This weekend I will be mentoring a youth group (15-20 years old) on the biggest university in South America, USP. We're doing a hackaton to create in 3 days the seeds of a Comic Book that will explore the benefits and perils of AI to the workforce and life in general. I was invited to serve as a mentor on AI related issues. I will bring the results next week!! Have a great weekend, High Tea and Lyceum meeting!!!

Something I read in The Age of AI made me rethink how I use ICM. My natural tendency is to approach ICM through business process orchestration. I define the stages, describe the steps, and try to make the whole workflow explicit. But sometimes I take this too far and turn the stages into strict rules. The result becomes over-engineered, uses more tokens, and often works less naturally with AI. I recently had the opposite experience. We replaced a detailed process with a simple skill that described the essential pattern, and the results were much better. That made something click for me. Maybe stages should act as an interpretable scaffold, rather than a fixed algorithm. They can clarify the purpose, context, constraints, handoffs, and expected outcome, while still allowing the AI to work out the best path. AI may free us from having to define an entire process in advance. But if we specify less, evaluating the outcome becomes even more important. We need to check the quality of the result, capture what we learn, and use that learning to improve the scaffold over time. Does anyone else start with ICM and then gradually slip back into rigid, rule-based process design? How do you decide what needs to be specified and what should be left for the AI to infer?

Finally giving my view on JEV in my classic history and fundamentals fashion but... This one is a little different. It's my first time making a fully animated, pixel art video, and I'd honestly love to know what you think of the style. Should I make more like this? I made an ICM that fully automates most of the process i was able to get this video built in about three or four hours. Talk about a fun animation style right? Might redo a bunch of the videos in the classroom with this.

Hey everyone, pointing me to an existing thread is enough if this was already asked. I am confused about how ICM connects to Grok Bot and Hermes Agent bots. I went through the course and talked it over with an agent, but I seem to be missing something foundational and I keep going in circles. My concrete question. I want one orchestrator in Hermes Agent, with specific workflows running on different subscriptions. I have a few of them. Writing on GLM 5.3, coding on Grok 4.7, that kind of split. With a single agent per subscription the ICM setup is crystal clear to me, I have built the folders and seen the results. But I have no idea how to wire it that way inside Hermes Agent. Related confusion. What is Grok Bot versus Hermes Agent bots. Is it an alternative to ICM, a part of it, or something done differently. And what is the point of multiple agents talking back and forth. I genuinely try to understand this and I would welcome any help. Thanks.

Awhile back I helped @Mary Julia Cordero with some issues she was having. I did a writeup in the classroom about it: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/classroom/b5143824?md=06c0cb5b8f884a319cad846a2bdd098a I wanted to turn this into a video to help explain the tips as I think this is a lesson everyone new to using AI has to learn along the way. Mary asked me her question as a part of my back to basics series. If you want to ask a question and have me answer it like this, drop a comment here: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/new-classroom-series-back-to-basics?p=32285243