itsolelehmann
Technology/investing creator posting detailed ASML analyses, connecting geopolitics, supply chains, and European semiconductor leadership to equity implications.
Top-Tier Models: GPT 5.5 or Claude Opus 4.7
The best model setups to run on Hermes (by price tier): 1. If you have infinite budget: Go with GPT 5.5 or Claude Opus 4.7. Both are top class and you'll feel the difference on any non-trivial task. I use GPT 5.5 because of the Codex login. It logs into your actual ChatGPT account so the usage hits your existing subscription (no separate API bill).
AI Analyzes Newsletter Subject Lines to Boost Open Rates
If you run a newsletter, you need this AI workflow: I connected my newsletter to Claude (via Beehiiv MCP) and asked it to analyze every subject line against open rate from the last year. It categorized 60+ sends, ran the math, and...
Garry Tan
Garry Tan’s custom instructions are based. It pushes any LLM past half-finished bullshit and into actually useful answers. Add this to your SOUL md:
Hermes Agent: Always‑On AI Assistant That Beats Chatbots
HERMES AGENT FOR DUMMIES Everyone on X keeps talking about Hermes Agent and I finally get why: Once you have an AI that's always on, already knows your context, and you can just text from your phone, you're never going back to...
Build Unready Solutions, AI Advances Will Validate Them
anthropic alpha from yesterday: "you should be building things that don't even work yet." their idea is simple: claude gets meaningfully smarter every few months. and every time it does, ideas that used to fail suddenly work. but the people who capitalized on...
Domain Mastery Beats Coding in Startup Success
you need to tattoo this Boris Cherny quote into your brain: "coding is the easy part, it's knowing the domain that's the hard part" every week a new startup drops a launch video saying they "killed influencer marketing" or something but they don't...
Big Tech Reshapes Entire Workforces Around AI
do you not understand what happened this week? > coinbase just fired 14% of their workforce to restructure the entire company around AI-native pods and 1-person teams. > stripe is paying multi-6 figures for a "forward deployed AI accelerator" to upskill their...
Boost AI Design Quality with Real Design References
AI DESIGN TUTORIAL FOR DUMMIES 🎨 if you're non-technical and a non-designer like me, here's how to *actually* produce good-looking stuff with AI (in plain english): the problem: most AI-built apps look bad because the AI is guessing at what good...
Predict Virality, Then Reverse‑engineer Your Post
btw this is my dumbest prompt but its actually so effective for cooking viral content: "fast forward 1 week. this post just crossed 1M views. why did it go viral?" it'll tell you what worked (the hook/structural beat/lines that got shared, etc) then...
Give AI Training, Not Immediate Dismissal
you treat your AI worse than you'd treat a human. and that's the problem. you'd give a human hire weeks of training, real examples, and coaching before you'd judge them now think about how you treated your last AI experiment: 1. you spun up...
Premortems Reveal Flaws Before You Commit
POV: claude traveled 6 months into the future and told you exactly how your next move failed. it's called a premortem. daniel kahneman (nobel prize-winning psychologist behind "thinking fast and slow") called it his single most valuable decision-making technique. google, goldman sachs,...
AI Detects Pancreatic Cancer Years Before Symptoms
man this is what ai is actually for mayo clinic's new AI now detects pancreatic cancer up to 3 years before doctors can see it! pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in the world because by the time you...
AI Turns Menu Text Into Realistic Dish Images Instantly
karpathy just admitted that his own app got oneshotted and he thinks yours is next. he built menu gen. where you take a photo of a restaurant menu and it shows you pictures of what the food actually looks like (because 30-50% of...
Sony's Robot Defeats Pros, Mastering Table Tennis Chaos
this robotics breakthrough just broke my brain. sony just built the 1st robot that beats professional table tennis players. so insane because table tennis is one of the HARDEST things you can ask a robot to do in the real world. > the...
Fix One Constraint, Unlock 80/20 Business Growth
i built a free claude skill on the framework mrbeast built his $5B empire on: the theory of constraints. from the same book he made his first 250 employees read. it's basically the 80/20 fundamentals of business growth: there's really one thing on...
YC Reveals Blueprint for Next $10B AI Giants
YC just told you exactly what the next wave of $10B+ AI companies will look like.
Let Claude Audit Your Week, Automate Repetitive Tasks
I got Claude to audit my entire week and tell me exactly what to automate next. Every Monday I wake up to a report that: 1. Reads through all my AI sessions from the past week 2. Spots the repeated work I'm manually...
Europe’s Startup Boom Shatters Funding Records
i'm German. Europe's startup ecosystem is MOONING right now the record for the largest seed round in european history just got broken twice in a row and the largest series c in european history just happened ...all in the past 2 months > largest seed...
Anthropic Accelerates AI Development with Unplanned Afternoon Experiments
anthropic's head of product just revealed how they're able to ship faster than any other AI company. their secret: "side quest maxxing." here's how it works: instead of long-term roadmaps, anthropic runs on unplanned afternoon experiments. anyone on the team gets full freedom to...
Minto Pyramid: Secret Blueprint Behind Viral Content
i've never seen anyone talk about it but the minto pyramid is the most critical distribution skill in 2026 i use it religiously. it's how i average 10m+ impressions a month and pull about $5k mrr just from X revenue...
Unlock AI Marketing: Practical Strategies for Founders
i'm hosting a live event in berlin on april 28th "the future of ai marketing" from 5-9pm at w3.hub here's what we'll be getting into: > how to use AI marketing as a founder to actually capture attention and get customers (without sounding...
Robotic Cataract Surgery Opens Path for Millions
this is so exciting to see a robot just performed the first complete cataract surgery on a human patient, with no surgeon's hands on the tools and no general anesthesia cataract surgery is where the eye's clouded lens gets swapped for an...
AI Giants Pivot to Biology for Next Value Wave
if you've been paying attention, you know there's been a serious vibe shift in AI this month 3 major AI labs (anthropic, openai, amazon) all just went hard into biology. they're literally telling you this is where the next wave of ai...
DoorDash Pays Gig Workers to Train Their Replacement Robots
doordash is paying 8 million gig workers to train the robots that replace them it's pretty insane once you look at the details on march 19, they launched an app called "tasks" it's basically a menu of filming jobs the menu: wash some dishes,...
Claude Opus 4.7 Executes Prompts Exactly, No Guesswork
claude opus 4.7 is here. obviously it's smarter. but there's some interesting new quirks and features with this model here's everything you should know: > opus 4.7 follows instructions extremely literally now. if your prompts were vague or loosely written, older models...
Claude Code Routines Replaces Drag‑Drop Automation for Everyone
i think anthropic just killed n8n they launched Claude Code Routines and it's a direct 1:1 replacement for drag-and-drop automation builders here's why this is a big deal for non-technical people: the hard part of automation was always the middle layer. the logic....
Create a Full AI Marketing System in 2 Hours
i'm running a live claude cowork workshop for non-technical people on april 22 by the end of the 2 hours, you'll have a fully set up marketing system on your computer that: > produces a full week of content in one sitting,...
Pick the Right Claude Tool for Your Immediate Need
i keep seeing people confused about which claude product to use, so here's the best way to think about it... there are 3 of them now: Chat, Cowork, and Code. they do very different things. and it's not super obvious when...
Seeking Expert to Build Production-Grade AI Solutions
HIRING: AI implementation partner (technical) floriandarroman and I are helping founders integrate AI into their businesses. we need someone who loves building production-grade AI systems to join us. comment “Expert” below & I’ll DM more details. (proof of work required)
Unlock Claude's Untapped Power Beyond Simple Automation
anthropic's growth marketer just explained why most people only use <10% of Claude's potential most people use ai to do the same stuff faster. simple automations of their existing workflows. but the real edge is when claude lets you tackle workflows that...
Stop Repeating Tasks: Let AI Spot Automation Opportunities
i taught claude to watch how i work every week and tell me what to automate here's the idea: you probably open ai, do a task, close it. then next week you do the same task again. and again. and again you never...
Leaked Claude Code Reveals Hidden Always‑On AI KAIROS
i can't believe more people aren't talking about this part of the claude code leak there's a hidden feature in the source code called KAIROS, and it basically shows you anthropic's endgame KAIROS is an always-on, *proactive* Claude that does things without...
Keep AI Prompts Minimal: Ask if Claude Can Infer
one of the highest leverage ideas in AI right now: "minimum viable prompting" the reason: your Claude prompts/skills are probably way too detailed, and its making your outputs worse boris cherny, the guy who created claude code, talks about this all the time....
Mirror Customer Language, Double Your Conversion Rate
i taught Claude to write in my customers’ EXACT language and now my copy converts 2x better hormozi says it all the time: "he who is closest to the customer wins." this is how you get close. you stop guessing at what...
One Marketer Automates All Google Ads via Chat
anthropic's growth marketer just showed how he runs all of their paid search as a one-person team. he built a cowork plugin that manages every google ads campaign from a single chat window. here's his workflow: 1. he writes his paid search playbook...
Luma Uni-1 Masterfully Generates Structured Infographics
this is the first image-gen model i've found that beats Nano Banana 2 for me #1 thing stands out about luma uni-1 is how well it handles structured content infographics, diagrams, labeled steps, anything where the layout and information hierarchy matter most image...
Simplify Claude Prompts: Less Is More for Better Results
i deleted half my Claude setup last week and every output got BETTER sounds backwards, but anthropic's own team just explained exactly why it works. here's the one prompt that tells you what to cut (and you don't even have to paste...
Automated Daily Swipe File of Proven Viral Hooks
my new favorite thing to check every morning: the results from my viral content research agent that ran while i slept 1. it searches x for the highest-performing posts in my niche from the last 24 hours 2. extracts the hooks 3. and...
Fatherhood Turns Life’s Draft Into a Fresh Start
everyone told me having a kid would slow me down but my son is 9 months old now and i feel like my life just started this is my first time reflecting on it publicly. here's everything i've learned so far: 1. everything...
Designers Deploy Production Code, Engineers No Longer Needed
what's happening inside Anthropic right now is genuinely fascinating: DESIGNERS are now shipping production code with no engineer in the loop at all these are non-technical people with zero coding background. engineers on the team said designers are making "large state management changes you...
One Claude AI Replaces Entire Legal Review Team
my new favorite hobby is reading about Anthropic's internal AI workflows this one especially caught my attention: anthropic's ENTIRE legal review process is now handled by just 1 Claude system a single non-technical lawyer vibe-coded and it cut turnaround time by 80% here's...