David Flanagan

Helping the world scale AI at @CoreWeave. Teaching developers Kubernetes @RawkodeAcademy.

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@zeeg You need to hail it with an irn bru and a ginger wig

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@leodido No. It was 42.

They just dropped some entropy by mistake

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I'm now Swamp Club pilled.

AMA

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@ibuildthecloud OK. Software Bakery it is.

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@MichaelArnaldi @alchemy_run When did Cloudflare start selling GPUs?

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@thekitze No different to the 15% you lose at the bottom of the keyboard.

iOS is trash.

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@firefox Can you try convincing OpenAI and Anthropic that you exist?

I hate having to open Chrome for agentic needs n

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Want to learn more about Swamp Club?!

Come join me and @nickstinemates as I learn how to build my automations on the latest and greatest tool.

SWAMPING TIME

https://t.co/Z1xjHMUI9l

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dead

[kitze 🛠️ tinkerer.club @thekitze]

rip

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@ImLunaHey Cuenv + Infisical

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It's quite funny how Open AI went from shipping stuff 6 months early and their incredible agentic pace with their amazing models to 28 days of nothing burgers.

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The frontier labs are gonna stop the pissing contest for a couple of weeks for GTA 6; right?

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@NorthflankWill You should buy a cool YouTube channel and make awesome videos

[Sherwood @shcallaway]

I've been using Hermes as my personal agent for about a week now. Some observations:

1- My setup is a little unusual. Hermes runs on @Railway and connects to all of my tools through my own MCP gateway (email, calendar, Slack, X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Obsidian, DNS, etc). It runs code in a separate @vercel sandbox.

2- I started out communicating w/ my Hermes agent on Telegram but moved to @discord after just a few days... Telegram doesn't really do threads or channels, and honestly the mobile app was so buggy that it was hard to use. In Discord I have a channel for each area (email, X, GitHub, calendar, reminders...) and Hermes posts updates there throughout the day.

3- I also added Hermes to the @sazabi Slack workspace so that I can communicate w/ it in full-view of my team. The catch: it ONLY responds to me. It ignores DMs from everyone else and only replies in channels when I tag it. I didn't want my teammates (or customers in Slack Connect channels) to be able to get at my inbox through it. 😅

4- I gave Hermes access to my @obsdmd vault; it uses Obsidian like a notebook. My vault is synced to the cloud and I run a small MCP server (vault-cortex) that gives Hermes read/write access. Hermes keeps a note on every person I interact with (built from my Slack, email, meeting notes and WhatsApp), writes a recap of my day every night, and saves things like PRDs.

5- I also built my own memory system, which is also hosted on Railway + exposed to all of my agents over MCP. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Hermes all read from and write to this one memory store. The first time I started Hermes, it onboarded itself by reading all of these memories, which was pretty sick.

6- Things Hermes has been most useful for:
- inbox triage (it drafts replies and I approve them one by one; I am not just triaging my email inbox, but also Slack, LinkedIn, X, iMessage, etc.)
- morning brief + evening recap
- prospecting/sourcing
- working on side projects
- tracking and landing PRs

7- Because Hermes triages + summarizes so many different inboxes for me, I find that more and more of my "work" happens in Discord; I'm just talking back and forth w/ Hermes all day.

8- I mostly interact w/ Hermes using voice notes or @WisprFlow , but it also has the ability to "talk" w/ me over a regular phone call w/ @Vapi_AI . It supports both inbound + outbound calls. The first few calls were kinda rough so I configured Hermes to reviews every call afterwards, reflect on what went wrong, and implement fixes. It's working way better now.

9- One obvious but huge part of Hermes that gives it the edge over local coding agents: it keeps getting better. Every time I correct it or give it some info about how to perform a task, it saves this to memory and references it in the future. Other coding agents do this too, but Hermes seems to do a better job of "learning" and getting smarter over time. Also, because there are no "sessions" , Hermes gives you the feeling of infinite context, which is really nice.

This post got way longer than expected, but there ya go. My impressions from one week w/ Hermes. TLDR - I'm a fan.

I am tempted to spend more time w/ other personal assistants like @Muse and @instinct_xyz but , to be honest, after seeing a post from the @NousResearch team about how "Hermes will always be for power users", I am doubtful that I will prefer either of those...

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@altryne PHP, Open code, GitLab, and Railway all popped by robots.

Wild.

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If you think today's hacks are bad, wait until you see the 5th of November.

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@sandydoo Which one?!

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@aaronbatilo

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@eddiejaoude @_ediri @szucsitg @kcduk_io @KubeHuddle @AlexJonesax @Marcus_Noble_ @virtualized6ix @MichaelCade1 Maybe it's time to bring it back 🥰😀

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CNIcon · Week of Oct 19 · 5118 pts
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