Adam Sandler

Building a marketing operating system powered by AI agents in Claude Code. 20+ years in marketing. Founder of The Viable Edge.

[Adam Sandler @TheViableEdge]

@NousResearch

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@Vintage_god 🤦‍♂️

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I used my typical day's worth of Opus 4.8 with Fable 5 in under two hours, good times.

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The midweek Claude Sub reset left me with 70% of my usage available on reset day. You know what that means....

It's ULTRACODE + Workflows Thursday.

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@NousResearch Is there a way to access both remote and local profiles inside of one local Hermes Desktop app instance, or is this a feature that will be added?

Any tips or tricks to enable this? Am I crazy for asking this, and why?

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So what’s the timeline on Opus 4.8 was nerfed threads, like early July?

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I'm impressed with Opus 4.8 so far, gave it a research challenge, same exact prompt to Hermes w/Grok 4.3 using last 30 days, asked for an html visual mock up of the recommendation, and Opus was stronger all around, Grok not bad at all though.

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Big moves, migrated Chaz of Staff to a vps, now migrating Newton and building a Hermes agent profile for my wife.

I realized I have an opportunity to curate an onboarding that comes prepared to deal with her pain points and bottle necks (aka me).

I learned that you can easily remove jargon tool calls and cron slob from telegram chats, so fam will only see chat feed and 🧠 memory / learning related tool calls.

Cron slob bot can monitor that noise

So, the whole family with newborn robot assistants and access to email, what can possibly go wrong ?

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@BTheriot2014 we'll see, it's careful balance to not be overbearing and keep reminding her of it, which will have the oppositive effect that I'm going for.

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@cypresslaw Def had that vibe when I was setting it up.

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I gave my daughter a Hermes agent + Gbrain, and told her to just use it, and to think of it as her second brain and personal assistant.

It's been a few days, but I'm purposely holding back on pushing her to use it because i want to see what happens organically.

My favorite part of this journey - I set up an email bridge from my agent to hers, our agents can email each other. I have hers deliver a health check once a week, and scan for emails from my agent a few times a day.

This allows me to send her agent ideas and can even set up cron jobs for her. I had her agent pro-actively use Excalidraw, to both surprise and make her aware of it.

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@BorCerlini Gotta enable the advantages where you can these days, its so competitive out there for students.

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@DaveThackeray So far, getting by on ChatGPT Sub for her. For myself, it's gross and I dont want to talk about it.

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@yashjain10k Gbrain is @garrytan 's open source second brain style system for managing memory and enables semantic search. Im sure this is an overtly reductive description, check it out here: https://t.co/iC7I48PXmr

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I 100% recommend it. Most of her peers (this is according to her) are using ChatGPT like you would assume, as an answer machine.

This is a direct way to redefine what this kind of technology is, and show them how it can add value to your day.

She's not drinking the Kool Aid yet, but I'm also not pushing too much, I want to give this time and put Hermes to the test, compare day to day 30.

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@juust My kid is not into that sort of stuff :)

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Hermes setup generally is super easy, I just installed it via terminal on her mac, got it connected with her gmail, calendar, and installed gbrain for enhanced memory, semantic search.

I set her up with Telegram as the chat interface, because teenager and phones.

She has a ChatGPT sub, so I used her sub and GPT 5.5 as the default model, and I will give her fallback access to Openrouter if necessary.

I gave it some starting context, who I am, how to communicate with my agent and tested email comms back and forth.

That was it!

A few times I prompted my agent to email hers to try and nudge some pro-activity when she's not expecting it.

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@flowlikelubu @Tanker_sailing ha, I know, I keed I keed :) The celebrity name can be a blessing and a curse, and no I don't use it to get restaurant reservations, and the worst part is that people are always disappointed when I show up.