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It was a long weekend. We spent the days in a nearby organic farm-house We read We ate We spent time together Good weekend

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 30/09/2026

My 14-year-old son Jerry built an AI device on an ESP32: type a question on a tiny screen, Gemini answers on the device. No laptop, no phone. He coded it with AI help. Knowing fundamentals is what made debugging manageable. Watch: youtu.be/QpM8lzzdpiA

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 28/09/2026

Month 2 of 100 km jogging done. September's 80–86% humidity made it brutal. Last time in July, I got sweat boils. Took August off. Back at it and finished strong.

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 12/09/2026

Your first 5 years are shaped by 3 types of leaders. The Perfectionist. The Innovator The Norm-Breaker Which ones shaped you? From my conversation with Meenakshi S on Gravitas WINS Radio. Full episode → youtube.com/watch?v=AmE...

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 02/09/2026

How I organise Hermes Wiki? I organise my life on four pillars: Wealth, Insights, Network, Self. Together they spell WINS. My entire Hermes directory tree mirrors these same four pillars. 1/5

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 31/08/2026

I asked Hermes to read @simonwillison.net post and asked it to list what all it can do. It came up with this table Except one-click deploy to cloudflare it can do all. It is also cheaper and portable. bsky.app/profile/sim...

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 28/08/2026

Nigerian scammers have moved to Canada

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 27/08/2026

I exported all Claude conversations and analyzed via Hermes agent. I knew Claude had "memory" but didn't know it even holds "reflections" I am also exporting ChatGPT conversations. I will have a consolidated corpus and work with Hermes.

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 27/08/2026

Are databases not a solved problem? Why are there lots of different databases? What's different between them? A really good answer from Hackernews: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494...

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 23/08/2026

I see this ad (video) repeatedly on LinkedIn Have no clue what it means. What is this ad conveying?

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 21/08/2026

It’s surprising how much you can get done for $10 a month. • Stock research • Invoice generation • Extract highlights from YT videos • Write blog drafts • Distribute content across social media • and more I wrote a post explaining all of these: www.jjude.com/tech-notes/...

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 20/08/2026

Reading Alpha Bets Lesson: everyone has their own way of making money in the market There are common fundamentals. But each builds their own method on top of them Find your unique way to invest. And stay invested

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 20/08/2026

I see a new option in OpenCode Go. Allow models to train on request data. All these models, providers, gateways are hungry for data. Sooner or later everyone will train on your data whether you allow it or not. (Remember all these models are trained on free corpus on the net)

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 15/08/2026

Starting to read, "DeepSeek in Practice". This is what I see - the authors call DeepSeek as open-source LLM. Is it technically open-source or open-weighted? Now I've a doubt if I should read the book. What do you think?

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 14/08/2026

Ran out of my OpenCode quota yesterday, not from heavy use. I use DeepSeek Flash with the OpenCode Go subscription. $60/month in credits. Generous. Yesterday, OC stopped routing to DSF outside China. Switched to expensive Kimi. I had jobs running. They all hit Kimi. Quota gone before I caught it.

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 13/08/2026

A lion is made of all it ate. I am what I read. Building a bookshelf of books that changed my thinking. Adding more as I go. Browse here: jjude.in/books

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 13/08/2026

Been using opencode go with hermes for almost 10 days. Though my default model has been deepseek, today it started giving me this error Anyone else getting this?

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 11/08/2026

"Seems like AI slop" is a new option on LinkedIn. Substack introduced a similar option too. What's your opinion about these new options?

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 11/08/2026

Developer to CTO journey still runs through code. In 2021 I mapped the journey as a pyramid: Design, Build, Scale, Platforms. The agentic era didn't tear it down. It reshaped the work inside each layer. My view of the journey now: www.ctofieldnotes.com/p/the-road-...

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 10/08/2026

I wrote this "Roadmap to CTO Office" in 2021. A lot has changed since. Do you think developers should still learn to design and build? Or that is best left to LLMs? What do you think? The original post is here: www.jjude.com/learn-next/

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 08/08/2026

Ambiguity = Failure (as a developer) Ambiguity = Part of the Job (as a leader) The higher you grow in leadership, the less certainty you have. My latest CTO Field Note is about learning to lead when all the answers don't exist yet: open.substack.com/pub/ctofiel...

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 05/08/2026

Three of the trending posts on my site are all about Hermes agent You can read them all at my site jjude.com

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 03/08/2026

I love writing what I do. But distributing them? That doesn't come naturally. I built a solution using Hermes AI Agent. Hermes Agent reads blog files, generates social posts. Also creates hand-drawn Excalidraw diagrams for framework posts. Cost: $0. Details: www.jjude.com/tech-notes/...

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 31/07/2026

Why I love to casually browse through reddit! For reading such comments ;-)

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 30/07/2026

Who is using codegraph here to understand existing enterprise applications? What are your experiences? Care to share?

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 30/07/2026

A new world order is coming: A world depended on China. US response to the Strait of Hormuz crisis as seen as a strategic fatigue, echoing Britain after Suez. This weakness is speeding a shift to a “Tribute System,” expanding China’s influence. From SophAI Radars: www.sophai.app/radars/glob...

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 29/07/2026

I walked and jogged 100 km in July. It not only improved my health, but also brought discipline to my eating habits and sleeping schedule. Overall, I’m happy to finish the month with a good, healthy achievement.

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 28/07/2026

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 26/07/2026

Just starting with LLM Wiki - a concept from Kapathy I feed YouTube videos, article urls. Hermes agent fetches them, highlights, and creates index of concepts. Useful to automatically mange knowledge base

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 25/07/2026

My Hermes agent has used 127M tokens costing close to $20 dollars in the last 3 weeks. This is from my open router dashboard. Slack is becoming my command centre: - log expenses - extract video transcripts + highlight all are experiments. Will see how it goes.

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 21/07/2026

This was written in 2009 but so true in today's AI era esp for Indian IT services. The world is changing and if you don't explore the change, you increase the risk of being wiped out. Book: Design of Business by Roger Martin

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 14/07/2026

I used to think becoming indispensable was the safest career strategy. Over time I discovered the opposite. Sometimes the biggest obstacle to your next promotion is that no one can do your current job. My latest CTO Field Note explores why : www.ctofieldnotes.com/p/being-irr...

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 11/07/2026

Argentina is considering creating a new corporate category in Argentine law: the non-human corporation, operated by AI agents. Human shareholders may participate, but they are not required. Interesting if this gets through. from: archive.is/dPBPk

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 07/07/2026

If you are selling online and targeting a younger generation, AEO should be a key part of your marketing strategy. More and more people in the younger generation are purchasing products they discover via ChatGPT (and other AI tools).

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 07/07/2026

You don’t have to be the best programmer to build a great tech career—you have to be more valuable. That's the idea behind my latest CTO Field Note: How to Become More Valuable Without Being the Best Programmer. Read my latest field note here: www.ctofieldnotes.com/p/how-to-be...

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 06/07/2026

Talking about a change in meaning—being fit and healthy is the biggest status symbol today. I’m happy that more and more people (especially the younger generation) optimize for health, rather than just more money. From "The new consumer trends"

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 04/07/2026

Is there an equivalent of this for India? How true is this for India?

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 03/07/2026

A few weeks ago I started writing *CTO Field Notes*—lessons from 30 years in tech. Today, Death by Clawd declared it "already deceased" because Claude can write leadership essays instantly. 😅 So, should I keep writing? Does lived experience still matter in the AI era?

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 26/06/2026

Reading this book. High signal book. This is a pre-AI era book but contains insightful ideas on how sociocultural meanings change because of technology and how innovators can tap into those meanings to produce products and services. Anyone read this?

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 25/06/2026

Can digital agility match the immutable constraints of the physical world? You can vibe-code an e-com store—or automate much of the routine digital work. But physical-world operations still challenge e-com operators. The skills gap in ops is expanding. The next demand will be for physical skills.

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 24/06/2026

Are your learning and development strategies tuned to the AI era? Do you have a framework to embrace AI in developing your products and services? Here is a three-part action plan:

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 20/06/2026

The question is no longer whether multipolarity is coming, but which poles will dictate trade, energy, and security. What this war has brought out clearly: • a superpower in relative decline and adversaries seizing the moment • Iran has emerged lot more powerful • Bet on Chinese market

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 19/06/2026

How do they do it? I keep "block and report" this damn FinanceBuddha and still they manage to spam me every week. Is this some kind of special love for you or do you guys also get this spam?

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 19/06/2026

Innovation isnt just abt technology but also abt meaning Interesting concept Current read

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 19/06/2026

You may not know me but the AI agents do. > "In the weights" means that a model is able to recall someone without using tools like web search. Being in the weights means you mattered in building AI, fame that lasts as long as the model does. More: www.intheweights.com/p/joseph-jude

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 18/06/2026

We were promised productivity heaven. We ended up with cognitive load hell. I often get documents fully generated by AI that have beautiful words, but are essentially meaningless. We’re also expected to do a lot more... hey, you’ve got AI. What do you do?

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 17/06/2026

Forget that India lags in the field of AI. Tech enthusiasts are trying out AI agents. Telegram is the primary messaging platform for that. Now it’s blocked in India. India is a strange country. Instead of punishing the culprits, it always punishes the messengers.

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 16/06/2026

CTO Field Notes 2: Your job is a collection of tasks. Technology disrupts tasks. If you define your job in terms of tasks, you'll be replaced. With every tech wave, I’ve had to ask: what’s my real job? Hope you'll find this note useful: www.ctofieldnotes.com/p/the-dange...

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 14/06/2026

The era of vibe coding ends at localhost, not because of intelligence but because problem of security and privacy remains unsolved. *** → Tech's big ideas, connected. SophAI Tech Radar: sophai.app/radars/tech

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Joseph Jude @jjude.com · 13/06/2026

"...think of gold as being a fundamental money that you should own at least some of. Most investors don’t own any." - Ray Dalio #wealth raydalio.substack.com/p/gold-is-t...

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