@Ari Evergreen just locked in lifetime Premium. Free. Forever. That's what the top spot on the 7-day leaderboard gets you in here. Show up, post hard, help people out, and the community rewards you for it. The 7-day clock just reset. Next Monday we crown the next winner. Could be you!! Here's how it works: - Post bad ass stuff - Help people in the comments - Share what you're building, what's working, what's breaking - Engage with other members' posts The leaderboard tracks all of it. Whoever sits at #1 on Monday wins. The prize, depending on where you're at: - Free member? You get lifetime Premium, free - Already Premium? We convert your account so you stop paying - Already VIP? We convert your VIP so you stop paying Either way, you stop paying. For life! @Ari Evergreen, congrats. You earned it. Everyone else, the next 7 days are wide open. Go.

Curious to hear from experienced developers and AI power users in 2026. What does your AI orchestration stack look like across key layers such as orchestration frameworks, model routing, memory and state management, tool integration, observability, and infrastructure? What tradeoffs or advantages led you to those choices, especially around reliability, scalability, governance, and cost? Your honest input can make this the most valuable resource in the community. Share what you know. @Jake Van Clief @Matthew Creamer @David Vogel @Shirsho Guha @Millenial Cat @Alexander Paschka

1 — Must Have Resources These are the non-negotiables. If you’re serious, start here. - looking-for-design-inspiration— Stop producing low-quality output. My personal vault of design references from Pinterest, Awwwards, Behance, Dribbble, and the few places that still deliver real taste. - ai-acronym-overload-heres-the-ultimate-cheat-sheet-every-newbie-needs— LLM, CoT, RAG, LoRA, MoE, and the rest of the alphabet soup. One clean page so you stop pretending you know what everything means. - sharing-my-notes-on-jakes-method-icm— My Interpretable Context Methodology, stripped down to executable rules. Everything else I build sits on top of this foundation. - cloudflare-just-dropped-their-ai-engineering-stack— How Cloudflare achieved 93% internal AI adoption and handles hundreds of millions of requests per month. Their blueprint, now yours. - hey-clief-notes-crew-ai-hackers-stack-builders-and-workflow-wizards— The memory layer the big vendors will never give you. One shared brain across every AI you run. This is a game changer. 2 — Learning Tools are temporary. Mindset compounds. - flip-the-script-its-all-about-the— Stop trading hours for dollars. Start selling outcomes. The pricing shift that actually lets you scale without burning out. - do-you-have-a-soul-why-ai-is-becoming-your-new-colleague— CLAUDE.md, SOUL.md, SKILL.md. When your AI starts editing its own personality and improving itself, things get interesting. - my-ai-workflow-evolution-from-one-shot-prompting-to-hermes-agent-with-cognee— My honest journey from one-shot prompting to proper knowledge graph infrastructure. No fluff, just the evolution. - to-win-is-to-acknowledge-conducting-ai-instead-of-fighting-it-alone— You’re not a prompt engineer. You’re a conductor. Time to start thinking like one. - obsidian-is-bloat-batter-up— Why your folder structure is probably already a better orchestration layer than most note-taking apps ever will be.

🎉 Meet your new admin: @David Vogel Some of you have been watching this happen in real time. David has been quietly turning his "Show Your Work" posts into one of the most useful threads in this community for months. Resource roundups, deep-dives, honest takes on what's actually working in production. No fluff. No hype. 🛠️ So I gave him the keys. 🔑 David is now an admin of Clief Notes, and he has his own classroom: 🏛️ David's Corner. Go check it out. AI Acronym Overload? Here's the Cheat Sheet - Davids Corner 📂 What's in David's Corner He started with the resource post a lot of you bookmarked last week and has been steadily expanding it. As of right now you'll find: 🔥 Must Have Resources - 🎨 Looking for design inspiration? - 🧠 AI Acronym Overload? Here's the Cheat Sheet - ⭐ Some of My Favorite Resources 📚 Learning for Everyone - 🥊 Obsidian is BLOAT! Batter Up - 💰 Flip the Script — It's all about the $$$ - 👻 Do You Have a Soul? - 🔄 My AI Workflow Evolution 👨‍💻 Developer Resources - 🕵️ LEAKED: Ten Prompts from Experts - ⚡ Introducing the Hermes Stack 🎯 David and Jakes Picks (this one's going to grow) Plus he's curating trusted YouTube channels and a running list of favorite community posts on resources inside the corner. So if you wrote something good about a tool, a stack, or a workflow, that's where it might end up. 👀 He's adding more weekly. If something stops delivering, he wants to hear about it. That's how the corner stays sharp. 🔪 💡 Why this matters The Vault and The Drawing Room give you my methodology. David's Corner gives you a second lens. Same standards (battle-tested, no theory, no marketing slides), different angle. He's been in the trenches with tools and stacks, and he writes about them honestly. ✅ What you can do 1. 🔖 Go bookmark David's Corner in the classroom 2. 💬 Drop a comment under his posts when something works (or doesn't) 3. 📨 Got a resource that should be in there? Tag him. He's curating.

Here's the problem Claude CoWork doesn't solve out of the box: continuity. Every session starts cold. Claude doesn't remember what you worked on last Tuesday, what decision you made and why, or what you told it to follow up on. You either re-explain everything at the start - or you lose the thread entirely. PMM (Poor Man's Memory), originally inspired by Millennial Cat's work (excellent stuff - definitely check out his threads!), solves the first layer. It gives Claude a structured knowledge base to read at session start. Your contacts, your rules, your processes, your decisions - all formatted as typed markdown files Claude loads before doing anything. But PMM solves what Claude knows about you. It doesn't solve what you and Claude worked on together yesterday. Session Memory Layer solves that. Together, they're a complete two-layer memory system. --- What Each Layer Does PMM — Curated domain knowledge - Who your contacts are and what they need - Your rules, decisions, and processes - Your terminology, preferences, and brand context - Loaded by workspace (sales, writing, legal, etc.) based on routing rules in CLAUDE.md Session Memory Layer - Working continuity - What was worked on in the last 10 sessions (rolling log) - What's still open and needs follow-up (persistent thread tracker) - Loaded at *every* session start, regardless of domain - Updated at *every* session end, automatically Think of PMM as your institutional knowledge base. Think of Session Memory as your working memory - the part that remembers "last time we were halfway through that proposal." ------- The Two Files Session Memory Layer lives in two markdown files. That's it. ### session-log.md A rolling 10-session history. Each entry is lean (about 6 fields, roughly 6–8 lines). It captures: - What was worked on - Decisions made - Files created or modified - Contacts touched - Open threads created - Threads closed Newest entry at the top. When you hit 11 sessions, the oldest one drops off.