Virtual Kenji⚡️ @VirtualKenji

"stop learning & start doing" is by far the #1 piece of advice i'd give my younger self... i would've been so much more successful if i realized that learning w/o application is cope earlier you're already aware of the potential vehicles that can take you to your goal, yet you're studying the mechanics of the vehicle instead of jumping in it and figuring it out as it takes you to your destination it's a form of procrastination that most people don't realize you're probably gonna fail a lot, so fail fast instead of procrastinating the failure

Which leads to… Bowen’s differentiation of self Low differentiation = highly reactive to others' emotional cues, loses self in relationships, can't hold boundaries under pressure — collapses into "we-ness" (everyone must feel the same or the bond feels threatened). Two flavors of the same disease: chameleons (adjust themselves to please, fusion mode) and bullies (force others to conform, the asshole mode). Both are undifferentiated. The self-abandoner and the asshole are the same person. The fix is the same: lower the chronic anxiety, raise the capacity to stay a separate self in contact.

@garrytan Never thought I’d see Schnarch mentioned on x Passionate Marriage was the worst-written most useful book that saved my relationship before it become my marriage

@sai_no_hanaya Bro wut?

i've noticed a phenomenon where successful affiliate marketers end up being successful in any other venture they pursue... shows that traffic generation is the ultimate skill

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The takeaway from Fable 5 being BANNED by the government: GET GOOD AT LOCAL MODELS SO YOU HAVE 100% CONTROL. My entire weekend was going to be building my craziest ideas with Fable 5. That's now cancelled. So instead of building with Fable this weekend, I've decided I'll go deep on local models: 1. Start with the runtime. Download Ollama or LM Studio first. This is the thing that actually runs models on your machine. 2. Match the model to your hardware. A model's size is measured in billions of parameters (7B, 32B, 70B). Bigger is smarter but needs more memory. Rule of thumb: a 7B model runs on almost any laptop, a 32B needs a good Mac with 32GB+ RAM, a 70B needs serious hardware like a DGX Spark or a maxed-out Mac Studio. 3. Know which model for which job. Qwen 3 is the best all-around choice for most tasks. DeepSeek for reasoning and coding. Gemma 4 when you need something tiny that runs on a phone. Llama when you want the biggest community and the most fine-tunes. 4. Quantization. You can shrink a model to run on weaker hardware with barely any quality loss. Look for versions labeled Q4 or Q5. This is how a model that "needs" a server runs on your laptop. Learning this one concept changes everything. 5. Connect it to your agent. Point Hermes or your agent stack at a local model. 6. Context window is your real constraint locally. Cloud models give you huge context for free. Local models make you pay for it in memory. A bigger context window eats RAM fast. Keep your sessions tight and your prompts lean or your machine chokes. 7. Learn to give local models tools. A smaller local model with web search, file access, and code execution beats a giant model with none. The capability gap closes fast when you wire up the right tools. The model is the engine but the tools are the wheels. 8. Fine-tuning is more accessible than you think. You don't need this on day one, but know it exists. You can take an open model and train it on your own data so it gets good at your specific domain. I'll probably do a breakdown at some point on this @startupideaspod if people are into it. The lesson from this ban is basically don't build your entire workflow on something that can disappear with a single letter. Own part of your stack. Local models are insurance. It reminds me when people realized they don't own social media accounts. And then you saw people build email lists etc. I remember running a startup and my biggest traffic source was organic FB. All of a sudden, algo changed, and I lost 99% of my traffic. Same sorta moment (but bigger) for AI. This is a wake up call.

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

@karpathy Man I might actually need to renew my anthropic solution now Next Anthropic release: 1-shot Karpathy Wiki LM installation from within Claude

stop what you're doing… here's 14 things you gotta do with AI: 1. export your ChatGPT + Claude memories, context, and workflows so you know what each model knows about you that the other doesn't 2. generate DESIGN .md + CLAUDE .md + AGENTS .md for your agentic repos 3. build a model agnostic skills library that Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes, and Cursor can all read from the same symlink 4. version your system prompts in git with PR review so silent drift gets caught in diff instead of in production 5. build a /goal template library covering your top 10 recurring workflows so you stop rewriting the same 200 word prompts every Monday 6. set up a daily report and a weekly standup with your agent that reads yesterday's commits, tasks, memory, your calendar, and your inbox, then briefs you in 60 seconds 7. wire your Obsidian vault as the read/write target for every agent so research, decisions, and meeting notes land as linked markdown by default 8. build a Karpathy-style autoresearch loop where your agent logs its own failures, proposes skill patches, and you approve them weekly 9. design a UGC AI character (and/or mascot) with 35+ emotions for brand world building so every loading state, every error screen, and every post in your feed shares the same look 10. cancel 2-3 SaaS subscriptions by replacing them with agents and skill files 11. run a security agent across all your repos weekly to catch npm attack vectors, prompt injection, leaked .env, and MCP misconfigs before someone else does and you regret it 12. build a prompts library of image, video, and audio generation templates so you stop relearning Nano Banana, Grok, Seedance, and ChatGPT syntax every time there’s a new release 13. build a personal benchmark of 20 tasks from your real work so you can A/B every model release against your actual workflow instead of the bogus leaderboards 14. build daily cron jobs for your data ingestion across the topics you actually care about: research, content, trading, competitive intel, etc. the next few months will separate the operators using complex systems from those still manually typing prompts one at a time. these are table stakes. act accordingly.

xAI has expanded access to X Premium+ subscribers in Hermes Agent. Enjoy!

SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI

2 months ago

You can now use X Premium subscriptions in Hermes Agent, and Hermes Agent can now search X posts. x.ai/news/grok-herm…

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this is amazing. do this. get codex to write its own /goal /goal + gpt-5.5 high + fast mode is the highest leverage ai agent configuration available today

jason @jxnlco

2 months ago

tips for codex goals sure you can use /goal but it also has a set_goal() function its almost better to prompt the model to set its own goal, it will likely write a better prompt than you

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tips for codex goals sure you can use /goal but it also has a set_goal() function its almost better to prompt the model to set its own goal, it will likely write a better prompt than you

it costs less for claude to hire a dedicated copywriter than it would for one of their senior marketers to quality control LLM outputs… not to mention that the copywriter they hire will 100% use an LLM to help in the copywriting process don’t see why this is something controversial

paolo trivellato @paolo_scales

2 months ago

Anthropic just posted a $320k/year "Copywriting Lead" role the company building what many call the best LLM right now... is searching for a human to help write copy for $320k/year wow

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spent a few weeks deep in Hermes + Openclaw earlier this year... over-offloaded everything, daily maintenance got brutal and output rarely hit switched back to Claude Code via Telegram and rebuilt the workflow from scratch then GPT-5.5 dropped... then GPT-Images-2... then GPT-Realtime-2 and Hermes quietly became THE move > best coding model > best daily model > best image model > best voice model all running through ONE subscription on your own agent takes 5 min to setup on a VPS, plug in your GPT sub, hand your friends and family an agent that generates awesome images, processes voice notes, builds anything and actually remembers everything this thing rarely misses anymore

hear me out anon. whatever you're using right now, drop it for one night. install hermes agent. set a /goal for that one thing you've been thinking about but never started. go to sleep. just try it once.

not sure if btc continues to provide diminishing returns but it is certainly possible (i choose to believe it wont for now) but alts (on average) will continue to get more difficult and dangerous to trade imo, irreversible trend. (1) massive competition amongst increasingly sophisticated buyers (who simultaneously believe less) (2) primarily traded on perps/with leverage. (3) huge dilution in coins with mkt valuing stuff high by default without justification (4) launch FDVs always capturing 100% of optimism for the asset without respecting price/valuarion (5) too much pre-market price discovery for (4) to be safe the average 2017 buyer buys spot and hodls weeks/months cos they believe, add on the way up, asset was trading at low val early so works out. average 2025 buyer is buying on perps without checking the valuation and sells whenever their PNL goes red or force sells in liquidation. however, it will remain the best place for returns for smart ppl. skill expression and asset selection is much more important. patience much more highly rewarded over being "early" on liquid markets last few years. and then outlier assets will continue to exist, maybe 1 every couple of years, and when they turn up you can turn brain off and 2017 it. imo anyways (hopefully)

had a fantastic time with Doc, VOD is available for replay if you guys wanna check it out will def have to do another one soon but in the meantime big thank you again to Doc and all of you for tuning in <3 see you bozos soon

Doc @docXBT

2 months ago

Live Now! w/ @nellyeeee youtube.com/live/2JxsO5qoj…

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@nellyeeee Listening to it now Insanely gud bro One of my fave paragon streams so far actually