Top Repos Explained

0:00These six projects on GitHub are blowing up this week. I'm going to walk you through every one of the hot new ones because they're making agents more useful. They're putting AI on our computers and on our phones. They're replacing paid software with free alternatives and they're doing so much more. Woo. Last year I didn't even know what a GitHub repo was. This year because of Claude code all I'm doing is playing with GitHub. I'm going to walk you through all of them, how it matters and why it matters to you. Let's get started. Presented by Zapier, the AI

0:28automation company. Adam. These are the hot new repos on GitHub. Last year I didn't even know what the hell GitHub was, let alone what to do with it. You taught me how to use Claude code. I'm now putting these things into Claude code. I'm getting value out of them. I've been looking what the hottest new ones are. I thought you and I could go over them together. So I made this slide. Actually had Claude create these slides for me to go over them individually to see what is hot on GitHub. The first thing that I see is this, Google AI Edge Gallery. What is

0:57this? Yeah, I mean Have you heard of AI on the edge? Does that make any sense to you? Do you know what that is? No, I never heard that phrase before. So, you know, you're familiar with these very large language models. Models are also getting smaller. We're building bigger and bigger ones. They're also getting smaller and smaller. You can run it on your phone. You can run it on your computer. And in a lot of cases, you just don't need this like wildly powerful huge model. If you want to run it on your phone, you want to run it off internet, you want it to be fast, you

1:25need a tiny model and this gallery is making those tiny models available in like a little app store on your phone. Okay, and this is their iOS version. They're basically showing me, "Hey, we're telling you you can put this on your phone. We're actually going to create a demo here app that shows you can put it on your phone." The big takeaway for a builder like me is I now have the ability to put these LLMs on my own devices, on my own computer so that

1:50I can access them for free. Um I think that's interesting. I'm not at a point where I want to try that yet, but I like that I could do that. Let's go on to the next one. Yep. All right. This one's really interesting for me. As somebody who just loves to learn, I've been watching people on X talk about how they're using their open Claude to learn. This one's been really interesting because what it's doing is here. Let's just say the

2:12name. It's Deep Tutor. And it created an open-source educational platform that has basic things like here. Let me take a Let me show you this. This one is my favorite. You get to write with the help of of AI side by side. This is one of the things that I love about VS code that I can actually bring up the document I'm working on in the center. And then on the right, I chat with I chat with

2:37Claude or some of the other LLMs. They're bringing it here. I also love how they do this like step-by-step education. It's essentially just an education app that we now can use for free. It doesn't really apply to business, but I think it's interesting. What do you think? Yeah, I love it. I love these these like niched down apps that have a point of view on here's how you should learn,

2:59here's the interfaces you should have. You pointed it out. Being able to chat and have a document side by side is so powerful. And if I'm taking notes, I want to take some notes. I want the AI to take some notes. I want it to web search. And I want to have both those things up in front of me. That's just

3:14not possible on ChatGPT or or Claude.ai. So I love these these tools. Plus, I'd point out this is open source. Anybody could use this. You could download it for free. And there's a bunch of businesses out there trying to build this and sell it to you. I don't think that that you're going to need to buy something like this. These free tools are really excellent. So here's the part that I do think is helpful for me. If I were going to create an editor for us, sometimes or even frankly, honestly, an editor for me that is a little bit more user-friendly than VS code with Claude on the side and

3:47markdown in the middle, I could just point my Claude code chat session at this repo and say, "I like the way this looks. Get me this look. Keep some of the functionality in here. I don't need the rest. Let's build starting from this instead of starting from scratch." Does that make sense? Absolutely. One of the coolest ways to use these open-source repos is is not to say, "Well, I'm going to download it and install it." It's I'm going to download it, modify it, tell it how I want it to be different. You can also contribute some of those changes back up into this one. If you're like,

4:18"Oh, everyone should have this feature." Now everybody, you know, you didn't know about GitHub a year ago, but now you could also be an open-source contributor. There's nothing stopping you from from sharing that with everybody else. So that's the these kind of create this one central place where a bunch of people are building something really cool together. Yeah, you got your personal tutor bots. I had Claude I worked with Claude to take notes on them and to get more information. The personal tutor bots are helpful. The co-writer is especially interesting to

4:47me. Let's move on to the next one. Number three this week, Hermes agent. This one has been just blowing up. I've been watching Chris from Rosebud, an app that I love that I wish the freaking Chris would spend more time improving instead of just getting lost in this. But for our purpose, it's actually helping. He's been studying this and he's saying, "Look, open Claude went from zero to 40 stars on GitHub within

5:0961 days. Hermes did it within 45 days." It just keeps growing. So then I spent some time on X looking at what people are saying about what they love about it. I'm going to bring up a couple of articles here that I've seen, a couple of posts. Uh here, I actually think that it's

5:25better to look at this one. Ran it side by side. The core difference in one sentence, open Claude stores everything and searches is searches it. Hermes keeps almost nothing in the prompt and retrieves the rest on demand. Um it has four memory layers. This part has been really fascinating to watch um because I cannot stand how open Claude does memory. It's it's nice. It's just

5:48not getting it. This guy literally tested Hermes agent versus open Claude side by side. Hermes won and it wasn't even close. It built a website faster. It gave live updates the whole time. Open Claude went silent. Hermes designed a cleaner page using the exact same AI model. And then Hermes did something open Claude can't do at all. It learned from the task. This one's been coming up a lot in the tweets that

6:11I see that it's learning from the tasks. And um And anyway, it's that's the part that's interesting. This is this is the hot new AI agent. I started with open Claude. I'm seeing a lot of my friends on WhatsApp groups just say, "Let's go and and experiment with Hermes." Though I haven't seen anyone yet go all in on it. Yeah, what I what I think is missing in

6:32open Claude is really any point of view. It's not surprising. It was the first one. It kind of created this trend of of harnesses that anyone can use. And the problem is it it it's too general purpose. Like it says there, it stores everything. It tries to search everything. It's trying to do all things for all people. And because it doesn't have a point of view on how to learn, on how to build, on how to serve as your executive assistant or whatever, it's not going to show up efficiently. And that's also why Claude and others are so hostile against it. That's why they're removing this open access that's been

7:07there cuz it just burns tokens and doesn't give that reliable results. And that burns more tokens, right? You're not happy with the site it built. You say, "Spend five more hours building." It's going to do that. It's going to cost a bunch of money. You're not going to be that happy. What I love about a tool like this is that it cares about learning. That's this tool's point of view. That's what it's going to get really good at. And so I'd expect that a month after using it, it's going to show up so much better and mine is going to act a lot differently than yours. Where

7:35if we both run open Claude, they're going to basically run the same the same flow between I don't know about that. I actually think that if we both run open Claude, it's going to run differently. The other problem that I have is if I run it on Monday, it's going to run differently than on Tuesday. And there are Well, it's a little bit random is is my is my point. It's kind of rolling the AI dice cuz it's relying too much on AI being able to sort through this massive amount of context. Where Hermes has a point of view on how to store and how to

8:00search that context. And so it's going to be like a like a point of a spear rather than, you know, a massive bomb. All right, that's number three. Hot one this week. Number four is Multica. All right. Here's the thing. I did an interview soon after open Claude came out with this guy, Banu. It became my top YouTube

8:22video on my brand new channel. And you know, I'm going to hit pause on it cuz I want to keep keep the screenshot. 91,000 views. The thing that he had realized, Adam, was that if you have open Claude, it is meant to create sub-agents. If you have sub-agents in open Claude beyond three or four, it becomes murder to keep track of what they're doing. And so he created what he calls mission control. You can see on the left you've got all the different

8:44agents that he had with their tasks. Like one actually does content, the other one does um does some programming and so on. And then he's got this a Kanban board of projects. After he did this, uh Ryan Carson came out with an open-source plat version of this. Um Banu decided he would sell his as a service. He goes, "Look, you don't have to figure out how to do any of this stuff. Just pay me. I think it's 100 bucks a month for mission control and I'll run it for you." Then Paper Claude came out with an open-source. I did an interview with the founder of Paper

9:15Claude. That took off. What we're seeing here is yet another version of this in Multica that is And here's what people on on Twitter are saying. They're saying that this one is meant more than Paper Claude Paper Claude for humans and agents to work on together. And I did an interview with an entrepreneur who is bringing her humans into Paper Claude. I don't think it's it's terrible experience, but I think what they've done here is say, "You know what? If it's not terrible, we're going to make it perfect for or we're going to try to get it just right for humans and agents to work together in this Kanban

9:52board." And I want to show you one other tweet that I found. I like to look on to Actually, I'm constantly on there. This is This is their their video talking about what they have in mind. And look, people are kind of tweaking Dota, the guy who created Paperclip. I don't think that the tweaking is necessary. What we're really looking at is another alternative that is just making these agents easier

10:16to use. Yeah, I I think it's it's easier to use and it's it's making them making them show up a little bit more as as organizable co-workers. You know, something I I like to think about a lot, Andrew, is that there's almost nobody that you or I have met where the AI is limiting their ability to create. It's 100%

10:39I'm the limiter. Right. I can't communicate enough of a clear plan to the AI where it can execute. If I was better at talking, if I was better at planning, if I was better at orchestrating all these tasks, the AI will produce a better result and work for longer on my behalf. Right now, I don't have any agents that are running and it's not the AI's fault. It's because I couldn't create a good enough plan to keep them busy while you and I were talking. It's tools like this

11:07Right. that make that possible. As you start to to engage with these orchestration tools, you can create bigger plans, you can work on them, you can have AI help build the the orchestration plan. But then, when you're eating lunch, when you're talking to a friend, you can continue building in the background. And this is what it takes. The the tools alone, Claude Code, Codex, they're not capable of it on their own yet. You need a layer like this on top in order to make that possible. Yeah, this this is it's really exciting to see this. I think the next step for all of the project management apps that you and I

11:39know is to consider adding agents. Like, don't just make it a task for my human beings. Bring in an agent, let me do it and we're seeing that happen here. By the way, I should say as always, this will be downloadable. If you go into the show notes, you will see this full report that I generate for myself so that I can see what's going on uh with all these projects and you can follow along with all the links and everything that we've got here guiding this

11:59conversation. All right. All right, this one I think everybody can understand. You don't even need to really be a developer. You just get to use this. Here's the thing. This is like taking a an app that costs money and making it for free. And they they start off right here in the description. You want to take this Screen Studio which does screen share which essentially does what Adam you and

12:21I are doing but costs 29 bucks a month. We're going to make it simple and we're going to make it 100% free. It's This is like the since the beginning of open source, this is what open source has done. Right. Democratize software. Yep. I don't even see what there is to add on this except I have to tell you I never get angry at software that's charging me $20 a month. I don't understand where the frustration is. Like, I cannot stand that I'm paying 29 bucks a month but I do see the value of all right, I have it on my computer and maybe I can tweak it

12:51and adjust it and make it my own. And I'm super cheap as you know, Adam. I must drive you crazy with how freaking cheap I am. [snorts] Yeah, penny penny wise, pound foolish from time to time. I you know, I I think you hit one is like these are customizable. The reality is you're not going to customize it, I'm not going to customize it. We're busy,

13:09we've got other stuff going on. Right. I agree. I like to pay for a reliable service. But of all the things on this list, this is the one that like after we get off the call here, I'm going to go and download it. I want to try this. I'm really curious. I I think these sorts of tools that are again very niche, that have a point of view and that can just solve it. If it

13:29works, man, I'm going to be converted. I'm going to be using this tool. I do I do agree. I do Actually, when they say definitely not a one-to-one clone, this is where I do get excited that a lot of times software that is that is not open source, the closed source stuff is more expensive and it's it's just doing way too much. I do like when they you know why, Andrew? Do you know why those those software as a service things

13:49are are more expensive and do too much? Because they're trying to get more customers and each new feature is another potential customer. Regular SaaS has to be all things to all people. I'm one person. When I have an open source tool or when I can customize a tool, I get a a solution that's custom to me, that solves my needs only and that might not work for you. And that's where AI plus open source is really amazing. I can customize something that works perfectly for me and makes no

14:17sense to anybody else. My needs are met. It was free. It's it's an unbeatable value proposition. All right, they do of course love it on Hacker News and they do love it on Twitter. The Screen Studio charges $89 for this. I don't know if that's exactly the one-to-one but it's she's talking about how much she uh it can do. And then, look at the the level of enthusiasm. I really admire when somebody can do Actually, this is where I will actually use the word jealous. I'm so jealous that by just breaking down what this freaking thing does, he's getting almost three quarters of a million views. Unreal. Unreal and

14:52this thing just keeps trending up uh since the conversation. Is it shameful that I'm a little jealous? No. You don't care. A little bit. [snorts] Oh, it is. Wow, I didn't think you would care about that. All right, Get out there and create it, man. [laughter] I got to jump in. While I'm doing this, this thing's going to blow up and then he's going to be jealous of me. He's

15:09going to start writing up about Andrew. I have a feeling he's not going to be jealous and I have a feeling that my jealousy will move away. All right, this is Andrej Karpathy's skills. Tell me what this is because this is something I could put into a Claude Code if I understand it a little bit better. What am I looking at here? This guy has no visual even. So, scroll down to the list of of skills. There's four here. There's the the scroll up a little bit. It's to the table right here, the solution, the principles. Nope, you skipped past it again. Problem, solution. This is it

15:36right here. Yeah, so you know, this guy I think everyone's aware of him at this point. Like, massive AI researcher. He helped kick off this whole boom of GenAI and he's still absolutely at the forefront. He's constantly in podcast, he's constantly doing new research and he's talking about what the most advanced models are still not capable of. Well, we can take his insights and what this person has done is is Andrej did not create this but it's inspired by

16:02him. I thought he did but I guess not. No, I thought he did but I guess I guess not. No, it's inspired by him and and I would encourage you, go and listen to this guy's podcast, listen to to the things that he's talking about. What this person has done is they've taken these insights from Andrej and they said, "Hey, you know, he's telling us what these models aren't capable of but because he's described it so well and because he knows it so well, I'm going to take those and turn those into skills that you can add into your Claude Code instance and now you get the benefit of

16:32this man who genuinely understands where things are going and how they should work and you can combine that with the models that you're able to download today." Okay. Um And even Elon Musk is is on board. There you go. Is this the real Elon Musk? It is. Wow, this is like a rare Elon Musk tweet that doesn't have millions of views or

16:50or an insult to someone. All right. Okay. [laughter] But this is this is something that I could actually use, right? You know my projects, right? I'm creating research tool, I'm creating a note-taking app for myself, etc. Just plug this in and I have a better experience. Yep. All right, like I said, all of these will be available for you if you want to download it in this beautiful

17:12slide HTML. And I'm curious to see how this does. If it gets fewer than 200 views, I'm going to delete it. If it gets more than 2,000 views, it's not that much, I'm going to show off and my wife's going to be sick of me by the end of the weekend. We'll find out next week and if it works, you'll see us again next week. Bye,

17:28everyone. Bye. Hey, my agent says that if you watch this far, you're going to want to subscribe and Google thinks that if you watch this far, you'll want to watch that video.