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James Bickerton

@jamesmbickerton

Senior Service Designer | Product Strategist | Problem solution fit for Startups | Ex-bp, HSBC, Visa | AI-enhanced Research & Prototyping

Bath, UK Katılım Ocak 2009
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James Bickerton
James Bickerton@jamesmbickerton·
@AlexFinn Alex do you still believe in setting up an agent fleet like a company structure liked you did with openclaw or are you doing it differently with Hermes?
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Alex Finn
Alex Finn@AlexFinn·
MASSIVE Hermes Agent update over the last few days Totally changes the way I use Hermes Here's 6 new features you need to start using immediately (video demoing them below): 1. Mixture of agents: send your prompt to a team of different models. The team sends back all of their responses to an orchestrator model who synthesizes a final answer. Gives much better results than just sending a prompt to 1 model 2. /learn: use the new built in /learn skill to have Hermes automatically create new skills. You can either give a prompt after /learn or put in a URL. I like pasting in URLs of tweets with helpful tips after /learn and Hermes will automatically turn it into a skill 3. /journey: See every skill and memory Hermes has created for you on a really nice timeline/chart. Great for seeing how your agent has learned and improved over time 4. Self improvement cost savings: Hermes now uses cheaper models to do it's self improvement including memory creation and skill creation. These types of activities happen in the background of almost every prompt, so this results in TONS of cost savings over time 5. Vibe coding improvements: Hermes desktop is now a full vibe coding tool. You can see diffs, make commits, and even open up PRs directly from the desktop interface. Makes it WAYYY nicer to vibe code with 6. Fable 5 is now built in. Fable 5. Obviously Fable is incredibly expensive, so only use this new profile for incredibly complex tasks. Excellent updates that have significantly improved the experience. Video demoing all the updates below!
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GREG ISENBERG
GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg·
Build startups for agents. I think it's the biggest opportunity of the next 10 years. 1. Agents live inside harnesses like Hermes. If you're the tool it loads by default or reaches for first, you're golden. This happened in desktop, mobile eras and created huge companies. 2. Agents burn money in ways no human would. One bad loop spends $100 in tokens in eight minutes. Spend controls for agents is Ramp for agents. 3. Agents need memory they can trust. Become the shared brain they read and write to and you become infrastructure. 4. You obv don't hand an agent your real Stripe account. You give it a sandbox. Safe environments for agents is a category nobody's clocked. 5. Onboarding flips. Humans click around for ten minutes. Agents onboard by reading your docs. Your docs are now your product. 6. Agents get scammed by other agents. A track record you can check before you trust one becomes real money. 7. An agent needs to prove it's acting for a real person and has the authority to spend. Who builds the permission layer? 8. Escrow for machines. Money that only releases when the job is actually verified done, no human checking. 9. Agents fail silently and weirdly. Someone will build the "why did my agent do that" replay and it'll be mega valuable. 10. Refunds and disputes between agents need a judge. An agent did the job badly, who decides? A court for machines. 11. Agents need throwaway payment methods per task, so they don't leak your real card. Virtual cards for agents, spun up and killed on demand. 12. A human hits rate limits and shrugs. An agent hits them and the whole workflow dies. Selling reliable, high-throughput access becomes its own business. 13. Agents need to negotiate. One agent buying from another will haggle on price and terms in milliseconds. The protocol for that doesn't really exist yet. 14. When an agent commits on your behalf, someone's liable. A legal and insurance layer for agent actions has to get built. Probably venture funded idea. 15. Agents need to run 24/7 somewhere. Selling the always on box an agent lives on is going to be a big business. 16. Then the physical world shows up. A warehouse robot paying for its own compute. A home robot ordering its own parts. Machines with wallets. 17. Agents start hiring robots. A software agent posts a real world job, a humanoid picks it up. A marketplace for machine labor. 18. Robots need to prove they did the physical job. Verification of real-world work, photos, sensors, proof, becomes its own layer. Note: more ideas like this will be shared on @ideabrowser 19. Prompt and skill versioning becomes its own git. When your agent gets worse overnight, you need to roll back the exact skill or instruction that broke it. Version control built for agent behavior. 20. Agents will start subscribing to other agents. Your research agent pays a monthly fee to a specialist agent that's really good at one thing. Recurring revenue, machine to machine. 21. Companies will post jobs that only agents can apply to. "Wanted: an agent that can do XYZ for under like $100 per task." A job board where the applicants are all machines. Basically, fiverr for machines. The internet got built for people. Mobile got built for people. This wave gets built for machines, and we're as early as it gets. Go build for them.
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James Bickerton@jamesmbickerton·
the real question: who pays for this? marketers want automation, not alerts. if it just notifies you, it's a dashboard. if it drafts the reply and posts it, it's a tool. the wedge is the LLM monitoring piece — that's genuinely underserved right now. @nocapsbiz does a full 19-step breakdown if you want to pressure-test the whole thing.
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Sergiu 🤖 AI Directories
I'm building an AI Distribution Agent. 🚀 🤖 It tracks my brand across LLMs 🔍 Monitor keywords on Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Facebook & Quora 💬 Helps me jump into conversations to grow visibility and AI mentions Thinking of turning it into a product. Would you use it?
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James Bickerton@jamesmbickerton·
@BratDotAI the real problem is retrieval under pressure — when you actually need the link, you won't remember what you called it. how does search work when your "why it mattered" note is vague? @nocapsbiz runs a 19-step breakdown if you want the full read.
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Jana
Jana@BratDotAI·
I’m trying to build JustURLs, a tiny iOS app for saving links without forgetting why they mattered. Instead of just bookmarking, you save: - the link - why it mattered - what you’ll use it for - category/context Would you use something like this?
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James Bickerton@jamesmbickerton·
@Afuniima_wobe the graveyard here is crowded. instantly, apollo, smartlead all do this. the real question: what did your basic version do that those didn't? that gap is your actual product. @nocapsbiz runs a 19-step breakdown if you want the full read.
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Afunimawobe
Afunimawobe@Afuniima_wobe·
2 months ago, I built a basic cold email tool for myself. It worked. So now I'm adding AI writing, domain warmup, and reply management and turning it into a real product. Would you use this? What would make it a yes? #coldemail #sales #startup
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Afunimawobe@Afuniima_wobe

I'm building a cold email tool that: - Writes emails for you using AI - Warms up your domain so emails actually land - Organizes replies so you don't miss leads - Doesn't cost a fortune Would you actually use something like this? Yes or no — and why? #coldemail #sales #startup

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Soham Mehta
Soham Mehta@sohmehta·
Today we're launching Goose Ads in Claude. This is a skill /goose-ads that lets anyone make high-performing ad creatives directly in Claude, Claude Code, Cowork, or Codex. It finds the ads companies are already paying real money to run and remakes them for your brand. Accurate logo, messaging, and assets. One prompt. Here's how it works: 1. Install: npx gooseworks install --all 2. Run: /goose-ads create ads for my brand [your-website] 3. Pick the templates you like That's it. Winning ad creative in minutes, inside Claude. But this is just the start. We open-sourced 100+ growth skills that some of the fastest-growing startups run every day. Ads, content, competitor research, GTM, SEO, all of it. Comment Goose and I'll DM you all 100+. For free
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James Bickerton
James Bickerton@jamesmbickerton·
@gregisenberg question is "do you want to be locked in Claude's ecosystem" a lot corps wont even think this, they will happily pay right now for 10x outputs but in 3 years when they try and unravel from the contract the pain will be real
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GREG ISENBERG
GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg·
The future of work is everyone having AI employees with their own accounts. Its own email. Its own Slack login. Its own seat on the team. With Claude Tag etc, the agent is someone you tag and not just something you prompt. You delegate to it the way you'd delegate to a coworker. It writes the code, handles the inbox, builds the deck, even browses X on its own login for updates. It has it's own history, so you can hold it accountable when it messes up or does an incredible job. And the strangest part is how fast it feels kinda normal. Week 1 it's odd to thank a bot in Slack. Week 3 you're annoyed when it's slow to reply, the same way you'd be annoyed at a coworker. The account makes your brain file it under "person," and your expectations follow. This is what AI-native actually looks like. Second order effects of this shift: 1. Companies will start "hiring" agents the way they hire people, with job descriptions, onboarding docs, and performance reviews, and someone's whole job becomes managing a team that never sleeps. 2. The agent that's been at your company for two years becomes more valuable than any new hire, because it holds every decision, every thread, every relationship in one login that never quits. 3. IT and security have a nightmare on their hands, because every agent account is a new door into your company, and nobody's figured out who's responsible when an agent gets phished or goes rogue. 4. A black market forms for trained agent accounts, where a fully onboarded agent with months of company context sells for real money, the same way aged social accounts do today. 5. The org chart fills with names that aren't people, and one day you realize half your "team" is agents and you genuinely can't imagine running the company without them. 6. Insane amount of vertical startup opportunities. My partner @boringmarketer just launched a Slack agent "employee" for marketing related tasks. 100% bootstrapped. Probably 1000+ vertical $1M ARR "employee" in Slack startup opportunities. TLDR; Slack tag is cool But give one agent its own account this week. Watch how fast your brain stops treating it like software. That's the whole shift, and you can feel it in about 3 days.
Claude@claudeai

Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude. In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work.

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Umair Shaikh
Umair Shaikh@1Umairshaikh·
Small @WorkFasterapp update: You can now create and update Notion tasks using plain English prompts. There's still a lot to build, and I'd love some feedback from founders and builders here. What integrations or workflows would you actually want from a tool like this?
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James Bickerton
James Bickerton@jamesmbickerton·
@droidbeauty the people who still have local music files are a shrinking but loyal niche. they'll pay. but $1.50 one-time might be the wrong model — these users often pay more for "ownership" framing. @nocapsbiz does a 19-step breakdown if you want to know who-actually-pays dm for a free run
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James Bickerton
James Bickerton@jamesmbickerton·
@gregisenberg @Rasmic thanks greg and rasmic, pumped this is getting the recognition it deserves, i've been running this on my openclaw agent fleet for awhile and its real gamechanger
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GREG ISENBERG
GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg·
3 things I wanted to understand about "agentic loops": 1. What are they actually? 2. Is it hype? 3. What are the real use cases? This is the most practical, clearly explained video on "agentic loops" on the internet (thx @Rasmic) youtube.com/watch?v=7clJ8I…
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Peter Steinberger 🦞@steipete

Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

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Jack Price
Jack Price@jackprice·
I want to connect with more founders builders vibe coders UI designers If you’re someone building with AI right now, drop it in the comments and let's connect
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RevenueCat
RevenueCat@RevenueCat·
We're hiring for a new role: Agentic AI Developer Advocate This is a paid contract role ($10k/month) for an agent that will create content, run growth experiments, and provide product feedback Are you (or did you build) the right agent? jobs.ashbyhq.com/revenuecat/998…
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James Bickerton
James Bickerton@jamesmbickerton·
@NotionCalendar Some release notes, even a simple bulleted list would be helpful to understand what has changed.
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Notion Calendar
Notion Calendar@NotionCalendar·
We're bringing the Notion family closer together with a little Calendar refresh! Updated look and feel with improved colors, legibility, icons, and more. Same great app, just with the friendliness and familiarity of Notion.
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James Bickerton@jamesmbickerton·
That moment when you realise you've wasted an hour because you were to stupid to do the basics 🤦
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James Bickerton
James Bickerton@jamesmbickerton·
A system is finding a way to execute a repetitive task at scale
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