Left Europe. Engineer optimizing for leverage and asymmetric upside. Substack below

Joined April 2021
EVERY php website just became a TARGET for an ai agent one agent can now scan, find a vulnerability & exploit it at Light speed It's not one hacker getting better it's 1000s of agents doing it simultaneously i wrote about this before it became obvious 🫡 See in next post ⬇️
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the danger for ai startups isn't that intelligence becomes cheap it's that everyone gets access to the same cheap intelligence at roughly the same time your product can improve overnight so can your competitor's what can't they copy overnight?
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forget grokbot, muse, dots & the next shiny ai tool learn to use Hermes agent rent a $6/mo vps, connect deepseek & control it through telegram give it a cron job, a business project or an api to work with the real leverage isn't finding the best tool it's... ⬇️
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it's learning to build systems that work for you 24/7 for a few bucks a month 3 things i'd automate with Hermes agent: → a research agent that finds asymmetric investment opportunities while you sleep ⬇️
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→ a content engine that turns youtube videos into tweets, reddit posts & newsletters → a business agent that monitors leads, follows up & runs workflows 24/7 one agent. dozens of workflows more experiments on my substack ↓ eliroster.substack.com
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Nobody knows who Jean Phil is. 35.8M views. A $12M memecoin. That's not an accident. It's a 4-step distribution loop anyone can copy 🧵
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1 ceo 1 person who knows how to orchestrate ai agents 10+ agents doing the work of entire teams => That's the new tech company model the bottleneck is no longer how many people you can hire & manage it's how well you can direct intelligence & turn it into output
The models are now smarter than the average human, which means the models should be making more decisions than the humans in your organization.
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people are panicking about @Ledger devices being compromised but this is exactly why you don’t buy a hardware wallet from some random southeast asian reseller your hardware wallet is the one thing protecting your keys that's why you must buy directly from the @Ledger website
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self-custody is one of the greatest things about crypto but freedom comes with responsibility. you are your own bank, which means there's no customer support when you mess up if you're not willing to take security seriously, a bank might be the better option for you
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i write more deep articles on my free Substack ↓ eliroster.substack.com
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saas is dead video games are dead music is dead movies are dead apps are dead stop trying to build things anyone can replicate instead: build a community surround yourself with smart people get invited into rooms you couldn't access alone travel & meet fascinating people
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say yes to unexpected projects get sunlight & touch some grass read. (a lot) invest most of what you earn be grateful. live your life
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everyone thinks ai agents will destroy software moats but tech has always been replaced: cashiers become self-checkouts taxis become autonomous cybercabs the real moat was never the code it was knowing the right people, earning trust & building a community that grows with you
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it’s the community, the relationships & the people who help you win. technology evolves. human networks endure. subscribe to my substack below for more details eliroster.substack.com
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as AI gets better, there’s a risk young people get worse at thinking for themselves why spend hours figuring out how to solve a problem when you can ask an LLM, try its answer, iterate 2-3 times & move on? that convenience comes with a hidden cost your brain gets less practice
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don’t let AI do all the thinking struggle with the problem build your own mental models design systems try things that might fail give your brain hard problems to work on it’s still far more powerful than any LLM you can access today 📑 eliroster.substack.com
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We're DROWNING in AI tools every day there’s a new agent, a new subscription, a new wrapper stop chasing them pick one open-source agent like Hermes, learn it deeply & build with it scrape the web build automations connect your apps manage your own models & token costs . . ⬇️
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. . create projects teach it your workflows make it better over time the goal isn’t to have access to the most AI tools the goal is to build a system you actually control eventually, you can have an agent handling repetitive work for you, your projects & even your family ⬇️
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the ROI of learning one powerful open-source agent could be enormous there is no limit to your ability to imagine what to build think asymmetrically learn Hermes build with Hermes compound your leverage 📖 eliroster.substack.com
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