Hello everyone, I just recently came across Jake's videos and I learned a lot from them. I just installed this or the ICM skill and let it rework my whole Claude code folder. After seeing how effective it is and making it more my style, i came up with two questions: 1. My first question is: does it matter how big the main folder gets? So can I have one main folder with every app, personal workflow, or project in there? With the whole ICM process? Or is it better to split that up and make seperate folders for different uses cases? 2. My second question: how can I use ICM with Obsidian efficiently? ICM already creates a bit of a memory/context for every part of the folder, but how can I make Obsidian a strong extra pillar of memory in there. So i can have a shared vault with my business partner and our projects are in line with the company's state. Please help me out with this. I'm open to learning and thank you for reading.

We have spent the last few years teaching AI how to answer questions. Now the conversation is shifting toward something much more interesting What if AI could actually complete the workflow? Instead of: Write me an email. You could have a system that Finds the relevant information → decides what needs to be done → drafts the email → checks it against your rules → updates the right system → asks for approval when necessary → moves to the next task. That sounds powerful. But building something like this reliably is much harder than connecting a few AI tools. A useful agent needs more than intelligence. It needs context, access to the right information, clear instructions, memory, tool permissions, error handling, verification, and boundaries around what it is allowed to do. And that raises an important question: Where should we actually trust AI to act autonomously and where should a human still be in the loop? For example: 🟢 Low-risk: research, organizing information, summarizing, drafting 🟡 Medium-risk: updating databases, sending internal messages, making recommendations 🔴 High-risk: financial decisions, deleting important data, sending sensitive information, making decisions that directly affect customers The goal probably isn't to create an AI that does everything. It’s to design a system where AI handles the right parts of a workflow while humans remain responsible for the decisions that actually matter. So I’d love to brainstorm with the group What is ONE real workflow in your work or business that you would trust an AI agent to handle from start to finish?

This is the only place I can talk local ai without getting blank stares, so let's actually see what everyone is running. I'll go first. here's the whole stack: HARDWARE ▸ Alita - personal dual-3090 rig at home. 48gb total vram, 128gb ram. kept totally separate from anything work related. MODELS ▸ primary: qwen3.6-35b-a3b on gpu0, served by llama.cpp. mixture-of-experts, ~3b params fire per token. q8 kv cache, 256k context. ▸ router: a ~9b qwen on ollama out front, deciding what's actually worth waking the big model for. ▸ embeddings: qwen3-embedding 0.6b and nomic-embed-text, same ollama instance. AGENT LAYER ▸ hermes, running as Alita here. three daily jobs: morning brief, work email summary, personal email summary. all land in discord. ▸ weekly maintenance runs on a different scheduler with hermes as the watchdog, on purpose. runner dies, watcher yells. watcher dies, the daily jobs go quiet and I notice. two failure domains instead of one. MEMORY ▸ obsidian vault as the source of truth. ▸ hybrid search over it - bm25 plus local embeddings, running in-process. no extra service to babysit. ▸ qdrant for the vector-store work that actually needs one. INTERFACE ▸ the observatory - a front end I built over the vault. not a dashboard. a command center I actually work from: projects as boards, sessions as a timeline, drafts moving through a publishing pipeline, all of it reading and writing the same markdown files. The one piece I would not give up is the vault. the models change every few months. the notes are forever. The thing that taught me the most had nothing to do with hardware. I did kill a pile of containers nothing was consuming - n8n, a web ui, a couple databases - but that was housekeeping. the real one was giving up on folders. I spent a long time sorting notes into the right directory and it was wrong again six months later. Now every note carries its own frontmatter and the folders are just a cache I regenerate from it. Type isn't a folder. Status isn't a folder. The structure lives in the file.

Well, welcome to one of my very few posts I have out here on this community. I've been working on a lot of different things over the last, I don't know, since last year when I really put the foot on the gas building out different accounting software. I got caught in the cycle of build, tear down, build, tear down, build, tear down, and never fully launching. So, here's my win for the last week: I was able to push my website into production. I do have a customer-facing website, but the big deal was that I was able to use a number of different coding tools to connect my CRM, build out a content creation workflow, build out the branding, and also harden my AI harness. Now I'm able to go out and not worry about prompting injections to hit my OS and the different things that might be out there when people are targeting AI agents that do things like my harness will do—going out, finding leads, improving lead identification, and the different signals for what the potential client and lead might want. The win was that I didn't do it at my desk; I did it from my phone while I was enjoying my life. That was the most important thing for me as an entrepreneur when I first started this side gig cycle of trial and error back in 2008, a few years before my first son was born. The hardest part was trying to get to a point where I could not feel guilty for working. Right now, I can do that. "Prompt and walk away" is not what these AI vampire bros want you to do right now, right? I think everyone is saying, "Hey, there's opportunity cost; we need to step on the gas. AI is cheap, computing is cheap, etc.But for me, freedom is everything. Now, I'm actively further than I've ever been—embarrassingly further than I've ever been—in all of my businesses. Reaching out has always been the bottleneck for me, so now I'm actively getting leads and actively reaching out. So the next time I post, I hope to post some deals that I've closed. I hope to share with you some of the contracts, redacted, just so that you can understand what deals are out there and how you guys can do the same for yourselves.