Arthur Schmidt

Building with Elixir, shipping on cheap VPS setup, life is good

[Tony Simons @tonysimons_]

People are arguing Hermes vs OpenClaw like it’s Coke vs Pepsi.

It’s not.

🦞 OpenClaw is a gateway.

⚕️ Hermes is a self-improving agent runtime.

🦞 One is trying to put an assistant everywhere.

⚕️ The other is trying to make the assistant actually get better.

I don’t need my agent in 87 places if it still needs babysitting.

Give me memory, skills, Kanban, cron, delegation, and a learning loop.

Give me Hermes.

[Jeff Swanson @theswansjr]

When I truly understood this next fact, it broke my brain:

The largest heist in world history is happening right under your nose.
The theft? All your productivity gains.

Think about it:
1. You're 10x more productive than your grandfather
2. Technology should have made you 10x wealthier
3. Instead, you're working harder for less

Where did the wealth go?
Every breakthrough that should have enriched YOU:

Electrification → Stolen
Automobiles → Stolen
Computers → Stolen
Internet → Stolen

The method: Currency debasement.
They print money. Your purchasing power disappears.

Your productivity gains flow to them.
This isn't economics.
This is organized theft.
Bitcoin fixes this

[Starter Story @starter_story]

Day in the life of a solopreneur who makes $77k per month:

[kvick @kvickart]

Games powered by AI will enable effects like this for free

[José Valim @josevalim]

At this point, this is just irresponsible.

Yes, coding agents are leading to an increase of software production, but we are not seeing a similar push or increase in software quality.

If Anthropic focuses on safety and it believes software engineering is going away, then it needs to be doing much more to improve how we design, build, test, and maintain software (aka software engineering). Increasing the production of unreliable, poorly designed, and unverified software directly undermines safety.

Claude Code is claimed to be "fully written by AI". In the last two months, it took three separate postmortem-worthy failures and user complaints to surface what their own testing missed. Yesterday users were being over billed by hundreds of dollars. Software engineering isn't ready to go away and there is not enough progress to argue that case.

I am certain Anthropic would argue that AI progress in other domains is strongly dependent on having proper safeguards in place. I can't wrap my head around the cognitive dissonance when it comes to software.

PS: Mythos (may) improve software security, but that is only a subset of safety.

[conduct|r @conductr_]

David f*cking Goggins, what a line…

“When your entire day is fucked up, make sure that you achieve something positive before lights out. You’ll probably have to stay up a bit later to read, study, get a workout in, or clean the house. Whatever it takes to go to bed in the black, get it done.“

[Jason - macro & investing @MacroJason]

I like Brazil but when your population has a median numerical IQ of 83.5 - democracy and liberalism becomes a bug, not a feature. $EWZ

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Imagine what 🇧🇷 Brazil could be 😭

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Action produces information.

[Desiree Rugani @desireerugani]

🇸🇻 El Salvador está entregando notebooks e kits escolares para TODOS os estudantes da rede pública.

O presidente Nayib Bukele resumiu:

“O dinheiro rende quando ninguém rouba.”

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

Epic #Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto statue spotted in El Zonte, El Salvador 🇸🇻

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

how to use claude code to launch 100+ fb ads in 30 mins

[Ryan Stephen @Ryan__Stephen]

made lil claude agents that walk around your dock

[Arthur Schmidt @schm1d7]

damn super clean

[tani @tanishqxyz]

I’ve been creating micro-shaders for UI for over 3+ years now and the trend is finally starting to catch up

Here’s an older exploration of Tempo wallet landing we tried ✨

[Arthur Schmidt @schm1d7]

@poetengineer__ love it

[Latte @0xbisc]

The Noodle Master 🎬

Seedance 2.0 Prompt shared below

[LoA @Lordofacca]

Sword of the Ancients

[Arthur Schmidt @schm1d7]

Great video on it https://t.co/h2B3wHuMWu

[Arthur Schmidt @schm1d7]

My mind got blown today by #AshAI - Every action on your app becomes available to your agent. It becomes the smart entity that can read, write, and reason about your entire domain.

Combine that with a local agent setup to skip API fees and you have something completely insane.

Your Ash Resources ARE the agent's toolkit. No wrappers. No glue code. Just declare actions and policies — the agent inherits all of it. And you can easily choose what tools each agent has.

[LoA @Lordofacca]

OOO