agent skills, subagents and project workflows.

https://t.co/fR3d0SqwbM

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

I built LocalForge — a free, open-source coding agent that runs on FREE, local models through Ollama or LM Studio.

LocalForge lets you describe an app, generate a feature backlog, assign agents, and let them build on autopilot.

https://t.co/IRCCbSMS5G

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

@opencode is the open-source coding CLI that's been blowing up lately. I just dropped a full beginner tutorial - installation, providers, skills, agents, sub-agents, MCP servers, and building a real app from scratch.

https://t.co/fR3d0SqwbM

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

I let a spinning wheel pick my coding tool for the week. Then I built an entire YouTube Summarizer with whatever it landed on.

https://t.co/r6JTKZjosS

#AIcoding #BuildInPublic

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

Your AI assistant gives confident answers with zero sources. One MCP server fixes that - Consensus plugs 200M research papers directly into Claude.

https://t.co/mpGPgHt4kP

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

Hermes Agent is what OpenClaw should have been.

It actually learns from you. It remembers everything. And when it needs a new capability, it creates and installs its own skills.

The more you use it, the better it gets. Full setup tutorial:

https://t.co/ngJU2H6Bqf

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

I used @claudeai Design to redesign two real apps - wireframes to hi-fi to working code via Claude Code.

Voice-prompted the entire design. The final app matched the prototype exactly.

Full walkthrough: https://t.co/U0dpiihoaD

#ClaudeDesign #ClaudeCode

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

Claude Code now runs tasks while your laptop is closed.

Scheduled routines. API triggers. GitHub webhooks.

I set up two: one that continuously improves my codebase, and one that runs a full OWASP security audit every night.

The security skill is free - link in the video.

https://t.co/vWnUlahDEb

[Leon van Zyl @leonvz]

Besides for having quite the potty mouth, Opus 4.7 is really good at coding tasks too. #claude

https://t.co/siuM1Fry5m