This is wild! Lots of interesting take-aways. I'll add some links to them in the comments. https://x.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963

I’ve been watching the absolute madness unfold in the AI space over the last few weeks, and I want to drop some harsh but exciting truth on you: If you are still just building thin wrappers around text-generation APIs, it is time to pivot. We are officially transitioning from "Prompt Engineering" to "Agentic Orchestration." Here is the reality check on where the tech is at right now and how we need to adapt: 1. Models Are Taking the Wheel With the recent drops of models like Claude 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex, the focus has shifted entirely to "computer use" and autonomy. These models aren't just giving you Python snippets anymore; they are capable of navigating desktop environments, opening IDEs, and executing multi-step plans. The new meta is building sandboxes and guardrails for AI to act within, not just chat interfaces. 2. Open-Source is Destroying the Cost Barrier Models from DeepSeek, Qwen, and Zhipu (GLM-5) are currently dominating the open-source benchmarks. What does this mean for us? Intelligence is basically free now. Your competitive advantage is no longer the LLM you choose—it’s how efficiently you chain them together and the custom data you feed them. 3. The New Developer "Moat" So, where is the value for us as builders? - Tool Calling & API Integration: Building the bridges that let agents interact with the real world (Stripe, GitHub, AWS). - Multi-Agent Systems: Structuring workflows where a "Researcher Agent" feeds data to a "Coder Agent," which gets reviewed by a "QA Agent." - Eval & Reliability: Agents hallucinate and get stuck in loops. The engineers who figure out how to build reliable error-recovery systems are going to win this cycle. Let’s get a pulse check in the comments: Are you actively building agentic workflows yet? If so, what frameworks are you vibing with right now (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or building from scratch)? Let’s build the future, not just chat with it.

Here's a helpful research document describing the different types of memory that you can easily plug into Hermes Agent.

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