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📣 Quick Note to the Community
Hey everyone, Going to be transparent with you all. We're pausing the weekly competition this week. No comp #7. We'll be back next week with the next one. Here's the real reason. Jake and I are both on family vacations right now, and we're buried in enterprise work on top of it. We've been running 15+ hour days since this community started, and we've hit a point where we need a few days to actually breathe. This community has grown faster than we ever imagined. None of that happens without you all. The posts, the help in the comments, the bad ass builds people are shipping every week, the way you all show up for each other. It's real and we don't take it for granted. But if we're going to keep this thing high-quality long-term, we can't run on empty. A week off the comp grind so we can rest, catch up on enterprise work, and come back sharp is the right call. The 7-day leaderboard still runs as normal this week. Keep posting, keep engaging, keep helping each other. The leaderboard winner still gets the prize on Monday. Weekly comp #7 picks back up next week. We'll come back with something good. Thank you for understanding. And thank you for being here. ❤️
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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Watch the intro video and introduce yourself in the intro post here 2. Start with The Foundation (free course). Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things, move to Implementation Playbooks (Level 2). When you're ready to build your own tools, Building Your Stack (Level 3). 5. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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🚨 You've been asking when the Lyceum opens. The waitlist is live. 🚨
The waitlist is up and seats are limited, so this is your nudge to go lock yours in. 👇 New here? Quick context. 👀 The Lyceum is Jake's live cohort program built on ICM, the methodology 35,000 people in this community are already using to get real results with AI. The short version: folders over agents. You learn the layer underneath the tools, the one that keeps working when the next model drops. Full breakdown is on the site. Here's what's inside: 🎯 Three cohorts, Technical, Business, and Creator. Same methodology, built around what you actually do. 🎥 Live sessions with Jake and a full team of instructors. ♾️ Lifetime recordings, written curriculum, and a private cohort Discord. 📜 An Eduba ICM certification you can put on your resume. And a guarantee no course makes: ✅ You leave with a working product, or the team finishes it with you. ⏳ Seats are limited and this community moves fast, so the math is not in your favor if you wait. 💡 Pricing and start dates aren't public yet. The waitlist sees them first, gives feedback on timing, and gets in before the program opens. Everything you want to know is on the page. If you already know this is for you, get on it. 🔥 👉 https://lyceum.eduba.io
Folder structure: Level 3. How to get to Level 4 (Orchestration) & Level 5 (Factory)
Hey guys, Been running the folder structure for a while now — works great. I added one more layer for client projects: sub-agents get spawned inside the client folder, giving you a zero-bleed architecture where they literally can't touch anything outside their scope. A separate agent handles knowledge base access and passes relevant info down to them. Clean separation, no cross-project contamination. This works pretty well. But: Regarding David's 5 Levels of AI Mastery (here in the classrooms) folderstructure + CLI is level 3. Who do we get further? Level 4: Multi-Agent Systems David talks about naming the agents, and only talks to the orchestrator, which hans the tasks over to another agent. My approach: since we're using Skills instead of named agents, I'd just drop something like this into CLAUDE.md: "You are an orchestrator only. Spawn sub-agents for every task, as many as needed. Make sure each one has access to the right skills and context." Is that what David means — or is there a better way? Concrete use case: I've got a 30h course project with outline and skills already built. Do I just tell Claude to slice it up and spawn sub-agents freely, or does it make more sense to hard-code the orchestration. somehow? Level 5: The Factory (the team runs without you) Level 5 is defined as " you explain the goal, go to sleep and wake up a fullfilled work. In my opinion, you could go any further, and let an agent review the status of all projects and start the work on his own (e.g. checkiing Meta ads -> deleting bad ones, creating new ones). Right now, I am running on my macbook. But I think the next step would be to deploy it to the cloud, so n8n workflows and scheduled tasks in my workspace would live in the same place. Where would you host it — VPS, Supabase? Which SDK — Claude Agent SDK, Anthropic SDK, custom dashboard? And how do you handle security at that scale?
Self governing businesses?
So if I understand correctly, the Hermes agent is the Claude agent that I’m talking to in VS Code. So….. for business owners… a self governing business is the holy grail of what we’re doing here, right? A self governing company starts at VS Code and gets built brick by brick, and that’s what’s happening right now? That’s what we’re doing? And in like 6-12 months we’ll have amassed enough data and infrastructure to support that? Am I getting it?
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