Melvin Vivas

Personal AI, local models, AI coding
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[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

@abodera i’m sorry bro

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

badly needing a Codex reset...

that's 5 more days 😭

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

huge

[DeepSeek @deepseek_ai]

🚀 DeepSeek-V4-Flash Official API is now LIVE in public beta!

🔷 We’ve massively upgraded its Agent capabilities—benchmark scores are now far surpassing the V4-Pro-Preview. Check out the massive performance leap below! 👇
🔷 The official V4-Flash now natively supports the Responses API format and is fully adapted for Codex!

Check out the configuration details in our official API docs: https://t.co/smCwQZMeiq

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

@osanseviero wow

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

@thorwebdev wow

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

AI solved NullPointerExceptions

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

we should’ve skipped Opus 5

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

@martin_casado yep Opus 5 not good

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

I agree the best UX to having AI in the browser is not a new browser but just a chrome extension

That’s why ChatGPT Atlas and Comet didn’t work

I’ve been using Claude and ChatGPT chrome extensions to automate my web research and both works great

I haven’t tried the Hermes one but will try it soon

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

@archoslabsxyz i have an automation in Cursor which refreshes AI news daily. mostly general AI news not so technical ones. my entire linkedin posting is automated by Hermes for AI news

will take a look at videos. not sure where this is useful

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

Hermes agent + hyperframes

Take info from a url https://t.co/Ge8rKJ0JaN and make it into a video

This is sick!

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

@sanjeed_i @tibor_tee why?

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

Download videos from X, youtube, facebook, etc.

Just use Hermes agent, it just works

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

spoke too soon. here's what's keeping Google deepmind busy

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Gemini Robotics 2 moves physical AI beyond tabletop tasks, enabling intelligent whole-body control for humanoids.

Watch @Apptronik's Apollo 2 process a single prompt to reach, bend, and pick up a watering can ↓

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

evolution of image loras

SD -> Flux -> Krea2

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

Would just be you and Buzz with agents like Hermes

[tonbi @tonbistudio]

You can now work with your Hermes Agent in Buzz! I did a short demo video to show how you can set it up using the gateway option, so you have full Hermes functionality. Very interesting to see how this app develops!

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

@levelsio @fireship_dev that’s not good. Do you suggest building something around AI agents?

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

tides have shifted

indie hacking saas not viable anymore

so you need to find something around AI agents I guess

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Today @fireship_dev covered this:

- Indie hackers may be the first type of developer to go extinct

- The classic indie hacking playbook (last decade): learn to code → find a niche → ship a micro-SaaS → build in public → post MRR screenshots after failures → repeat until it works

- Coding used to be hard and expensive, so execution mattered far more than ideas

- That equation has flipped: execution now costs ~$20/month, so anyone can build personal software instead of paying for SaaS

- Example: Why pay $29/month for a product when Claude Code can recreate a better version in 20 minutes?

- Building in public on X makes it easy for others to steal your idea/roadmap

- AI raises the ceiling (indie hackers become far more productive) but also lowers the floor (the space is now crowded with normies who can vibe-code their own tools)

- This trend will accelerate as AI gets cheaper and smarter

- Silver lining: the disruption can "fertilize the soil" for those who master distribution, branding, or proprietary data

https://t.co/vyUwc0bsgu

[Melvin Vivas @melvindvivas]

@__tinygrad__ @AMD @sgl_project @Kimi_Moonshot wow, should we buy amd stock