AI has gotten expensive. Especially when it comes to API pricing. Last month alone, I burned $1,300 on Claude tokens inside Hermes. Luckily, Claude Sonnet 5 has flipped the math. It's almost as good as Opus 4.8, but for a fraction of the price. By far the best bang for your buck in AI right now. Does that mean Sonnet 5 completely replaces Opus? Not for me. But it's changing how I use AI. Which is why I put together a full breakdown of everything that changed with Sonnet 5, and exactly how I'm...
3 days ago • 1 min read
In 2025, I made $500,000 with Claude Code. You might assume I made it through hard work over many years to build one killer app. But that’s not the case. The app was actually the easy part. Claude Code ships a working V1 in minutes now. Anyone can do it. So the app can't be your edge. And it was actually never where the money lived. So where did the $500k actually come from? Mostly from Creator Buddy, a SaaS I built with Claude Code that does over $300,000 in ARR. But the other ~$100,000 came...
8 days ago • 3 min read
One-person companies are building million-dollar mobile apps using Claude Code. If you've been sitting on an app idea and waiting for the right moment to build it, this is it. I put together a full walkthrough of everything you need to know to build and ship your first iOS app, even if you've never written a line of code in your life. Here's what I cover in the video: How to set up Xcode and get Claude Code working in your project folder (two free tools, five minutes of setup, and you're...
10 days ago • 1 min read
Most people use Claude Code the same way they used every other AI tool before it. One prompt at a time. Babysitting every step. Approving every action. That's not how the people who built it use it. Boris Churnney, one of the creators of Claude Code, recently shared the exact tips and tricks his team uses to get the most out of it. These were the best 7: 1. Turn on auto mode Hit shift tab until you see auto mode. Make it your default. Claude Code asks for permission way too much out of the...
15 days ago • 1 min read
Frontier AI is incredible. But it's slow and expensive. Plus, everything you send it gets stored on someone else's servers. GLM 5.2 just changed that. A few weeks ago, Unsloth released a version of this model you can run locally on your own machine. Near Opus 4.8-level intelligence, completely free, completely private, running 24/7 on your desk. I ran it on my Mac Studio and I am completely blown away. In case you missed it, I put together a full breakdown of everything you need to know....
17 days ago • 1 min read
Most people install Hermes, send it a task, get a mediocre result, and blame the tool. The tool is fine. The problem is they never set it up right to begin with. Think about it. If you hired a personal assistant and they showed up on day one, would you sit them down and say nothing? Would you just have them start working on a task without giving them any context on your goals and what you’re building? Of course not. But that's exactly what most people do with Hermes. And it's why they're not...
22 days ago • 2 min read
A couple weeks ago, Hermes dropped something I didn't expect: A full desktop app. And after 24 hours with it, I'm convinced this is now the best way to interact with an AI agent ever built. So I put together a full video breakdown of everything you need to know. And more importantly, everything you need to set up immediately. Here's what I cover in the video: Why the CLI era for AI agents is over (and what the desktop app gives you that nothing else comes close to) Sessions — how to organize...
24 days ago • 1 min read
Want to attend a live OpenClaw bootcamp? Join the Vibe Coding Academy The future is local. Right now I have 3 Mac Studios on my desk powering my OpenClaw. They’re all running Qwen 3.5, a super intelligent local model basically as good as Sonnet 4.5. Unlimited tokens, no rate limits, all for the cost of the energy flowing into the computers. 100% private. Nothing going to servers in the cloud that AI companies can read or use to train new models. Everything stays on the device. I can turn off...
5 months ago • 4 min read
In the next 12 months you will fall into 1 of 2 groups. The permanent underclass or the permanent overclass. Bad news: you will be stuck there. Good news: you can decide which you fall into. So what is the ‘permanent underclass’? Right now there are 2 kinds of people: those adopting AI and those not. Right now the people who adopt the latest AI tech have significantly more economic power than those who don’t. They can build and create value for the world significantly faster. As more powerful...
5 months ago • 3 min read
