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![You can build an AI second brain in 15 minutes. No coding experience needed. no $1000 course [Here is how you can do it in 5 mins:] Step 1: Download Claude Desktop. Step 2: Download Obsidian Desktop. Step 3: Create a new vault and start dropping .MD files into it. Step 4: Tell Claude Code to connect directly to your vault using Andrej Karpathy's prompt: That is it. Your entire knowledge base becomes searchable, connectable, and queryable by the most powerful AI model on earth. Every note you have ever written. Every idea you have ever captured. Every resource you have ever saved. Claude can now read all of it, find connections you missed, and surface insights from your own thinking that you forgot you had. Most people are using Claude as a search engine. The people building second brains with it are using it as an intelligence layer on top of everything they know. The gap between those two use cases is the gap between asking Google a question and having a research partner who has read everything you have ever written. Bookmark this. Build it tonight.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2070507527213871594/amplify_video_thumb/2070507426135293952/img/Lpk-CLAFIWQmd_Ht.jpg)
You can build an AI second brain in 15 minutes. No coding experience needed. no $1000 course [Here is how you can do it in 5 mins:] Step 1: Download Claude Desktop. Step 2: Download Obsidian Desktop. Step 3: Create a new vault and start dropping .MD files into it. Step 4: Tell Claude Code to connect directly to your vault using Andrej Karpathy's prompt: That is it. Your entire knowledge base becomes searchable, connectable, and queryable by the most powerful AI model on earth. Every note you have ever written. Every idea you have ever captured. Every resource you have ever saved. Claude can now read all of it, find connections you missed, and surface insights from your own thinking that you forgot you had. Most people are using Claude as a search engine. The people building second brains with it are using it as an intelligence layer on top of everything they know. The gap between those two use cases is the gap between asking Google a question and having a research partner who has read everything you have ever written. Bookmark this. Build it tonight.
Avid428,672 Aufrufe • vor 3 Tagen
Eric Schmidt (ex-Google CEO): “if you really want to make money, it’s actually easy. found an agentic AI company.” spoiler: the supply of builders is tiny. the demand is enormous. this guy is literally giving away the exact 2026 playbook to build and sell AI automations to make $10k/mo bookmark and start this weekend
Avid2,778,989 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Spacex just bought Cursor for $60 billion. the same day, Kevin Niparko ( Product Lead at Cursor) showed exactly what Elon bet on: "we're moving towards an era of loops and agent systems where agents are going to continue to be working on our behalf at all times" 13 minutes that laid out the next five years of how software gets built: agent swarms + loops. i wrote the full guide on building agent swarms two weeks ago. bookmark it before you need it.
Avid217,503 Aufrufe • vor 6 Tagen
Elon Musk: "companies that are entirely AI will demolish companies that are not. it won't be a contest." there are two types of people right now: type 1: uses AI to write emails. thinks that's using AI. type 2: runs 1000 agents while they sleep. treats AI like a workforce. ships 100x. type 1 gets destroyed . type 2 is the replacement
Avid239,750 Aufrufe • vor 7 Tagen
Anthropic's applied AI team just showed how to actually prompt Claude properly. 24 minutes. free. from the people who built it. watch the workshop. bookmark it. you've been prompting Claude for months without the 6 elements. I built a skill that applies them for you. read the guide below.
Avid1,700,854 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Andrej Karpathy quietly shipped the best second brain idea in years not an app. a pattern. let an llm maintain a wiki of your notes. you dump sources, it reads them, links them, files them. knowledge compounds like interest. someone built it into a free claude code plugin. setup is two commands: claude plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian claude plugin install claude-obsidian@agricidaniel-claude-obsidian then open obsidian, open claude code in the same folder, type /wiki. that's it. your notes are now queryable by claude and they get richer every time you read something. bookmark this. best thing you'll build this weekend.
Avid332,861 Aufrufe • vor 16 Tagen
in 15 minutes, 2 Senior Staff Engineers at Airbnb gave a Live Lecture on Agentic Coding Airbnb already shipped one of the most ambitious LLM-agent migrations in production. Tonight two of their senior engineers shows how they actually build with agents in 2026. Most builders are guessing. These guys ship. bookmark & watch this.then read the complete article below.
Avid728,854 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
![Cursor pays engineers $1,100,000 a year to run teams of AI agents that ship code while they sleep. [The CEO of Cursor explained in 9 minutes how they ship at 100x speed using team of agents] ↓ Save this before everyone copies the playbook 1. Engineers no longer babysit one assistant. They manage dozens of agent colleagues working in parallel, each on its own remote machine 2. Validation contract before code, not after. Humans only at scoping and review. 3. The agent team handles the full loop : planning, coding, testing, shipping PRs with each agent specialised for a role. Watch the guide. Then read the guide below by Khairallah AL-Awady](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2055238100079808996/amplify_video_thumb/2055237607102275584/img/H4NmAUz6Dh-Ed08r.jpg)
Cursor pays engineers $1,100,000 a year to run teams of AI agents that ship code while they sleep. [The CEO of Cursor explained in 9 minutes how they ship at 100x speed using team of agents] ↓ Save this before everyone copies the playbook 1. Engineers no longer babysit one assistant. They manage dozens of agent colleagues working in parallel, each on its own remote machine 2. Validation contract before code, not after. Humans only at scoping and review. 3. The agent team handles the full loop : planning, coding, testing, shipping PRs with each agent specialised for a role. Watch the guide. Then read the guide below by Khairallah AL-Awady
Avid632,865 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
![Garry Tan (CEO of Y-Combinator): "when someone asks how I 'prompt' my AI, the answer is: I don't. the skills are the prompts." [if I had this weekend to master skills and how to use them to automate workflows:] → read the Skillify 11-item checklist (SKILL.md in gbrain) → watch Murag + Barry Zhang: "Don't Build Agents. Build Skills Instead." → Read "Designing, Refining, and Maintaining Agent Skills at Perplexity" → do one workflow. type /skillify. watch it become permanent. that's the whole day. here is how to set it up: 1. clone GBrain (his open-source second brain, Postgres-backed memory + 30 skills) 2. add GStack (23 battle-tested slash-command skills, drops right in) 3. do anything once → type /skillify → it's a skill forever prompting is dead. skillifying is next.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2063314381203738690/amplify_video_thumb/2063314313142849536/img/hFJLvE24FCGN9tC0.jpg)
Garry Tan (CEO of Y-Combinator): "when someone asks how I 'prompt' my AI, the answer is: I don't. the skills are the prompts." [if I had this weekend to master skills and how to use them to automate workflows:] → read the Skillify 11-item checklist (SKILL.md in gbrain) → watch Murag + Barry Zhang: "Don't Build Agents. Build Skills Instead." → Read "Designing, Refining, and Maintaining Agent Skills at Perplexity" → do one workflow. type /skillify. watch it become permanent. that's the whole day. here is how to set it up: 1. clone GBrain (his open-source second brain, Postgres-backed memory + 30 skills) 2. add GStack (23 battle-tested slash-command skills, drops right in) 3. do anything once → type /skillify → it's a skill forever prompting is dead. skillifying is next.
Avid192,630 Aufrufe • vor 23 Tagen
If you haven't set up Agents.md in Codex yet you can just copy the homework from Andrej Karpathy. Here's the exact setup (takes 2 minutes): 1. Go to his repo 2. Copy the 65-line Agents.md config 3. Paste it into Codex App → Global Custom Instructions 4. Done. You're already ahead of 90% of Codex users. It's minimalist. It's effective. Bookmark and Save it no matter. It'll be the most productive thing you will do this weekend
Avid256,495 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
This 24-minute prompting workshop by Anthropic's own applied AI team will teach you more about getting real results from Claude than the last year you spent guessing at prompts. Watch this, no matter what. Then read the 25 prompts below by Khairallah AL-Awady that save you 15 hours every week.
Avid515,509 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
![Garry Tan (CEO of Y-Combinator): "when someone asks how I 'prompt' my AI, the answer is: I don't. the skills are the prompts." [if I had 7 days to master skills and how to use them to automate workflows:] → read the Skillify 11-item checklist (SKILL.md in gbrain) → watch Murag + Barry Zhang: "Don't Build Agents. Build Skills Instead." → Read "Designing, Refining, and Maintaining Agent Skills at Perplexity" → do one workflow. type /skillify. watch it become permanent. that's the whole day. here is how to set it up: 1. clone GBrain (his open-source second brain, Postgres-backed memory + 30 skills) 2. add GStack (23 battle-tested slash-command skills, drops right in) 3. do anything once → type /skillify → it's a skill forever prompting is dead. skillifying is next.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2053778835100119288/amplify_video_thumb/2053778768783986688/img/_mKrilrLZCGvyaXl.jpg)
Garry Tan (CEO of Y-Combinator): "when someone asks how I 'prompt' my AI, the answer is: I don't. the skills are the prompts." [if I had 7 days to master skills and how to use them to automate workflows:] → read the Skillify 11-item checklist (SKILL.md in gbrain) → watch Murag + Barry Zhang: "Don't Build Agents. Build Skills Instead." → Read "Designing, Refining, and Maintaining Agent Skills at Perplexity" → do one workflow. type /skillify. watch it become permanent. that's the whole day. here is how to set it up: 1. clone GBrain (his open-source second brain, Postgres-backed memory + 30 skills) 2. add GStack (23 battle-tested slash-command skills, drops right in) 3. do anything once → type /skillify → it's a skill forever prompting is dead. skillifying is next.
Avid271,600 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
This 15-minute talk by the creator of Pydantic on how to correctly use MCPs will teach you more about making your AI tools actually work together than everything you've scrolled past this year. Bookmark this & watch, no matter what. Then read the guide below by Khairallah AL-Awady
Avid371,321 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO: "with an affordable amount of spend on tokens, you can do what a 100-person incredibly great engineering team would do as a startup." in this 40-minute Stanford talk, he breaks down the exact shift that lets a solo founder out-build a 100-person team. free. straight from the Stanford stage. worth more than a $2,000 startup accelerator. so i stopped arguing and built one. local agents. local tool. nothing leaving my laptop. an Obsidian clone, a knowledge graph, 13 agents a full second brain. solo. what a whole team would've shipped. minus the team. minus the cloud. here's the shift he breaks down and what i found building on it: - why tokens replaced headcount - the "one-person frontier lab" model ; your second brain is the lab - the inference layer every founder is sleeping on - why hiring 100 engineers is now the expensive way to build the 100-person team didn't get cheaper. it became one person, a second brain, and a swarm of agents. bookmark this. the full build is in the article below ⬇️
Avid64,551 Aufrufe • vor 13 Tagen
in 9 minutes on the Tokyo stage, Angela Jang, head of product for the Claude platform, said the part most builders still haven't figured out: "a model is only as good as the context that you actually give it." that's the whole game now. not the prompt. the context. what your agent remembers. what skills it can pull. what it learns from its own past runs. anthropic now ships all three: memory, skills, and dreaming. agents that inspect their own trajectories and self-improve. demoed live this week. the prompt was never the bottleneck. the context was. most people are still tweaking words in a chat box. the ones who get this engineer the context their agents run on. watch the 9 minutes. then read the full breakdown below ⬇️
Avid33,919 Aufrufe • vor 12 Tagen