Massive congrats to the first-ever class of 7-Day AIS Challenge graduates! These builders showed up, put in the work, and shipped 7 builds in 7 days, from beginner foundations all the way through advanced territory. April 2026 Graduates: 🎓 Antra Verma 🎓 Darshan Patel 🎓 Grant G. 🎓 Takumi Nozawa Finishing the challenge isn't easy. It means watching the lessons, doing the actual builds, hitting every checkpoint, and submitting a capstone that proves you can put it all together. These four did exactly that. If you've been on the fence about starting the challenge, let this be your sign. 7 days, 7 builds, zero fluff. You can move at your own pace, but the structure is there to take you from day-one beginner to advanced builder by the end. Huge respect to our April grads. Can't wait to see who joins the Graduates wall in May. 🚀 Cheers, Nate #AISChallenge

My whole life I've been the guy who saw too much at once. Pattern recognition running hot. Five threads open simultaneously. Brain wired like a switchboard, not a freeway. For 50 years that's been labeled everything from "scattered" to "too intense" to "just focus, Ryan." I learned to dim myself down to fit rooms I was never built for. However it's my superpower which afforded me a great life. That Being said my goal this year is to do more with less. Started in early 2024 with chat- InVideo- YouTube. Now Look at the world and what's available. I sat down five days ago and stopped dimming. What I built this week (from scratch) Inspired in part by Nate Serial info expression, this group : - Claude (writing, ops, systems thinking) — my strategic partner - ChatGPT (voice, brainstorm) - Perplexity (systems architecture) - Gemini (long-form multi-source synthesis) - NotebookLM (deep research) - Grok (real-time) - Manus (Back up-automation backbone) Legacy tool - Obsidian Valhalla vault — 250+ files, fully interlinked - Craft for fast capture - GitHub / VS Code / Codex for dev - MONSTER external drive as the physical backbone - MCP servers stitched through the Mac Mini M4 - SOUL.md — the north star document that ties identity → brand → architecture And here's the honest part: It didn't work on day one. Or day two. Day three I was rebuilding file structures I'd just rebuilt. Day four I hit memory walls, sandboxing walls, notarization walls, and my own impatience. Somewhere in there I repeated myself to three different AIs in four different ways and wanted to throw the Mac across the room. But here's what the frustration actually was: It was training. Every reconfiguration taught me what I actually needed. Every broken plugin showed me where my thinking was sloppy. Every memory reset forced me to get clearer about what mattered. The tools weren't failing me. They were mirroring me — showing me where my own systems were unclear.

📌 Which One to Pick? Choose OpenClaw if you want: ✔ Wide platform coverage and plugins ✔ A mature community with lots of ready-made skills ✔ Multi-agent orchestration across services. Choose Hermes Agent if you want: ✔ Agents that learn and build skills automatically ✔ Deep task performance and repeatable workflows ✔ A system that gets stronger over time Many builders even run both together OpenClaw for broad orchestration and Hermes for deep task mastery. The image shows OpenClaw acting as a central orchestration layer that coordinates multiple systems and agents, while delegating complex, hands-on execution to Hermes, which performs deep tasks using its rich toolset and returns results back to the orchestrator.

Claude just dropped a feature that completely changes how your team builds with AI. It's called Claude Design, and it lets you create a full design guide for your business so Claude actually understands your brand voice, styling, colors, typography, and tone. Once it's set up, everything your team makes (slide decks, prototypes, websites, landing pages, internal docs) comes out feeling like you actually built it. In this video, I break down what Claude Design is and why it matters, how to set it up the right way to get the most out of it, and how to plug it into Claude Code so everything you ship stays on-brand. If you've ever had AI spit out something that felt totally off, this fixes it.

In this video I show you how to build a fully autonomous trading bot on Claude Code, one that researches the market, places real trades on Alpaca, manages its own stops, and sends you daily recaps on a cron schedule. No Python process running anywhere. Claude is the bot. Five cloud routines handle the full trading day: pre-market research, market-open execution, a midday scan, an end-of-day summary, and a Friday weekly review. Memory lives in markdown files on your main branch, and hard strategy rules gate every order before it fires.