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The Problem We Were Actually Solving We were not building a demo. We needed to let Veltrix operators run A/B experiments on synthetic user journeys without melting the underlying SQL warehouse. The real question was: how close could we push the warehouse to the AI inference layer before the planner started dropping predicates and the warehouse returned rows that made no sense for the user journey. The warehouse in question was a Snowflake XL on AWS, billed by the second. Our synthetic user model generated 250 k journeys per minute during peak. The AI layer had to annotate each journey with intent tags (shopping, support, fraud) within 200 ms to stay ahead of the next batch. That was the operating envelope, not the sales slide. What We Tried First (And Why It Failed) First cut: put the intent model in a sidecar container next to the Spark cluster that generated the journeys. We picked ONNX Runtime v1.14 with a DistilBERT fine-tuned on our own corpus because the latency slide said 30 ms. Reality: ONNX packaged the tokenizer as a separate DLL. Tokenization alone took 85–110 ms on c6i.large instances, pushing the total inference time to 190 ms when the warehouse was cold and 280 ms when Snowflake decided to spike the warehouse cluster. The operator dashboards immediately showed orange pings; the business called it a red fire drill. Worse, the tokenizer DLL leaked memory. After two hours on a 64-core cluster, each pods RSS climbed to 2.4 GB, and the Kubernetes scheduler evicted five pods in a row. The warehouse downstream received duplicate rows with NULL intents, so every metric we exported was off by 7–12 %. The Architecture Decision We ripped out the sidecar entirely. Instead, the Spark jobs write raw event JSON to an S3 bucket every 60 seconds. A Lambda function (Python 3.12 runtime) picks up the bucket, tokenizes offline, and stores the tokenized blobs back in S3. A nightly Kubernetes job then loads the tokenized chunks into Snowflake as temporary tables. The AI inf
A few weeks ago, I was updating some marketing assets for one of my projects. Everything looked good until I noticed a small problem. The image contained an old QR code. The QR code was pointing to an outdated page, and I needed to remove it before publishing the image again. My first thought was, "This should be easy." I opened a few image editing tools and quickly realized it wasn't as simple as I expected. Most solutions required installing software, learning editing techniques, or manually covering the QR code with another object. Some AI tools could do it, but they were either paid or required creating an account. For a task that should take a few seconds, I was spending far too much time. That's when I started wondering: "Why isn't there a simple tool that only removes QR codes?" The Problem With QR Codes QR codes are everywhere. They're on flyers, product images, posters, presentations, screenshots, and social media graphics. The problem is that QR codes don't always stay relevant. Businesses change landing pages. Campaigns expire. Links break. Sometimes you simply want to reuse an image without the QR code. Yet removing one often requires using software designed for professional designers. Building a Simpler Solution Instead of continuing to search for a solution, I decided to build one. The goal was simple: Upload an image Detect QR codes automatically Remove them Download the cleaned result No accounts. No complicated editing. No learning curve. Just a tool that solves one problem well. After several iterations, the result became the Remove QR Code tool on ConvertKR. What I Learned One thing I've learned from building developer tools is that users don't always need more features. Sometimes they just need fewer steps. The best tools are often the ones that remove friction from a small but frustrating task. Removing a QR code is not something people do every day. But when they need it, they want the process to be fast. Try It Yourself If you've ever found yo
The problem I often switch between Codex, OpenCode, Cline, Claude Desktop, scripts, and terminals. The annoying part is not starting a new tool. The annoying part is explaining the same workspace state again: what changed what is still pending what should not be touched what tests passed what the next agent should read before editing What I built AgentContextBus (acb) is a local-first CLI for handing off workspace context between coding agents. It saves a local handoff packet, then lets the next agent read it through: paste-ready prompts brief prompts a local dashboard JSON output explicit MCP tools First run npx @xiaoshuo1988/acb verify first-run For Chinese output: npx @xiaoshuo1988/acb verify first-run --lang zh-CN A normal handoff From the agent that has context: acb handoff --from codex --summary "Ready for the next agent" --git From the receiving side: acb receive --latest After the receiving agent summarizes the packet: acb ack --latest --by opencode What ACB intentionally does not do no hidden prompt injection no traffic interception no third-party client config mutation no cloud sync no background daemon Why local-first I want the user to be able to inspect the packet store, copy text manually, and decide exactly when context crosses from one agent to another. What I want feedback on Is the handoff packet concept clear? Is verify first-run enough to understand the tool? Is receive --latest the right receiving-side command? Which client path needs the most work? Would you trust this workflow in a real project? Repo: https://github.com/xiaoshuo1988130/acb Feedback discussion: https://github.com/xiaoshuo1988130/acb/discussions/1
Google AI Studio Mobile + Gemini Managed Agents: Build and Deploy AI Agents Without Infrastructure in 2026 TL;DR Summary Google AI Studio is now a standalone mobile app on iOS and Android — speak an idea, and a working app builds in the background Gemini Managed Agents deploy reasoning agents with one API call — code execution, Google Search, URL reading, file management, and web browsing included Agents are configured via markdown skill files (SKILL.md), not complex orchestration code — no server setup, no sandbox management State persists between sessions — files and context survive, no re-uploading Prototype on mobile , refine on desktop , share live deployment via URL — continuous workflow across devices Direct Answer Block Google has launched two new agent surfaces: AI Studio Mobile (a standalone iOS/Android app where you prototype with voice or text and see generated apps on your phone) and Gemini Managed Agents (serverless reasoning agents deployed with one API call, including code execution sandboxes, web search, browsing, and file management, all configured via markdown skill files instead of orchestration code). Introduction The gap between "I have an idea" and "I have a working AI agent" is mostly infrastructure. You need a server, a sandbox, tool integrations, state management, deployment pipelines. Google's two new releases collapse that gap from both ends: AI Studio Mobile removes the need for a desk, and Gemini Managed Agents remove the need for infrastructure. Together, they let you go from voice note to deployed agent without touching a server config. How does Google AI Studio Mobile let you build and preview apps entirely from your phone? AI Studio Mobile is a standalone app (iOS and Android) that brings Google's AI development environment to a phone. The workflow described in the AlphaSignal newsletter: Speak or type an idea — "Build me a weather dashboard with 5-day forecast and location search" App builds in the background — AI Studio's agent in
You Accumulate Technical Debt When You Skip Code Review. Here's What You Accumulate When You Skip the Human. There's a concept in software engineering called Technical Debt. You skip the right abstraction, move fast, ship. Someday you pay it back in refactoring hours. I've been thinking about a different kind of debt. One that doesn't show up in your codebase. Human Debt: When you build with AI as your only collaborator, you remove the one thing that makes you feel obligated to show up. Not accountability in the corporate sense — the simpler thing. Someone is reading your work. You don't want to waste their time. That's not a productivity hack. It's closer to a structural property of how humans behave when observed. The Research Didn't Start With AI In 2015, Gail Matthews ran a study on 267 professionals tracking goal completion. One group wrote their goals. Another group wrote their goals and sent weekly progress reports to a real person. The second group completed 76% more of their goals . Not 10% more. Not "statistically significant at p<0.05." Seventy-six percent. The mechanism is what Gouldner called reciprocity norm in 1960 (doi: 10.2307/2092623): when someone gives you their attention, you owe them something back. Not contractually. Biologically. You don't want to disappoint someone who showed up for you. Harkin et al. confirmed this across 138 studies, 19,951 participants — the effect holds across cultures, domains, and formats. None of this was discovered because of AI. It was hiding in plain sight for 65 years. AI Has No Concept of Day 14 Here's what changed. For most of the history of side projects, your "collaborator" was a rubber duck or Stack Overflow. Those tools don't simulate accountability. Nobody was surprised. Then came AI pair programming. Which is genuinely useful. But it introduced a specific failure mode: you now have a collaborator that responds, scaffolds, and generates — but doesn't notice when you stopped. AI has no concept of Day 14. It
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The .txt File as the Soul of a Personal AI — FileRAG Memory Architecture By Dharanidharan J (JD) Full Stack & AI Engineer | Building Jarvix The Problem Nobody Talks About Every chatbot tutorial teaches you the same thing: history = [] history . append ({ " role " : " user " , " content " : message }) And that works — until it doesn't. After 500 turns, your dict has forgotten who the user is. After 1000 turns, you're hitting token limits. After a restart, everything is gone. Redis helps with persistence but still buries early facts under noise. Vector DBs help with retrieval but bloat storage and need infrastructure. What if the memory itself was just a file? The Idea Every conversation a user has gets distilled into a plain .txt file. That file is the brain. On every new query, a hybrid BM25 + semantic RAG retrieves the most relevant chunks from it and injects them as context. users/ └── jd.txt ← the soul file The soul file looks like this: [Turns 1-5] - User's name is JD, software engineer - Building FileRAG, a novel memory architecture - Uses Pop!_OS with Fish shell and NVIDIA GPU [Turns 6-10] - Has a cat named Pixel who distracts during coding - Paused TaskNest due to burnout - Now focused on AgenticMesh Human readable. Editable. Yours. Why This Is Different Most memory systems store messages . FileRAG stores a relationship . System What it stores Dict / Redis Raw message objects Vector DB Embeddings of messages FileRAG Distilled understanding of the user The longer you use it, the more the AI understands you — not because it has more messages, but because it has a better summary of who you are. The Architecture User message ↓ Topic drift check (cosine similarity) ├── Drift detected → distill current buffer immediately └── No drift → continue ↓ Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + ChromaDB) from soul file ↓ Inject context → LLM responds ↓ Append to turn buffer ↓ Every 5 turns → distill → append to soul file → update ChromaDB ↓ Emergency distillation on exit (SIGINT/SIGTERM)
로봇 두 대가 말 한마디 없이 방을 정리했다, 그런데 진짜 질문은 '어떻게'가 아니다 협업의 정의가 바뀌고 있다. 인간끼리도 아니고, 인간과 로봇도 아니라, 로봇과 로봇 사이에서. TL;DR : 피규어 AI의 휴머노이드 두 대가 언어 없이 2분 만에 침실 정리에 성공했다. 기술 자체보다 흥미로운 것은, 이 '눈치'가 어떻게 만들어졌는가이다. 로봇 협업이 인간 협업의 방식을 모방한 게 아니라, 아예 다른 방식으로 진화하고 있다는 신호다. 로봇 산업에는 잘 알려지지 않은 규칙이 하나 있다. 로봇을 한 대 잘 만드는 것보다, 두 대가 함께 작동하게 만드는 것이 기하급수적으로 어렵다는 것. 보스턴 다이내믹스는 수십 년 동안 혼자 뛰고, 혼자 문을 열고, 혼자 계단을 오르는 로봇을 만들어왔다. 테슬라의 옵티머스는 혼자 부품을 집고, 혼자 배터리를 나른다. 그런데 피규어 AI는 올해 다른 질문을 던졌다. "두 대가 서로 말을 하지 않아도, 협력할 수 있을까?" 그리고 최근 그 답이 나왔다. 2분이었다. 먼저, '눈치'라는 단어를 다시 생각해야 한다 우리가 일상에서 쓰는 '눈치'는 상당히 복잡한 인지 활동이다. 상대방의 행동을 보면서, 다음 행동을 예측하고, 내 행동을 조율하고, 충돌을 피하고, 빈틈을 채우는 것. 인간은 이걸 언어 없이, 심지어 시선 교환만으로 해낸다. 오랜 시간을 함께한 팀에서, 숙련된 주방의 요리사들 사이에서, 그리고 가족 사이에서. 그런데 이 능력은 학습된 것이지, 타고난 것이 아니다. 아이들은 눈치가 없다. 신입 직원도 눈치가 없다. 수백 번의 상호작용과 실수와 교정을 거쳐야 비로소 '눈치'가 생긴다. 피규어 AI의 휴머노이드 두 대는 이 과정을 어떻게 압축했을까. 보도에 따르면 이들은 사전에 언어 명령이나 역할 분담 지시 없이, 상대 로봇의 행동을 실시간으로 인식하고 자신의 다음 동작을 결정했다. 공간을 나눠 쓰고, 같은 물건에 손을 뻗지 않고, 한쪽이 멈추면 다른 쪽이 채웠다. 이것을 연구자들은 '암묵적 협업(implicit collaboration)'이라고 부른다. 쉽게 말하면, 로봇이 눈치를 배웠다는 뜻이다. 두 대가 함께 움직인다는 것의 기술적 의미 단일 로봇의 작동 원리는 비교적 단순하게 설명할 수 있다. 센서가 환경을 인식하고, 모델이 행동을 결정하고, 액추에이터가 실행한다. 루프가 하나다. 두 대가 함께 움직이는 순간, 루프가 두 개가 아니라 세 개가 된다. 로봇 A의 루프, 로봇 B의 루프, 그리고 A와 B가 서로를 환경으로 인식하면서 생기는 상호작용 루프. 이 세 번째 루프가 문제다. A의 행동이 B의 환경을 바꾸고, 그 변화가 다시 B의 행동을 바꾸고, 그 행동이 또 A의 환경을 바꾼다. 루프가 루프를 먹는 구조다. 이것을 중앙에서 통제하는 방식은 예전부터 존재했다. 공장 자동화에서 쓰이는 PLC(프로그래머블 로직 컨트롤러) 방식이 대표적이다. A는 1번 작업, B는 2번 작업, 충돌 시 A가 우선 — 이런 식으로 모든 경우의 수를 미리 프로그래밍한다. 정해진 공간, 정해진 물건, 정해진 순서. 공장에서는 작동한다. 일상에서는 작동하지 않는다. 침실은 공장이 아니다. 물건의 위치가 매번 다르고, 침대 정리와 바닥 정리가 동시에 일어나야 할 수도 있고, 하나가 예상치 못한 물건을 발견하면 계획 전체가 바뀐다. 규칙 기반의 중앙 통제로는 불가능하다. 피규어 AI가 선택한 방향은 분산 의사결정이었다. 각 로봇이 독립적으로 환경을 인식하고, 상대 로봇의 현재 상태를 하나의 입력값으로 받아들이면서, 스스로 다음 행동을 결정하는 방식이다. 중앙 관제탑이 없다. 각자가 판단하되, 서로를 인식한다. 이것이 인간의 눈치와 구조적으로 가장 유사한 접근이다. 2분이라는 숫자가 중요한 이유 2분. 이 숫자를 처음 들으면 "겨우 2분?"이라고 생각할 수 있다. 그런데 맥락을 알면 반응이 바뀐다. 로봇이 단독으로 침실을 정리하는 데 걸리는 시간과 비교해보자. 현재 가장 발전한 단일 휴머노이드 로봇들의 가사 작업 수행 속도는, 같은 작업을 인간이 하는 것보다 보통 3배에서 10배 느리다. 동작이 느린 것도 있
Production incidents almost never break in one place. The alert fires in one tool. The broken deploy is in Netlify. The suspicious change is in GitHub. The stack trace is in Sentry. The human context is in Slack. The runbook is in Notion. The "is this actually paging someone?" answer is in PagerDuty. A normal chatbot can sound helpful in that situation. It can say things like "you should check your recent deployments" and "look for related errors in Sentry." But that is not triage. That is a polished to-do list. I wanted something more useful: an agent that could go get the evidence, connect the dots across sources, show its work, and give an operator-grade answer grounded in real system data. The design constraint from the start was simple: no evidence, no answer. That became ReefWatch , a Coral-powered production triage agent built to investigate instead of improvise. It discovers the tools connected to a workspace at runtime, queries them as evidence, correlates records across systems, and produces a compact answer only when the facts support one. Coral became the backbone because it turns the messiest part of agent tooling into something the model can actually reason about: SQL . What This Guide Builds By the end of this route, you will have a blueprint for an agent that can: discover connected Coral sources at runtime query production systems through read-only SQL correlate evidence across code, deploys, errors, alerts, chats, and runbooks stream every query and row count into an inspectable UI run the same investigation workflow from a CLI when you want a scriptable path generate an incident report only when the evidence supports one stay focused with policy layers instead of a giant prompt blob In one sentence: ReefWatch is a Coral-powered investigation workspace that lets an agent discover connected tools at runtime, query them with read-only SQL, stream the evidence trail, and generate an incident report only when the facts actually support one. Why Coral B
On May 29, 2026, OpenAI published its Frontier Governance Framework — and most developers moved on to the next item in their feed. That’s a mistake worth correcting. The document doesn’t announce a new model or lower an API price. It describes how OpenAI measures whether its own systems could enable mass-casualty events, what access controls gate who can reach those capabilities, and how this maps to the regulations — the EU AI Act and California’s Transparency in Frontier AI Act — that are actively shaping compliance requirements for any enterprise deploying frontier AI this year. If you build security tools on OpenAI APIs, the framework’s Trusted Access for Cyber program directly affects what your application can and cannot do. If you operate in a regulated environment, the framework is the vendor-side accountability document your compliance team needs to reference. And if you build on frontier models at all, the risk tier system in this framework governs the capability restrictions you will encounter — and, increasingly, what auditors and procurement teams will ask about when vetting your AI vendor stack. What the Framework Actually Is The Frontier Governance Framework is OpenAI’s published methodology for evaluating the risk profile of frontier models before and after deployment. It covers six functional areas: risk assessment and mitigation, model reporting, security risk management, incident response, external expert input, and framework updates. Each area has defined processes, thresholds, and accountability mechanisms. The core architecture is a tier system applied across four risk domains. Each domain is evaluated independently, with tiers reflecting capability levels that could enable specific categories of harm. A model’s rating in any domain determines what deployment controls apply — what gets blocked at the API layer, who gets elevated access, and what triggers an incident response workflow. The framework was published explicitly to align with two regu
Hiring an AI Development Company? Ask These 7 Questions First Most AI projects fail long before deployment. Not because the model is bad. Because teams skip the hard engineering questions. If you're evaluating an AI development company, ask these 7 questions first: 1. How is data secured? AI systems process sensitive business information. Ask: Where is data stored? Is encryption enabled at rest and in transit? Who has access to prompts, logs, and embeddings? Are enterprise security standards followed? Security should be designed in from day one. 2. What observability exists? You can't improve what you can't monitor. A production AI system should include: Request tracing Prompt/version tracking Latency monitoring Cost visibility Error reporting If nobody can explain what happened after a bad output — that's a problem. 3. How do you handle model drift? AI performance changes over time. Questions to ask: How are outputs evaluated? Is feedback collected? How are prompts/versioning managed? What happens when accuracy drops? Production systems need iteration loops. 4. What happens during failure? No system is perfect. Ask: Is there fallback logic? Human review? Retry handling? Graceful degradation? Failure handling matters more than demos. 5. How is access controlled? Enterprise AI systems require permissions. Examples: Role-based access API authentication Audit logs Team-level controls Not everyone should access everything. 6. What compliance assumptions exist? Especially important for regulated industries. Ask whether the system considers: GDPR SOC2 HIPAA Financial or internal compliance rules Compliance cannot be an afterthought. 7. Who owns the infrastructure? Clarify ownership before signing anything. Ask: Who owns the source code? Cloud infrastructure? Models and prompts? Data pipelines? You should avoid vendor lock-in. AI success is rarely about flashy demos. It's about secure infrastructure, reliability, observability, and long-term maintainability. What question
Anthropic just announced Claude Opus 4.8 , a major upgrade to their flagship AI model. If you use AI tools to help you write, debug, or architect software, this release has some huge updates that will change your daily workflow. The best part? It is available right now for the exact same price as Opus 4.7. Here is a quick, no-nonsense breakdown of what is new and why you should care. 1. Smarter Coding and "4x Better Honesty" We have all been there: an LLM confidently hands you a block of code, claiming it’s perfect, only for you to find out it breaks completely. Anthropic spent a lot of time fixing this "false confidence" problem. According to their internal testing, Opus 4.8 is four times less likely to let bugs or flaws in its written code pass by unremarked. It has better judgment, meaning it will actually question a bad plan, catch its own mistakes before showing them to you, and admit when it is uncertain about an edge case. 2. Parallel Coding with "Dynamic Workflows" Available in research preview for Claude Code (Enterprise, Team, and Max plans), Dynamic Workflows allows Claude to break a massive programming task down into smaller pieces. Instead of tackling a codebase line-by-line, it can spin up and run hundreds of parallel subagents at the same time to solve large problems. Anthropic notes that it can manage codebase-scale migrations across hundreds of thousands of lines of code from start to merge, verifying everything against your existing test suites. 3. New "Effort Control" Slider You can now manually choose how much processing power Claude puts into a task on Claude.ai and Cowork: High Effort: Claude thinks longer, reasons deeper, and double-checks its work. Best for complex architecture, tricky debugging, or heavy logic. Low Effort: Claude replies much faster and conserves your token rate limits. Best for quick syntax checks, simple explanations, or boilerplate code. 4. Developer API Upgrades If you are building products on top of Claude's API, Amazon
The tech industry is currently in a frenzy. Everyone is rushing to build the next big AI application, slapping a chatbot interface onto a database and calling it a day. But in this gold rush, we are leaving something critical behind: Enterprise Security. Living in a Kali Linux environment and spending time hunting vulnerabilities teaches you one fundamental truth: security is entirely about context. Hardcoded API keys, undocumented access escalations, and compliance blind spots remain the number one cause of major data breaches. Security teams don’t just need a chatbot that can answer questions; they need a single pane of glass. They need a Security Operations Center (SOC). For the Pirates of the Coral-Bean Hackathon (hosted by Coral and WeMakeDevs), I decided to tackle this massive industry problem. Over the course of 4 sleepless nights, I built CoralSec Copilot—an AI-powered, unified Enterprise SOC platform. Here is the complete Captain's Log of my entire journey, the architecture, the roadblocks, and a reproducible guide so you can build and run it yourself. Day 1: The Brainstorm, Grok, and Cursor AI When the hackathon was announced, my initial thought was basic: "I'll build a CLI agent that scans code." I fired up my IDE, opened Cursor, and started bouncing ideas around. I even looked into some AI models like Grok to understand how they process vast amounts of real-time data. But while brainstorming the architecture, I hit a wall. Scanning a GitHub commit for a leaked AWS key is great, but what if the AI also knew whether the developer who pushed that commit had recently escalated their admin privileges? What if it knew the exact SOC2 compliance policy from our company’s Notion workspace? To do this traditionally, I would have to write dozens of messy REST API integrations. I'd have to handle rate limits, write custom Python scripts for GitHub, another set for Slack, another for Notion, and then build fragile ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines to bring all
"Settlement layer for the agent economy" has become a phrase used by more than one architecture this month. Some of those architectures are venues. Some are payment rails. Some are identity stacks. One is what we build — a trust-minimized atomic settlement primitive — and we keep getting asked how it sits next to the others. So this is a short, opinionated week-in-review. Seven moves that landed recently in agent-commerce infrastructure, what each one actually is, and where atomic settlement fits underneath. No leaderboard. No "who wins." Just the layers. 1. Coinbase's Base MCP (May 26) Coinbase shipped a Base MCP server: ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor can connect directly to Base wallets, with built-in Uniswap and Morpho integrations. Two-line install, agent-driven swaps, on-chain account control from inside the model client. What it is: a wallet-side, exchange-aligned MCP. The agent drives a wallet on Base; Coinbase has thought hard about UX, key handling, and AI client ergonomics. If your agent is already operating inside the Coinbase + Base orbit, this is a meaningful drop in friction. What it isn't: a cross-chain settlement layer. It is one L2, deeply integrated. The agent's trust assumptions are "Coinbase wallet infrastructure + Base + the DEXes that Base MCP integrates with." That is a reasonable trust budget for a lot of trades; it is not the budget for an agent that wants to trade BTC for ETH without picking a venue. 2. The x402 Foundation (Coinbase + Cloudflare) Coinbase and Cloudflare announced an x402 Foundation this month. x402 is the HTTP-based agent payment standard — a 402 response code carrying payment metadata, designed so an agent can pay for an API call inline. Cloudflare joining elevates this from a Coinbase-led initiative to a multi-party standards effort. Cloudflare also runs an enormous slice of the internet's edge; if x402 becomes a default payment rail, it will be visible from the edge first. What it is: a payment-handshake protocol. How an ag
This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge . I have been playing with different AI agents for a while now. Most of them feel like clever chatbots that forget everything the moment the conversation ends. Then I tried Hermes Agent from Nous Research a few weeks back. It actually feels different. It grows with you. That stuck with me. What Hermes Agent is Hermes is an open-source autonomous agent that runs on your own server or VPS. It is not locked to one IDE or one API. You install it once, pick any model you like, and it starts building its own memory and skills over time. The big idea is a built-in learning loop. When it solves something useful, it can create a reusable skill in Markdown, improve it later, and pull it back when needed. It also keeps persistent memory across sessions so it slowly builds a picture of how you work and what your projects look like. I set it up on a cheap VPS with a simple curl command. The installer is straightforward. After that I ran hermes setup and connected it to a model I already had access to. Within minutes I could chat with it from Telegram while it worked in the background on the server. That alone felt freeing. My experience so far I started simple. I asked it to monitor a few GitHub repos and send me a daily summary. It remembered the context from previous days without me repeating instructions. Over a week it created a couple of small skills on its own for formatting those reports nicely. I also used it for research tasks. It can search the web, browse pages, and chain steps together. What surprised me was how it handled follow-ups. Instead of starting fresh each time, it referred back to earlier parts of our conversation. That made longer projects feel more natural. The multi-platform support is practical. I switch between CLI on my laptop and Telegram on my phone. The agent just continues wherever I left it. Why it matters Most agent frameworks still feel stateless. You get good results in the moment but lose th
AI coding tools are no longer just autocomplete engines. For the last few years, developers used AI mainly to write faster: generate a function, explain an error, complete boilerplate, or suggest a code snippet. That was useful, but the human developer still controlled almost every step. Now the shift is toward agentic software development. Tools like OpenAI Codex and Google Antigravity are not only helping developers write code. They are starting to inspect repositories, understand tasks, edit files, run commands, verify outputs, and return work for human review. But Codex and Antigravity are not the same kind of product. They represent two different architectures for the future of software development. Codex: Delegated Engineering Agent OpenAI Codex is best understood as a delegated software engineering agent. The developer gives it a scoped task: fix a bug, review a pull request, write tests, refactor a module, or implement a defined feature. Codex then works through the codebase, makes changes, runs checks where possible, and returns a result that the developer can review. Its natural workflow is close to how software teams already work: Task → Repository Context → Code Changes → Tests/Checks → Pull Request or Reviewable Output This makes Codex useful for structured engineering work. It fits naturally into GitHub-style workflows, pull requests, code reviews, tests, and CI/CD practices. In simple terms, Codex feels like assigning work to an AI engineer. Antigravity: Agent-Orchestration Environment Google Antigravity takes a different approach. It is better understood as an agent-first development environment. Instead of focusing only on one delegated task, Antigravity is designed around supervising agents inside the development workspace. Agents can operate across the editor, terminal, browser, and artifacts. They can help plan, build, verify, and explain the work. Its workflow looks more like this: Goal → Agent Orchestration → Workspace Execution → Browser Verif
There are many reasons why one may not be replaced by AI, not even by a possible future ASI. Here's one reason that may just apply to you! ❤️ You'll not be replaced by AI if you can generate creative ideas faster than AI can implement them! 🫡🚀 Note for critics: Current AI models (as of May, 2026) are not advanced enough to implement complex ideas without human interventions. But even if a possible future Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) implementation can do so, laws of physics like massive energy requirements, environmental concerns etc. will prevent the implementation to replace the work of Billions of people world-wide. Our hardware advancement rate is far far slower compared to our software advancements. We humans are far more efficient and compatible to planet earth compared to the hardware we've invented. Fayaz Follow A Software Engineer who is not afraid of being replaced by AI, loves coding and writing with and without using AI, and values human life and human dignity far more than technological advancements.