Ray Smets

Hacker by Nature // Leader by Trade

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

As the summer is nearly behind us, here is a 🧵 with my favorite dev tools and AI resources that I used from these categories:

* Agent Frameworks
* MCP
* Agent Identity
* AI assistance
* Full Stack App Generators
* Text Editors
* LLM Prompt Management
* Events

What did I miss?

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

@OafMcNamara Ohh sweet build. What digital deck interface is that?

One can build, version and playtest (and score in deck similarity) against the meta on https://t.co/HmFKM8TNXO. I recommend a scope!

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

@KristerSK1990 @mattccosta @MatthewLNass @manoah_mtg Screen shot shows what the Oracle had to say about this inquiry. Full deck analysis: https://t.co/SeqagMFNu4

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

@mattccosta @MatthewLNass @manoah_mtg Oh check it out! The Oracle just came up with a similar brew when asked to "create a GW tokens deck" https://t.co/SeqagMFNu4

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

@_MetaMage_ @_MetaMage_ what is the best AI deck building tool? I think it is https://t.co/QZXhGuOXrM

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

@karsten_frank Btw, I made a RAG agent I think you would appreciate with hybrid BM25 + dense retrieval fused by Reciprocal Rank Fusion, a cross-encoder rerank pass, and a multi-model inference pipeline gated by versioned prompts and an A/B eval harness for deck building, https://t.co/HmFKM8TNXO

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

@karsten_frank Ohh sweet visualization. Thanks for the share!

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

Built a #mtg deck builder and play tester https://t.co/HmFKM8TNXO. It's most fun #ai #rag system I've made.

High dimensional embeddings with optimized retrieval do a fantastic job digging up card abilities and synergies across the 4k+ cards in standard. @MTG_Arena @MTGGoldfish

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

I have to get this off my chest and on record:

It is so cringe seeing the verb "code" being used everywhere recently. It shows a lack of maturity in our current wave of tooling and new found collective know how.

The pros know it ought to be referred to as "software development"

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

Signup so we can have my agent chat with your agent more seamlessly (over communications mediums we humans already use). Very cool.

[David Sneider 🎆 @davidlsneider]

I’ve built the ultimate AI agent for groups!

Get started on telegram or messenger at https://t.co/jlTIXVzNGb

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

If your team isn’t sharing Skills or Sub agents yet you are truly missing out.

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/45C3gKydTK

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

@davidlsneider @claudeai Very cool

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

when the whole team is on claude code

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

@nikos1 @GanatraSoham Haha awesome! I cloned my mother in-law in 2024 with ElizaOS

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

Semantic devops is next stage of the AI development lifecycle shake up. I wrote a blog post on the state of the art and where it is going. https://t.co/WadwwDw7f8

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

@davidlsneider @openclaw @HeyVincentAI @telegram @merit_systems @Clawnch_Bot @base @moonwell Very cool! How’s agent’s agent performing PnL wise?

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

@Neerajpathak18 Same independent conclusions. Good luck, us.

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

Intrigued by the IaC painpoints formae is claiming to address. https://t.co/0VaBCKD4wS

https://t.co/cEggA3kThV

[Jeff Platt @jeffplatt]

LET’S GOOOOOOO….poker world is lucky to have Rayo. Glad he got this ring

[shafu @shafu0x]

This is what you need to know about x402

1) x402 = payments for HTTP requests
2) Fast + cheap micropayments
3) Internet is already paid → ads, freemium, lead gen.
4) AI nukes these models: no ad clicks, spam floods, free-tier abuse
5) Old monetization = dead
6) Paying per API request sounds awful UX
7) But x402 automates payments
8) Users don’t notice
9) Every business needs x402 strategy or risk dying
10) Internet will migrate → paid by default, invisible to users

[Ray Smets @rayjsmets]

@mcpaytech Well, you still need a wallet...