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0:00I've got so many amazing agent tools for you today, including tools for creating agents, ones for having your team, real people and agents talk with each other, giving your agents tasks and watching what they do, giving them a brow, basically tons of that. Also, if you struggle to read what your agents write, I have an ADHD repo that will make it super easy for you. And I've got a skill that will improve everything you build in Claude, Codex, and other tools. And a famous tech YouTuber created an app to run every coding agent on your computer, even if it's from your phone. Bookmarks and links and everything below, let's
0:33get into it. Presented by Zapier, the AI automation company. All right, the number one repo of the week this week is one that I freaking love. It is Buzz. Here's the idea. You've got Slack, but Slack makes it really difficult for you to add your agents. You've got agents, but Telegram is annoying to talk to them that Anyway, what this does is it puts them together in a Slack-like experience that also lets you add agents. I freaking love it. Have you used this,
0:58Matt? I have. I uh was messing around. I I I didn't mandate my company switch from Slack. I'm usually that jerk that mandates everyone has to do something. I made it clear in general on Slack, you can sign up right here. You do not have to do this, but it it's it's pretty neat. Um what do you like about this thing? I actually don't think that they're they're right to call it the Slack replacement because if you do that, you really are setting yourself up for failure. I think what they need to do is say, "This is the way for you to communicate with your agents. It's a
1:30Telegram replacement." Here's what it looks like. I I think we're ripe for a Slack replacement. Slack is now part of Salesforce. And so I I hope this becomes that. So I'm It's It's too early still, but I'm optimistic that a team like this could be doing great work here. I think it's like it it's interesting that, you know, it gives you a few agents and it's very easy sign up and the mobile experience is good. It feels a little too crypto-y. I think with keys and these sorts of things on intro like I think you sent me a DM trying to invite me to a group and I'm like, am I giving
2:05you the keys to my workplace thing? of the same thing. When you sign up, they don't say okay, sign in with Google login or any of that. They say here is your code. Don't lose it. I'm like, how many Bitcoin wallets have I lost this way? I don't like that. I do though like that it is elegant, very straightforward. I like that you can add agents to it. It really has just taken
2:29off and it just launched. Um and I like that it that it has a lot of hidden features that you don't notice. Like did you see this? I love that Greg Eisenberg pointed out that there is computing here. So you can host local models and the idea could be that in the future I may not be able to hold it hold the model myself. You on my team may not be able to host it yourself, but can we all together host our own model and control it? It seems like that's part of
2:51it. [snorts] Yeah, so I think the for for me so I I haven't looked at the local models. I I I don't I'm not a local model person, but something that that did kind of blow my mind that I I don't know that I've seen anyone talk about. I haven't watched that much content, so this might not be an original thought, but I I swear it is. But what's really amazing is if you can show the interface of like the the bots chatting, when you ask the bot a question, it it doesn't have it doesn't ask you what LM you want to use if you like it
3:21or how to pull it in. And so what they're doing is they're actually kind of I believe taking your terminal. There's like a secret terminal running here. They're running Claude code or Codex, whatever you chose when you logged in, behind the scenes and not showing it to you and just automatically copying and pasting
3:40the results and it's really well done. Like it's a very clever UI trick and very very thoughtful. And I I'm very impressed by it. And I I think we're going to And maybe this paradigm has existed somewhere else. This is the first time I've seen it, but I think we're going to start to see more applications like this cuz you could build a whole a a whole coding agent that doesn't show the terminal, but secretly has the terminal behind the scenes. You could skin it nicely. Like this is the first place that I've seen this and I think it's going to lead to a trend if if the
4:10model companies are okay with it. Nat, you're freaking so brilliant. You're right. That explains why I didn't have to do the OAuth for my OpenAI for my Yeah, for my OpenAI. That also explains how I can use my Claude subscription in it to run an agent when Claude doesn't want you to do that. Okay. Um they they secretly there's this I I get I I haven't looked at the code. I should send an agent at it. All right, I don't look at code. I haven't sent an agent at it, but literally what I think is happening is there's a secret terminal window that they don't display and
4:40they're just typing into it like you would and then copying and pasting the results and making it look nice. I like it. I like it a lot. I like the simplicity of it. I'm going to actually It's It's brilliant. I've got my video here for a first walk through with one of the early users of it. I usually would play this stuff. I think it's a great video, but we said so much about this. Let me just point out here the top contributors on here. Look at what I added recently. Top contributors and in this case they're basically all at Block. Good team of people, creators who created a lot of
5:06open source. Wes [snorts] Wes was awesome. I sent him an app message like, "Hey, turn on your DMs. I'd love to want to show you something." and he replied instantly and we started DMing. He was super nice. So, it's Yeah, it's it's good team. I love how much you participate in open source. That's why I've got you on here. Look at all the projects you're building. Look at all the projects you've contributed to. This thing goes on and on and on. I got the right person. Okay, since Block is number one, I want to just talk about three related projects because every time I talk about
5:32Buzz by Block, people say, "What about What about What about?" So, let's talk about There are a few others that are worth talking about. Paperclip. This is a way of structuring your open Claude Hermes agent, etc. in a in a way that you can assign them tasks and watch what they do. If Buzz is like Slack, this is like your Asana or Trello board. That's how I think about it. But you've contributed to this project. How would
5:54you describe it? Yeah. I So, it's It's a It's a great project. The The team is is awesome. The Discord is awesome. Uh I'm really impressed by by Dada. He's He's a great great great product person, great engineer, and also great marketer. Like he he is out there hustling. Like on X, Yes. he'll Like people will be like, "Oh, I wonder what I should do to like have multiple agents doing this." And he's
6:17like, "You should check out Paperclip." And again, Paperclip's huge. Like has a massive following. And he he is always hustling, which I'm I'm very impressed by. I I haven't seen this new webpage. It looks really nice. I I saw the new branding, but uh this This looks very good. Yeah, I was a little worried that maybe they'd died because there's so much attention on Buzz. No, they're continuing to build, continuing to add to it. It's a great team um and a great product. Let's go on to number two. Orca. This is a way of running a fleet of coding agents in parallel. You know this project. What do
6:46you know about this one? [snorts] Yeah, so I'm I'm a contributor to this project. I've used it. Um the the the founders are awesome. I actually met them in person. I know it's a rare thing. I met them in person. They They actually gave me a ride to the airport, which was very nice of them because that was like the only meeting slot I had in in San Francisco. But it it's a you know, I I They've done a lot of very clever things uh by moving sessions to mobile that a lot of other people haven't figured out. They move very very fast. Treven, who is one of
7:16the the person I started the Printing Press with, who is and runs is number one at Compound Engineering these days. And well, Kieran's number two. Treven has gone all in 100% Orca. There's one feature I need, and that the founders know that, before I can go all in on Orca. But uh if if Treven's convinced that this is the best place to do your work, then that's that's crazy
7:39impressive. Describe this to me and then what makes it so special? Yeah, so the So I I a lot of people have their $200 accounts for Claude code, for Codex, and it's just a very very simple, nice place where you can actually be running terminal windows in a way that's thoughtfully designed. Because again, I I like terminal windows. Like I prefer that interface versus using the Codex app or the the Claude code app. And so I was in Ghosty before I switched to Cmux, but Orca and Cmux I'd say seem to be the two dominant players of doing the best job of building features on top of terminal
8:21windows. Okay. Um great project and it's continuing to get more and more stars, more and more attention. Finally, along this lines and then we'll get back to the top 10 of the week. We've got Hermes agent. As soon as I talked about Buzz, people said, "What about Hermes agent?" I don't think they're they're one in the same. I can't get my Hermes agent to work with my teammates unless I add it into a tool like Slack. And with Buzz, I think it's a little bit different, but still great
8:48project. Do you use Hermes? I do. I I do. I have a a Mac a Mac Mini and I I use it for very simple agentic things. So I would never do any real work with it. I know a lot of people do, but just for me personally, like I I like to live in Claude code or Codex directly in a terminal window. I don't want to send stuff through API, through open router. Like I want to I feel like there's there's a lot of secret I know there are. There's a ton of secret prompts that are built into Claude code and Codex when you're using the pure product
9:17within a terminal versus the API. That's often why it Hermes and open Claude feels dumb even if they're using Opus 5 in and do the same command. But anyway, I think Hermes is great. I have a lot of agent skills that I use, a lot of the printing press CLIs. So like for example, again, it's a very simple thing, but I I have a lot of kids. So I have four kids, and I can't always watch the game. I love sports. I I can't always watch the game, and so what I do is there's an ESPN CLI within the printing press, and I'll say like, "Hey, this is like
9:46especially important during the the NBA finals. Hey, if the Spurs-Knicks game is close within five points in the fourth quarter, please let me know." And so, it was using the ESPN CLI, it wrote itself a very simple script that was pulling every few minutes to check the score, and then it only sent me a message if it became close, so then I could actually go turn the TV on [laughter] it and turn
10:07on the game. Um that's a funner use than I have. My new thing this week was booking guests. You know how many emails I had to send you to get you to say yes to me? I've now turned Hermes agent on to booking to the first messages, and that happens by email, it happens by by Twitter, and I'll talk about one of
10:29the guests later on who came that way. Great project. All you people who said this is great and we should be talking about it. There we go, we talked about it. Okay, number two for the week, it's Elgo Light. This is a browser to give your agent that includes tabs and allows you to share your login. It looks good. It is incredibly popular this week, like I said, it's number two, which is saying a lot compared to the com- the competition it's got from Buzz. You've looked at it this week, what do you
10:53think? So, I haven't [snorts] installed it yet, but I'm a big fan of browser agents. So, I I hate when my computer goes into computer use and it loads a browser. Like, I want it to be completely headless, and I want it to be thoughtful, and I want it to map like a CLI would map. So, I I'm a big fan of of
11:09Vercel's agent browser. Browser use is also great, but So, the the the key differentiator, I think, so I've read, I have not dug in yet entirely, is that it automagically steals your cookies, and so you're logged into everything, which is something I deeply believe in because I started a project called Agent Cookie, which steals your Chromebook cookies from your main MacBook Pro or whatever you're using and automatically over Tailscale securely puts them on your Mac mini so that my Air m as agent is logged in. My another one of my Air m as use cases is adding things to Instacart. So I'll literally be at the fridge and I'll run
11:46out of eggs and I'll just say to my Air m as agent, "Add eggs to Instacart." And because of agent cookie my Mac mini, which I've never plugged the monitor once except the first time I set it up, is magically logged into instacart.com because I'm logged in on my laptop. And so I love this because often my agent is logged out and I'm just pissed off. So I love the theory here of what they're doing with with Ego
12:08light. Let's take a look at also humans and um agent working together. Here we go. Look at this. There. Now we can watch what it does. It opens Expedia, starts filling in the route, chooses New York and London, opens calendars, selects dates, and runs the search. The whole process is happening inside of its own isolated working area. So I can observe without being blocked. And folks, this is exactly what the slogan means. Best
12:37browser for both your AI agents and you. Yeah. I'll have a link to it and everything else that we're showing here. [clears throat] It's great. I think this is one of the biggest problems. I shouldn't have to find workarounds to use Expedia. They should make it easy, but if you're not making it easy, at least this team is. I like Algo and I'm glad that it's a number two for the week. Number three for the week is open code review from Alibaba. It's battle-tested on its own engineers for 2 years. I asked you before we got started, would you use this? And you said, "Depends." Depends
13:08on what? Social signal. I it in in general I not using any Alibaba stuff in my my workflows, but if it felt safe and secure and people said it was awesome, I would totally be down to use something like this. You just want to know whether your friends, people you trust, like it. And
13:30do you use anything like this? I mean, I I I do code reviews with confident engineering where I can send stuff to different model. Mhm. For last 30 days at Printing Press, we have Greptile set up, so it kind of automatically reviews PRs that come in. Could be my own or could be from the community. So, I I definitely know know this world, but I yeah, I'm I'm not sure what about the end. Social signal and social proof can also be trending repos on GitHub. So, and and I often will look at the trending repos on GitHub and I'm like, "I don't get this. Why?" And then the
14:03best way to know why is to install it and try and figure out why it became. And again, there's people can game the the trending repos, but often there is value in this. So, there's probably something magical about this that I'm being dismissive of and have not looked at. I like reading Hacker News reviews if people have got experience on it. Here's one person on Hacker News. I think this
14:21is the top of vocater for that for this. Ran it on a subset of 10 of 50 PRs in this benchmark. Very good recall, 74 issues about found a lot of golden issues. Not so good a precision, about 12%. Lots of false positive. Uh the precision causes the F1 to tank, 20% if it stays the same on a full 50 sample. Put it would put it's almost
14:45last, even less than Kilco plus Grok. Kilo plus Grok. Do you know that Do you understand what this last part means? This is what he's using to Yeah, I don't know either. [snorts] I'm Kilo. Okay, let's let's keep going. Um Oh, I had it this before. This was actually part of my deck was to put this
15:07in for 3 weeks. And then it And then you came on, we did an interview with you. And now look at this, you're here on the GitHub repo show, but I showed this over and over to get people to help me get you on. And now what I'm saying is I'm not looking for a specific person. I'm looking for the for the audience. I want you guys to reach out to me, Somebody who can test repos, somebody who can shoot videos with me about them, and uh at least what do we have? Like a dozen people who've done it. One of them we actually recorded with. So, if you're into this
15:31stuff and you want to test it with me, hit me up. It's hi@thenextnewthing.ai. And if you know somebody who is, let me know. I'll also say this, I want I just want to hear what you're all building. So, send that over to that email address, too. And I'll have a link of it to it below. Also, this is sponsored by Zapier MCP. I love using all these agents, but I do not trust them with all my data. One of the things that I love about Zapier MCP, it gives me access to over 8,000 different tools, but it lets me easily decide what I want to give my
15:57agent access to. And if that's you and you want to play around with it, please let them know that you came from me. I I love that they're talking about Matthew Berman as their top like YouTube person who's sending them people. But these guys believed in me before I all I had was an idea. I said, "Will you please sponsor it?" They Go spend a year figure it out. And I'd love for them to know
16:15that Andrew's sending them some people. So, if you go to them, let them know uh that you came from me. All right, let's go on. Another one that I like. I have ADHD. I love the name of this. Here's the problem it solves. You know when you're when you're talking with your agent, especially when you're working on a project, when it goes super verbose, I find that I can't understand what it's
16:34say What am I supposed to get from it? Like 50 paragraphs, just give it to me bottom line. And what this says is, "Look, I have ADHD. Can you just make it easy for me?" And here's like a sample of the output. And I think they clearly have shortened it. And this is what they turn it into. I hate when it says, "Great question. Let me think about
16:52this. You're blah blah blah blah." Can't freaking stand it. And I always think I'm an idiot until I saw this. It turns out I'm not. It's just a common problem. What do you think? [snorts] I mean, I I love this. I I'm a big fan of ELI5, explain it to me like I'm 5, or TLDR. So, literally before we we went on the show today, the one thing I said to my agent, "Look, ELI5 and TLDR every single
17:16repo that we're talking about today." So, that was the only homework I did. I didn't even read them, but I I did pull that up and I I love Eli 5 and yeah, maybe ADHD is really the better way to describe it instead of I'm just a dumb 5-year-old. Or a smart 5-year-old. You kept asking me how is it that I started adding this? By the way, I had to create my own one of these because star charts would not be shareable anymore. In fact, GitHub blocked them. It's because ideas like the one you just gave me came up. I think what I need to do is add the
17:45explain to me like I'm five five Eli 5 to one of these slides and just make it really simple. Absolutely. This one I think is easy enough for all of us to understand. Let's move on to the next one. This is Pascal editor design a whole building in 3D in your browser for free. I asked you about it and you said, "I'm
18:06a contributor to this." And people call you the the Where's Waldo of GitHub because there you are, right here. But, what is this? [laughter] Uh well, that my my Eli 5 said it's SketchUp in a browser tab for free. So, you can draw walls, floors, rooms, and furniture and watch the building appear in 3D. So, what it's it's an open-source kind of magical AI-filled um you know, ability to make 3D homes, buildings, etc. which is used to be very hard, expensive CAD software, which I've never spent time in, but saw this project growing up, thought it was
18:49interesting, and decided to contribute. How? If you don't fully understand it, if you don't live in it, how do you contribute to that project and how do you get to contribute to all of these projects? Yeah, so so I'd say there there are some projects that I do through automation where I find issues and solve them while while I sleep. So, I've That's one of one of the ways. And then another way is if I find something that's interesting and I often go to GitHub trending to find interesting projects. And there's kind of two ways I think about contributing to a project. One is is is
19:21the very simple common way. Someone posts an issue and you solve the issue. And so that's, you know, very popular way. But I think a harder one to do is what is a new feature that adds value to this repo. And so that that's one that takes more effort, but something that I I take a lot of pride in. And so that that's done, again, not manually. I don't write any code or actually necessarily even come up with any features. But it's one that I put effort in and actually steer my agent to create
19:47a new feature of value for for repos. But does that mean that you just turn your agent on this and you say, "Look, I see that this is trending, for example, go figure out how I could help and what I can improve." That's what you might do? Oh, it is. Absolutely. Oh, literally, yeah. And what's the upside for you? You're
20:03not participating enough to learn it. You're not participating enough to contribute it. Is it like branding for you? Is it just help the community out any way you can? What's the value of it? It So, I I I don't have a good answer, but I'll tell you the answer. So, it all started when uh I very manually fixed a bug for for OpenClaw. And long time ago, and Peter Steinberger said, "Thanks, M VanHorn. Merged." And I was like, "Huh,
20:29Peter spoke to me in GitHub. Oh my goodness. Like, that felt so good." And then I remember I tweeted that. I was like, "Trying to play it cool. Trying to play it cool." I was like, "This is way too awesome." And it kind of gave me this like dopamine. And then because it's just so fun to build, I was like, "I wonder if I could automate this." And and then it became an addiction. And [clears throat] I'd say what what the most the most interesting thing that it's done actually has been around
20:56meeting people. So, getting involved in projects early, getting in their Discords, private group chats, because get a lot of the most interesting conversations are having private group chats. I'm in a few of these these AI groups with very very small amount of people and it's kind of these agentic engineers are all becoming friends and talking to each other and so I'd say that honestly has been the biggest value add. It's also great for recruiting. For for my company to be
21:24able to recruit. I I I heard you on Peter Yang's podcast. You said, "I'm not an engineer. I didn't understand what any of this GitHub stuff was and now suddenly not only am I contributing and enjoying it, but I also have my projects." These are some and we've covered them in the past because
21:38they've talked they've been top 10. All right. Um, let's go on to the next one. Number six, book to skill. You ever read a book and you think, "Okay, this time I'm really going to use it." And so you start to take notes and then you start to implement but really what happens is you forget because it's not part of your
21:53workflow, it's not part of your life. Well, what book to skill says is, "Hey, give me the book. Let me turn it into a skill and you can actually use it or more importantly let your agent use it and not worry about losing it losing that information." That's the idea here, right? [snorts] That's really cool. That's a really neat
22:09idea. Really neat idea. that I something that I did I I did uh I I had a meeting with with someone that he wrote a book on product market fit and I had a two-hour meeting with him I granola the whole thing and then he's like, "Oh, you should read my book and then you know you could figure out how to use my strategy to find product market fit for your business." And I was like, "I'm not going to do that, but I'll have my agent read the book and take this two-hour transcript from granola and turn that into a plan of how to do things and it was amazing how well
22:37it worked. So I I strongly understand and and believe in this this concept. I used to go to FedEx and have them chop the spines off of books and then I fed it into a scanner that I had on my desk. Then they stopped doing it and now I don't have a good way of of digitizing books except what some of my friends do which is they just go and pirate it. Is
22:58that what you do? Who are we? So I I I again I I grew up when I was a kid I did a lot of like Mac piracy. That's where I got a lot of my my my world started. But I I don't think I've ever pirated a book. I mean, it's possible, but uh but I you know, I've looked for books that I own and like download the PDF [snorts] version if I ever want to send it to an agent type thing. But something cool that a a friend of mine was telling me he built for himself was he takes books and then built a notebook LM style
23:26thing Mhm. to kind of do it interesting. So, it's again, it's not reading the book. It's kind of summarizing and turning it into an interesting podcast based on the book. And an idea I had on that which I'm not executing or building and I don't know if he is, but wouldn't it be neat like say someone wants to read a book on sales. Like I need to learn sales and here you know, they they get the PDFs of the three best sales book legally, please legally. And but what if you could have your agent rewrite that book for your thing that
23:59you're trying to sell? Mhm. Right? Kind of a customized book of the best practices based on literally the product you are selling. Like I think that could be really really neat. I'm [snorts] tempted to tell the audience here just go steal my book if you're if you're into interviewing. I wrote a book on interviewing. I I don't know how out of control they'll get, but I I don't want to sweat it. I want to make it easy for people to use and learn what they've what they've got. But you know what else, Matt? This might just be a good thing for authors to do to say,
24:27"I'm going to take my book and turn it into a skill and make it available to people." I know that here you're ending up with kind of a replication of the whole book, but there's there should be a way to do what one of our fewer one of our next repo creators did and I'll come
24:39back to that. Okay. Uh J Code, terminal coding agent, the coding agent that starts 245 What a specific number. 245 times faster than Claude Code by its own stopwatch. Um we've talked about this before we got started. We don't have that much to say about it. What would you say about J code? [snorts] Speed Speed matters and what what's funny is their their video feels very bulky and chunky and doesn't feel like speed just watching that come in but speed matters and they've they've made it very very light very very simple and
25:14I think there's value in that. You know, as somebody who's creating sites like this all the time as somebody who's creating little tools for himself. Do you see any use for me in this should I be using J code? What do you what do you do working right now? How do you make make products?
25:30How do you make software? You've told me that I need to switch away from it and I will. I still use VS code. I I don't love it but I like it a lot. I like how I have multiple tabs conversations with Claude. I like seeing the files that it outputs. Um all that stuff. I think today [snorts] should inspire you to use Orca for 2 weeks. That's my
25:53recommendation. Okay, I do agree. And and just just just get rid of get rid of it. You can go back to it if it really is not doing it for you but I would invest 2 weeks not 1 day 2 weeks in Orca and I think you'll be happy. Because why do you think Orca?
26:09I Orca or C mux. I'm I'm still in C mux. I want to switch to Orca. I will at some point uh once that feature comes um but I why? I just it's it's it's those are the two best products I've seen where you're still living in kind of the pure terminal version of Claude code and code X but they've built a lot of very very thoughtfully designed features on on top of it. Like for example, I was losing
26:35tons of windows in Ghosty. Like stuff would finish and I wouldn't know about it and kind of C mux organized very nicely and like moves it up to the top and has really nice keyboard commands. It also has tabs. So it kind of has like vertical tabs and horizontal tabs and different key commands that are very simple and it it's I was able to customize my workflow very
26:54very well for code agents. Okay, next number eight. This Matt Pocock This is what he did. He is a developer who also teaches developers who said look I've got a set of skills that I use. I'm going to package them up, put them on GitHub and make them available to people. You've told me that you never go into this section of GitHub and by the way, he keeps making the top 10 list. Today he's number eight. It goes all over the place with him. But I do especially for skills because they are readable. You can come here and you can see all the files that you get when
27:25you get when you get this repo. You can see like for example his his personal skills for editing articles. Um for his for personal learning he's got skills. But more importantly, he's got these skills that will help um analyze your code, analyze how you're thinking about a project, ask you questions and then make sure that you're on the right track before you start to build. In fact, I've got a controversy that I'll show in a moment. Um like it's the it's the grill me skill that will do that. And so if you want to be a better developer, if you want to learn like Matt, if you admire the way
28:01that he's personal productivity guy who doesn't come from this like big smile, big fancy gold Rolex watch type of attitude but more from the I'm a developer, I'm an engineer, I want to be as practical as possible. He his skills I think will be really helpful. And he's Look at this. He's finally got this like really I don't know actually if he always had this nice backdrop, but he's got these really nice videos explaining the skills now and he's really clearly
28:24enjoying showing people how he works. Um here's a controversy. Codox just asked me 200 questions. This is somebody who used one of his skills and it's like this is a little out of control forcing me to analyze what I'm building this to this degree. I I like that at the top closed as not
28:41planned. [laughter] This is not an issue. Right here. We're not doing anything about this. Please go away. [laughter] Uh it still gives me a little bit of insight into it. Um all right. And um do you have anything to add on this? No, I I think it's cool. I think Grill Me is a a neat idea. I I strongly believe that people just on their own do not always say it or I'll speak to myself. I don't always say the smartest thing, but if you ask me the right question and provoke my brain in the right way that I might accidentally say something that's that's more clever than anything I would
29:17have said if I was just unprompted. So, I I like the theory a lot. That's why a lot of people have done interviews with me. We're talking about over 2,000 interviews with entrepreneurs like the founders of OpenAI, Y Combinator, etc. Sometimes I would ask them, "Why are you even doing this interview? It doesn't have as many views as you might get with a YouTuber." And they go, "Well, I just like the way you ask questions and you push me to come up with something that to explain something
29:36that I hadn't thought of before." Um Earlier Thanks, Matt. I I just interrupted. This is actually something that I've gotten bad at. I'm interrupting people too much and all of you in the comments who are saying it, keep bringing it on until I stop it. Um what I was saying earlier, he and a few other engineers I'm noticing will take their skills and make it available on
29:59GitHub for other people to use. I think there's a time now for authors to say, "Look, I've turned my ideas into blog posts. I've turned my ideas into tweets. I've turned them into books. Now, I'm going to turn them into skills. Download them from GitHub. Use them in whatever you're doing." And I think I should do this too with my interview skills. Take the book, turn it into a set of skills. If someone's trying to think through how to ask it uh the right interview questions, they should be able to use it. Or if they've already done an interview and they want to say, "How can
30:26I improve?" I hired the producer of Inside the Actors Studio to help me improve. They could just kind of hire my skills pack from GitHub for free. And uh and I think that's going to be my second commitment for the week. Yeah, my my my my best way to recommendation of how to do that is so if you just say go make a skill from scratch, it's going to do a fine job, but I actually ran recommend giving it a
30:46sample skill that's really really good. My personal favorite is Compound Engineering. So whenever I make a skill for myself, I say CE plan, go make a skill based on this. So I want to take my book, here's the PDF, and I want to turn it to a skill. And I think Compound Engineering is the most thoughtfully designed skill out there. Please look at how it's structured, built, etc. And structure my skill in such a way and feel free to
31:12borrow anything. It's MIT. And the I highly recommend doing that. All right. I like that. I'm going to copy that, too. And I'll say Matt has agreed to do an interview with me. He is like the second person that my Hermes agent booked an interview with me this week, and I'm so excited to have him on.
31:28Okay. This is one app from a famous YouTuber that if you're in this space, you watch all the time. Uh it will run your coding agent on your machine and allow you to access it from your phone. Um Let's take a look at Let's take a look at what it looks like here. is what this app actually is. This is not competing with Claude Code or Codex as a coding agent. This is simply a GUI on top of those tools. So all of the code that you see in the thread and all of the responses are coming from Codex behind the scenes, and therefore it's using my OpenAI subscription. That is
32:04why T3 Code is completely free. We go down to the model selector, you can see I can choose between the available models on OpenAI, and you can see they want support for Claude Code, Cursor, Open Code, and Gemini in the future. In fact, I've actually seen the Claude Code support is ready. They're literally just waiting for clarification from Anthropic to see if they can use Claude Code subscriptions this way. For me, this is going to be one of the biggest advantages of T3 Code because while I do like OpenAI models for coding, some of the tasks that just worse at, like UI design. So I do have to switch apps from
32:33time to time and open up Claude Code in the terminal Well, I'm working Does he show the mobile app? Uh that's what I'm curious about. Uh he did. He did he I don't I I don't I don't I don't I don't need a a desktop app here, but a mobile app is interesting because there are I'm not too happy with any of the mobile stuff
32:47right now. Doesn't look like it. What are you doing for mobile? Let me find it. Uh he's not showing it here, but uh in the tweet we can see it here, I think. So, I have a good Cloud Code solution. I don't have one for Code X. So, for Cloud Code I have set up where I whenever I open a new window, it
33:09automatically turns on remote control. That's just automatic. 100% of my Cloud Code windows always have remote control on. And then I use the Cloud Code mobile app if it's already open. And then but it you can't start a new window on your machine, your primary machine, from Cloud Code. So, I've set up this extremely complicated, ridiculous system where my Cloud Code on my computer has an agent mail inbox and my Hermes has an agent mail inbox, and I can send commands through Hermes, which will literally load an Apple script on my Mac, go in tmux, open a new tab, and start a new window all from Hermes,
33:52and then I can resume within the Cloud Code app. It's complicated, but it works. I love that. I I've discovered that I can use the Code X app to get things started, and I really like that, and I wish that I had more access. What do you think of this mobile app here now that
34:06you see it? Uh okay. Interesting. Uh what What else do we want? I mean, I can see the plus sign right here. That seems to say a lot, right? This looks a lot like Code X or the ChatGPT experience, except for this window right here. Yeah. Okay. know. It's It's It's interesting. And Android. How many people here listen and want Android for everything? I've gotten so many complaints that we're not touching, and they're right that we're not talking about Android and Windows
34:34enough. And you people are all right. Okay, um This is mostly his team, I think, leading this year. Let's go on to the last one. This is World Monitor. Imagine you've got your own like computer view of everything that's going on in the world that is available publicly for free. That's what you've got here. I think a good way to look at it is this window here from back when the attacks on Iran happened where you can actually start to see video, you start to see map explaining what's going on, you start to see video feeds that are free, you start to see news from around the world that is freely
35:12available, and you start to make sense of it. People use this when they're trying to make bets, trying to make predictions, or frankly just trying to see what's going on in the world. got this like very ominous video that I'm not going to play all of that walks people through it. I played it in in one of our past shows, but it really walks you through how to set it up. And I should say, if you want this, this whole report that I have is available for you to download below along with all the links links to it. Is this something you
35:38would use for anything? I do like to monitor the situation. So, when I'm a news junkie. Like I I love news on X. Like I feel like I need to know what's going on in Morocco and Spain right now and these sorts of things. I do. I'm I'm a nerd like that. So, right now X is that for
35:59me. X is the worst for that. Like let's take a look right now at what X is going to say about this whole thing that's going on in Morocco. Check this out. It was like earlier it was it was Oh, here, look at this. The is going on with X? Well, this this just says a lot about
36:16your feed, sir. Is it my feed? It's like Mine doesn't say that. The hell, X? Come on, dude. [laughter] Um but if you want to get the world's information, you're going to get everything in all at once. All right. I'm really excited that we got to do this and we when I interviewed Matt about his projects before he even lit up his YouTube account, all he did was create one. I linked to it below the way that I'm doing now and people a thousand plus people followed. I'd love for anyone who likes to hear more from Matt to go subscribe to his channel so that you can
36:53see more of this just as he's getting started and he's about to launch a YouTube channel. What's it going to be about, Matt? It's It's called the last 30 days podcast. So, it'll be about the last 30 days and But isn't it a news podcast or about this it's especially not about what we were just talking about. No, no, it's it's related to AI and the world that I'm
37:11obsessed with right now. Okay, great. And do subscribe to this. Do let me know. I'll always have my email address in the comments in the chat somewhere and thank you all for subscribing, liking, and commenting and reaching out to me anywhere. And if you like this, I've got another very hot collection of GitHub repos right here for you to watch and I'll see
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