Hi everyone, I feel like the hype around “Obsidian second brain” is not important as a good folder/file structure going through the class lessons here but everywhere I turn someone is yelling “second brain” this and that. I am here to ask if Obsidian really does enhance anything particularly, asides from looking cool?… AI Performance? AI reasoning? or Is it just a duplication ? If anyone can help. I don’t wanna go down the hole… too many things to learn. 😅

Dropped a new one for you all. Mike from Urban Pulse let me share footage from his security audit. He vibe coded his whole platform using my routing architecture, then hired me and my team to read every line before he opened it up to high ticket clients. We took our time over many hours. We found three holes that I share here. A Google Maps API key that had already been flagged and locked down by Google. A second cryptographic auth layer the AI built on top of Supabase, which already handles all of this for you. A JWT verification step that never checked the issuer, meaning any valid Supabase token from any project on the internet would have passed. This is what real building and shipping looks like in the AI world. Mike built something that used to take a year and a couple hundred grand. He did it solo. Then he paid engineers to audit it before any customer touched it. Copy his move. If you are vibe coding anything you plan to put in front of paying clients, watch this one.

From the author or the Orange Book AI series Here's the GH repo https://github.com/alchaincyf/obsidian-ai-orange-book

Running Claude Code on Opus is powerful. But most turns in a session are mechanical, reading files, writing boilerplate, simple edits. You're paying top-tier rates for work that Haiku could handle in its sleep. Anthropic just released the Advisor Tool: A server-side pattern where a cheap executor model consults Opus mid-generation for strategic guidance. But it's API-only. Can't use it inside Claude Code. So I rebuilt the pattern inside Claude Code using what already exists. The setup: Opus stays in the orchestrator seat. It plans. It makes architecture decisions. It reviews output. It never touches files directly unless the task genuinely needs Opus-level judgment. Everything else gets dispatched to cheaper models: - Agent({ model: "haiku" }) — Claude subagents with full file access for simple edits - Agent({ model: "sonnet" }) — for multi-file changes that need moderate reasoning - A CLI tool (ask.py) that routes to Gemini, Kimi, MiniMax, or local Gemma via Ollama — for code generation, research, video analysis, anything where you just need text back The routing logic: Does the task need file access? → Agent tool (haiku/sonnet) Is the code complex? → sonnet or gemini Is the code simple? → haiku, kimi, or minimax (cheaper) Need video analysis? → gemini --video (native, no frame extraction) Need parallel research? → kimi-swarm (spawns up to 100 sub-agents) Want zero API cost? → gemma running locally via Ollama When a subagent hits something it can't handle, it reports back NEEDS_GUIDANCE. Opus thinks it through and re-dispatches with better context. That's the advisor pattern, strategic guidance exactly when needed, cheap execution everywhere else. Cost impact: A 10-task session where 8 tasks go to Haiku and 2 to Sonnet — your Opus tokens are only spent on planning and review. Maybe 20% of the total token volume. The other 80% runs at Haiku rates. With local models mixed in, it drops further. Open-sourced the whole thing:

Been quiet for a reason. I got flown out to New York to work on a project with a major artist. Grammy-level work. Can't say who yet (NDA), but if you know your way around Wu-Tang or Def Jam circles, you might be able to guess. I've been in the studio every day working on the album with them, building out the tech side of something that hasn't been done before in the music industry. Tomorrow's VIP High Tea session I'm breaking down how this deal came together, what the tech stack looks like, and how AI is opening doors in entertainment that didn't exist a year ago. I'll also be answering questions from the Google form submissions. If you've been on the fence about VIP, this is the session to show up for. See you tomorrow ✌️