Left Europe. Engineer optimizing for leverage and asymmetric upside. Substack below
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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... ⬇️
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
Eli Roster retweeted
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
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
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
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
it’s the community, the relationships & the people who help you win.
technology evolves. human networks endure.
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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
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
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eliroster.substack.com
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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🤖 Made with AI
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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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🤖 Made with AI
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
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eliroster.substack.com
🤖 Made with AI
people complain they never have enough time to do the things they actually care about
but how much of your life is still running manually?
today, you can build workflows that handle repetitive tasks automatically
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your agent can live in Telegram, execute tasks, remind you, summarize information & handle boring admin
you don't need more hours
you need fewer things demanding your attention
optimize everything you can
life will give you enough problems you can't automate
Learn about Hermes agent ASAP
Soon writing a full article on it:
eliroster.substack.com