This week’s repos: PS5 game on a PC! Turn agents into employees. AI video maker.

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0:00Sony's going to hate this, but there's a way for you to play a PlayStation 5 game on your PC. You'll see it. If you're using multiple agents to code, there's a new tool that will make them into employees that work well together. You're going to love it. Elon Musk is making the Cursor team super famous. You're going to see their workflows in a repo that you can use. And stick around till the end where Adam will show you how to string multiple AI subscriptions

0:20together so you never stop building. Links to everything below. Let's get into it. Presented by Zapier, the AI automation company. Adam, the hottest repo of the week is something called any PS5. A PS5 game file rewritten to run on your PC. It is only one game so far, but it's taking off. What does it mean and

0:40why? Look at that. Why do people care? I mean, yeah, this so this isn't an emulator. you know, we we dove into this and and it's not an emulator, but what it does do is it uses AI to say, "Well, let me look at the game source files off of the disc and let me convert that into a game that can just play directly on your computer. Instead of trying to make that original source work, let's just rewrite the game." And AI is pretty good at that. And tools like this can come around and make it really easy. Now, there's one really big problem with this, Andrew. Like, do you want to play

1:14uh you know, whatever new game comes out next week? like it's not going to work for you. The reason is all these games are encrypted when they're on the disc. So in order to actually get the game off of the disc, this will need to be paired with an exploit that can decrypt the

1:30games on PlayStation and that happens. Uh you know, these platforms, they they they have vulnerabilities, people find them, and so you'd have to watch out for that. I don't know if one exists right now, but they often get patched. So, you watch out for that and you pair it with something like this and boom, free games. I don't know that that it'll last

1:49that long, though. Yeah, people on HackerNews are saying, "Grab this quickly before it gets taken down." They're also saying, "Maybe this is like the future. AI is going to get better and better at it." But they're saying, "Look, I'm not going to get Grand Theft Auto 6 anytime soon." I'm sure Sony's lawyers are are on this

2:04right now. Get it while it's there. Next. Open rig. Your AI coding agents run as one team. This seems kind of similar to what we had talked about last week, which is you said this is very similar to paperclip. What is it exactly and how does it differ from paperclip? Yeah. Think of it maybe as like a techy paperclip that's designed around building rather than arbitrary kind of executive assistant agents. And the big thing is that, you know, you and I, we're using codeex, we're using claude, we're using cursor, we're using grock, like we're using all these different coding agents to help build things together. And what we lack is a great

2:44interface to orchestrate all of them together. And even better, you can create in this tool a lot of named agents that are specialists. You could say, here, I'm going to design my specialist review agent. And because I've designed that and I know it's going to use codeex and it's going to use whatever underneath now I can trigger it even in a bigger workflow that will say build then check this then call this agent and you can orchestrate them all together a lot like you would a real

3:09team of real people. Okay I and so the idea is if I think that um that Fable is better at building I could have Fable be the builder. If I think that uh I don't know uh Gemini is better at images, then I could have the Gemini agent do that. Okay, I get it. I see it. All right, open rig. And of course, we'll have links to everything below. Hyperframes. This keeps coming up over and over again. How would you

3:35explain what hyperframes is? You know, video generation is hard. Video generation is expensive. Hyperframes is a video generator that is codebased. So it will it's an agent here that can use code to create all of these animations to work through and everything is programmatic then. And so when you want to make a little change, you don't have to go in and regenerate all those frames. You just update the original code. Well, Hyperframes updates it for you and then it regenerates like a a screen recording essentially of all

4:09of the animation that you just created. And it kind of does look like HD HTML if you see it here. Hyperframes by Hen. Agents can now write HTML and render MP4s. And that's what it does. It just makes HTML and then plays it like a video. Yeah, looks pretty good to me. I I like it a lot. I could see why this

4:34is doing so well. Uh the sponsor is Zapier. I will tell you this. You all know what Zapier is. So, I'm just going to tell you my story with them, which is when I wanted to start this channel, they said, "We don't know what it is, but Andrew will take a shot with you and we'll just sponsor for the whole year." And so, they did. And so, what I'd like for you to do is if you don't want to sign up for Zapier today, totally fine. Just if you don't mind, tell them thank you in the comments for sponsoring. And I use them to connect my agents to thousands of,

4:59no, actually, truthfully, about 8 to 10 different tools. But it makes it easier for me to keep protected when I when I give my agents these tools that are so important to me, like my Gmail. All right. Thank you, Zapier. I really appreciate that they did that. Next, Epic Games RAD debugger. It's a debugger from Epic. Is this something that I

5:18would ever use? Nope. You can move right on past, Andrew. [laughter] But if you came to me tomorrow and you said, "Adam, you know, I really want to get into building video games." And now because AI can build so much so quickly, I think now is the time. I've always wanted to do it and I've never had the tools. Well, AI can code the games, but what it's still not great at is the visual debugging and the performance monitoring and performance profiling. So, what I really appreciate about this open-source project is that you can combine your really powerful

5:53coding agents with these top tier tools. I mean, this is coming out of Epic Games. This is like a real tool to really do the debugging and performance profiling. And you're going to tell your agent, here's how to use it. Here's where it's at. You could actually probably make a pretty impressive game using this and a couple other tools that man, three years ago would have taken

6:14you $150,000. And it is in alpha. They're asking for a lot of bug submissions and requests. And so it's there. Let's move on to the next one. Cursor plugins. This is basically connectors and workflows for cursor from the actual SpaceX team. I love now that they're calling themselves a SpaceX team. It sounds like so much more more than it actually is. The thing about this is that now because Elon Musk is talking about this on X, the developers who are working at Cursor on X, I'm seeing so many of these people on there,

6:50especially my favorite is where is she? She's Lauren. She's on here somewhere. Uh, there it is. Lauren Tan, she's actually done podcasts. She's commenting on Elon's tweets. And so now what we get to see is not just the connectors that they use, so we can figure out why something is working or not working and learn how to make our own connectors, but we can also see their workflows to understand how they are personally working. So if you're the kind of person who likes to watch Lauren or some of these other developers on a podcast, now you actually get to not just hear them on a podcast talk about it, you get to

7:18see the tools and the systems and the workflows they use. One of my favorites is in here for um how to retain memory for how you like to work with your agent and it's it's in there. I don't remember which of these developers did it, but I think that's why it's it's especially popular right now. They're becoming more

7:33and more famous on X. I think that's cool. There's there's nothing more frustrating than listening to this awesome YouTube video where somebody works through here's how it works and here's what I built and then there's no link and you can't find like how just let me copy and paste the thing please. So, I appreciate that that these are starting to pop up in like a vetted public way. That's really cool. I love seeing more of developers get public and show their workflows. Next, uh Claude me, this is something that will help your agent remember. I think the reason that this took off again is another

8:07Grockbot connection, right? Yeah, it looks like it. You know, there's Grockbot has some limited ability to customize the memory layer. It has a great memory layer itself, right? We're not saying it doesn't, but it but it can be difficult to customize. So, you dove into this and like can you tell me how exactly does this enable Grock to store memories in a fresh way? You know, the um here the way that it does it is it's kind of similar to what people who've used Open Claw and Hermes where they really like to take control of their own memory files like this where every day they'll have a

8:46different markdown file with what they've done. They'll log it all. This will do the same thing for Grockbot. What I keep forgetting is that Grockbot has local file access in my computer. It does a ton of stuff for me with local files, but it also has its own like memory folder that it could store things like this. And so this allows you to store your daily actions and um and let's Grockbot pull it up. Of course, it does work with other agents like OpenClaw, but I I think it's the Grockbot connection that made it take

9:15off this week. It's hard to tell. All right, next. That's number six. Number seven, Matt PCO. How many does he have now? 281. Do you know after I interviewed him about his skill pack, he he complained or or he just brought up that the number that I had was wrong. I think I overestimated or underestimated stars. It doesn't matter. It's constantly climbing. There's no way for me to keep the thumbnail actively um to keep it accurate with the number of stars. What he did was he said, "Look, I'm a developer. I'm going to show you

9:45the skills that I use to develop, right? How I have my agent grill me before I start a project. how I have it teach me things that I want to learn and I'm going to make it available for the world. And the world at first said, "This is kind of interesting." Then it said, "This is stupid." And then it said, "Oh, wait a minute. Actually, this is really helpful. It's stupid simple, but very effective." And people have been have been going through this and appreciating it. I love that um Theo went through it and said, "You know what? Actually, I think this is this is good." Um, and that's the that's what

10:16you have said about this that it's because it's so vetted and used by the community that it has a lot of credibility. Yeah, I I I like the credibility and I like the simplicity of this one. It's not trying to do too much or or too little. It's like no, like I'm just going to give you a really good structure, really good framework, and so many people have used it now. you just know it's going to be good w when you do it versus you go out and you find some skill that that somebody wrote that is way too in the weeds and we don't know

10:44if it's actually good and it's probably not it's it's probably leading the AI astray versus matts here I think they're excellent this is the one give to your agent say how can how can I use it to uh with my workflow how can I use it to improve the grill me skill there is the like killer top skill that is the one if you haven't tried it yet go try the the grill a skill from Matt PCO. And you know what? I think the first time we talked about it or maybe it was the second or third time because it's constantly up on the charts. There was a

11:13hacker news controversy about it about how one guy said it asked me 200 questions before it got to work. I really admire that Matt just keeps taking this stuff in and saying, "Okay, I'm going to adjust. We're going to make it better. We're going to we're going to take everyone's feedback in." All right. Number eight for the week with 94,000 stars is agent read. Agent Reach, excuse me. This is going to allow your agent to use sites like this Reddit x YouTube to pull data that you need. What it does is it finds workarounds. So, I love this example where it was blocked uh where Billy Billy blocked this YouTube

11:47downloader tool and it and agent reach just switch to another tool. The other thing that's useful about it, and I'm someone who constantly researches X and uh YouTube and Reddit, is that it will pull data in in a structured way so that you're not just pulling in the whole site. It recognizes Andrew is trying to study what is going on in this transcript. I will only pull the transcript. I will only pull this version, this part of Reddit, and not pull everything out. Super effective, super helpful, and it keeps popping up

12:14here on the list. Yeah. Anything about this one? I I use I've built some custom scrapers for these things. I've used some of the other off-the-shelf stuff and man, they just break all the time. So, having one of these tools where one of the core features is that they're figuring out, oh, this one doesn't work anymore. Let's swap in a new one. And they're doing it so that I don't have to and my agents

12:35don't have to. I really appreciate that. Yeah. LinkedIn search X using uh cookie. I will say this though. X this week just said uh not X uh what was it? It's the CL the cursor team said that now Grockbot can search and pull data from Twitter in a direct native way. It's it's just going to be unbeatable for

12:56Twitter. All right. Um next is something that I'm super excited about. It's text to CAD. You describe a part that you want and you get a real 3D model. This is the future I'm excited about living in. You have experience with this. You have a 3D printer. Which one? I have a 3D printer. I have the Lulzbot Mini. It's about 14 or 15 years old. Uh, the dang thing still works. Uh, but I had this dream when I bought the printer, Andrew, that man, I'll be able to make anything around my house. I'll

13:26customize this. I'll add a clip to this. And you know what? 3D modeling is hard. It's really hard. And there's all these sites like Thingiverse and printables where you can download models, but now you're just like buying a plastic thing online almost and printing it at home. the the concept of text to CAD and using AI to help build it. Like, look, I built this thing. This is a a conference room recorder. It's got a touchcreen on the front. It's got a big microphone on the top, nice curvy sides. It's a three-part enclosure. It all clips together. I don't know how to design this stuff in

14:02CAD, but my AI agent does. And with tools like this, you can make things that are very printable. And if you have a 3D printer, wow, you just manufactured a part yourself. You didn't need to go anywhere else. I mean, this whole thing to print was probably $2 worth of plastic. And I could make another one tomorrow for $2 more dollars. I could change the design again with a tool like this. I love this is like the heyday of 3D printing. I bought the thing 14 years ago and I've never used it more than in

14:31the last year. That thing that you made is so pretty and I could see now that it's becoming more and more accessible. I don't want to just print offtheshelf stuff that makes me feel like I'm another consumer. Instead of buying from Amazon, I'm buying other people's stuff. It's the customized thing that I need for myself

14:46that I want, but that's also super hard. Okay, that's number nine. And I understand why it is. Number 10, this is open gym. I just signed up for a gym here in Mexico. Largely because the, you know, personal trainer is going to cost me like $27 a session. Dude, that's nothing. Wow. That's awesome. And immediately he told me which apps to buy to go and get my data in there so

15:06that I can keep track of my workouts. The thing is that I do this all the time and then what happens is I switch to another app or another trainer tells me to go to another app. What's beautiful about this is this is my data on my computer on my machine and there's even an Android version here. They've got a website here that you can see where you can you can use it get the data. Super simple. The thing that I don't like is that iOS is so restricted that I can't get an iOS version of this. I would still need to be on my I would still

15:37need to self-host and then I have to self-host it on my own computer. I don't want to do that anymore. But I do think it's pretty and I think it's useful and I could see for a lot of people here it would be the thing to go to. Yeah, I'm I'm very excited for all these kind of custom apps to pop out like this where you know this app the reason it wasn't public and free five years ago is that it takes time and money to build it and it's expensive. Now I don't know how many probably $1,000 worth of AI credits if not less that these people spent to

16:07like build this thing out and test it and I'm sure a lot of time but it's a passion project and now you can use it for free and you can own your data. I for one am a little bit uncomfortable about giving all of my health data to Apple or to Google or to Facebook or anybody. So I love the concept of keeping all of that in my garden saying no I own this. It's mine and I share it with the people that I want to share it

16:29with. I don't mind giving them my data. I I've just resigned myself to them having all my data. I don't like though that I have to do it their way. I have to input it the way that they want. I have to have my data in a structure that they like. It really irritates me. All right, so those are the top 10, but we've got first stars. This is from viewers like you. Here's what they submitted over to us. The first one is called Silo. This is a way for you to test your AI agent

16:55in a simulation before it goes live. Anything to say about this one? This is really cool because a lot of us are building very agentic software and it's hard to test agentic software, right? If there's an agent calling the shots, you actually need to talk to it and it takes a lot of time and back and forth. So building a little world simulator like this and having a tool for it means that you can give your agent Astra or whatever the power to talk to this thing to build a world and

17:23then test the agent that you just built. It's like agents on agents on agents. Uh I'm a big fan Rafie. Thanks for sending it over. Next number two herder voice. I love having voice integrated into everything. Um it's a Mac plugin for herder. You speak and you get real time voice. Uh, what is Herder? We've talked about it before, but I think it might be worth bringing

17:46up now. Yeah. Pull pull it up here real quick. I think it's actually one that that that you should see. The the idea here is is that you can run all of these agents together. It's it's a it's an orchestrator for all of your coding agents that can all live in one environment that's centered around the agent, not around the code. And it it prefers I believe it it lives mostly in the terminal. There may be a web view now, but Okay. And so this is a way to give it voice. Did I give it a star yet? Let's make sure that I do. Sometimes I do it

18:14before, sometimes I do it live. It's got its third star. I really like it. Thanks, Marcus. Number three is called Costas Core. A checkpoint that that's every action your AI agent takes. Open source governance later before your agent acts. The action is checked against policy. things like PPI leaks, prompt injection, risky networks, calls are blocked and every decision lands in

18:37a temper evident audit trail. Yeah, if you're dealing with sensitive data uh and you're not you don't have a layer like this installed, get it installed. That's all I have to say. Let me ask the audience. I'm thinking of creating like a product hunt just for first stars so that you all can see what's there. If this is something you want, let me know in the comments

18:59next. Oh, she and I have been Sun Quinn. I hope I'm pronouncing your name right. She has been messaging me so many times. She keeps updating it. Just when I think I see what it's done, it does even more. I think the best example of this is now you can log into this using your um chat GPT login. So, you can use your chat GPT subscription to run it. What she's got here is basically a way for you to talk with your agents and then have them do work in the background. I really like how it works. Um, and you could dive into it here. I won't go into too many

19:32details. The one issue I have is I think she's using the the uh the Grockbot logos, which is going to be a problem for her. Otherwise, fantastic. I think when she first sent it to me, it had like one or two stars and it's growing naturally on its own. It's probably going to be the fastest rising of

19:46anything that we've talked about here. So cool. Um, all right. And then finally, we've got Free Rome, a walk. You walk through Google Street View like a video game. Doesn't Street View automatically already let you do this? Just walk right through it? [snorts] You could click around, but it's a little bit clunky to keep clicking. What What this has introduced is that WD style video game walking. W to move forward, S to move back, A and D to go left and right. And so I I think it's it's just going to be a little bit more intuitive, at least for those that have played computer video games, uh to to

20:22walk around and navigate rather than having to click the little arrow every time. I see it there. Yeah. So there you're just kind of clicking W to go forward, D to go to the right. All right. Okay. Before we close it out, you have told me about like I always ask you at the end of these sessions, I like to ask you what are you doing that's new? What's exciting you? This is what's exciting you. What is CLI proxy API? Th this is the biggest one that I'm I've been using and I love it. What it does is for all of your coding agents locally, it can sit between your Claude

20:55code or T3 code and the actual Claude or Codeex uh APIs. And what it does is two big things for me. Number one, it will automatically relog me back in. So I'm constantly getting booted out of Claude or Codeex. This thing every I think 10 minutes goes and checks and says, "Oh, is it about to expire? If it's about to expire, I'm just going to relog you in right now." So I don't ever have to log in anymore. This takes care of it. Also, if you're one of the people out there that has multiple coding accounts, this will let you balance them. And so now I

21:27can have multiple subscriptions. And actually, if I have multiple subscriptions on multiple computers, the proxy element here can also forward all of those requests. Like you've got a Mac Mini on your desktop, it can forward all of your requests through your Mac Mini. So it looks like you're always in a residential IP address. It it always looks safe. it's way less likely that you're going to get banned. So, I've got three computers I'm using it on now and they're all sharing accounts. It's managing them all. Wow. I have I have never I I I haven't logged back into any of these things in at least a week and a

21:59half now a after I switched to this and I'm only using probably 10% of the power of it. So, I'm really excited to to keep looking and dive in deeper. You know what, Elon Musk this week, you know, retweeted my how-to guide for how to get Grockbot to connect to Claude to connect to um to OpenAI and other models. And then one of the one of the things that people came back to me with was they

22:21said, "Don't you get logged out a lot?" And I because as you log into the same account on another device, you'll get logged out on Grockbot. I haven't yet, but I can see if that's an issue for people. This is a good solution for it. I'll tell you the thing that I've been loving this week, Adam. I am now talking with Grockbot on my way into work every day. And the beauty of it is it's gotten faster and faster and faster and I could say to it, "Okay, what's going on in my inbox?" And it'll go through it and I say, "Here's how I want you to handle

22:47it. What's coming up for later today? Here's what I want you to get done." And the interaction because it has so much access to so much of my data and it's already doing work for me has been incredibly effective. Um, and my tip for anyone who's trying to do something like this is to tell it always do the thing in the background and while you're doing it in the background or even having another agent do it in the background, give me the next thing. So, I don't want to wait for you to finish an action before we go to the next. Just work on it. Give me the next email. Give me the

23:13next task. Give me the next thing that we're working on. Beautiful thing. All right, we got it all in here. Give us as always comments. We love to see it. This is what I spend my weekend on. Adam, you know, I pretend that I go to the bathroom. I say to Olivia and the kids, I need to go to the bathroom for a minute. And then I go in there and I check, what are the comments? What do

23:28people say? What what what am I saying? I try to reply back as quickly as possible, but I often don't. Instead, I just read it. So, send over the comments. And uh if you like this one, we've got another 10 that really took off for me this week. Repos that will replace your paid subscriptions. This was Adam's suggestion for me to do this week. I did it. And there it is. I'll see you in

23:45that video. Bye everyone.

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