Chris Kim

Personal update: my role at @AptosLabs has come to an end, and I'm moving on. I got into DevRel because I love watching a developer go from confused to confident because of something I built, a tutorial, a workshop, a doc, and then bringing their feedback back to the product team so the tooling gets better for everyone. That loop is everything to me. At Aptos, I conceived and shipped Aptos Agent Skills, led the AI-First DevRel strategy, founded the Aptos Developers YouTube channel, and spoke at various conferences, including EthDenver 2026. Before that, 4+ years at Algorand, I built their dev YouTube from 0 to 90K subscribers and 700K+ views, ran 30+ workshops across 4 continents, and managed hackathons with 1,500+ submissions. I am grateful to the Aptos team. Aptos showed me how a powerful protocol can enable products like Decibel and Shelby that generate millions of transactions at a rapid pace, and I have no doubt the team will keep pushing blockchain to the rest of the world. I'm looking for a DevRel role in AI or Web3 where I can do what I do best: build developer education programs, create technical content, speak on stages, ship dev tooling, and close the loop between developers and product teams. If your team needs a DevRel who can both get on stage and get into the codebase, let's talk. My DMs are open. If you know someone who should see this, a repost goes a long way.

@Teknium gloat all you want. you deserve it. having so much fun with Hermes

I dont love to gloat but we are almost 2x'ing openclaw just 3 days after surpassing their daily token volume 🤗

@petergyang lock in and run 10 agents

How do people even do AI hackathons these days you're just sitting around waiting for the agents half of the time?

@KaiXCreator My AI is a prodigy. I just know it.

If AI gives everyone the same output, what makes yours different?

@Prathkum I think when used right, AI can help people become experts real fast. But most blatantly trust and let their AI roam freely without critically questioning the responses. I find "debating with AI" the best way to learn anything these days.

AI is dangerous because it creates an illusion that makes you feel like an expert. I recently had a chat with one of my old friends who has been building a startup. He literally sent me a 52 pages long document to review which was Claude generated. The document had feedback to improve the overall developer experience on the portal and it was full of bluff and exaggerated points. I must say, we still need humans.

@frugalbc I no longer feel comfortable sharing my secrets with my trainer lol

My AI fitness trainer now reports to my girlfriend 😭 I built a personal trainer agent using Hermes that knows all my stats and dynamically adjusts my workouts/diet. My girlfriend: "Can I talk to it?" Me, 2 hours later: sets up a Discord bot connected to my Hermes trainer agent so she can check my progress and order my AI to hype me up on command I clearly did not think this through 💀 Am I a genius, or did I just create my own prison? 👇

Wow, this is an amazing move from @NotionHQ. Notion has been my go-to personal life tracking platform, but I noticed my Hermes agents had limited visibility into my Notion databases. Almost thought about leaving Notion because of this. But this update changes everything. Thank you, Notion!

@adamlisagor Nice update! What are you using to draw?

Just shipped Hovercraft 1.1. Draw on your frame. Type on your frame. Honestly those two alone are worth the update. But there's more 👇

@Saboo_Shubham_ @Teknium Are u using @browser_use to get the screenshot?

Codex /goal With Hermes Agent is life-changing. I updated my Hermes agent skill to give Codex a goal on the fly using Telegram and track each one of those codex goals in a Kanban board. It has been really insane to see and track Codex execute goals in the wild.

Prompting is a skill acquired thru active learning. You must practice prompting and learn by doing.

How are people connecting MCP servers with OAuth-only auth flows to their Hermes agents? Alot of MCPs are moving to remote-only MCP servers with OAuth flows. I haven't found a way to make this work with my Hermes gateway. @Teknium would love some insight here.

FYI I and Nous are not affiliated with any of these tokens people are spamming everywhere or claiming we are a part of.

@andrelandgraf If these autogenerated SDKs are optimized for AI, probably will replace all hand written ones. Much more scalable

This is really cool and shows how far LLMs can go in automating things, but I think there’s room for an SDK layer above auto-generated OpenAPI-based SDKs 🤔 I think we still need carefully crafted, higher-level abstractions to manage all the complexity of 2026 tech.

@HD_webdev @Teknium Hermes is my first autonomous agent. Is openclaw that bad?

@chriskim_dev @Teknium Agreed, loving the experience so far, major contrast to my experience with openclaw unfortunately

Hermes Agent community is so welcoming and helpful. This is what a healthy dev community looks like. Definitely led by example from @Teknium 👏👏

@adamlisagor Yeah but even at its current stage, the subscription is so so worth it. Thank you for making this!

@chriskim_dev That’s something I definitely need to look into. Agreed, it’s friction to have to switch to Hovercraft to use its controls.

Hovercraft is how I always wanted to share my slides. So I made it. It’s a virtual camera for the Mac. No more disembodied voice. No more “can you see my screen?” Just me, tossing around my windows like it’s 2027.

Honestly, the show and hide feature itself is so killer for me. I deliver alot of dev presentations. Being able to quickly switch between my face and the screen is so powerful! It seems like the keyboard shortcuts only work when hovercraft is selected. Is there anyway we can get global keyboard shortcuts so that while i am showing my ide or my ppt slides, i can quickly go back and forth?

@chriskim_dev Yeah, it takes a bit of acclimation to get used to the gestures, just like visionOS, but once you get the patterns, the muscle memory takes over.

@adamlisagor No its flipped in the actually google meets call 🥲 the preview shows correct. I think having a button or a keyboard shortcut that can quickly flip the screen would be amazing

@chriskim_dev Just in the preview thumbnail though, right? It’s ridiculous, but there’s no consistency to what apps preview flipped or normal! Typically, Apple apps get flipped so I have to unflip them, but it’s not hard and fast.

@RNR_0 @Teknium whats good about ripgrep? just curious

Something interesting I'd like to see on Hermes Agent, I wonder if there's been experiments done yet is using ripgrep I never tried to implement it with the assumption either will happen, it's being considered or not cause another dependency? @Teknium?

@adamlisagor I assume this is why the pinch and drag is not really consistent.

@adamlisagor also while pinching, I keep accidently locking the screen because my fingers make a L shape haha