Did Codex Just Replace Lovable? + PewDiePie's AI, Claude Code Mega Agents & More

0:00Check it out, Codex can build you a fully working website. Just ask it, you'll see it. You're also going to see how you can install Hermes agent on your desktop if it felt too annoying before. In fact, even if you loved it, you're going to love having it on your desktop. And PewDiePie, the guy who is huge on YouTube, just created a self-hosted version of Claude code, Claude, all these different things that you can put up on your screen and we're going to have for you. We'll show you the easiest way to get a Shopify store up and running and so much more in this week's

0:26news. Let's get into it. Presented by Zapier, the AI automation company. All right, Codex sites is the big news story. What is this? Yeah, so Codex site allows you to build websites, web apps, any sort of application for the internet within Codex, with off, with a database, with payments, everything built right into Codex. This is going to make it so much I mean, this is kind of what people are dubbing Open AI's lovable killer. And it looks really cool. It looks really

0:55promising. Wow. And you found a video of Greg Eisenberg. Let's do it. but I can go and open it in Codex browser on the right here. It's got off built in here. I do have to sign up. So, let me go ahead and sign up. So, as you can see, this is exactly So, on the left is him chatting and asking for something. On the right is

1:20what Codex built for him, right? Exactly. So, there the cut how Open AI is positioning this is like, "Look, this is what you're going to use to build dashboards, internal software, web apps, KPI trackers, websites. You name it, you can build it with Codex sites." And we are really bullish on this, at least in my company, because we're going to start doing a lot around incorporating this

1:41into our offers, too. Ooh. All right, when you say incorporating into your offers, how do you mean? So, as like a tripwire offer, right? So, if we're going to go and sell like a $5,000 a month managed service lead gen offer for a local business, we can lead with like we can spin up a Codex site a completely rebuilt version of their website optimized for conversion in seconds for pennies and be like hey the website's free. But then the legion services you know five grand a month let's say. So in my mind I think this opens up a lot of opportunities for to create really high quality tripwire

2:17offers for your AI business. And you know what? If now creating if creating websites is as easy as creating documents then why would I send someone a document if I could give them much more of an interactive experience with a website? All right this is fantastic. I love it. Let's look at the next news story which is Hermes agent has a

2:33desktop app. Let's listen to this. Hermes just dropped the best way to engage with AI agents ever the desktop app. After playing around with this for the last 24 hours I can confidently say telegram dead CLI dead open claw dead. Let me just pause for a second. Everything is so dramatic with Alex. I

2:54love it. But I love it. I love it. the best way to interact with AI agents ever. If you use Hermes open claw or never touched an AI agent in your life you want to stick around with this. I'm going Okay so what it is is on a desk you can install Hermes agent and what I love about it is how familiar it looks. We're looking at something and here's from Alex Finn. We're looking at

3:14something that looks a lot like a chat. I run like a bajillion cron jobs. See on the left you've got all the chat. So you can create sessions for every part of your life. So for instance if I wanted to have a content session I would say I want to discuss my content. I will hit enter. There we go. I can rename this content. Save boom. Now I have a content thread. Anytime I want to discuss my content with Hermes I can come in here and talk to the content

3:43thread. Okay and then one other one and so he also can create multiple profiles and I like seeing how he did that. I like is this button up here to the right, this profile screen. So, if we go to profiles, manage profiles, these are going to be all your different Hermes agents. In Hermes, the concept of a profile is basically just separate Hermes agents. I work with 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 different Okay, I'm going to pause right here. You use Hermes a lot. What do you think of this as a desktop tool? Are you going to

4:14switch to desk? I 100% am. This is awesome. So, what he's showing us right here is basically every profile has its own soul.md and the soul.md think of it as like the system prompt for that specific profile. Literally, 2 days ago, my Hermes was acting in a weird way, so I had to message it and say, "Hey, show me the contents of your soul.md so I can make sure that it's you know, arranged properly." And it turns out it was configured completely incorrectly. It didn't save the last changes that we made. Here in the desktop app, your soul.md is right there. You can edit it right there from the app. It looks like

4:48the Claude desktop app, so people are already going to be used to the look and feel. I think this is awesome. I think this is going to get more people onto Hermes and just makes it it it further solidifies Hermes as the agent the the go-to open-source agent harness in my opinion. Yeah, it really is. And you can see on the left, you can see all your tools and skills easily accessible, like all the apps you're connecting in, messaging, you've got artifacts in there, and then he pinned a chat. So, if you use a chat

5:14over and over again, you can pin it. Really great launch from then. Let's look at another quick story here, which is Anthropic file their S1. What do you think? Yeah, I mean, everyone saw this coming. Uh they're looks like they're going to be first. OpenAI's probably going to be right behind them. I think they're planning to IPO around I think it's something 900 billion or something like that. Um I'm definitely going to be putting some money in. I think you'd be

5:40crazy not to, but we'll see how it goes. Okay, this one is I think really dramatic. PewDiePie used to be the biggest YouTuber before um before Mr. Beast. And now he has gotten into coding. He developed something that is like chat GPT type of experience or Claude experience on your desk and bring whatever model you want into it. I'm going to let him explain why he launched

6:05it in this video here. Um but it's doing well. describe this is to explain how it came to be. When I started self-hosting, I started to try and self-host AI. And to me, that felt so powerful. Like I'm living in some sci-fi universe and it this is all on my computer. That's crazy. The point is you realize the model that you can run at home are amazing. The problem is the way you interact with the model, okay? Cuz I would at the time I was trying to self-host the UI for it to get the same experience as I was paying my subscriptions for. And I realized all

6:39these things that sort of come together and make this an amazing experience was completely missing. Where's my memory? Where's my deep research? What about the agent? What about ALL THESE SIMPLE INTEGRATIONS LIKE WEBHOOKS? I GOT TO I SPENT LIKE 2 DAYS TRYING TO INTEGRATE THAT. So that Okay, so that's what he built. Oh, it's more than just saying you've got this free LLM, go and chat with it. It is

7:02agents and images and deep research. I've got somebody here who did uh who used it. He ran a test. I love this YouTube video. What he did was he said, this is Elliot Prince. He said, I want to test the exact same prompt on what PewDiePie created, which is Odysseus, and Claude. And so you can see here, this is what it looks like in the center, standard chat window. If I were to zoom in a little bit, on the left, you can see things like chat, you've got uh email, you got calendar, you've got a cookbook, deep research, gallery. And by the way, one of my challenges with this is that he

7:36has got way too many things. Look at the notes on the bottom. You can actually write notes, you can do image editing. It's way too freaking much. I think he he went a little overboard on it. But having said that, here's what it What I'll do as well is I'm going to I'm going to actually run the same prompt in Claude here on the research mode, just so we can compare some of the outputs between the two platforms, and we'll run that as well. So that Okay, I'm going to pause it here because I want you to see the results. And obviously, the results that you get

8:01depend on the model. This loads but pretty neat. Now we should have looks like my deep research is actually done here. So we can actually get Oh, this is cool. Actually builds a visual report of everything. It's not just dumped it into a chat window. It's actually built a full document this ICP research that I went through. This is really cool. I love this. Got the sources at the bottom of where it's pulled this information from. Even pulled from a Google one of my Google Docs. We can open this as a new chat to report this as context. So we get this lovely report built from our research,

8:35save as PDF, download as HTML, or we can actually open it as a new chat here to discuss it and say what is Okay, and then obviously, we all are familiar with what you get from Claude. This is the Claude experience with the artifact on the right. I think this is I think this is really exciting to see. I have problems with it, but it's very exciting to see. What

8:57do you think? Yeah, so I think there's a market need for it for sure. I think there's going to be people that want to a better UI for the open-source models. I do think there's too much going on on the left-hand side, like you said. Like it looks a little overwhelming. And just I don't know if it's something about like this color scheme or just the vibe of the UI here, but it seems very like dev focus. Like if it I look at this and it kind of just looks like a terminal to me. So I think it's going to turn a lot

9:23of everyday people off because of that. But for the people who want the privacy, they want an easy way to use the open-source models and the frontier models all in one place, I think it's a great solution. I'm sure you dumped a ton of time and money into this, too. I will say this, one of the problems that Elliot had in this YouTube video, and of course we'll have a link to everything below, is he said, "My computer's heating up and I can't do anything else on it." And this is a challenge, and we know that Microsoft has been talking about how they're going to create computers, uh I think in the

9:51fall, that will enable this type of thing to happen more easily and actually be focused on it. Um I like it. I like it, and you're right, the user experience is very annoying to me on it. Okay, here's another one that just got released. You brought this up. What is this from Zapier? Yeah, so it looks like Zapier uh just open-sourced a full-skill

10:12stack for just go-to-market workflow. So, things like, I know it describes it down below, but things like campaign planning, lead follow-up QA, customer decks, um customer proof, like mining your data sources for customer proof, support triage, like there are so many different skills that are contained here. And it looks like it's all stuff that they were using internally, but they were like, "Hey, we're just going to open-source it." And they recommend using it inside a coding agent, like Codex, Claude Code, etc. But really, you could use this inside of any uh agent

10:43harness, is what it looks like. Yeah, I I'm seeing more and more of companies like Zapier that are And by the way, I should say they're a sponsor. They who who are saying, "We do everything internally in a systematized orderly way. Why don't we just open-source it, let others use it, and then maybe give us feed uh feedback and improve?" Um I think this is a really good trend that we're seeing. Let's go

11:01on to the next news story. This I included because Tariq from Claude Code has said that workflows are the biggest upgrade to Claude Code's capabilities since skills and sub-agents, and I said, "I got to figure out what this is." And dude, it took me hours to understand it. I'm going to show you a couple of videos that really do it well. Here's one that explains how it works through an example. Nate's

11:24always so good at this. So, I just ran this Claude Code dynamic workflow that analyzed all of my skills. You can see See that it's spun up 41 Haiku scoring agents because I have 41 skills here. And then it's feeding all of that analysis into an Opus synthesis agent. Now, because all of those agents were working in parallel, which is pretty cool, it didn't take that long,

11:42but it did take a ton of input tokens. It ate up basically 5 million input tokens, but there weren't that much to output, so it wasn't super expensive. And I ended up with this HTML file where I could now look at all of my skills. It's ranked them worst to best, and it's also giving me feedback on how it could actually go and fix all of these skills if I wanted it to. It gave me patterns and I'm going to pause it here and say that this is one example. The idea here is, Corey, what if you had a team of agents, not just one, not just 10, but hundreds,

12:12[snorts] maybe even a thousand of them, all working together in parallel to deliver results. Now, when you do that, you end up with the result like this fairly quickly, but you also end up with the situation like he said where uh let me read it here. He goes, "One workflow prompt burned through half of my $200 month subscription in 30 minutes," he

12:31says in this video. god. Really scary stuff. Um but having said that, if this is what you want, and he said he's not going to use it, others have said they're not going to use it, it's not for everyday people. If you really want this warm, So, what that dynamic workflow fixes all of these problems by not focusing on one

12:49single cloth. This is This is how they're structured to work together from Mark Kashif. spins up a series of agents, many of which will be Sonnet 4.6 by default, to go and have individual context windows to solve each problem separately. So, now we can get into the nitty-gritty. And these are the six core patterns. Okay, I'm actually just going to zoom in on one, that classify and act to give

13:11you a sense of what it's what it's like. Um Here's Here's him showing what that's like. In real world. one, classify and act, this is pretty much having the equivalent of a receptionist at the front door classifying what a task should be grouped into or which agents are responsible for said task. So, it's meant to just have a very basic language model right here. We have the task. This has some form of system prompt. Once the system prompt filters which is the responsible agent, this becomes the critical path or the chosen path. So, a common example of when you'd use this is something like inbox triaging. We have

13:49an email come in and then the AI decides, is this a bug? Is this a request for a refund? Is this an upgrade request or something along those lines? Once it classifies it, it will route it to the right agent. Another way to think about Okay. And so, these are not just a team of agents working on your project, but working in an organized way. And as he showed earlier, there are a few different ways for them to work together. What do you

14:12think? Yeah, and and Mark does such a good job of explaining things. He's a great YouTuber to follow. But in general, I mean, this like you said, this is something that I think most everyday people are probably not going to get a use out of. This is something, at least from what I can tell, that you would use in a very like in a workflow that has a bunch of moving parts and you would rather pay for speed. Basically, you're paying for speed and quality, right? It's like if you did this the old way, it's probably going to take a very long time, but it's going to get the job done. And with a,

14:43you know, Claude code workflow where it can spawn 100 or 1,000 sub agents, you're going to get a high-quality result a lot faster, but you're going to pay for it. So, I think something that you'd only use under very specific circumstances and most people would probably never use it all. But still, the the capability itself, I think, is incredible. Like this I don't think he was exaggerating when he said this is the biggest capability

15:07update since skills and sub agents. That's the keyword that I missed. It's capability. It's not like the biggest most used feature, but it's the most it's a very powerful feature. Right. Okay, next big announcement, Microsoft Scout. It is their agent. Imagine having open claw in all the Microsoft products. Here's an example Here are a few

15:24examples of what you could do with it. Is there a meeting you're trying to coordinate? You've got to sync a team meeting across three time zones next week. Well, Scout can pick the time, pull the brief material from the team's chat and email, and block the calendar for 30 minutes so you can actually read it before the call. So, another example might be that a deliverable might be at risk. So, you've got something to do on Friday. Scout's going to spot that decision that you have not made even inside of a team thread for 4 days, and it's going to flag you with enough time to chase it before Friday becomes the

15:56problem. Quick one Okay, and essentially what we're looking at here is their OpenClaw addition to Microsoft software. Here's uh just an overview of how it works, and then I can show you an example. has its own identity. It lives within your Microsoft 365 tenant. Scout works where you work, uh joining group chats and teams, handling threads

16:18in Outlook. So, on top of that, it coordinates meetings across time zones, flags important ones, generates prep material, and blocks time. Okay, all the stuff that you and I are familiar with. What do you think of Microsoft adding this in? So, my question is how I mean, how does this differ from Copilot? Like, Copilot has the ability to do all these things, right? Is this just a more Is Is this separate? I mean, is this more integrated into the work that So, I'll preface it by saying I'm not in the Microsoft ecosystem. I hate Microsoft products. I think they already have so much distribution in the enterprise. Like, it's going to

16:51get used. But, I think people that are on Microsoft products are going to struggle to know when do I use Copilot versus when do I use Scout? Scout seems to be a little more user-friendly and more personalized. So, my guess is people would default to that. But, I guess we'll just have to wait a couple of weeks and kind of see what the

17:06sentiment is inside the enterprise. I showed you one user, and it really is an enterprise user. So, an enterprise use case. I couldn't find a a of people on YouTube who are using it. but I like this guy, Shane Young, because he spent What is it? 23 minutes just going and using it. And you can see here, a standard chat experience with an

17:24agent. He asked it to control a browser. Let's see. So, I went over here, and so I'm like, "Hey, can you all get in my YouTube channel and grab my latest video transcript file for me?" Just want to see what it do. And it opened a browser using something called Playwright, and it, you know, went to that website. Now, it couldn't get signed in, and so it was like, "Oh, hey, I can't get signed in, you know, and and it tells me like it's not going

17:45to handle my usernames and passwords." That makes sense. It's not my password manager. But, it's like, all right, I can go here and do it. I can scrape it, or I can use this uh YouTube DLP installed. Okay, all the usual like benefits and frustrations that we have with agents he's experiencing in there. Um All right, I'd love to see this come to

18:05Apple products. Let's see what's next. saying that in the next uh iOS update, which should I think is in the next couple of weeks, that we might be getting something like that. So, I'm curious to see what that looks like. Let's see how Apple does it. Okay. Uh Gemma 4 12 B, what is this? Why do we have this on the agenda for

18:24today? This is just Google's uh one of their open-source models. It's just the newest version of it. Not the biggest update by any means, but for the people out there who like to use the open-source models, this is just the the latest state of the art from Google as of uh yesterday, as of date of recording. And we are seeing more and more people want their models on their computers. I don't believe in it. I hope we don't end up in a world like that, but I do understand that I do want some um for basic things I don't need to go to the internet. Okay, finally, this just

18:54came out now. What is this? So, this is Replit's new partnership with Shopify. So, Replit's agent can literally vibe code you a custom storefront in Shopify. You can add products directly from Replit, as far as I understand, and then all you need to do is log in to Shopify, claim the store, set up payments, and you're open for business. It's kind of their claim there. So, this is just Shopify's attempt to, I guess, partner with a company to uh create almost like the lovable of storefronts versus building that internally. So, it makes sense, and I'm sure this is going to explode business for Shopify. Now, it's even that much

19:30easier for anybody to spin up a storefront. Everything that we are seeing is such a threat to Shopify, and I really admire how they're not backing away, how they're not sitting still. Instead, they're saying, "We're coming in." Meanwhile, WordPress, come on, guys. Let me Let me have all this stuff, too. It's interesting that they're not doing it themselves, that they're actually basically telling Replit to do it. But however you get it done, let me vibe code my site, let me chat with it. Don't make me use those old templates. Great

19:56great feature, Shopify plus Replit. That's the news for this week. Did we miss anything? I don't think so. I think we hit on just about everything. Codex Sites is the coolest in my mind, uh as well as the Hermes desktop app. I think those two are huge additions to come out of the last week, and I'm sure next week will have just as much, if not more. So,

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