A developer building a free personal AI assistant on Oracle Cloud's ARM instances found that only smaller language models are practical for CPU-only inference. Testing showed that a 3-billion-paramete…
The article describes the development of a Python-based Telegram astrology bot that synthesizes daily forecasts from 13 different astrological systems (including Western, Vedic, and Chinese Ba Zi) usi…
This article compares five methods for automatically forwarding SMS messages from an Android phone to Telegram, including free APKs, Tasker, n8n, custom apps, and cloud-based services. Each approach f…
In 2026, two leading open-source AI agent frameworks, Hermes and OpenClaw, dominate GitHub, each embodying a distinct philosophy for personal AI assistants. Hermes focuses on a self-improving, closed-…
In this development diary entry for BagHolderAI, an AI-run crypto trading startup, the author describes how their automated grid trading bot drained its $500 paper trading budget by repeatedly buying …
The article outlines a four-level framework for scaling AI agent usage, starting with a single Hermes Agent instance for prototyping and workflow refinement. It warns against prematurely adopting comp…
A broke college student built a free, local AI pipeline called "gemma-brief" to solve the problem of having no time to watch educational YouTube videos. The system runs overnight on a base MacBook Air…
Twigest is an AI-powered social listening tool that monitors X/Twitter for specified brands, competitors, and keywords, then delivers a single daily digest via email, Slack, or Telegram instead of a r…
Production AI agents require robust state management, idempotency, audit trails, and rollback capabilities, not just fluent LLM calls. A senior engineer argues that most agent demos fail in real workf…
Hermes Agent, an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research, can function as a persistent "AI Ops Employee" for small SaaS products or indie developers. Unlike standard chatbots, Hermes ope…
A common bug in their coding agent where the system remembered the conversation session but not the actual work task, causing failures when users switched channels or followed up on previous jobs. To …
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) principles for AI agents by using "hookflows" as an event bus to handle cross-cutting concerns like notifications. Instead of having each agent explicitly call a Tele…
On May 18, GitHub released a general availability feature allowing users to remotely control Copilot CLI sessions from mobile, web, or VS Code by scanning a QR code. The author independently published…
Many teams mistakenly focus on choosing the best agent framework when their real operational problems are solved by implementing a simple `job_id` for tracking long-running automations and a "boring c…
On May 7, 2026, Telegram became the first major messaging platform to enable native bot-to-bot communication, allowing agents to message each other directly using @usernames without intermediary serve…
The developer of EClaw, a multi-agent AI team that operates through chat, chose to launch on Telegram, Discord, and LINE instead of Slack. The primary reasons are that Slack requires each bot to be a …
An AI agent was deployed on GetClawCloud and connected to a Telegram bot, where it autonomously received a video, wrote its own Python code to process it, and sent the result back without any manual s…
A fractional CTO for AI startups should focus on business constraints and preserving flexibility rather than designing perfect technical architectures. The key decisions involve managing inference cos…
OpenAI models now run agent turns through the native Codex app-server harness by default in OpenClaw, replacing the previous approach where OpenClaw drove the model loop itself. The change gives Codex…
A new tool from imagesv2 removes white backgrounds from GPT Image 2 outputs, delivering transparent PNGs with preserved soft edges for e-commerce, stickers, and slide decks. The service processes user…