Every resource Bashiri Smith and Melvin Vivas mention

1291 resources. Links: 1218 verified, 48 open only in a browser, 6 sent only by DM, 3 broken, 16 without a link. Each entry links the reel or post it came from. Most-mentioned first within each group.

Guides only sent by DM (6)

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• Bashiri Smith's '200k' full roadmap breakdown · pdf · free
  The creator's detailed version of the 8-week AI engineer roadmap, sent to viewers who comment on the post.
  DM only: comment 200k on this reel on Facebook and you get it by DM.
  Mentioned in: 8-Week Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Bashiri Smith's AI Engineer Projects Breakdown · pdf · check price
  The creator's step-by-step guide to building the six projects in the video, plus about 20 more project ideas.
  DM only: comment SKILLS on this reel on Facebook and you get it by DM.
  Mentioned in: Six AI Engineering Skills, Six Portfolio Projects to Practice Them (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Bashiri Smith's AI Engineer Roadmap (free resource guide) · pdf · free
  The creator's free guide of resources for becoming an AI engineer, sent to viewers who comment "ROADMAP".
  DM only: comment ROADMAP on this reel on Facebook and you get it by DM.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Mistakes Pt. 3: Don't Grind Math First, Choose Embeddings Carefully (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Bashiri Smith's Free AI Engineering Guide · pdf · free
  The creator's free AI engineering guide, sent to people who comment "PLAN".
  DM only: comment PLAN on this reel on Facebook and you get it by DM.
  Mentioned in: Promo: Bashiri Smith's Free AI Engineering Guide and Community (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Bashiri Smith's free AI engineering interview resources guide · pdf · free
  A free guide in which the creator lists his favourite resources for AI engineering interviews.
  DM only: comment solved on this reel on Facebook and you get it by DM.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap: 5 Skill Areas, a 24-Week Study Order & Interview Strategy (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Full Claude prompt (Bashiri Smith) · pdf · free
  A Claude prompt from the creator, sent by DM. The reel doesn't say what it's for.
  DM only: comment BETTER on this reel on Facebook and you get it by DM.
  Mentioned in: Comment-to-DM Offer: Claude Prompt, 27 AI Engineering Projects & BASWE.AI (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)

Guides and PDFs they shared (6)

• Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) · pdf · drive.google.com · free
  Bashiri Smith's 41-page practitioner's guide to evaluating AI systems.
  Mentioned in: 5 Things AI Engineers Must Evaluate: RAG, Agents, Models, Data, Guardrails (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Evaluation for AI Engineering: Free Full Guide (Resource Share) (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), The 8 Layers of Evaluating Production RAG and Agent Systems (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Why Evaluation Is the Skill That Sets Top AI Engineers Apart (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• How to become an expert in RAG (BASWE AI Engineer Field Guide) · pdf · drive.google.com · free
  A one-page field guide from BASWE that lays out a 5-stage path to mastering retrieval-augmented generation.
  Mentioned in: How RAG Works: Chunking, Embedding, Vector Storage, and Retrieval (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 3 Resume-Ready RAG Projects: Hybrid Search, Multi-Modal Docs and Agentic RAG (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How RAG Works Under the Hood: Chunking, Embedding, Storage, Retrieval (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• The AI Pivot Field Guide · pdf · drive.google.com · free
  A 2026 guide from the baswe.Ai Engineer Accelerator with three routes into AI engineering: mid-level software engineers (9 to 12 months), new grads (12 months) and non-technical domain experts who want to build agents…
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), SWE-to-AI Engineer Plan for 2027: LLMs, RAG, Agents, Evals, Job Search (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• 5 books to upgrade from software engineer into Ai/ML engineer · pdf · docs.google.com · free
  A one-page reading list of five books for software engineers moving into AI or ML engineering.
  Mentioned in: 5 Books to Move from Software Engineer to AI/ML Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• System Card: Claude Opus 4.8 · pdf · cdn.sanity.io · free
  Anthropic's 244-page system card for Claude Opus 4.8 (May 28, 2026).
  Mentioned in: Claude Opus 4.8 System Card (official PDF) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• The Interview Engine: The 7-Step System to Land AI Engineering Interviews · pdf · drive.google.com · free
  A BASWE field guide that lays out a 7-step job-search system for software engineers going after AI engineering roles.
  Mentioned in: Beat the Hiring "Signal Problem": Referrals, Targeting, and Volume (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)

Courses & tutorials (23)

• Hugging Face Agents Course · course · huggingface.co · free
  A free agents course with a real completion certificate.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap Before 2027: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Ops, Evals (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Books & Your First AI Service (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Hugging Face LLM Course · course · huggingface.co · free
  Hands-on course on transformers, tokenizers and fine-tuning.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap for 2026 in 60 Seconds (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Neural Networks: Zero to Hero (Andrej Karpathy) · course · karpathy.ai · free
  Build GPT from scratch. The guide calls it the deepest free foundation.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap Before 2027: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Ops, Evals (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Books & Your First AI Service (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Advanced Retrieval for AI with Chroma (DeepLearning.AI) · course · deeplearning.ai · free
  A DeepLearning.AI short course on advanced retrieval techniques that improve RAG results. Free with a DeepLearning.AI account during its platform beta; certificates are paid.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• AI Agents in LangGraph (DeepLearning.AI) · course · deeplearning.ai · free
  Build an agent, then rebuild it in LangGraph.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Building Adaptive AI Agents · course · deeplearning.ai · free
  A course on agents that learn from experience: turning their traces into reusable skills and building a code knowledge graph for retrieval.
  Mentioned in: Building Adaptive AI Agents: Skills from Traces and Code Knowledge Graphs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Building Systems with the ChatGPT API · course · deeplearning.ai · free
  A DeepLearning.AI course on building with LLM APIs. Free with a DeepLearning.AI account during its platform beta; certificates are paid.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers · course · deeplearning.ai · free
  A DeepLearning.AI short course on prompt engineering. Free with a DeepLearning.AI account during its platform beta; certificates are paid.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Claude Academy · course · academy.claude.com · free
  Learning content about Claude that can be opened in the Claude desktop app.
  Mentioned in: Claude Academy is now in the Claude desktop app (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DeepLearning.AI Short Courses · course · deeplearning.ai · free
  Applied courses of 1 to 2 hours on RAG, agents, LangChain and LLMOps.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• DeepLearning.AI: Retrieval Augmented Generation · course · learn.deeplearning.ai · paid
  Course taught by Zain Hasan with five hands-on modules. Module 1 is free to audit; the full course needs a paid upgrade. The same site hosts free short courses on agentic, knowledge-graph and multimodal RAG.
  In a shared PDF: How to become an expert in RAG (BASWE AI Engineer Field Guide) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• fast.ai, Practical Deep Learning for Coders · course · course.fast.ai · free
  Build-first deep learning course: you train a model in lesson 1.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Google Machine Learning Crash Course · course · developers.google.com · free
  About 15 hours, free, no signup. Its Fairness module is recommended as one of the best intros to bias in ML.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Hugging Face LLM Course – Chapter 7.3 · course · huggingface.co · free
  A section of Hugging Face's free LLM Course with hands-on training and fine-tuning of models.
  Mentioned in: Hugging Face LLM Course: Chapter 7.3 for Training Your Own Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Kaggle Learn · course · kaggle.com · free
  Free micro-courses with certificates.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• LangChain Chat with Your Data · course · deeplearning.ai · free
  A DeepLearning.AI course on building RAG with LangChain. Free with a DeepLearning.AI account during its platform beta; certificates are paid.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Learn Retrieval Augmented Generation (Boot.dev) · course · boot.dev · paid
  Boot.dev's RAG course (one of Class Central's picks): lessons are free to read, interactive exercises and certificates need a paid membership.
  In a shared PDF: How to become an expert in RAG (BASWE AI Engineer Field Guide) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• LLMOps (DeepLearning.AI) · course · learn.deeplearning.ai · free
  A DeepLearning.AI course on putting LLM applications into production. The exact course was shown on screen only. Free with a DeepLearning.AI account during its platform beta; certificates are paid.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap Before 2027: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Ops, Evals (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Made With ML · course · madewithml.com · free
  End-to-end MLOps curriculum; the guide calls it the best free resource in the category.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Preprocessing Unstructured Data for LLM Applications · course · deeplearning.ai · free
  A DeepLearning.AI course on document processing and chunking. Free with a DeepLearning.AI account during its platform beta; certificates are paid.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• RAG++: From POC to Production (Weights & Biases) · course · wandb.ai · free
  RAG course from Weights & Biases named in the Class Central roundup of the best RAG courses.
  In a shared PDF: How to become an expert in RAG (BASWE AI Engineer Field Guide) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Understanding and Applying Text Embeddings (DeepLearning.AI) · course · deeplearning.ai · free
  A DeepLearning.AI course on embeddings and semantic search. Free with a DeepLearning.AI account during its platform beta; certificates are paid.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Vector Databases: from Embeddings to Applications (DeepLearning.AI) · course · deeplearning.ai · free
  A DeepLearning.AI short course on how vector databases work and how to build applications with them. Free with a DeepLearning.AI account during its platform beta; certificates are paid.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)

Books (11)

• AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models (Chip Huyen) · book · github.com · paid
  Essential for AI engineers, even if some topics may not cover the newest tools. Good to know for ML engineers who want to build products with their models.
  Mentioned in: 5 Books to Move from Software Engineer to AI/ML Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Before 2027: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Ops, Evals (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Books & Your First AI Service (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: 5 books to upgrade from software engineer into Ai/ML engineer - shared in this reel on Facebook
• Building Applications with AI Agents (Michael Albada) · book · oreilly.com · paid · open in a browser to verify
  Michael Albada's O'Reilly book on designing and building agent-based applications.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap Before 2027: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Ops, Evals (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Books & Your First AI Service (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Deep Learning · book · deeplearningbook.org · free
  Strengthens your conceptual understanding as an AI engineer, and is essential for an ML engineer who wants to go far.
  Mentioned in: 5 Books to Move from Software Engineer to AI/ML Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: 5 books to upgrade from software engineer into Ai/ML engineer - shared in this reel on Facebook
• LLMOps: Managing Large Language Models in Production · book · oreilly.com · paid · open in a browser to verify
  Abi Aryan's O'Reilly book on running LLM applications in production (paid). The guide linked an unofficial PDF copy; this is the publisher's page.
  Mentioned in: 5 Books to Move from Software Engineer to AI/ML Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: 5 books to upgrade from software engineer into Ai/ML engineer - shared in this reel on Facebook
• AI Safety, Ethics, and Society Textbook (AI Safety Book) · book · aisafetybook.com · free
  Free online textbook covering the concepts of AI safety, ethics and societal impact.
  Mentioned in: Two Free Resources to Learn AI Engineering: AI Engineering Hub & AI Safety Book (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Building Agentic AI · book · amazon.com · paid
  A book on designing and building agentic AI systems.
  Mentioned in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and PyTorch · book · homl.info · paid
  Aurelien Geron's hands-on ML book; the official site has the notebooks plus free online chapters and appendices.
  Mentioned in: 5 Books to Move from Software Engineer to AI/ML Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and PyTorch (Aurélien Géron) · book · ageron.github.io · check price
  Hands-on guide to ML techniques. A basic grasp of them helps AI engineers and is essential for ML engineers. The link only goes to the free Appendix E PDF, not the full book.
  In a shared PDF: 5 books to upgrade from software engineer into Ai/ML engineer - shared in this reel on Facebook
• LLM Engineer's Handbook · book · pauliusztin.ai · paid
  A book by Paul Iusztin and Maxime Labonne on building production LLM systems from start to finish, including RAG, fine-tuning and LLMOps.
  Mentioned in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Mathematics for Machine Learning · book · mml-book.github.io · free
  Book by Deisenroth, Faisal and Ong covering the linear algebra, calculus, probability and optimization behind ML.
  Mentioned in: 5 Books to Move from Software Engineer to AI/ML Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Mathematics for Machine Learning (Deisenroth, Faisal, Ong) · book · mml-book.github.io · free
  Math for ML. You don't strictly need it to be an AI engineer, though it is very useful, but you do need math to be an ML engineer.
  In a shared PDF: 5 books to upgrade from software engineer into Ai/ML engineer - shared in this reel on Facebook

Videos & talks (43)

• The Complete AI Engineer Roadmap for 2026 (Exact Courses + Step-by-Step) · video · youtube.com · free
  Bashiri Smith's free YouTube training on upgrading your skills and becoming competitive for AI engineering roles, with specific courses listed step by step.
  Mentioned in: SWE-to-AI Engineer Plan for 2027: LLMs, RAG, Agents, Evals, Job Search (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Pointer to Bashiri Smith's Complete AI Engineer Roadmap for 2026 (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Software Engineer to AI Engineer Before 2027: A 5-Step Career Plan (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 20 more
• How to Build a Coding Project That Will Get You Hired in 2026 [FULL BLUEPRINT] · video · youtube.com · free
  Bashiri Smith's full YouTube tutorial on planning and building portfolio projects that solve real problems and show employers you can do useful work.
  Mentioned in: Build Side Projects With Real Users to Stand Out to Employers (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Be the "Glue": Build AI Projects That Solve Real Problems to Get Hired (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Stop Writing AI Keyword Soup: Build Projects That Solve Real Problems (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Beat the Hiring "Trust Recession" With Public Proof-of-Skill Projects (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 3 more
• Why Your Job Applications Keep Getting Ignored · video · youtube.com · free
  Bashiri Smith's YouTube video on his strategy for standing out among applicants and getting interviews.
  Mentioned in: Software Engineer to AI Engineer Before 2027: A 5-Step Career Plan (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Beat the Hiring "Signal Problem": Referrals, Targeting, and Volume (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Using the September Hiring Surge: Volume Plus Quality in Your Job Search (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• 27 AI Engineering Projects to Get Hired - The Ultimate Guide · video · youtube.com · free
  A longer walkthrough of all 27 projects: what to build, which tools you need, how long to spend building and how to find real users.
  Mentioned in: Software Engineer to AI Engineer Before 2027: A 5-Step Career Plan (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 27 Portfolio Projects to Move from Software Engineer to AI Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• [1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models (Andrej Karpathy) · video · youtube.com · free
  A video by Andrej Karpathy that introduces how large language models work.
  Mentioned in: 6 Free Videos to Move from Software Engineer to AI Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• OpenAI DevDay livestream replay · video · x.com · free
  Replay of Melvin Vivas's X Live watch party covering the full OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay 2026 Replay: Timestamped Guide to the Announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• RAG from Scratch (freeCodeCamp) · video · youtube.com · free
  A freeCodeCamp video about two and a half hours long on building basic RAG (the exact title isn't shown).
  Mentioned in: 6 Free Videos to Move from Software Engineer to AI Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• RAG From Scratch (LangChain) · video · github.com · free
  LangChain's free video series and notebooks that build retrieval-augmented generation step by step, from indexing through retrieval and generation.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap Before 2027: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Ops, Evals (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Books & Your First AI Service (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Training Agents series (Hugging Face) · video · youtube.com · free
  Hugging Face live tutorial on fine-tuning a coding agent with its own traces for continual learning.
  Mentioned in: Hugging Face Training Agents series: post-training coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Fine-Tune a Model on Your Own Coding Agent Traces (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Word Embedding and Word2Vec, Clearly Explained!!! (StatQuest with Josh Starmer) · video · youtube.com · free
  StatQuest's visual explanation of word embeddings and how Word2Vec learns them.
  Mentioned in: 6 Free Videos to Move from Software Engineer to AI Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• 3Blue1Brown Neural Networks series · video · youtube.com · free
  A visual series by 3Blue1Brown explaining neural networks, backpropagation and transformers.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Books & Your First AI Service (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• 5 Levels of Text Splitting for Retrieval (Greg Kamradt) · video · youtube.com · free
  A video by Greg Kamradt that walks through chunking and text-splitting strategies for RAG, from simple to advanced.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• [Full livestream] Build a React Native ChatGPT app using Cursor, OpenAI, and Expo · video · youtube.com · free
  A full livestream building an iOS ChatGPT app with React Native, Expo, the OpenAI API and Cursor.
  Mentioned in: Livestream: Building a React Native ChatGPT App with Cursor and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AI Engineering Interview Questions Training Video · video · free
  The creator's full walkthrough video covering each of the 100 interview questions and their answers.
  Mentioned in: The 5 Categories Asked in Every AI Engineering Interview (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Build Production-Ready Retrieval RAG Pipeline in LangChain | Hybrid Search (BM25), Re-ranking & HyDE (Venelin Valkov) · video · youtube.com · free
  A 15-minute video by Venelin Valkov on hybrid retrieval and advanced retrieval tactics.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Complete RAG tutorial 2026, with free labs · video · youtube.com · free
  A full code-along crash course that goes from setup to a working RAG system.
  In a shared PDF: How to become an expert in RAG (BASWE AI Engineer Field Guide) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Cursor (@cursor_ai) on X – Projects launch post · video · x.com · free
  Cursor's official launch video and post introducing Projects, long-lived agents that manage fleets of coding agents.
  Mentioned in: Cursor Projects: Long-Lived Agents That Manage Fleets of Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DonvitoAI post on X (AIBackends PII redaction demo) · video · x.com · free
  The original X post with the short video demo of AIBackends redacting PII locally.
  Mentioned in: Local PII Redaction on CPU with the AIBackends Python Package (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• F.03 Livestream - Day 9 | 191 consecutive hours and 238,000 packages · video · youtube.com · free
  Figure's livestream of F.03 humanoid robots running package handling around the clock.
  Mentioned in: Figure F.03 Livestream: Humanoid Robots Working Nonstop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Full interview with Dario Amodei · video · youtube.com · free
  Full-length YouTube interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about the Anthropic story.
  Mentioned in: Must-Watch: Full Interview with Dario Amodei on the Anthropic Story (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) on X: AI pointer demo post · video · x.com · free
  Google DeepMind's original post with the demo video of a Gemini-powered pointer that combines voice, pointing and visual understanding.
  Mentioned in: Multimodal AI Pointer: Combining Voice, Mouse Pointing and Vision with Gemini (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Inside Anthropic, the $965 Billion AI Juggernaut | The Circuit · video · youtube.com · free
  A Bloomberg Originals interview with Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei about the company's history, safety approach and politics.
  Mentioned in: Bloomberg's 'Inside Anthropic' interview with Dario and Daniela Amodei (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Intro to Agent Skills (video) · video · youtube.com · free
  Intro video on building modular, on-demand agent skills that give coding agents deep context.
  Mentioned in: Agent Skills: Modular On-Demand Context, and skillsbento (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Katia Gil Guzman (@kagigz) on X – Codex workflow post · video · x.com · free
  The original X post with the video showing how to build and deploy an app with the Codex app.
  Mentioned in: Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LangChain: RAG From Scratch (YouTube playlist) · video · youtube.com · free
  Short-video series by Lance Martin that goes from indexing basics up to advanced routing and reranking; the guide calls it the gold standard.
  In a shared PDF: How to become an expert in RAG (BASWE AI Engineer Field Guide) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps) Explained (IBM Technology) · video · youtube.com · free
  An IBM explainer video on running and operating LLM applications (LLMOps). The exact title was shown on screen only.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap Before 2027: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Ops, Evals (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Livestream replay on YouTube (Codex vs Devin) · video · youtube.com · free · link looked broken
  Replay of the creator's livestream about Codex usage limits and building with Devin.
  Mentioned in: Livestream Recap: Codex Limits and Why Devin Is a $200 Option (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Magnific broadcast: Learn Seedance 2.0 · video · x.com · free
  A live broadcast on X teaching how to use Seedance 2.0.
  Mentioned in: Seedance 2.0 Video Generation in Freepik (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Master All 20 Agentic Design Patterns (Mark Kashef) · video · youtube.com · free
  Mark Kashef's walkthrough of 20 agentic design patterns you can use when building agents.
  Mentioned in: 6 Free Videos to Move from Software Engineer to AI Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Matt Pocock's Agentic Engineering Workflow (just copy him) · video · youtube.com · free
  David Ondrej's YouTube video on how Matt Pocock works with AI coding agents.
  Mentioned in: Video: Matt Pocock's Agentic Engineering Workflow (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Melvin Vivas – full Hermes assistant build video · video · free
  The creator's full walkthrough of building this personal assistant agent.
  Mentioned in: Personal Assistant Agent on Hermes: Morning Briefings and Inbox Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MiniMax Agent post: MaxClaw walkthrough · video · x.com · free
  MiniMax Agent's own X post with the MaxClaw walkthrough video.
  Mentioned in: Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI with Python: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners (George Shakan) · video · youtube.com · free
  A video tutorial on starting to build with the OpenAI API (creator and title not shown).
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Original LFM 2.5-Encoder prompt routing demo video (YouTube) · video · youtube.com · free
  The full original YouTube demo of zero-shot prompt routing with LFM 2.5-Encoder. The caption link appears truncated and looked broken when checked.
  Mentioned in: Zero-Shot Prompt Routing with Liquid AI's LFM 2.5-Encoder-350M (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• President Xi pitches China as leader of new global AI order, challenging US dominance (CNA) · video · youtube.com · free
  CNA news video on China's pitch to lead global AI governance and cooperation.
  Mentioned in: Why Chinese AI Models Are Mostly Open Source (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Prompt Engineering Full Course (Tech With Tim) · video · youtube.com · free
  A Tech With Tim video on how to prompt LLMs well.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• RAG explained in 20 minutes · video · youtube.com · free
  A fast, clear intro with a hands-on project; the quickest way to see the full RAG loop in action.
  In a shared PDF: How to become an expert in RAG (BASWE AI Engineer Field Guide) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Removing Plan Mode in Claude, Codex and Cursor Is a Huge Mistake · video · youtube.com · free
  Melvin Vivas's long-form YouTube video arguing for keeping Plan Mode in AI coding agents.
  Mentioned in: Why removing Plan Mode from coding agents is a mistake (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Theo's video 'We're leaving GitHub' (rebranded 'Get in, we're leaving GitHub') · video · youtube.com · free
  Theo's video that flopped at first and then beat his channel average after it was repackaged with a new thumbnail and title.
  Mentioned in: Theo's YouTube Packaging Masterclass: Thumbnails, Titles and the Algorithm (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• What Are AI Agents? (IBM Technology) · video · youtube.com · free
  IBM's short explainer on what AI agents are and how they work.
  Mentioned in: 6 Free Videos to Move from Software Engineer to AI Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• What is a Vector Database? Powering Semantic Search & AI Applications (IBM Technology) · video · youtube.com · free
  An IBM video introducing vector databases.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• X Live broadcast · video · x.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  The original X livestream broadcast. The link currently returns 404.
  Mentioned in: Livestream Recap: Codex Limits and Why Devin Is a $200 Option (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• X post by DonvitoAI: animation of how an LLM works · video · x.com · free
  The linked X post with the short animation that shows how an LLM works.
  Mentioned in: Claude Opus 4.8 Generates an Animation of How an LLM Works in One Shot (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)

YouTube channels (7)

• Melvin Vivas YouTube channel · channel · youtube.com · free
  The creator's channel with livestreams and videos on building apps with AI tools.
  Mentioned in: Melvin Vivas YouTube channel for live replays (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Livestream: Building a React Native ChatGPT App with Cursor and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AI Engineer (conference and YouTube channel) · channel · youtube.com · free
  AI engineering conference series that posts its talks for free on YouTube, including the full version of this talk.
  Mentioned in: Self-Flow: Training Multimodal Generative Models Without an External Encoder (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Fireship · channel · youtube.com · free
  Developer YouTube channel with short, fast-paced videos on tech news and programming; it made the 'indie hackers going extinct' video quoted here.
  Mentioned in: Is Indie Hacking Dead? How AI Coding Changes the Micro-SaaS Playbook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• freeCodeCamp · channel · freecodecamp.org · free
  Nonprofit that publishes free, full-length programming and AI courses.
  Mentioned in: 6 Free Videos to Move from Software Engineer to AI Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Hugging Face YouTube channel · channel · youtube.com · free
  Hugging Face's official YouTube channel, which hosts the Training Agents sessions.
  Mentioned in: Hugging Face Training Agents series: post-training coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Theo - t3.gg (YouTube channel) · channel · youtube.com · free
  Theo Browne's channel about web development and AI tools, and the main speaker in this masterclass.
  Mentioned in: Theo's YouTube Packaging Masterclass: Thumbnails, Titles and the Algorithm (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Tomy's AI Garage (YouTube channel) · channel · free
  The creator's YouTube channel with videos on AI and agents, including a beginner's guide to Buzz.
  Mentioned in: Connecting Hermes Agent to the Buzz Agent-First Chat App via the Native Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)

Articles & guides (71)

• A Visual Guide to Gemma 4 · article · newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com · free
  Illustrated walkthrough of the Gemma 4 architecture: MoE, vision encoder, per-layer embeddings and audio encoder.
  Mentioned in: A Visual Guide to Gemma 4 Architecture (Maarten Grootendorst) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemma 4 Architecture: MoE, Encoders and Per-Layer Embeddings (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AI Engineering Skills Map: Building and Deploying AI Applications · article · x.com · free
  Andrew Ng's article mapping the skills needed to build and deploy AI applications as an AI engineer. It's on X, so reading it may need an X account.
  Mentioned in: Andrew Ng's AI Engineering Skills Map (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Andrew Ng on how anyone can become an AI Engineer (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Did China's AI Save Hugging Face From Disaster After OpenAI Hack? (Forbes) · article · forbes.com · check price · open in a browser to verify
  A Forbes news article on the Hugging Face cyberattack incident and how a Chinese AI model may have helped stop it.
  Mentioned in: Forbes: Did Chinese Open AI Save Hugging Face After the OpenAI Hack? (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), News: Chinese AI, Hugging Face and an OpenAI Hack (Forbes) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LinkedIn Jobs on the Rise · article · linkedin.com · free
  LinkedIn's ranking of the fastest-growing jobs in the US, which put AI engineer at #1 for 2026.
  Mentioned in: Why Software Engineers Should Move Into AI Engineering (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Salaries at OpenAI & Anthropic and the Skills They Want (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• OpenAI's agentic software factory (The Pragmatic Engineer) · article · newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · check price
  Gergely Orosz's write-up and diagram of how OpenAI uses Codex and specialist agents to build, review, deploy and monitor code. The caption link is cut off, so search the newsletter for 'OpenAI software factory'.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory: Build-Review-Deploy-Observe Loop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), How OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory Works (Pragmatic Engineer) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI's Skills/AGENTS.md migration guidance for Astra · article · developers.openai.com · free
  OpenAI's guidance on adapting skills, AGENTS.md and task prompts for GPT-6 Astra.
  Mentioned in: Updating Skills and AGENTS.md for Astra with OpenAI's Guidance (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Guide: Rethinking Skills and Prompts for GPT-6 Astra (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• $300 Billion Evaporated: The SaaSpocalypse Has Begun (Forbes) · article · forbes.com · check price · open in a browser to verify
  Forbes article by Don Muir on the roughly $300B drop in SaaS market value tied to AI disruption.
  Mentioned in: The 'SaaSpocalypse': $300B in SaaS Market Value Wiped Out by AI Fears (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Adversarial Prompting (Prompt Engineering Guide) · article · promptingguide.ai · free
  How to defend against prompt injection and jailbreaks.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• AI Agents vs AI Workflows: How to Choose for Production (AIBackends blog) · article · aibackends.com · free
  Blog post on when to use an AI agent and when to use a fixed AI workflow in production systems.
  Mentioned in: AI Agents vs AI Workflows: How to Choose for Production (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AINews: Claude Opus 5.5, the new default (Latent Space) · article · latent.space · free
  Latent Space AINews issue explaining why Claude Opus 5.5 became the default model after a side-by-side test with GPT-6 Sol.
  Mentioned in: Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Sol for Writing: Latent Space AINews Test (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Alex Ellis · article · blog.alexellis.io · free
  Alex Ellis explains why his team moved local LLM work from RTX 3090s to four NVIDIA DGX Sparks.
  Mentioned in: Running Local Models on NVIDIA DGX Sparks (Alex Ellis) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Amazon Rufus (AI shopping assistant) · article · amazon.science · free
  Amazon Science's write-up of how Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant, uses RAG over the catalog, reviews and community Q&A - a real-world RAG case study.
  Mentioned in: How Amazon's Shopping Assistant Uses RAG: Query Planning, Retrieval, Generation (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet · article · blog.cloudflare.com · free
  Cloudflare's blog post announcing Cloudflare Wallets, programmable wallets that let AI agents hold and spend money.
  Mentioned in: Cloudflare Wallets: Programmable Payment Wallets for AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Anthropic blog post: automating business analytics queries with Claude · article · claude.com · free
  How Anthropic's data team automated 95% of analytics queries with Claude, including evals, ablations and online validation.
  Mentioned in: How Anthropic's data team automated 95% of analytics queries with Claude (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Better prompt caching for GPT-6 · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's announcement of improved prompt caching for GPT-6 models.
  Mentioned in: GPT-6 Prompt Caching: Why It Stretches Your Usage Limits (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Bringing macOS to Devin · article · devin.ai · free
  Devin blog post announcing macOS cloud sandboxes for the Devin coding agent.
  Mentioned in: Devin Adds Mac Cloud Sandboxes for macOS/iOS Agent Work (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Bringing MCP 2026-07-28 to Claude (Claude blog) · article · claude.com · free
  Anthropic blog post on the stateless MCP 2026-07-28 spec update and how Claude supports it.
  Mentioned in: MCP 2026-07-28: The Protocol Is Now Stateless (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Building with Claude Sonnet 5.5 (claude.dev Blog) · article · claude.dev · free
  Official claude.dev blog guide on building applications with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
  Mentioned in: Guide: Building with Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT's market share slips below 50% for first time (TechCrunch) · article · donvitocodes.com · free
  TechCrunch news article reporting that ChatGPT's market share fell below 50%.
  Mentioned in: ChatGPT's market share drops below 50% (TechCrunch) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• China's Alibaba bans Anthropic AI for employees after 'distillation attack' accusation (CNBC) · article · cnbc.com · free
  CNBC news article on Alibaba banning Claude for its employees after a distillation accusation.
  Mentioned in: News: Alibaba Bans Anthropic's Claude After 'Distillation Attack' Claim (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Class Central: 12 best RAG courses · article · classcentral.com · free
  Ranked and tested list of RAG courses; the fastest way to find the Boot.dev, Weights & Biases RAG++, Duke and Google Cloud picks.
  In a shared PDF: How to become an expert in RAG (BASWE AI Engineer Field Guide) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Claude for Foundation Models (Claude blog) · article · claude.com · free
  Anthropic's announcement of Claude support for Apple's Foundation Models framework.
  Mentioned in: Claude support for Apple's Foundation Models framework (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ClaudeDevs announcement on X (Claude Code agent-to-agent communication) · article · x.com · free
  The official ClaudeDevs post announcing that Claude Code agents can now communicate with each other.
  Mentioned in: Claude Code Agents Can Now Talk to Each Other Natively (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cognition's 'Devin now has a Mac' announcement post · article · x.com · free
  Cognition's X post describing 11 Devin experiments with native Apple apps and linking open-source code for more than 100 apps.
  Mentioned in: Devin Gets a Mac: Building iOS and macOS Apps in the Cloud from a Prompt (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor (@cursor_ai) on X – side chats announcement · article · x.com · free
  Cursor's official X post announcing the side chats feature.
  Mentioned in: Cursor's New "Side Chats" Feature (Quick Pointer) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology · article · darioamodei.com · free
  Dario Amodei's essay on confronting and overcoming the risks of powerful AI.
  Mentioned in: Dario Amodei's Essay 'The Adolescence of Technology' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Devin Security Review (Cognition announcement) · article · x.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  Cognition's X post announcing Devin Security Review; the link now returns a 404 error.
  Mentioned in: Devin Security Review from Cognition (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X · article · x.com · free
  X post announcing Grok's video analysis capability.
  Mentioned in: Grok Can Now Analyze Videos (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X - X MCP announcement · article · x.com · free
  Elon Musk's X post announcing X MCP.
  Mentioned in: X Launches an MCP Server (X MCP) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X – 2T Grok model post · article · x.com · free
  Elon Musk's X post about the upcoming 2T-parameter Grok model.
  Mentioned in: Heads-up: an upcoming 2T-parameter Grok model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X – post on open-source support · article · x.com · free
  Elon Musk's X post announcing public support for open-source AI.
  Mentioned in: Public Industry Support for Open-Source / Open-Weight AI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Elon Musk on X: Grok Build updates · article · x.com · free
  Elon Musk's X post sharing updates on xAI's Grok Build coding tool.
  Mentioned in: Elon Musk posts Grok Build updates (xAI coding tool news) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Fine-tuning LFM2.5-350M for structured outputs with GRPO (Hugging Face blog) · article · huggingface.co · free
  Tutorial showing how to fine-tune LFM2.5-350M in 100 GRPO steps with TRL for better structured outputs.
  Mentioned in: Fine-Tune LFM2.5-350M with GRPO in TRL for Structured Outputs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• FireRouter · article · fireworks.ai · free
  Fireworks AI's router model that sends each request to either open models or Claude Opus, depending on the task and cache.
  Mentioned in: FireRouter: cost-aware model routing between open models and Claude Opus (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Fireworks AI blog: GLM 5.2 fast inference · article · fireworks.ai · free
  Fireworks AI blog post on serving GLM 5.2 at high token throughput.
  Mentioned in: GLM 5.2 Hits 446 tok/s on Fireworks AI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLM 5.2 launch blog (Z.ai) · article · z.ai · free
  Z.ai's launch post with the details of the open GLM 5.2 coding model.
  Mentioned in: GLM 5.2 open model now deployable on Google Cloud (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google multi-agent long-form video framework announcement · article · goo.gle · free
  Google's announcement of a multi-agent framework for temporally consistent long-form video with less visual drift.
  Mentioned in: Google's multi-agent framework for consistent long-form video (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT-3 powers the next generation of apps · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI blog post showcasing products built on GPT-3.
  Mentioned in: Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• How inference engines actually work (talk slides) · article · x.com · free
  Talk slides that follow an LLM request through an inference engine: caching, batching, paged attention, chunked prefill, sampling and agentic loops.
  Mentioned in: How inference engines work: the full life of an LLM request (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• How to make remarkable videos with Seedance 2.0 – Replicate blog · article · replicate.com · free
  Replicate's practical guide and findings on generating video with Seedance 2.0.
  Mentioned in: Replicate's Guide to Making Videos with Seedance 2.0 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• How to Use Jev as a Decision Model for Email Classification (AIBackends blog) · article · aibackends.com · free
  Blog post explaining how to use Jev as a decision model to classify emails.
  Mentioned in: Using Jev (TypeSafe AI) as a Decision Model for Email Classification (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• How Virgin Atlantic ships faster with Codex · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI case study on how Virgin Atlantic uses Codex for testing, refactoring and shipping software.
  Mentioned in: Case Study: How Virgin Atlantic Ships Faster with OpenAI Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• How we made claude.ai faster (claude.dev blog) · article · claude.dev · free
  A blog post on how Claude was used to measure, debug and improve claude.ai performance, with prompts and methods included.
  Mentioned in: How claude.ai was made 3x faster using Claude itself (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hugging Face Blog: Transformers + llama.cpp quants · article · huggingface.co · free
  Hugging Face blog post announcing that llama.cpp GGUF quantized checkpoints can run in Transformers.
  Mentioned in: Run llama.cpp GGUF Checkpoints in Hugging Face Transformers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Interactions API: our primary interface for Gemini models and agents · article · blog.google · free
  Google blog post announcing that the Interactions API is generally available and what it can do.
  Mentioned in: Google Interactions API is GA: recommended for Gemini (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's announcement of a teen-focused ChatGPT with safety protections for learning.
  Mentioned in: Teaching Teens AI Safety: ChatGPT for Teens in Singapore (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Introducing dynamic workflows in Claude Code (Claude blog) · article · claude.com · free
  Anthropic's official announcement of dynamic workflows in Claude Code, explaining how Claude orchestrates parallel subagents.
  Mentioned in: Anthropic's announcement of dynamic workflows in Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Introducing Grok 4.7 (xAI) · article · x.ai · free
  xAI's official announcement page for the Grok 4.7 model.
  Mentioned in: Grok 4.7 Launch: Official xAI Announcement (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Introducing the Agents API (OpenAI) · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's official announcement of the Agents API, which supports bring-your-own-sandbox providers.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Jensen Huang's X post sharing the open-weight models letter · article · x.com · free
  Jensen Huang's post with the joint letter asking policymakers not to restrict open-weight models.
  Mentioned in: Open-Weight Model Letter: Who Signed and Who Didn't (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Lentils (@Lentils80) on X – original "Veo Omni" clip post · article · x.com · free
  The original X post with the AI-generated video clip that Melvin reposted.
  Mentioned in: "Veo Omni?": A 10-Second Teaser Clip of a Possible New Google Video Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Liquid AI blog: how our engineering teams use agent loops · article · liquid.ai · free
  Liquid AI's engineering blog post on using agent loops and the lessons from vibe-coding a production tokenizer trainer.
  Mentioned in: Agent Loops in ML Engineering: Liquid AI's Vibe-Coded Tokenizer Trainer (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA blog: Dynamo AIPerf · article · nvda.ws · free
  NVIDIA's blog post explaining how to load-test LLM endpoints with AIPerf.
  Mentioned in: Benchmarking LLM Endpoints with NVIDIA Dynamo AIPerf (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI API (announcement) · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's blog post introducing public API access to its models.
  Mentioned in: Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company to help businesses build around intelligence · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's official announcement of its new Deployment Company for enterprise AI adoption.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI, Claude & Gemini API Tutorial in Python (Machine Learning Plus) · article · machinelearningplus.com · free
  A reference guide for working with LLM APIs from providers other than OpenAI (the exact source isn't shown).
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• OpenRouter announcement: Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview · article · x.com · free
  OpenRouter's post announcing free, limited-time access to Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview, including the data-collection notice.
  Mentioned in: Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview Is Free for a Limited Time on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Prompt Engineering with LlamaIndex and OpenAI GPT-3 · article · sausheong.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  Sau Sheong's article on using LlamaIndex with GPT-3 to query your own documents.
  Mentioned in: Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• Quesma blog: Qwen3.8 27B quantizations benchmarked · article · quesma.com · free
  A benchmark of Qwen3.8 27B quantization levels on the Terminal-Bench 2.1 agentic coding benchmark.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.8 27B Quantization Benchmark: 4-Bit Is Enough for Agentic Coding (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Running a 28.9M Parameter LLM on an $8 Microcontroller (Hackster.io) · article · hackster.io · free
  Hackster.io news article about fitting a 28.9M-parameter LLM onto an ESP32 using a trick from Gemma.
  Mentioned in: Running a 28.9M-Parameter LLM on an $8 ESP32 Microcontroller (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Runpod Blog: Flash is GA · article · runpod.io · free
  Runpod's blog post announcing that Flash is generally available.
  Mentioned in: Runpod Flash Reaches GA: Deploy AI Workloads from Python (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Runpod: Building an internal AI agent and the data foundations it needs (Charlotte Daniels) · article · infoworld.com · free
  Runpod's Head of Data on what building an internal AI data agent taught them about data foundations.
  Mentioned in: Why LLM data agents need solid data foundations (Runpod) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's announcement of Samsung's company-wide rollout of ChatGPT and Codex.
  Mentioned in: Samsung Electronics Rolls Out ChatGPT and Codex to Employees (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Scaling Pain of Coding Agent Serving (Z.ai blog) · article · z.ai · free
  Z.ai's write-up of the lessons it learned debugging GLM-5 while serving coding agents at scale.
  Mentioned in: Z.ai's Lessons from Serving GLM-5 for Coding Agents at Scale (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• The roles emerging in the gaps between roles (Andela Research) · article · andela.com · free
  Andela's study of 47,101 Fortune 500 technical job postings, which found that job titles often don't match the actual work.
  Mentioned in: Find Hidden AI Jobs: Search by Skills (RAG, LLMs), Not "AI Engineer" Titles (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• The ultimate guide to multi-harness RL (FineEnvs, Hugging Face Space) · article · huggingface.co · free
  A Hugging Face Space guide explaining multi-harness reinforcement learning and why the best harness depends on the model.
  Mentioned in: There Is No Best Agent Harness: Guide to Multi-Harness RL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Turing Post: 10 RAG Courses in 2026 (Free, Trial, and Paid Options) · article · turingpost.com · free
  Agentic, multimodal and knowledge-graph RAG learning paths gathered in one place.
  In a shared PDF: How to become an expert in RAG (BASWE AI Engineer Field Guide) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Unsloth Joins the PyTorch Ecosystem · article · unsloth.ai · free
  Unsloth's blog post announcing that it has joined the PyTorch Ecosystem.
  Mentioned in: Unsloth joins the PyTorch Ecosystem (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Vercel announcement post on X · article · x.com · free
  Vercel's post announcing free Jev access on AI Gateway.
  Mentioned in: Jev was free on Vercel AI Gateway until Sept 25 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Vercel changelog: GPT-5.6 Sol is now 50% off at a lower price · article · vercel.com · free
  Vercel's changelog post announcing the GPT-5.6 Sol price cuts on AI Gateway.
  Mentioned in: GPT-5.6 Sol Price Cuts on Vercel AI Gateway (70% Off Input) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Why teens deserve access to safe AI · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's article on giving teenagers access to AI with safety protections.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI on Why Teens Deserve Access to Safe AI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)

Official docs (61)

• Model Context Protocol (MCP) · docs · modelcontextprotocol.io · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  An open standard for connecting LLM apps and agents to tools and data sources. The official docs explain how it works and how to build servers and clients.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Templates: Sharing, Publishing and Safely Installing Bots (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 8-Week Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Paste Documentation URLs into Codex Instead of Using MCP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Agents API: Hosted Codex Harness for Long-Running Cloud Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 8 more
• AGENTS.md · docs · agents.md · free
  Instruction file format that gives coding agents project context such as the tech stack, skills and MCP servers.
  Mentioned in: Claude Code Now Reads AGENTS.md When CLAUDE.md Is Missing (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Subagents with mixed models: a strong planner and a fast executor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Updating Skills and AGENTS.md for Astra with OpenAI's Guidance (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), How to Prompt GPT-6 Astra in Codex: Simpler Instructions, Leaner AGENTS.md (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 6 more
• Gemini API · docs · ai.google.dev · free
  Google's developer API and docs for calling Gemini and Gemma models.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: Real-Time Speech Translation via the Live API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemma 4 Now Available Through the Gemini API (Dev Use Only) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Gemma 4 via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Unsloth LLM Tutorials (Unsloth Documentation) · docs · unsloth.ai · free
  Unsloth's guides for running and fine-tuning open LLMs locally, including the Qwen3.8-Next guide.
  Mentioned in: Run Qwen-Image-2.1 locally on 12GB VRAM with Unsloth GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE) Locally with Unsloth GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Qwen3.6-27B Locally in 18GB RAM with Unsloth GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Advisor tool · docs · platform.claude.com · free
  Official documentation for Anthropic's Advisor tool, where an advisor model guides cheaper executor models.
  Mentioned in: Orchestrator/Subagent Patterns: Astra-Luna Skill vs Fusion and Advisor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Advisor Pattern: Routing Work to Cheaper Executor Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini Live API · docs · ai.google.dev · check price
  Google's API for real-time, streaming audio sessions with Gemini models, used here for live translation.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: Real-Time Speech Translation via the Live API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: Real-Time Speech Translation via the Gemini Live API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLM-5-Turbo docs (Z.ai) · docs · docs.z.ai · free
  Z.ai's API guide for the GLM-5-Turbo model.
  Mentioned in: How to Get a GLM-5-Turbo Rate Limit Increase for OpenClaw (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM-5-Turbo: A Fast GLM-5 Variant for Agents Like OpenClaw (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Realtime API · docs · platform.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's developer platform, where the realtime audio models are available for building voice agents and translation apps.
  Mentioned in: GPT-Realtime-2 & Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-Realtime-2 & GPT-Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Responses API · docs · platform.openai.com · check price
  OpenAI's API for building model-powered apps and agents with tool use.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-5.3-Codex Now Available in OpenAI's Responses API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenRouter Documentation · docs · openrouter.ai · free
  OpenRouter's docs explaining video generation parameters, the async request flow and the video models route.
  Mentioned in: OpenRouter MCP: Pick, Price, and Test LLMs from Inside Your Coding Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenRouter Adds Video Generation: One API for Veo, Seedance, Wan and Sora (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Subagents | ChatGPT Learn (Codex) · docs · learn.chatgpt.com · free
  Official docs for configuring subagents in Codex.
  Mentioned in: Learn Subagents in Cursor and Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex Subagents: Official Documentation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Unsloth Documentation: Muse Glimmer guide · docs · unsloth.ai · free
  Unsloth's guide and free notebooks for fine-tuning and GRPO-training Muse Glimmer 30B.
  Mentioned in: Fine-Tune Muse Glimmer 30B for Free with Unsloth (incl. GRPO) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Muse Glimmer 30B: Unsloth GGUF Release and Run Guide (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• aibackends 0.5.0 on PyPI · docs · pypi.org · free
  The PyPI package page for aibackends version 0.5.0.
  Mentioned in: Screening LLM Prompts and Responses on CPU with AIBackends + GliGuard (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Anthropic API docs · docs · docs.anthropic.com · free
  Claude API reference. The guide also points to it for safety guidance.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Apple Foundation Models framework · docs · developer.apple.com · free
  Apple's framework that lets apps on Apple platforms use language models.
  Mentioned in: Claude support for Apple's Foundation Models framework (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English) · docs · asd-ste100.org · check price
  A controlled language specification for writing clear technical text, which you can ask an LLM to follow.
  Mentioned in: Karpathy's Tip: Ask LLMs to Explain in ASD-STE100 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Platform Documentation · docs · platform.claude.com · free
  Anthropic's main documentation for building with Claude.
  Mentioned in: Claude Advisor Pattern: Routing Work to Cheaper Executor Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Advanced Configuration – OSS mode / local providers · docs · developers.openai.com · free
  Official docs on setting up Codex to run with open-source models through local providers.
  Mentioned in: Run OpenAI Codex with Open-Source and Local Models (OSS Mode) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex changelog (OpenAI Developers) · docs · developers.openai.com · free
  Official release notes for the Codex app, IDE extension and CLI.
  Mentioned in: Codex app 26.519: Appshots, Goal mode, remote computer use (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Subagents documentation (Agent Configuration) · docs · learn.chatgpt.com · free
  Official docs on how to configure subagents in Codex.
  Mentioned in: Codex Subagents: Astra Orchestrator + Luna Workers, and How to Swap Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor Help Center · docs · cursor.com · free
  Cursor's main help and documentation hub.
  Mentioned in: Cursor Docs: Grok Bot Computer and Recovery Guide (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DeepWiki: donvito/notebooks · docs · deepwiki.com · free
  Auto-generated DeepWiki documentation for the creator's Colab notebooks repo.
  Mentioned in: Example DeepWiki: Auto-Generated Docs for a Colab Notebooks Repo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Documentation | Claude Platform · docs · platform.claude.com · free
  Main documentation hub for building with Claude on the Claude Platform.
  Mentioned in: Anthropic's Prompting Best Practices Guide for Claude Opus 4.8 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Git worktree · docs · git-scm.com · free
  Git command for keeping several working trees (checked-out branches) from one repository at the same time.
  Mentioned in: Parallel Coding Agents with Git Worktrees and Playwright MCP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Interactions API · docs · ai.google.dev · free
  Google's main API for Gemini models and agents, using a single /interactions endpoint.
  Mentioned in: Google Interactions API GA: one endpoint for inference and agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT-5.3-Codex model documentation · docs · developers.openai.com · free
  OpenAI developer docs for the GPT-5.3-Codex model.
  Mentioned in: GPT-5.3-Codex Now Available in OpenAI's Responses API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grok Bot computer | Cursor Docs · docs · cursor.com · free
  Cursor's guide to the Grok Bot's computer environment and how to recover it.
  Mentioned in: Cursor Docs: Grok Bot Computer and Recovery Guide (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Halo LFM2 MoE cookbook (LFM2-24B-A2B) · docs · github.com · free
  Halo cookbook explaining how to fine-tune the LFM2-24B-A2B MoE model.
  Mentioned in: Fine-tuning Liquid AI LFM2/LFM2.5 MoE models with the new Halo framework (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Herdr documentation – Agent Skill · docs · herdr.dev · free
  Official Herdr docs page with the agent skill file that teaches agents to control Herdr through its CLI.
  Mentioned in: Herdr Crash Course: A Terminal Multiplexer for Running Many Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hermes Agent Docs – Buzz Integration (Messaging Platforms) · docs · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · free
  Official docs page showing the three ways to connect Hermes Agent to Buzz and the gateway setup steps.
  Mentioned in: Connecting Hermes Agent to the Buzz Agent-First Chat App via the Native Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hermes Agent Docs – Configuring Models · docs · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · free
  Hermes Agent user guide page on setting the main and auxiliary models.
  Mentioned in: Cut Hermes Agent Token Costs with Gemini Flash as an Auxiliary Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hermes Agent Docs – Wake Word (User Guide) · docs · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · free
  Hermes Agent user-guide page on turning on and using local wake-word voice activation. The full path is /docs/user-guide/features/wake-word.
  Mentioned in: Hermes Agent Adds Hands-Free Voice Activation with a Wake Word (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hugging Face PEFT · docs · huggingface.co · free
  LoRA and QLoRA fine-tuning.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• LangChain API Chain Documentation · docs · python.langchain.com · free
  LangChain docs page for APIChain. The old URL now redirects to the LangChain overview docs.
  Mentioned in: Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• LangChain docs · docs · docs.langchain.com · free
  Docs for LangChain, which the guide calls the most common LLM app framework.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• LangGraph docs · docs · docs.langchain.com · free
  Docs for LangGraph: controllable, stateful, multi-agent orchestration.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Liquid AI Docs – Vision Capabilities guide · docs · docs.liquid.ai · free
  Guide to using LFM2.5-VL-3B for image prompts, OCR, layout annotation, grounding and tool calling.
  Mentioned in: Using LFM2.5-VL-3B's Vision Capabilities (Liquid AI Guide) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LlamaIndex Custom LLMs guide · docs · github.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  LlamaIndex how-to on customizing the LLMPredictor/LLM; the link now appears broken.
  Mentioned in: Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• LlamaIndex docs · docs · docs.llamaindex.ai · free
  Docs for LlamaIndex, a data framework for RAG over your own documents.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• MCP servers for the X API and X developer docs (X Docs) · docs · docs.x.com · free
  Official X guide to the MCP servers for the X API and developer docs, including setup configs for clients like Cursor.
  Mentioned in: Connecting the X (Twitter) MCP Server to Cursor via an OAuth 2.0 App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MiniMax-H3 Video Prompt Writing Guide · docs · huggingface.co · free
  MiniMax's official English guide to writing prompts for the MiniMax-H3 video model.
  Mentioned in: MiniMax H3 Official Video Prompt Writing Guide (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OneMap API Documentation · docs · onemap.gov.sg · free
  Docs for Singapore's public OneMap API, including address and postal code search.
  Mentioned in: Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• OpenAI docs: Agent configuration – Subagents · docs · developers.openai.com · free
  OpenAI documentation on setting up subagents, which recommends using a larger model to plan and smaller ones for delegated tasks.
  Mentioned in: Cost-aware agents: big model plans, small subagents execute (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI GPT-3 Models (docs) · docs · developers.openai.com · free
  OpenAI docs page on the GPT-3 model family; the link now appears broken.
  Mentioned in: Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• OpenAI Models (docs) · docs · platform.openai.com · free
  OpenAI documentation listing the available models and what they can do.
  Mentioned in: Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• OpenRouter API endpoint · docs · openrouter.ai · free
  The base URL of OpenRouter's API, used as base_url in the Codex provider config. It is an API endpoint, not a web page.
  Mentioned in: Running Codex with DeepSeek V4 Flash through OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Pi Coding Agent changelog · docs · pi.dev · free
  The Pi coding agent's release notes and changelog.
  Mentioned in: Pi Coding Agent 0.84.3: PowerShell Support and Faster Startup (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Pi Extensions API · docs · github.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  Pi's API for building extensions that can read context, send messages to LLMs and display text in the UI.
  Mentioned in: Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Prompting best practices (Claude Platform Docs) · docs · platform.claude.com · free
  Anthropic's official guide to prompt-engineering best practices for Claude models, including Opus 4.8.
  Mentioned in: Anthropic's Prompting Best Practices Guide for Claude Opus 4.8 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Run Gemma with the Gemini API | Google AI for Developers · docs · ai.google.dev · free
  Official guide to calling Gemma models through the Gemini API.
  Mentioned in: Gemma 4 Now Available Through the Gemini API (Dev Use Only) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• smolagents · docs · huggingface.co · free
  Hugging Face's minimalist agent framework.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Subagents | Cursor Docs · docs · cursor.com · free
  Cursor's official guide to setting up and using subagents.
  Mentioned in: Learn Subagents in Cursor and Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Together AI Fine-tuning Overview (docs) · docs · docs.together.ai · free
  Together AI's guide to fine-tuning models on your own data and deploying them.
  Mentioned in: Fine-tune and Deploy Qwen3.8 27B on Together AI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Unsloth Docker installation guide · docs · unsloth.ai · free
  Unsloth's official guide to installing and using its Docker image for local model training.
  Mentioned in: Train models locally with the Unsloth Docker image (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Unsloth Documentation - Gemma 4 guide · docs · unsloth.ai · free
  Unsloth's guide to running and fine-tuning Gemma 4 models.
  Mentioned in: Run Gemma 4 12B on 8GB RAM with Unsloth Dynamic GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Unsloth Documentation – DeepSeek V4 guide · docs · unsloth.ai · free
  Unsloth's guide to running DeepSeek V4 models locally with quantized GGUFs.
  Mentioned in: Running DeepSeek V4 Flash Locally: RAM Needs for 4-bit and 3-bit Quants (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Unsloth Documentation: Decision Laya guide · docs · unsloth.ai · free
  Unsloth's guide to running and serving Laya Decision models locally.
  Mentioned in: Run Laya Decision models locally with Unsloth on 4GB RAM (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• X Paid Partnerships Policy · docs · help.x.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  X's official rules for disclosing paid partnerships, with country-specific requirements.
  Mentioned in: X Paid Partnerships Policy and AI-Content Disclosure (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Z.ai Anthropic-compatible endpoint · docs · api.z.ai · paid
  Anthropic-API-compatible endpoint for using GLM models in tools like Claude Code and OpenCode.
  Mentioned in: Use the Right Z.ai Endpoint for the GLM 5.2 Coding Plan (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Z.ai coding plan API endpoint · docs · api.z.ai · paid
  Coding-optimized OpenAI-compatible endpoint for the GLM coding plan; the full path is https://api.z.ai/api/coding/paas/v4.
  Mentioned in: Use the Right Z.ai Endpoint for the GLM 5.2 Coding Plan (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Z.ai general API endpoint (paas/v4) · docs · api.z.ai · paid · open in a browser to verify
  General-purpose Z.ai API endpoint, which should not be used with the coding plan.
  Mentioned in: Use the Right Z.ai Endpoint for the GLM 5.2 Coding Plan (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)

Research papers (13)

• AutoDesign (automated e-commerce poster design) · paper · arxiv.org · free
  A paper on improving an agent's harness through an inner fix loop and an outer meta-harness learning loop, applied to long-horizon design.
  Mentioned in: Paperscrolling: Browse Trending AI Research Papers Like a Social Feed (alphaXiv) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AutoDesign: Improving the Harness Around the Model with a Meta-Harness Loop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• arXiv paper: MCP vs. CLI agents benchmark (7 agents, 5 models) · paper · arxiv.org · free
  Academic study comparing agents with and without MCP on a software task, measuring reliability and cost.
  Mentioned in: Agent Harness Efficiency: Scaffolding Beats MCP vs. CLI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Attention Is All You Need · paper · arxiv.org · free
  The 2017 Google paper that introduced the Transformer and scaled dot-product / multi-head attention.
  Mentioned in: How GPT Works: From Token Embeddings to Multi-Head Attention (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ColBERT · paper · arxiv.org · free
  Late-interaction retrieval model that scores documents by matching their token embeddings against the query's token embeddings.
  Mentioned in: Sentence Transformers v6: ColBERT-Style Multi-Vector Models Fully Supported (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Context-Aware RL for Agentic and Multimodal LLMs (arXiv 2606.17053) · paper · donvitocodes.com · free
  An arXiv research paper on context-aware reinforcement learning for training agentic and multimodal LLMs.
  Mentioned in: Paper: Context-Aware RL for Agentic and Multimodal LLMs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Faraday (AI scientist agent) · paper · arxiv.org · free
  Research on an AI scientist agent designed to replicate research papers.
  Mentioned in: Paperscrolling: Browse Trending AI Research Papers Like a Social Feed (alphaXiv) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Harnessing Agentic Evolution (AEvo) · paper · arxiv.org · free
  Framework that splits agent self-improvement into a candidate proposer and a procedure-editing observer.
  Mentioned in: AEvo: Splitting the Agent Self-Improvement Loop in Two (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training (original GPT paper) · paper · cdn.openai.com · free
  OpenAI's 2018 paper introducing GPT, a decoder-only Transformer pretrained generatively and then fine-tuned.
  Mentioned in: How GPT Works: From Token Embeddings to Multi-Head Attention (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LocateAnything (NVIDIA, CVPR 2026) · paper · research.nvidia.com · free
  NVIDIA research paper and model for vision-language object detection with a new approach to predicting bounding boxes, built for fast localization by agents and robots.
  Mentioned in: NVIDIA's LocateAnything: Vision-Language Detection Model (CVPR 2026) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LoopsBench: From Harness Engineering to Loop Engineering in Coding Agent Evaluation · paper · alphaxiv.org · free
  Paper introducing LoopsBench, a benchmark of 112 long-horizon coding tasks from real pull requests.
  Mentioned in: LoopsBench: Testing Coding Agents on Long-Horizon Tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems · paper · arxiv.org · free
  Research paper on how bad ideas spread between LLM agents and persist through memory.
  Mentioned in: Mind Viruses: How Bad Ideas Spread Through Multi-Agent LLM Systems (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models · paper · arxiv.org · free
  The paper behind the ReAct agent pattern, which interleaves reasoning steps with tool actions.
  Mentioned in: 17-Step AI Engineer Roadmap: From Basic RAG to Agents, Evals, LLMOps & Governance (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Self-Flow (research paper) · paper · arxiv.org · free
  Open research paper on a self-supervised approach to training multimodal generative models that combines representation learning and generation, with no external encoder.
  Mentioned in: Self-Flow: Training Multimodal Generative Models Without an External Encoder (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)

GitHub repositories (80)

• Coworker (donvito/coworker) · repo · github.com · free
  The creator's local-first desktop app where you pick an AI coworker and have it produce work such as invoices as finished PDFs.
  Mentioned in: Claude Opus 5.5 for Video Making: Creator's Showcase Thread (Coworker) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: free open-source desktop AI coworker app (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Desktop App for AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Devin AI to Test the Coworker Desktop App on Windows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 39 more
• llama.cpp · repo · github.com · free
  An open-source C/C++ engine for running GGUF models locally. Its llama-server command provides an OpenAI-compatible HTTP server.
  Mentioned in: Running LLMs Locally Without an Expensive Rig (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), llama.cpp / Llama-macOS v0.5.0 release (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run llama.cpp GGUF Checkpoints in Hugging Face Transformers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), llama.cpp v0.4.1 release announcement (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 29 more
• donvito/codex-astra-luna-orchestrator · repo · github.com · free
  The creator's Codex skill for an orchestrator-plus-subagents setup (Astra orchestrator, Luna subagents), configured through config.toml.
  Mentioned in: Codex Orchestrator Pattern: Astra/Sol Orchestrator with Luna Subagents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Open-source Codex skill: Astra/Sol orchestrator with Luna subagents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cost-Efficient Codex Subagents: Astra/Sol Orchestrator + Luna Workers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex Orchestrator v0.2.1: GPT-6 Sol orchestrator with Luna subagents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 28 more
• AIBackends · repo · aibackends.com · free
  Open-source API server runtime for common AI use cases that supports many models and providers (Ollama, LM Studio, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic).
  Mentioned in: Building a production website with Opus 5.5 and TanStack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), CamelFlow: open-source visual viewer for Apache Camel routes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Backends: A Production AI Workflow Engineering Site (Link Share) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Demo: Claude Opus 5.5 Generating a Motion-Graphics Video for AIBackends (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 17 more
• donvito/jsonl-viewer · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source tool for viewing and editing .jsonl files (fine-tuning datasets) and agent traces from Codex, Claude Code, Pi and Hermes.
  Mentioned in: jsonl-viewer: Live Traces for Codex Orchestrator and Subagents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), See live Codex traces with the jsonl-viewer tool (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Melvin Vivas's open-source AI tools, built with Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Analyzing Codex Traces with jsonl-viewer (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 13 more
• donvito/notebooks · repo · github.com · free
  The creator's notebooks for fine-tuning and running local models, which you can run in Google Colab, including a GLiNER2.5-Decide intent classification example.
  Mentioned in: Run Local Models on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free Colab Notebooks for Local Model Fine-Tuning and Inference (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Intent classification for support using GLiNER2.5-Decide notebook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Getting started with GLiNER2.5-Decide in a Colab notebook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 4 more
• donvito/agent-monitor · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source dashboard that visualizes Codex and Claude Code subagents, with a traces view, a token breakdown and estimated cost.
  Mentioned in: Monitor Codex and Claude Code Subagents with agent-monitor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Agent Monitor: see traces, tokens and costs of your coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Agent Monitor: Visualize Codex and Claude Code Subagents, Traces and Costs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Agent Monitor: Visualize Coding-Agent Subagents, Traces and Costs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• DeepSeek Harness · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source (MIT) agent harness with plugins, a trajectory/event-stream view and support for any model.
  Mentioned in: DeepSeek Harness desktop app released for macOS and Windows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), One-Shot Agent Management UI with DeepSeek Harness for $0.19 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Getting Started with DeepSeek Harness and the DeepSeek API Platform (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), DeepSeek Harness: Open-Source, Browser-Based Agent for DeepSeek V4.1 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• donvito/jev-dev · repo · github.com · free
  UI tool for experimenting with Jev by Typesafe.ai that keeps a history of past runs.
  Mentioned in: Generating a Repo Promo Video with a Claude Skill on Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), JevDev: Open-Source UI Tool for Experimenting with Jev (Typesafe.ai) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), jev-dev: A UI Tool to Keep Run History When Experimenting with Jev (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), JevDev: Open-Source UI for Experimenting with Jev by Typesafe.ai (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• donvito/local-evals · repo · github.com · free
  Eval app that runs locally and tests local models or any OpenAI-compatible API on JSON extraction and tool calling.
  Mentioned in: Melvin Vivas's open-source AI tools, built with Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), local-evals: A Local LLM Eval App Built by Codex Subagents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Measure Your Own Codex Token Burn: Orchestrator+Subagents vs Single Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Local Evals: Open-Source App for Evaluating Local or OpenAI-Compatible Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• donvito/markdown-editor · repo · github.com · free
  A lightweight markdown editor with AI editing that works with Ollama and LM Studio.
  Mentioned in: Melvin Vivas's open-source AI tools, built with Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Markdown Editor v1.4.2: Local AI Editing with Ollama/LM Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Open-source AI Markdown Editor v1.4.1 for local LLMs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Open-Source Markdown Editor with Local and API AI Editing (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MLX · repo · github.com · free
  Apple's open-source array and ML framework for efficient inference on Apple Silicon.
  Mentioned in: LM Studio MLX v1.8.1: Vision Model Batching and Better Caching (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemma 4 Gets Up to 3x Faster with MTP Drafters (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 1-bit Bonsai 8B Runs On-Device on iPhone at 40+ tok/s (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen 3.5 2B Runs On-Device on iPhone with MLX (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• codex-window-taskbar · repo · github.com · free
  Native Windows taskbar widget that shows your Codex usage and remaining limits.
  Mentioned in: Windows Taskbar Widget to Track Codex Weekly Limits (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Track Codex Weekly Usage Limits with a Windows Taskbar Widget (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Track Codex Usage Limits Live with an Open-Source Windows Taskbar Widget (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Coworker (donvito) · repo · github.com · free
  GitHub release page for Coworker v0.3.1, Melvin Vivas's open-source project, which adds streaming sync with Telegram.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: open-source agent that runs on local models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker v0.3.1: Telegram Streaming Sync, Built Fast with Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker v0.3.1: Streaming Sync Between Telegram and Coworker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• donvito (GitHub) · repo · github.com · free
  Melvin Vivas's GitHub profile listing the AI projects he is working on.
  Mentioned in: Melvin Vivas's GitHub Profile of AI Projects (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes), Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• ExLlamaV3 (EXL3) · repo · github.com · free
  turboderp's inference library and the EXL3 quantization format it uses to run quantized LLMs on consumer NVIDIA GPUs.
  Mentioned in: Running Qwen3.8-27B EXL3 on an RTX 3090 with 262K Context at ~64 tok/s (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Qwen3.8-27B EXL3 Locally on an RTX 3090 with 220K+ Context (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Serving Qwen3.8-27B (EXL3) with 262K Context on a 24GB RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• vLLM · repo · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Open-source, high-throughput LLM inference and serving engine with continuous batching and efficient KV-cache management (PagedAttention).
  Mentioned in: Ollama vs vLLM: From Local AI Demo to Production Inference Serving (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Serve GLM-5.2 NVFP4 with vLLM on NVIDIA Blackwell (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemma 4 Gets Up to 3x Faster with MTP Drafters (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• dflash2 · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source speculative decoding method that uses a block-diffusion drafter to speed up LLM inference, with support for Gemma 4.
  Mentioned in: Serving Qwen3.8-27B (EXL3) with 262K Context on a 24GB RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Speeding Up Gemma 4 Inference: MTP (3x) vs. DFlash Speculative Decoding (6x) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ggml-org/Llama-macOS · repo · github.com · free
  A ggml-org GitHub repo described as 'A cosy home for your LLMs': a macOS app for running local models.
  Mentioned in: llama.cpp / Llama-macOS v0.5.0 release (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), llama.cpp v0.4.1 release announcement (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLiNER2.5 Extraction Colab Notebook · repo · github.com · free
  An example notebook that runs GLiNER2.5 information extraction with AIBackends in Colab.
  Mentioned in: Colab Notebook: Entity Extraction with GLiNER2.5 in aibackends (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AIBackends v0.6.0: Run GLiNER2.5 Extraction on CPU (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Evals · repo · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Listed under eval frameworks for defining and running evaluations.
  Mentioned in: Is OpenAI Evals Still Maintained? (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
  In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Pi Agent Council · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source Pi extension that adds a /council command to ask several models in parallel and compare their advice side by side.
  Mentioned in: Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Pi Agent Council: Ask Multiple LLMs in Parallel and Compare Their Advice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Playwright MCP · repo · github.com · free
  Microsoft's MCP server that lets AI agents control a browser through Playwright for UI testing and automation.
  Mentioned in: Parallel Coding Agents with Git Worktrees and Playwright MCP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• promptfoo · repo · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Listed under eval frameworks for defining and running evaluations, offline and in CI.
  Mentioned in: Running LLM evals with promptfoo on local llama.cpp models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
  In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• yfinance · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source Python library for downloading Yahoo Finance market data.
  Mentioned in: Qwen 3.5 One-Shots a Python Stock Analyzer App with yfinance (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Prompting Qwen 3.5 to Build a yfinance Stock Analyzer (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AI Engineering Field Guide (Alexey Grigorev) · repo · github.com · free
  A GitHub repo that collects and analyses 4,894 real AI engineering job descriptions. The video uses it to define the five skill areas.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap: 5 Skill Areas, a 24-Week Study Order & Interview Strategy (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• AI Engineering Hub (patchy631/ai-engineering-hub) · repo · github.com · free
  GitHub repo with in-depth tutorials and projects on LLMs, RAG and real-world AI agent applications, at beginner to advanced levels.
  Mentioned in: Two Free Resources to Learn AI Engineering: AI Engineering Hub & AI Safety Book (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Anthropic Courses · repo · github.com · free
  Courses on API fundamentals, real-world prompting, tool use and evals. The guide also calls this the 'Anthropic evals course'.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Anthropic Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial · repo · github.com · free
  Nine hands-on prompt engineering chapters with exercises.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• api_chain_one_map_api_example (GitHub Gist) · repo · gist.github.com · free
  Melvin Vivas's full Python code for the APIChain plus OneMap example.
  Mentioned in: Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• autonomous-ai/autonomous-computer · repo · github.com · free
  Planned open-source build of a personal AI computer for running DeepSeek locally.
  Mentioned in: Personal AI Computer to Run DeepSeek V4-Flash Locally (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• CamelFlow (donvito/camel-flow) · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source visual viewer for Apache Camel route configurations, runnable via Java or JBang.
  Mentioned in: CamelFlow: open-source visual viewer for Apache Camel routes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Context Hub · repo · github.com · free
  An open-source package from Andrew Ng and collaborators that lets different agents learn from each other.
  Mentioned in: Building Adaptive AI Agents: Skills from Traces and Code Knowledge Graphs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Coworker Releases (installers) · repo · github.com · free
  Downloadable installers for Coworker.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: Open-Source Work Agent That Runs on Small Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Coworker v0.5.0 release (donvito/coworker) · repo · github.com · free
  Download page for the release that adds markdown-based memory to the local desktop agent.
  Mentioned in: Coworker v0.5.0: Local Desktop Agent with Markdown Memory (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Coworker v0.5.1 release (donvito/coworker) · repo · github.com · check price
  The GitHub release page for Coworker v0.5.1, with release notes and downloads for the project.
  Mentioned in: Coworker v0.5.1 Release: Dark Mode and Easier Theme Switching (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Coworker v0.6.1 (donvito/coworker) · repo · github.com · free
  GitHub release of Coworker that adds Telegram and Discord bot connections for AI coworkers.
  Mentioned in: Coworker v0.6.1: Connect AI Coworkers to Telegram and Discord Bots (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• donvito/cursor-sdk-go · repo · github.com · free
  Unofficial Go SDK for Cursor, based on the official TypeScript SDK.
  Mentioned in: Unofficial Go Version of the Cursor SDK (cursor-sdk-go) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• donvito/gaia-personal-setup · repo · github.com · free
  An installer for multiple Hermes agent instances on Mac and Windows (requires Docker).
  Mentioned in: GAIA: free Docker installer for multiple Hermes agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• donvito/skillsbento – x-twitter-stats-analyzer SKILL.md · repo · github.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  The creator's agent Skill for analyzing exported X/Twitter stats.
  Mentioned in: Agent Skill to Analyze Your X (Twitter) Analytics Export (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Excalidraw · repo · github.com · free
  Popular open-source virtual whiteboard, used here as the demo codebase (the transcript mishears it as 'Excalibur').
  Mentioned in: Cursor Cloud Agents: Onboarding, Self-Testing on a Remote Desktop, Video Demos (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• geocine/llama-swap (GitHub) · repo · github.com · free
  A fork of llama-swap that reliably swaps models for any local server compatible with the OpenAI or Anthropic API, such as llama.cpp or vLLM.
  Mentioned in: Self-Host a Coding Model on QuickPod with llama-swap and Use It in Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• geocine/skills · repo · github.com · free
  GitHub repo of agent skills, including muse-windows-installer for running Muse Code on Windows.
  Mentioned in: Run Muse Code on Windows Without WSL Using a Skill (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ggml · repo · github.com · free
  Tensor library behind llama.cpp and the GGUF format, with Metal kernels for Apple GPUs.
  Mentioned in: Run GGUF models directly in Hugging Face Transformers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ggml-org kernels on Hugging Face · repo · huggingface.co · free · open in a browser to verify
  ggml kernels on Hugging Face that power fast local inference on Mac in Transformers.
  Mentioned in: Run llama.cpp GGUF Checkpoints in Hugging Face Transformers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLiNER · repo · github.com · free
  An open-source family of lightweight, generalist models for named entity recognition and extraction.
  Mentioned in: GLiNER decision model demos from Fastino Labs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• google-genai SDK · repo · github.com · free
  Google Gen AI Python SDK used to call Gemini and Gemma models (generate_content, function calling, images).
  Mentioned in: Using Gemma 4 via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• hermes-profiles · repo · github.com · free
  The creator's repo of pre-built profiles you can install into Hermes Agent.
  Mentioned in: Pre-built Installable Profiles for Hermes Agent (hermes-profiles) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Impeccable (GitHub repo pbakaus/impeccable) · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source design language that makes your AI harness (e.g. Codex) better at design.
  Mentioned in: Impeccable: a design skill that helps Codex and AI agents produce better UI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• jaredpalmer/kev (GitHub) · repo · github.com · free
  Family of Jev-like decision models built on Qwen that you can train and run yourself.
  Mentioned in: Kev-0.5B: A Tiny Open-Source Decision Model to Train on a MacBook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• JSONL Viewer v1.3.4 release (donvito/jsonl-viewer) · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source JSONL file viewer with a traces viewer for agent sessions, including nested Codex subagent traces.
  Mentioned in: JSONL Viewer v1.3.4: Inspecting Nested Codex Subagent Traces (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Liquid AI Cookbook · repo · github.com · free
  Liquid AI's collection of fine-tuning examples for LFM models across modalities and training methods.
  Mentioned in: Liquid AI Cookbook: Fine-Tuning LFMs with CPT, SFT, DPO and GRPO (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Liquid4All Cookbook – audio-transcription-cli example · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source example code for a fully local audio-to-text CLI that serves LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B with llama.cpp.
  Mentioned in: Local Speech-to-Text with LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B and llama.cpp (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• llama-swap (original by mostlygeek) · repo · github.com · free
  The original open-source llama-swap proxy for swapping models on demand on local LLM servers.
  Mentioned in: Self-Host a Coding Model on QuickPod with llama-swap and Use It in Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• llama_index.ipynb (Colab notebook gist) · repo · gist.github.com · free
  The author's full Colab notebook source for the LlamaIndex + gpt-3.5-turbo example.
  Mentioned in: Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• LlamaIndex (llama_index) · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source data framework that connects LLMs to external data for indexing and question answering.
  Mentioned in: Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• Markdown Editor Release v1.4.2 · repo · github.com · free
  Release page for version 1.4.2 of donvito/markdown-editor.
  Mentioned in: Markdown Editor v1.4.2: Local AI Editing with Ollama/LM Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ModernBERT_train_classify.ipynb (donvito/notebooks) · repo · github.com · free
  Colab notebook that fine-tunes ModernBERT to classify prompts, used here to build a model router.
  Mentioned in: Train Your Own LLM Model Router by Fine-Tuning ModernBERT as a Classifier (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• nanoGPT (Karpathy) · repo · github.com · free
  A minimal, readable repo for training GPT.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• NVIDIA Dynamo · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source framework for distributed, disaggregated LLM inference serving.
  Mentioned in: Jensen Huang on NVIDIA's Long-Term Commitment to Open Nemotron Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Onely7/local_data_studio · repo · github.com · free
  A local data studio for JSONL/JSON/CSV/TSV/Parquet with scalable previews, image inspection, DuckDB SQL, EDA and Embedding Atlas.
  Mentioned in: Local Data Studio: Inspect Private Datasets Without Hugging Face Pro (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenResearch · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source project that turns coding agents into research agents for literature review, hypotheses, experiments and research artifacts.
  Mentioned in: OpenResearch: turn a coding agent into a research agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• pi-share-hf · repo · github.com · free
  Collect, review, and upload redacted pi session files to a Hugging Face dataset.
  Mentioned in: Share Pi Agent Traces on Hugging Face with pi-share-hf (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Postiz open-source repository (gitroomhq/postiz-app) · repo · github.com · free
  Self-hostable source code of Postiz, a real-world open-source app with agent, CLI and MCP integrations.
  Mentioned in: How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• qwen3.5-2b-melvin-posts-v1-GGUF (Hugging Face model) · repo · huggingface.co · free · open in a browser to verify
  The creator's LoRA fine-tune of Qwen3.5-2B in GGUF format, which writes X posts in his style.
  Mentioned in: LoRA Fine-Tune Qwen3.5-2B on Your Tweets with Unsloth Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Release 0.148.0 · openai/codex · repo · github.com · free
  Official GitHub release notes for version 0.148.0 of OpenAI's open-source Codex CLI coding agent.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Codex CLI v0.148 release notes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Release aibackends v0.7.0 — LFM2.5 Prompt Routing (donvito/aibackends) · repo · github.com · free
  GitHub release notes for AIBackends v0.7.0 with LFM2.5 prompt routing.
  Mentioned in: AIBackends v0.7.0: Prompt Routing with Liquid AI's LFM2.5 Encoder (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Release Coworker v0.3.0 · donvito/coworker · repo · github.com · free
  GitHub release page with Coworker v0.3.0 downloads for Mac, Windows and Linux.
  Mentioned in: Coworker v0.3.0: Telegram Messaging, File Return and PowerPoint Export (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Releases · donvito/aibackends · repo · github.com · free
  Release notes for AIBackends, the creator's open-source Python library for running local AI backends.
  Mentioned in: AIBackends v0.8.1 adds GLiNER2.5-Decide local classification (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• runpod/flash (GitHub) · repo · github.com · free
  Runpod's open-source Python SDK and framework for defining infrastructure and deploying multimodal and distributed AI inference from the terminal.
  Mentioned in: Runpod Flash Reaches GA: Deploy AI Workloads from Python (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• SFT MoE with Halo notebook (LFM2.5-8B-A1B) - Liquid4All cookbook · repo · github.com · free
  Notebook showing supervised fine-tuning of the LFM2.5-8B-A1B MoE model with Halo.
  Mentioned in: Fine-tuning Liquid AI LFM2/LFM2.5 MoE models with the new Halo framework (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• SGLang · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source, high-performance serving engine for running LLMs and multimodal models.
  Mentioned in: SGLang v0.5.19 release: new models and beam search (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• skillsbento – x-for-you-growth skill · repo · github.com · free
  The creator's agent skill built from the X For You algorithm code, for growth advice on X.
  Mentioned in: Turning the X 'For You' Algorithm Code into an Agent Skill (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Streamer Suite (donvito/streamer-suite) · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source app for managing livestream widgets and overlays, such as CPU/RAM/GPU monitors, as OBS browser sources.
  Mentioned in: Streamer Suite: livestream overlay app built live with Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• TensorRT-LLM · repo · github.com · free
  NVIDIA's open-source library for optimized LLM inference on NVIDIA GPUs.
  Mentioned in: Jensen Huang on NVIDIA's Long-Term Commitment to Open Nemotron Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• TerminalTextEffects · repo · github.com · free
  Python library for visual text effects in the terminal; the original that was rewritten.
  Mentioned in: AI One-Shot Rust Rewrite of TerminalTextEffects: 43x Faster Startup (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Unsloth Qwen-Image-2.1-GGUF (Hugging Face) · repo · huggingface.co · free · open in a browser to verify
  Unsloth's GGUF quantizations of the Qwen-Image-2.1 model, for running it locally.
  Mentioned in: Run Qwen-Image-2.1 locally on 12GB VRAM with Unsloth GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-GGUF (Hugging Face) · repo · huggingface.co · free · open in a browser to verify
  Hugging Face repository with the GGUF quantized weights of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731.
  Mentioned in: Running DeepSeek V4 Flash Locally: RAM Needs for 4-bit and 3-bit Quants (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• wllama · repo · github.com · free
  A WebAssembly/WebGPU binding of llama.cpp for running GGUF models in the browser.
  Mentioned in: Running Qwen3.6-27B Fully in the Browser With WebGPU and wllama (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• X 'For You' recommendation algorithm (open-source code) · repo · github.com · free
  X's published recommendation-algorithm source code, which the skill is based on.
  Mentioned in: Turning the X 'For You' Algorithm Code into an Agent Skill (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)

Tools, frameworks & platforms (748)

• OpenAI Codex · tool · openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's coding agent. In the diagram it writes code, fixes review findings and drives the build loop. The creator also used it to make this video.
  Mentioned in: An agent bot that installs and drives Codex on its own (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Asking a Coder bot to install Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Sign in with ChatGPT: Setting Usage Limits for Each App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex Cloud Environments Must Be Saved & Published Before Use (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 241 more
• Cursor · tool · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  AI-native code editor (VS Code with AI built in).
  Mentioned in: GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash now in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Bot Can Now Hand Off Coding Tasks to Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Assistants (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Agents (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 122 more
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Claude Code · tool · code.claude.com · paid · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Build agents and pipelines from the terminal; the guide's main agentic coding tool.
  Mentioned in: Create Claude Code Plugins with /plugin-authoring (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code mods: customize behavior and UI with plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), SkillsBento: Free Plugin Marketplace for Codex and Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 102 more
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Hermes Agent · tool · github.com · free
  Nous Research's open-source AI agent with CLI, TUI and desktop interfaces. It now supports hands-free activation with a wake word.
  Mentioned in: Inspecting Coding-Agent Traces Live with JSONL Viewer (Codex, Claude Code) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hermes Agent: each bot is its own profile (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), An X research bot built with Hermes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Your Hermes Agent on Free LFM2.5-2.6B via OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 56 more
• Claude Opus 5.5 · tool · claude.ai · paid · open in a browser to verify · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Anthropic's AI assistant, used throughout the guide to tailor resumes, add live roles to the tracker, match connections to target companies and find hiring managers.
  Mentioned in: Generating a Repo Promo Video with a Claude Skill on Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Comparing Coding Models on the Same Task in Devin iOS (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 54 more
  In a shared PDF: The Interview Engine: The 7-Step System to Land AI Engineering Interviews - shared in this reel on Facebook
• GPT-6 Astra · tool · openai.com · paid
  The model announced in the quoted launch post, pitched as the developer's most capable model for work, coding, science and cybersecurity, and able to operate a computer.
  Mentioned in: Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Pi Agent Council: Ask Multiple LLMs in Parallel and Compare Their Advice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Use GPT-6.1 Sol by Default, Save Astra for Emergencies (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Dots in ChatGPT: always-on AI agents that you hand responsibilities to (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 50 more
• Devin · tool · x.com · paid
  A desktop app from the makers of the Devin coding agent for planning, delegating, reviewing and shipping work across fleets of local and cloud coding agents.
  Mentioned in: Using the Devin iOS App to Build iOS Apps (Quick Demo) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Use Your ChatGPT Plus/Pro Subscription to Run Devin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin price cuts and top score on FrontierCode 1.1 Extended (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 45 more
• OpenRouter · tool · openrouter.ai · free
  A single OpenAI-compatible API that routes requests to hundreds of models from many providers, with one bill and model fallbacks.
  Mentioned in: Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), The Jev model is now on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Kev-4B model, an alternative to Jev, now available on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Space Bunny Alpha: stealth 1M-context flash model on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 43 more
• Pi · tool · x.com · free
  A customizable coding agent that can be extended through its Extensions API and connected to several model providers.
  Mentioned in: Sign in with ChatGPT: Setting Usage Limits for Each App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Pi reaches v1.0 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code mods: customize behavior and UI with plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 40 more
• LM Studio · tool · x.com · free
  Desktop app for downloading and running LLMs locally, with a developer mode that serves models through an API.
  Mentioned in: Running LLMs Locally Without an Expensive Rig (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Adding Vercel AI Gateway as a provider in AIBackends with Devin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), LoRA Fine-Tune Qwen3.5-2B on Your Tweets with Unsloth Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AIBackends: An API Layer Between Your App and AI Models (Now with Jev) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 32 more
• Unsloth · tool · unsloth.ai · free
  Open-source library for fast, memory-efficient fine-tuning of open LLMs (LoRA/QLoRA) on a single GPU or in Colab.
  Mentioned in: Run Laya Decision models locally with Unsloth on 4GB RAM (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Unsloth passes 500M model downloads on Hugging Face (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Qwen-Image-2.1 locally on 12GB VRAM with Unsloth GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Base vs fine-tuned Gemma 4 E2B as a model router (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 30 more
• GLM 5.2 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A GLM-family LLM (the transcript says 'GLM-5-2') that the demo ranked as a strong, affordable model for coding and design.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.8-Max on the Frontend Code Arena cost-performance frontier (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Models That Work With the Hermes Agent for Personal Productivity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Open Model GLM 5.2 Helped Mitigate OpenAI-Caused Cyberattack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI News Roundup: Claude Fable 5, Scientist AI, ZCode, NVIDIA RL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 28 more
• Gemma 4 · tool · ai.google.dev · free
  Google's family of open-weight models in several sizes, built to run on devices and offline, with multimodal and agentic abilities, and open to fine-tuning.
  Mentioned in: Gemma 4 Runs Locally On-Device in the Antigravity SDK (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), On-Device AI: Running Gemma 4 E2B Offline on an iPhone with LiteRT (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Gemma 4 Models Offline on an iPhone (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Fine-tuning Gemma4-E2B on your own tweet style with Unsloth (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 26 more
• GPT 5.6 Luna · tool · openai.com · paid
  The OpenAI model used inside Codex for the demo. The transcript gives the variant name as 'Soul', which is unclear.
  Mentioned in: Set Codex subagent model and reasoning to save usage limits (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Use GPT-5.6 Luna in Codex for Terminal Tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Match Reasoning Effort to Task Length in Codex (Astra/Sol) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Coworker desktop agents cheaply with GPT-5.6 Luna on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 25 more
• Qwen3.8-27B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A 27B-parameter open-weight model from Alibaba's Qwen family that you can run locally or call through hosted APIs.
  Mentioned in: Deploying Qwen3.8 27B on Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Hugging Face credits: Jobs, Inference Endpoints and Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Qwen3.8-27B Locally on an M5 Max MacBook with Inco Splash (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: 9x smaller model keeping 98.2% of benchmark scores (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 25 more
• ChatGPT · tool · chatgpt.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  OpenAI's AI assistant (web, desktop and mobile apps), used for chat, coding, writing and image generation.
  Mentioned in: Sign in with ChatGPT: Setting Usage Limits for Each App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), ChatGPT Can Commit Code Directly to Your GitHub Repo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Dots: Agents Inside ChatGPT That Debug, Fix, and Open PRs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 24 more
• ComfyUI · tool · x.com · free
  The official X account for ComfyUI, the node-based tool for generative AI workflows, which announces things like ComfyUI Agent.
  Mentioned in: ComfyUI Agent: early access announcement (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Comfy Router: One API for Image, Video, 3D and Audio Model Providers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Generating AI Video Locally with MiniMax H3 in ComfyUI on an RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running MiniMax M3 Locally in ComfyUI on an RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 24 more
• Grok · tool · x.com · free
  xAI's AI assistant. Here it is used as a terminal coding agent that also runs with the 'agent' alias.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Dots: Agents Inside ChatGPT That Debug, Fix, and Open PRs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Team Bots: Shared AI Teammates in Slack and Grok (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cue by Manus: A New Rival to the Grok Bot on X (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), How to Grow an X (Twitter) Account: 9 Practical Tips from Melvin Vivas (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 15 more
• Grok Bot · tool · x.ai · paid
  An early-beta AI agent product from the Grok family that runs in its own computer and browser instance and does tasks in your tools.
  Mentioned in: An agent bot that installs and drives Codex on its own (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Asking a Coder bot to install Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using an ML agent to train an open-source TTS model on your voice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Organizing Grok Bot Lead Collection in One Google Sheet (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 15 more
• Luna · tool · openai.com · paid
  The other model/agent the classifier routes tasks to; the post doesn't describe it further.
  Mentioned in: GPT-6.1 Sol May Beat Luna for Subagents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Picking models for orchestrator and subagent roles in Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-6 Sol Ultra Subagents Use Up Limits Fast (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-6 Sol vs Opus 5.5 in a Livestream Comparison (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 15 more
• Google Colab · tool · colab.research.google.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Free GPU notebooks.
  Mentioned in: Run Notebooks on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4, 15GB VRAM) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Local Models on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free Colab Notebooks for Local Model Fine-Tuning and Inference (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Intent classification for support using GLiNER2.5-Decide notebook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 13 more
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Hermes · tool · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · free
  The AI agent the creator uses to automate making explainer videos. It is probably Nous Research's Hermes Agent, but the post does not say so.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: free open-source desktop AI coworker app (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Agent Monitor: see traces, tokens and costs of your coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: An Open-Source Desktop Agent App for Local and Cloud Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 14 more
• GPT 5.6 Sol · tool · openai.com · paid
  A GPT-family model available through an API, whose API and credit pricing was cut by over 20% for three months.
  Mentioned in: Creator's Top 3 Closed Models: Fable 5, GPT 5.6 Sol, Grok 4.6 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker v0.3.1: Telegram Streaming Sync, Built Fast with Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Grok Bot Clone Built on Pi and CopilotKit (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT 5.6 Sol (medium) in ChatGPT for planning tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 13 more
• Jev · tool · typesafe.ai · paid
  A decision model that makes turn-level forecasts on AI agent conversations using only structural signals (turns, tool calls, workflow stages, timing).
  Mentioned in: Generating a Repo Promo Video with a Claude Skill on Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLiDE by Fastino Labs: A Post-Trainable Reasoning Decision Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Jev as a Reranker to Augment RAG Retrieval (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Jev (TypeSafe AI) as a Decision Model for Email Classification (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 13 more
• Ollama · tool · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Open-source tool for downloading and running LLMs on your own machine with minimal setup.
  Mentioned in: Running LLMs Locally Without an Expensive Rig (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Adding Vercel AI Gateway as a provider in AIBackends with Devin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Qwen3.8-27B Locally on an M5 Max MacBook with Inco Splash (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AIBackends: An API Layer Between Your App and AI Models (Now with Jev) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 13 more
• OpenAI · tool · x.com · free
  An AI model provider whose models can be used through managed connectors.
  Mentioned in: Creator's favorite OpenAI DevDay announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building Software Factories on the OpenAI Agents API (Codex-Powered) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Free Local-First Desktop App for Running AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 12 more
• Fable · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Named as what the creator used with Devin for this build; the post gives no details about what it is.
  Mentioned in: Demo: One-Shotting a Flappy Bird iPhone App with Devin and Fable 5.1 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Subagents with mixed models: a strong planner and a fast executor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cognition's SWE-2 Coding Model Now in Devin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-6 Astra Access Across Plans vs Fable on Claude Max (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 11 more
• Grok Build · tool · x.ai · free
  xAI's agentic coding CLI; data sharing is on by default and can be turned off with /privacy.
  Mentioned in: Setting up Grok Bot for coding with Grok Build and Cursor CLI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Reusable GPU devbox: PyTorch/CUDA plus six coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Handing off an unfinished Codex session to Grok Build (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Build finishes a task Codex left hanging (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 11 more
• OpenCode · tool · x.com · free
  Open-source terminal coding agent that can be configured with different model providers, including open models.
  Mentioned in: T3Code: a better interface for terminal coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenCode Go: Open Coding Models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM) for $10/mo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Trying OpenCode Go After Upgrading OpenCode (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Orchestrator + Subagents in opencode with Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 11 more
• GitHub · tool · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Code hosting platform whose CI runs and pull requests the Cursor agents monitor and open.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Can Now Hand Off Coding Tasks to Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), ChatGPT Can Commit Code Directly to Your GitHub Repo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Bot Templates: Sharing, Publishing and Safely Installing Bots (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 10 more
• GPT-6.1 Sol · tool · openai.com · paid
  A new OpenAI model announced at DevDay 2026 (name as written in the machine transcript), offered with Fast and Ultra fast speed tiers.
  Mentioned in: JevDev: Open-Source UI Tool for Experimenting with Jev (Typesafe.ai) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Comparing Coding Models on the Same Task in Devin iOS (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Pi Agent Council: Ask Multiple LLMs in Parallel and Compare Their Advice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 10 more
• Grok 4.5 · tool · x.ai · paid
  An LLM said to be trained in partnership with SpaceXAI, pitched as a general model beyond software engineering.
  Mentioned in: Grok 4.5 Works Well as the Model Behind Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Models That Work With the Hermes Agent for Personal Productivity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Agent-Made Video in 10 Minutes: Hermes Agent + Grok 4.5 + Hyperframes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Personal Assistant Agent on Hermes: Morning Briefings and Inbox Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 10 more
• LFM2.5-2.6B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Liquid AI's small language model, which can be paired with the LFM2.5-VL-3B vision model.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: Open-Source Work Agent That Runs on Small Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker with Liquid AI LFM2.5-2.6B via LM Studio on a Mac (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Zero-Cost Coworker Setup: OpenRouter Free Models + Local LFM2.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: A Subscription-Free AI Agent on Local LFM2.5-2.6B (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 10 more
• Seedance 2.0 · tool · fal.ai · paid
  ByteDance's multimodal video generation model. It makes videos with synchronized audio from text, image, video and audio inputs.
  Mentioned in: Opinion: Seedance 2.0 Still Beats Gemini Omni for Video (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cheap API access to Seedance 2.0 via WaveSpeedAI? (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Seedance 2.0 on fal: Strict Content Filters Block Video Generation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Seedance 2.0 + Suno: Prompting an AI K-pop Music Video Synced to Audio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 9 more
• SWE-2 · tool · cognition.com · free
  Cognition's SWE-2 coding model (Max tier) that runs inside Devin for agentic software tasks.
  Mentioned in: Comparing Coding Models on the Same Task in Devin iOS (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin's SWE-2 Coding Model Is Free for a Limited Time (Until Oct 8/15) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin's SWE-2 model is free on paid plans for a limited time (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Devin CLI with the free SWE-2 model for sysadmin tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 9 more
• Vercel · tool · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Deploy web apps and frontends.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Jev model added to the AIBackends API via Vercel AI Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Open models now dominate token volume on Vercel AI Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 8 more
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Fable 5 · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  A frontier model used as the comparison point in the Claude Opus 5 announcement; the post gives no other details about it.
  Mentioned in: Claude Opus 5.5 in Devin: #1 on FrontierCode 1.1 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Creator's Top 3 Closed Models: Fable 5, GPT 5.6 Sol, Grok 4.6 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Opus 5 vs Fable 5: Cost per Task in Cursor Benchmarks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Opus 5 Beats Fable 5 on Cost per Task and Tokens (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 8 more
• herdr · tool · x.com · check price
  A runtime that keeps real terminals open for coding agents on a local or rented machine, so agent sessions keep running when you disconnect.
  Mentioned in: Terminal Tool Recommendation: herdr (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), herdr 0.9.0: Control Agents Across Multiple Machines (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPU devbox Docker image with coding agents on Runpod (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPU-Ready AI Devbox Docker Image on Runpod (PyTorch 2.8 + CUDA 12.8) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 8 more
• Jev (TypeSafe AI) · tool · typesafe.ai · free
  TypeSafe's new post-training algorithm for calibrated, confidence-scored decisions, pitched as a replacement for RLHF.
  Mentioned in: JevDev: Open-Source UI Tool for Experimenting with Jev (Typesafe.ai) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), jev-dev: A UI Tool to Keep Run History When Experimenting with Jev (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), JevDev: Open-Source UI for Experimenting with Jev by Typesafe.ai (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building a Jev Session-History Tool with Codex and Astra (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 8 more
• Qwen 3.5 · tool · qwen.ai · free
  Alibaba Qwen open model family with small on-device variants and toggleable reasoning.
  Mentioned in: Workshop AI: Building Apps with Cloud and Local Agents (GLM 5, Qwen 3.5) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.5 0.8B Does Real-Time Local Video Captioning (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.5 0.8B Real-Time Video Captioning on Mac Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen 3.5 Is the Local Model That Holds Up in Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 8 more
• Baseten · tool · x.com · paid
  Model inference platform offering dedicated GPU deployments for serving open models.
  Mentioned in: Serving Qwen3.8 27B FP8 on an H100 with Baseten dedicated inference (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker Desktop App Works with Any OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running GLM 5.3 Flash on Baseten with the Pi Coding Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM 5.3 Flash Now Available on Baseten (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 7 more
• Docker · tool · docs.docker.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Containerize everything you ship.
  Mentioned in: Deploying AI workflow integrations with Apache Camel in Docker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin's cloud Ubuntu sandbox ships with Docker pre-installed (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 8-Week Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 6 more
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• OpenAI API · tool · platform.openai.com · paid · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  OpenAI API documentation, including function calling and structured outputs.
  Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Livestream: Building a React Native ChatGPT App with Cursor and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-Live-1: OpenAI's Full-Duplex Voice Model for Voice Agents in the API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), The 3 Levels of AI Engineering: LLM Apps → Production → Agentic Systems (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 5 more
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• PyTorch · tool · pytorch.org · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Deep-learning framework. Its built-in scaled dot-product attention (SDP) was the baseline in this benchmark.
  Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Wannabe vs $200K+ AI Engineer: RAG, Agents, Context and Fine-Tuning Mistakes (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI DevBox v1.3.0: a GPU-ready Docker image with coding-agent CLIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Docker image with coding agents pre-installed on a CUDA + PyTorch base (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 6 more
• Runpod · tool · x.com · paid
  GPU cloud platform for running, training and serving AI models; Flash deploys workloads to it.
  Mentioned in: AI DevBox v1.3.0: a GPU-ready Docker image with coding-agent CLIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why LLM data agents need solid data foundations (Runpod) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Docker image with coding agents pre-installed on a CUDA + PyTorch base (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPU devbox Docker image with coding agents on Runpod (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 6 more
• Claude Design · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Anthropic Labs tool that creates prototypes, slides and one-pagers when you describe them to Claude in chat.
  Mentioned in: Improving Codex's UI Design Output with Impeccable (npx impeccable install) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex Subagents: Attaching Skills and MCP Servers per Subagent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AutoDesign: Improving the Harness Around the Model with a Meta-Harness Loop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code's /design Skill: Pick UI Artboards, Then Have Claude Build One (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 5 more
• DeepSeek · tool · deepseek.com · free
  Open-weight large language models from DeepSeek, known for strong reasoning and coding at low cost.
  Mentioned in: Open models now dominate token volume on Vercel AI Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), jina-ocr-v1: Turning PDFs, Scans and Tables into Markdown (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Bolt.new Adds Open Models (GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi) via Bolt Forge (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenCode Go: Open Coding Models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM) for $10/mo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 5 more
• Fireworks AI · tool · x.com · free
  Fireworks AI's official X account, which posts news about inference and serving open models.
  Mentioned in: FireRouter: cost-aware model routing between open models and Claude Opus (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM 5.2 Hits 446 tok/s on Fireworks AI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM 5.2 Speed vs Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM 5.2 on Fireworks Makes Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 Feel Slow (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 5 more
• Qwen 3.6 35B (MTP) · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Qwen 3.6 mixture-of-experts model (35B total, about 3B active parameters) with multi-token prediction for local inference.
  Mentioned in: Use a Local Model for Confidential Data with Your Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Qwen 3.6 35B locally on an RTX 3090 for agent tool calling (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Models That Work With the Hermes Agent for Personal Productivity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Hermes Agent locally with Qwen 3.6 35B MTP in LM Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 5 more
• Slack · tool · slack.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Team chat app where the user-feedback channel lives and where the agent replies to close the loop.
  Mentioned in: Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Team Bots: Shared AI Teammates in Slack and Grok (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), ChatGPT Voice Update: Plugins, Model Switching and ChatGPT Work (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin Gets a Mac VM: AI Agent Builds and Ships iOS Apps (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 5 more
• Claude Cowork · tool · claude.com · paid
  Anthropic's mode for handing Claude bigger, multi-step agentic work; its capabilities are now part of regular Claude chat.
  Mentioned in: Claude Cowork and Claude Code have separate usage limits (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Chat and Cowork Merge into One Conversation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Cowork Comes to Mobile and Web (Beta Announcement) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Desktop Now Available on Linux (Beta) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 4 more
• DeepSeek V4 Flash · tool · huggingface.co · free
  DeepSeek model used as the comparison baseline in the tool-calling benchmark.
  Mentioned in: Low-Cost Agent Run: DeepSeek V4 Flash via OpenRouter in ohmypi (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Codex with DeepSeek V4 Flash through OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), LFM2.5-2.6B Matches DeepSeek-V4-Flash on Tool Calling; LEAP Fine-Tuning (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), DeepSeek V4 Flash at 90% Off on Nous Portal (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 4 more
• LangChain · tool · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Open-source framework with ready-made integrations and common interfaces for connecting LLMs, embedding models, vector stores and tools.
  Mentioned in: SWE-to-AI Engineer Plan for 2027: LLMs, RAG, Agents, Evals, Job Search (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Basic RAG Pipeline in 60 Seconds: From Documents to Grounded Answers (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), LangChain vs. LangGraph Explained with One RAG Chatbot (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 4 more
• LTX 2.3 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A video generation model from LTX (Lightricks) that makes video from text or images, including start- and end-frame image-to-video, with audio, portrait output and 24/48 fps.
  Mentioned in: Free Local AI Video Generation with LTX 2.3 in ComfyUI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Local Video Generation with LTX 2.3 on an RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Video Generation Locally with ComfyUI and LTX 2.3 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), LTX 2.3 Image-to-Video Running Locally (Demo) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 4 more
• Telegram · tool · telegram.org · free
  Messaging app that can be connected to MaxClaw so you chat with the agent there.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: An Open-Source Desktop Agent App for Local and Cloud Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Free Local-First Desktop App for Running AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker v0.3.1: Telegram Streaming Sync, Built Fast with Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker v0.3.1: Streaming Sync Between Telegram and Coworker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 4 more
• Claude Desktop · tool · claude.ai · free
  Anthropic's desktop app for Claude, which can show charts and connect to tools.
  Mentioned in: Claude desktop's built-in browser can import your Chrome profile (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), News: Claude desktop now has a built-in browser (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Record a skill in Claude Desktop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Desktop Now Available on Linux (Beta) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• Claude Opus 4.7 · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Anthropic's top Opus model, aimed at long-running agentic tasks that need precise instruction following.
  Mentioned in: Shipping Features Fast in Cursor with Multiple AI Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Composer 2.5 as the Default Coding Model in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Which AI coding model to use for which task (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Opus 4.7 Fast Mode in Cursor: Speed vs. Cost Trade-off (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• Claude Sonnet 5.5 · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Anthropic's newly released mid-tier Claude model, reported to be strong at agentic coding.
  Mentioned in: Generating a Repo Promo Video with a Claude Skill on Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-6.1 and Sonnet 5.5 Released the Same Week (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Use Sonnet 5.5 instead of Opus 5.5 for faster video-clipping tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• GPT 5.5 · tool · openai.com · paid
  OpenAI models the creator used as the coding model inside Cursor.
  Mentioned in: Models That Work With the Hermes Agent for Personal Productivity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running GPT-5.5 via Codex as Hermes's Main Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Conductor Walkthrough: Running Parallel Coding Agents in Isolated Git Worktrees (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Composer 2.5 as the Default Coding Model in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• GPT-5.4 · tool · openai.com · paid
  OpenAI frontier model (Thinking and Pro variants) for reasoning, coding and agents.
  Mentioned in: Opinion: GPT-5.4 in Cursor 3 Replaces Opus for Coding (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Splitting AI Tools: Cursor 3 + GPT-5.4 for Code, Claude for Learning (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Creator's Coding Setup: Cursor 3 with GPT 5.4 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Open-Source GLM-5.1 Beats GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• LangGraph · tool · langchain.com · free
  Open-source library for building stateful LLM workflows as graphs, with branching, loops and human-in-the-loop pauses.
  Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), LangChain vs. LangGraph Explained with One RAG Chatbot (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Wannabe vs $200K+ AI Engineer: RAG, Agents, Context and Fine-Tuning Mistakes (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 3 more
• ModernBERT-base · tool · huggingface.co · free
  An open-source modernized BERT encoder model. The quoted post uses it as the speed baseline for LFM2.5-Encoder.
  Mentioned in: Train Your Own LLM Model Router by Fine-Tuning ModernBERT as a Classifier (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free Colab Notebooks: ModernBERT, Gemma QLoRA, GLiNER & Guardrails (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Fine-Tune ModernBERT-base as a Task-Routing Classifier (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Train ModernBERT as a Prompt Router Between Two Models (Colab Notebook) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 · tool · nvidia.com · paid
  Consumer GPU with 24 GB of VRAM, used here to run a long-context LLM locally.
  Mentioned in: Portable Computer Now Runs AI Agents and Models Locally on NVIDIA RTX PCs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Long-Context Local LLM on an RTX 3090: .env Config and ~64 tok/s Benchmark (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B (Q4_K_M) at 128k Context on an RTX 3090 with llama.cpp (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Generating AI Video Locally with MiniMax H3 in ComfyUI on an RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• OpenClaw · tool · github.com · free
  An open-source, self-hostable personal AI agent that can run on local or hosted LLMs.
  Mentioned in: Run Muse Glimmer 30B Locally on an RTX 3090 with llama.cpp (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Muse Glimmer 30B Locally with llama.cpp and the Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Muse Glimmer 30B Locally with llama.cpp and Connect It to Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Local Models for Agents: Tool Use, Context and Quantization (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• T3 Code · tool · x.com · free
  An AI coding tool that you can now use by signing in with one or more ChatGPT accounts.
  Mentioned in: T3 Code Adds Sign in with ChatGPT, With Support for Multiple Accounts (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), T3Code: a better interface for terminal coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), T3 Code: An Agent App Praised for Its UX (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• Composer 2.5 · tool · cursor.com · paid
  Cursor's in-house coding model, focused on speed and low cost.
  Mentioned in: First Look at Grok Build CLI: Closer to opencode than Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), One-Shot CRM App with Grok Build + Composer 2.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Sharing Canvases and Design Mode Edits in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Composer 2.5 as the Default Coding Model in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · tool · api-docs.deepseek.com · paid
  A fast DeepSeek language model available through DeepSeek's official API.
  Mentioned in: Using Hugging Face credits: Jobs, Inference Endpoints and Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), DeepSeek 4.1 Flash speed on the official API: about 325 tokens/s (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), One-Shot Agent Management UI with DeepSeek Harness for $0.19 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), DeepSeek Harness: Open-Source, Browser-Based Agent for DeepSeek V4.1 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• Docker Sandboxes · tool · docker.com · free
  Local microVM-isolated sandboxes for safely running AI coding agents on your laptop.
  Mentioned in: Docker Sandboxes for Running Coding Agents Locally (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Docker Cloud Sandboxes: Run AI Agents in Local or Cloud microVMs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Docker Sandboxes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Docker Sandboxes Include an Interactive Dashboard (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• FastAPI · tool · fastapi.tiangolo.com · free
  Wrap your models as real inference APIs.
  Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 8-Week Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Software Engineer to AI Engineer: Job Boards, Stack, Projects and Learning Sites (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap for 2026 in 60 Seconds (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 1 more
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Google AI Studio · tool · aistudio.google.com · free
  Google's web tool for prompting Gemini models and vibe-coding full apps, including real-time multiplayer apps, with a built-in coding agent.
  Mentioned in: Firebase Studio Shutdown: Move to Google AI Studio or Antigravity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: Real-Time Speech Translation via the Live API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: Real-Time Speech Translation via the Gemini Live API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Vibe-Coding Real-Time Multiplayer Apps in Google AI Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• GPT Image 2 · tool · openai.com · check price
  OpenAI's image generation and editing model, known for text rendering, following layouts and UI designs, targeted edits and realistic photos.
  Mentioned in: Opinion: GPT Image 2 Is the Current SOTA Image Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Make Educational Posters with GPT Image 2 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using GPT Image 2 in Freepik (vs Nano Banana) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI's GPT Image 2 now on Replicate (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• HyperFrames · tool · github.com · free
  HeyGen's open-source framework built for agents that renders HTML/CSS/JS compositions to MP4 video frame by frame.
  Mentioned in: Codex Astra Making a Demo Video with HyperFrames (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hermes Agent + HyperFrames: Turning a Web Page into a Video (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex + Hyperframes: AI-Made Explainer Videos (Example: Personal AI) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Agent-Made Video in 10 Minutes: Hermes Agent + Grok 4.5 + Hyperframes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• Kimi K3 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Moonshot AI's large multimodal LLM with a 1M-token context window and Kimi Delta Attention.
  Mentioned in: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation (MOPD) in 2026 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.8-Max on the Frontend Code Arena cost-performance frontier (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 1-bit Kimi K3 GGUF Running Locally vs Claude Opus 5 and GPT 5.6 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Code Arena Fullstack Benchmark: Kimi K3 Ranks #1 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• LFM2.5-VL-3B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Liquid AI's lightweight vision-language model for screen and document understanding, grounding and tool calling.
  Mentioned in: OCR Testing a Small Vision Model with LLM-Made Ground Truth (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AIBackends 0.4.0: Liquid AI LFM2.5 Models on llama.cpp and Transformers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AIBackends Adds Support for LFM2.5-VL-3B (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using LFM2.5-VL-3B's Vision Capabilities (Liquid AI Guide) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• OpenAI Agents API · tool · developers.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's managed API for building and running cloud agents on a hosted Codex harness, with orchestration, sessions and context management built in.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Creator's favorite OpenAI DevDay announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay 2026 Replay: Timestamped Guide to the Announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• OpenAI Dots · tool · openai.com · paid
  Always-on agents in ChatGPT, each with its own cloud computer and browser, that take on ongoing work and personal responsibilities.
  Mentioned in: Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Dots: Agents Inside ChatGPT That Debug, Fix, and Open PRs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Dots in ChatGPT: always-on AI agents that you hand responsibilities to (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• Pinecone · tool · pinecone.io · free
  A managed, production vector database (free tier).
  Mentioned in: Basic RAG Pipeline in 60 Seconds: From Documents to Grounded Answers (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How RAG Works: Chunking, Embedding, Vector Storage, and Retrieval (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How RAG Works Under the Hood: Chunking, Embedding, Storage, Retrieval (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 1 more
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Qwen3.6-27B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Dense open-weight Qwen model. The MTP GGUF version runs at about 140 tokens/s.
  Mentioned in: Meta Muse Glimmer-30B: Open Weights Model That Beats Qwen3.6 37B on Agentic Tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Qwen3.6-27B Fully in the Browser With WebGPU and wllama (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Unsloth MTP GGUFs make Qwen3.6 run 1.4x faster locally (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen 3.6 27B: An Open Local Model with Benchmarks Near Claude Opus 4.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• Claude Fable 5.1 · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  An Anthropic Claude model used as the performance reference for Opus 5.5.
  Mentioned in: Claude Opus 5.5 Released: Fable 5.1-Level Performance at 40% Lower Cost (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-6 Astra Tops Vending-Bench, Beating Claude Fable 5.1 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Fable 5.1 Runs a 38-Hour Unattended ML Task (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Fable 5.1 Scores 73.4% on CursorBench 3.2 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Claude Opus 4.6 · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Anthropic's Claude Opus model, version 4.6, which Claude Code was running in this comparison.
  Mentioned in: GLM-5.1 vs Claude Code (Opus 4.6): One-Shot Three.js Racing Game Eval (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM-5.1 Reportedly Beats Claude Opus 4.6 on Cybersecurity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), MiniMax 2.7 One-Shots a Linear Clone at 95% Lower Cost (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), When one coding model gets stuck, switch to another (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Cursor Automations · tool · cursor.com · check price
  Cursor's automation feature, which runs scheduled agent tasks such as researching AI news and updating site content.
  Mentioned in: Using Cursor Automations to update an AI news page daily, no CMS (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Automated daily 'AI News Today' page built with Cursor automations (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Automating a Daily AI News Page with Cursor Automations (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cursor Automations: Cron, Event Triggers and Model Selection (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Devin Desktop (@devindesktop) · tool · x.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  Desktop app for the Devin AI coding agent. The linked X profile returned 'not found' when checked.
  Mentioned in: Devin's SWE-2 model is free on paid plans for a limited time (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin's kanban view for monitoring running agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Fine-tuning Gemma4-E2B on your own tweet style with Unsloth (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), SWE-2 Is Currently Free in Devin Desktop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Devin Fusion · tool · cognition.com · free
  Cognition's write-up of the approach and architecture behind Devin Fusion, its multi-model routing for agentic coding.
  Mentioned in: Orchestrator/Subagent Patterns: Astra-Luna Skill vs Fusion and Advisor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Pointer: How Devin Fusion Works (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin Fusion: Multi-Model Routing to Cut Agentic Coding Costs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin Fusion: A Hybrid-Model Harness for Agentic Coding (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Discord · tool · discord.com · free
  Chat platform with servers and threads, used here as a client for Hermes Agent.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: An Open-Source Desktop Agent App for Local and Cloud Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker v0.6.0 Adds Discord Integration for AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Hermes Agent with Discord vs Telegram as Chat Clients (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Hermes Agent in Telegram and Discord (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• fal (@fal) on X · tool · x.com · check price
  The X account of fal, a generative-media platform that hosts image, video and audio models behind APIs.
  Mentioned in: GPT Image 2 Launches on fal: What the New Image Model Does Well (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Seedance 2.0 on fal: Strict Content Filters Block Video Generation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Seedance 2.0 Video Model Now Available via the fal API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Seedance 2.0 Video Model May Be Arriving on fal (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Firecrawl · tool · x.com · free
  An open-source web data API with Search, Scrape and Interact features that turn web pages into LLM-ready markdown or structured data for AI agents.
  Mentioned in: Firecrawl Keyless: Free Web Search & Scraping for AI Agents, No API Key (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Work Agent That Runs on Small Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Coworker on Free OpenRouter Models and Its Agent Stack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Grok Bot Clone Built on Pi and CopilotKit (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Gemini CLI · tool · github.com · free
  Google's open-source terminal AI agent, which the creator says has been discontinued.
  Mentioned in: Google Retires Gemini CLI, Launches Antigravity CLI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Google Shuts Down Gemini CLI and Firebase Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemini CLI sunset for individual tiers: migrate to Antigravity CLI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemini CLI Adds Subagents with Separate Context Windows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• GLM-5.1 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Open-source large language model from Z.ai (Zhipu), built for coding and long-running agent tasks.
  Mentioned in: GLM-5.1 vs Claude Code (Opus 4.6): One-Shot Three.js Racing Game Eval (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM-5.1 Reportedly Beats Claude Opus 4.6 on Cybersecurity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Open-Source GLM-5.1 Beats GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM-5.1: Open-Source Model for Long-Running Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• LFM2.5-Encoder-350M · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A 350M-parameter encoder model from Liquid AI that does zero-shot prompt classification and routing against categories you supply at runtime.
  Mentioned in: Zero-Shot Prompt Routing with Liquid AI's LFM 2.5-Encoder-350M (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AIBackends v0.7.0: Prompt Routing with Liquid AI's LFM2.5 Encoder (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Model Routing Fine-Tuned on Your Agent Harness Traces (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Zero-Shot Prompt Routing with Liquid AI's LFM 2.5-Encoder-350M (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Qwen3.8 · tool · qwen.ai · free
  Upcoming large Qwen model (2.4T parameters) that Qwen says will be released with open weights.
  Mentioned in: SGLang v0.5.19 release: new models and beam search (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.8-Max on the Frontend Code Arena cost-performance frontier (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.8-Max announced with open weights for Max and 27B (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.8 (2.4T params) Announced as Upcoming Open-Weight Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• SQLite · tool · sqlite.org · free
  A lightweight embedded SQL database stored in a file.
  Mentioned in: Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Agents (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Qwen3.8-27B EXL3 Locally on an RTX 3090 with 220K+ Context (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), One-Shotting a Slack Clone with Fable 5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Google Antigravity 2.0: Multi-Agent Desktop App Walkthrough (Subagents, Scheduled Tasks) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Terminal-Bench · tool · tbench.ai · free
  A benchmark that tests how well AI agents complete coding and system tasks in a terminal.
  Mentioned in: Claude Sonnet 5.5 release beats Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin's SWE-2 Coding Model Is Free for a Limited Time (Until Oct 8/15) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Models Cheating on Terminal-Bench-2.1 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Agentic Benchmarks and Use with Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Three.js · tool · x.com · free
  JavaScript 3D graphics library whose browser-rendered scenes can become video frames.
  Mentioned in: Building a 3D Flight Scene with Sonnet in Cursor, three.js and 3D Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Vibe-Coding a 3D Human Anatomy App with Three.js and GPT 5.6 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building a Three.js Scene with Claude Opus 5 in Claude Desktop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), HyperFrames: Let Coding Agents Turn HTML into MP4 Videos (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Weaviate · tool · weaviate.io · free
  An open-source vector database for storing embeddings and running semantic and hybrid search.
  Mentioned in: Basic RAG Pipeline in 60 Seconds: From Documents to Grounded Answers (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How RAG Works: Chunking, Embedding, Vector Storage, and Retrieval (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How RAG Works Under the Hood: Chunking, Embedding, Storage, Retrieval (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 1 more
• Z-Image-Turbo · tool · huggingface.co · free
  An open image-generation model that can run on local hardware.
  Mentioned in: Free Local Image Generation: ComfyUI App Mode + LM Studio + Gemma (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Local Prompt-to-Image Pipeline: ComfyUI + LM Studio Gemma + Z-Image Turbo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free Local Portraits with Z-Image-Turbo in ComfyUI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free Local Image Generation with Z-Image-Turbo and ComfyUI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Apache Camel · tool · camel.apache.org · free
  Open-source Java integration framework for building routes that connect endpoints, processors and services, including LLM calls.
  Mentioned in: Visualizing an LLM OCR Pipeline with Apache Camel's Topology Command (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), n8n vs Apache Camel for enterprise AI workflows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploying AI workflow integrations with Apache Camel in Docker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Apache Camel as a foundation for enterprise AI workflow recipes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Astra ultra · tool · openai.com · free
  The AI assistant or model ("Ultra" tier or mode) the creator prompted to build the interface. The post doesn't say exactly what it is.
  Mentioned in: Codex Video Generation: One High-Res Image Per Scene, Not a Cropped Grid (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Read the GPT-6 Astra launch article to learn what the model can do (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Demo: AI Coding Agent Generates a "Software Factory" UI (Frontend Only) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Blender · tool · blender.org · free
  Free, open-source 3D creation software. In the demo the agent opens it to turn a drawing into a 3D model.
  Mentioned in: Drive Blender from a Coding Agent via Headless Python Scripts (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building a 3D Flight Scene with Sonnet in Cursor, three.js and 3D Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-6 Astra Demo: One Agent Juggling Many Computer Tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), ComfyUI Raises $30M: Open-Source Visual AI Pipelines Move into Production (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT Work · tool · chatgpt.com · check price
  ChatGPT workspace on web and mobile for creating docs, decks, sites and spreadsheets and handling complex tasks.
  Mentioned in: ChatGPT Voice Update: Plugins, Model Switching and ChatGPT Work (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), ChatGPT Work: A Cloud Agent Built on the Codex Harness That Books Travel (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hermes (Grok 4.6) vs ChatGPT Work on a text-to-PDF task (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), ChatGPT Voice on Desktop: Directing Codex and Agents by Voice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Max · tool · support.claude.com · paid
  Anthropic's higher-usage paid subscription plan for Claude.
  Mentioned in: Run Notebooks on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4, 15GB VRAM) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Claude Code (Opus 5.5) to cut clips from livestreams (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-6 Astra Access Across Plans vs Fable on Claude Max (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Opus 4.7 Release: More Rigor on Long-Running Tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Composer 2 · tool · cursor.com · paid
  Cursor's own frontier coding model, built for agentic coding with high limits and fast speeds.
  Mentioned in: Which AI coding model to use for which task (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cursor 3: An Agent-First IDE for Local and Cloud Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cursor Composer 2 Is Built on Open-Source Kimi K2.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cursor Releases Composer 2, Its Own Coding Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• CUDA · tool · developer.nvidia.com · free
  NVIDIA's GPU computing platform, needed for GPU-accelerated deep learning.
  Mentioned in: AI DevBox v1.3.0: a GPU-ready Docker image with coding-agent CLIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPU-Ready AI Devbox Docker Image on Runpod (PyTorch 2.8 + CUDA 12.8) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Reusable GPU devbox: PyTorch/CUDA plus six coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Jensen Huang on NVIDIA's Long-Term Commitment to Open Nemotron Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ElevenLabs · tool · elevenlabs.io · free
  Voice AI platform for speech synthesis and speech-to-text, used here in a real-time voice sentiment analysis demo.
  Mentioned in: ElevenLabs Eleven v4 & v4 Turbo: Emotive, Multilingual Text-to-Speech Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), A Cheaper Voice Option Than ElevenLabs, Credited to @thorwebdev (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Demo: Real-Time Voice Sentiment Analysis with Jev and ElevenLabs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory: Build-Review-Deploy-Observe Loop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini · tool · gemini.google.com · free
  Google's multimodal AI model family. In this prototype it interprets voice, pointer position and on-screen content, and writes code to act on what the user wants.
  Mentioned in: Multimodal AI Pointer: Combining Voice, Mouse Pointing and Vision with Gemini (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Claude Works Well as a Brainstorming Partner (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Workshop AI: Building Apps with Cloud and Local Agents (GLM 5, Qwen 3.5) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building a Nano Banana 2 Image-Gen App with Memex Managed AI Connectors (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini Flash · tool · deepmind.google · free
  Google's fast, low-cost Gemini model, suited to auxiliary tasks like web browsing and vision.
  Mentioned in: Testing Gemini 3.8 Flash in Cursor with a CRM Smoke Test (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemini 3.8 Flash Available in Cursor CLI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Models That Work With the Hermes Agent for Personal Productivity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cut Hermes Agent Token Costs with Gemini Flash as an Auxiliary Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLiNER2.5-Decide · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A 340M-parameter open-weight encoder model that answers user-defined typed questions and rules for fast, deterministic classification.
  Mentioned in: AIBackends v0.8.1 adds GLiNER2.5-Decide local classification (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Intent classification for support using GLiNER2.5-Decide notebook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Getting started with GLiNER2.5-Decide in a Colab notebook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLiNER2.5-Decide: A 340M Encoder Model for Deterministic Classification (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLM Coding Plan (Z.ai) · tool · z.ai · paid
  Z.ai's subscription plan for GLM coding models, for use in agents and IDEs.
  Mentioned in: ZCode: official coding environment for GLM models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Setting Up GLM 5.2 in Claude Code with the Z.ai Coding Plan (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM-5.1 Now Available on the GLM Coding Plan (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM-5-Turbo: A Fast GLM-5 Variant for Agents Like OpenClaw (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLM-5.3 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A large language model in the GLM family (Z.ai / Zhipu), offered free for one weekend.
  Mentioned in: GLM 5.3 Open Weights Release Delayed for Framework Support (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Paperscrolling: Browse Trending AI Research Papers Like a Social Feed (alphaXiv) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM-5.3 now available on AWS Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM-5.3 free weekend trial announcement (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Sheets · tool · google.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Google's online spreadsheet app, used here as the place where the agent stores its results.
  Mentioned in: Organizing Grok Bot Lead Collection in One Google Sheet (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Morning digest from a chief-of-staff agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 6 Steps to Build a Resume Project That Lands an AI Engineering Job (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Using a Grok Bot to Automate LinkedIn and Collect Leads (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT-6 Luna · tool · community.openai.com · paid
  An OpenAI model aimed at fast, high-volume classification and routing.
  Mentioned in: DigitalOcean Serverless Inference Now Serves OpenAI GPT-6 Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex Orchestrator v0.2.1: GPT-6 Sol orchestrator with Luna subagents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), DeepSWE results: GPT-6 Sol slightly below GPT-5.6 Sol, but cheaper (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grok 4.6 · tool · x.ai · paid
  xAI's latest frontier LLM, announced as an improvement over Grok 4.5 at the same price.
  Mentioned in: Creator's Top 3 Closed Models: Fable 5, GPT 5.6 Sol, Grok 4.6 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hermes (Grok 4.6) vs ChatGPT Work on a text-to-PDF task (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Plan with a Strong Model, Execute with a Cheaper One (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok 4.6 release: better than Grok 4.5 at the same price (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grok Imagine · tool · grok.com · check price
  xAI's image and video generation tool inside Grok, now running the Imagine Video 1.5 image-to-video model.
  Mentioned in: Ask Your Agent to Configure Itself: Adding Image Generation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Creating an AI influencer with Grok Imagine Projects (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Imagine: xAI's AI Video Generator (Short Demo Reaction) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Imagine Video 1.5: xAI's New Image-to-Video Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• HeyGen · tool · x.com · check price
  AI video-generation platform for avatar and generative video, which now offers the Seedance 2.0 model.
  Mentioned in: Making AI Avatar Videos with Claude Code and HeyGen Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Seedance 2.0 Video Model Now Available Inside HeyGen (Demo Clip) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), HyperFrames: Let Coding Agents Turn HTML into MP4 Videos (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Making an AI Avatar YouTube Video with HeyGen (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hugging Face Spaces · tool · huggingface.co · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Deploy demos publicly for free so recruiters can see them.
  Mentioned in: Every Hugging Face Space Now Has AGENTS.md for Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Calling Hugging Face Spaces from Claude Code as Agent Tools (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hugging Face Pro Spaces Credits for Image Generation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Hugging Face Transformers · tool · github.com · free
  Open-source library for loading and running pretrained models, which now supports GGUF directly.
  Mentioned in: Run llama.cpp GGUF Checkpoints in Hugging Face Transformers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run GGUF models directly in Hugging Face Transformers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AIBackends 0.4.0: Liquid AI LFM2.5 Models on llama.cpp and Transformers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemma 4 Gets Up to 3x Faster with MTP Drafters (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Kimi · tool · github.com · free
  Open-weight large language models from Moonshot AI, aimed at agent and coding tasks.
  Mentioned in: Bolt.new Adds Open Models (GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi) via Bolt Forge (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenCode Go: Open Coding Models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM) for $10/mo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Orchestrator + Subagents in opencode with Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Chinese AI Models Are Mostly Open Source (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Langfuse · tool · langfuse.com · free
  Listed under platforms that combine tracing and evaluation.
  Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Taking a RAG App to Production: Evals, Guardrails, Cost and Tracing (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• LangSmith · tool · docs.smith.langchain.com · free
  Tracing, logging and evals; also used to track cost and latency.
  Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook; The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• LTX (@ltx_model) on X · tool · x.com · free
  The official X account of the LTX video model team, with release news and updates.
  Mentioned in: Local AI Video Generation with Audio Using LTX 2.3 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), LTX 2.3 Image-to-Video Running Locally (Demo) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free Local AI Video Generation with LTX 2.3 in ComfyUI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running the LTX 2.3 Video Model Locally on an RTX 3090 with ComfyUI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LTX Studio · tool · ltx.studio · check price
  A browser-based AI video production platform that now runs on LTX-2.3 and covers the creative workflow from first frame to final delivery.
  Mentioned in: Seedance 2.0 Video Model Now Available in LTX Studio (1080p) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running the LTX 2.3 Open Video Model Locally with ComfyUI on an RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Local Image-to-Video with LTX 2.3 in ComfyUI and Z-Image (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), LTX-2.3 Launch: Fast Native 4K AI Video Generation in LTX Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse Spark 1.3 · tool · research.meta.ai · free
  Meta's model release, available for free in OpenCode at the time of the post.
  Mentioned in: Try Muse Spark 1.3 for Free in OpenCode (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Be Skeptical of Model Leaderboards: Muse Spark vs Astra (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Muse Spark 1.3 Is Free to Try in OpenCode (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Installing Meta's Muse Code CLI (Needs a Paid Plan) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• n8n · tool · n8n.io · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  No-code workflow automation with AI nodes.
  Mentioned in: n8n vs Apache Camel for enterprise AI workflows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploying AI workflow integrations with Apache Camel in Docker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Nous Portal · tool · portal.nousresearch.com · paid
  Nous Research's model-access portal, where you can sign up and use hosted models such as Hy3.
  Mentioned in: Alternative Coding Plans for Open Models: OpenCode Go, Ollama Cloud, Nous (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), DeepSeek V4 Flash at 90% Off on Nous Portal (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Connecting Hermes Agent to the Buzz Agent-First Chat App via the Native Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hy3 (Tencent Hunyuan) Free on Nous Portal for a Limited Week (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Decisions API · tool · openai.com · paid
  A new OpenAI API, shown as a preview, that lets the model respond and make decisions.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Creator's favorite OpenAI DevDay announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay 2026 Replay: Timestamped Guide to the Announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• pgvector · tool · github.com · free
  An open-source Postgres extension for storing embeddings and running vector similarity search.
  Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How RAG Works: Chunking, Embedding, Vector Storage, and Retrieval (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How RAG Works Under the Hood: Chunking, Embedding, Storage, Retrieval (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Pi (pi.dev) · tool · pi.dev · free
  Minimal coding agent with four core tools, plus an SDK for adding those tools to your own apps.
  Mentioned in: Re-authenticate the Pi Agent with the New ChatGPT Sign-In (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Work Agent That Runs on Small Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Coworker on Free OpenRouter Models and Its Agent Stack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Pi Coding Agent: Four Built-In Tools (read, bash, edit, write) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.5-2B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Small open-weight Qwen language model, used here as the base for fine-tuning.
  Mentioned in: LoRA Fine-Tune Qwen3.5-2B on Your Tweets with Unsloth Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Post-training Qwen3.5-2B on your own X posts with Unsloth Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Fine-Tuned Qwen3.5-2B LoRA Model That Writes X Posts in Your Style (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), First LoRA Run on Qwen3.5-2B with Codex as Training Companion (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Unsloth's GGUF quantized versions of the Qwen3.8 27B model, ready for llama.cpp and other GGUF runtimes.
  Mentioned in: Unsloth passes 500M model downloads on Hugging Face (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Qwen3.8 27B Locally on an RTX 3090 with llama.cpp and the Pi Harness (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Qwen3.8-27B locally with llama.cpp (llama-server) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Unsloth releases Qwen3.8-27B GGUF quantizations (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• RAGAS · tool · github.com · free
  Listed under RAG evaluation tools in the guide's evaluation stack.
  Mentioned in: SWE-to-AI Engineer Plan for 2027: LLMs, RAG, Agents, Evals, Job Search (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Taking a RAG App to Production: Evals, Guardrails, Cost and Tracing (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook; The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Together AI · tool · x.com · paid
  Inference platform for hosting and calling open-weights models.
  Mentioned in: Fine-tune and Deploy Qwen3.8 27B on Together AI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Where to Access GLM 5.2: Inference Providers and Gateways (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Where to Access GLM-5.2: Provider Roundup (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free GLM-5.2 via Hugging Face Inference Providers in coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• unsloth/Muse-Glimmer-30B-GGUF · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Unsloth's GGUF quantizations of Meta's Muse Glimmer 30B open-weights model, used here with the UD-Q4_K_XL quant.
  Mentioned in: Three Local GGUF Models That Fit on an RTX 3090 (24GB) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Muse Glimmer 30B Locally on an RTX 3090 with llama.cpp (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Muse Glimmer 30B Locally with llama.cpp and the Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Muse Glimmer 30B Locally with llama.cpp and Connect It to Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) · tool · learn.microsoft.com · free
  Runs a Linux environment such as Ubuntu on Windows, here used to build llama.cpp with CUDA.
  Mentioned in: Any OS works for AI dev: Mac, Windows + WSL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Muse Glimmer 30B Locally with llama.cpp and Connect It to Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Gemma 4 E2B Video Understanding Locally in WSL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Installing Unsloth Studio on Windows via WSL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ai-devbox (melvindave/ai-devbox) · tool · hub.docker.com · free
  The creator's Docker image with PyTorch, CUDA, JupyterLab and coding-agent CLIs already installed, for ML work.
  Mentioned in: AI DevBox v1.3.0: a GPU-ready Docker image with coding-agent CLIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Docker image with coding agents pre-installed on a CUDA + PyTorch base (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPU-Ready AI Devbox Docker Image on Runpod (PyTorch 2.8 + CUDA 12.8) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Antigravity CLI · tool · github.com · free
  Google's command-line coding agent that replaces Gemini CLI for individual users.
  Mentioned in: Antigravity 2.0 Adds a /plan Mode for Agent Planning (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Google Retires Gemini CLI, Launches Antigravity CLI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemini CLI sunset for individual tiers: migrate to Antigravity CLI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• bolt.new · tool · x.com · free
  The official X account of bolt.new, which posts product updates such as the Bolt Forge launch.
  Mentioned in: Bolt.new Adds Open Models (GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi) via Bolt Forge (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Opus 4.7 Now Powers bolt.new (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Rumored Anthropic App Builder vs bolt.new, Lovable and v0 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• CapCut · tool · capcut.com · free
  CapCut's AI video creation studio, used to make the Doll Dreamer short film.
  Mentioned in: Automating Explainer Videos with a Hermes AI Agent Workflow (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Seedance 2.0 Showcase: "Doll Dreamer" AI Puppet-Style Short Film (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Seedance 2.0 in CapCut: Creator's Pick for Best Video Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Cloud · tool · learn.chatgpt.com · paid
  OpenAI's cloud-run version of Codex, so coding tasks keep running remotely.
  Mentioned in: Creator's favorite OpenAI DevDay announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay 2026 Replay: Timestamped Guide to the Announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Security Cloud · tool · learn.chatgpt.com · paid
  A new Codex product that runs in cloud environments and helps defenders harden their infrastructure.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay 2026 Replay: Timestamped Guide to the Announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Conductor · tool · x.com · check price
  Desktop app for running multiple coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in parallel in isolated Git worktrees or in the cloud.
  Mentioned in: Conductor: run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode on one project (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Conductor detects Claude Code/Codex and merges PRs from the app (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Conductor Walkthrough: Running Parallel Coding Agents in Isolated Git Worktrees (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• CopilotKit · tool · x.com · free
  An open-source framework for building in-app AI copilot and agent UIs.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: Open-Source Work Agent That Runs on Small Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Coworker on Free OpenRouter Models and Its Agent Stack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Grok Bot Clone Built on Pi and CopilotKit (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DeepSeek API · tool · platform.deepseek.com · paid
  DeepSeek's official API platform for buying credits and managing API keys.
  Mentioned in: DeepSeek 4.1 Flash speed on the official API: about 325 tokens/s (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Getting Started with DeepSeek Harness and the DeepSeek API Platform (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), DeepSeek-V4-Flash Official API Launches in Public Beta (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DeepSeek V4 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A DeepSeek LLM, accessed through OpenRouter as the final fallback.
  Mentioned in: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation (MOPD) in 2026 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Models That Work With the Hermes Agent for Personal Productivity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cost-Saving Model Fallback Chain: Grok → Codex → OpenRouter DeepSeek (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  DeepSeek's open-weight V4 Flash model, released as quantized GGUFs for local use.
  Mentioned in: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Available on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running DeepSeek V4 Flash Locally: RAM Needs for 4-bit and 3-bit Quants (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Agentic Benchmarks and Use with Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Devin CLI · tool · docs.devin.ai · check price
  Command-line version of the Devin AI coding agent, used in the terminal.
  Mentioned in: AI DevBox v1.3.0: a GPU-ready Docker image with coding-agent CLIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Devin CLI with the free SWE-2 model for sysadmin tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Pointer: Subagents in Devin CLI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DVC (Data Version Control) · tool · dvc.org · free · open in a browser to verify
  Version your data like code.
  Mentioned in: Five Core AI Engineering Topic Areas: A Study Roadmap Checklist (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 17-Step AI Engineer Roadmap: From Basic RAG to Agents, Evals, LLMOps & Governance (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• FLUX · tool · github.com · check price
  Black Forest Labs' family of text-to-image generation models. Some versions have open weights and some are only available through a paid API.
  Mentioned in: Evolution of Image LoRAs: Stable Diffusion → Flux → Krea 2 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Martin Scorsese Joins Black Forest Labs: Storyboarding with FLUX (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Martin Scorsese Storyboards a Scene with Black Forest Labs' FLUX (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemma 4 12B · tool · blog.google · free · open in a browser to verify
  Google's open-weight, encoder-free multimodal model under Apache 2.0 for on-device use.
  Mentioned in: Run Gemma 4 12B locally with LM Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Gemma 4 12B on 8GB RAM with Unsloth Dynamic GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemma 4 12B: encoder-free multimodal model for laptops (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemma 4 26B · tool · ai.google.dev · free
  Mid-sized multimodal open model in Google's Gemma 4 family.
  Mentioned in: Free gpt-oss-20b and Gemma 4 26B on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Local Prompt-to-Image Pipeline: ComfyUI + LM Studio Gemma + Z-Image Turbo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemma 4 26B for OCR in LM Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemma 4 E2B Instruct · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Small open-weight instruction-tuned Gemma model, used here as the base for a QLoRA fine-tune.
  Mentioned in: Base vs fine-tuned Gemma 4 E2B as a model router (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), QLoRA fine-tune Gemma 4 E2B with Unsloth as a model router (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free Colab Notebooks: ModernBERT, Gemma QLoRA, GLiNER & Guardrails (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLiNER-PII · tool · huggingface.co · free
  NVIDIA's GLiNER-based model that finds personal data (PII) in text, so it can be redacted locally.
  Mentioned in: aibackends 0.3.0: Model Caching Speeds Up PII and OCR Inference (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running AI Locally: Rebuilding AIBackends as a Python Library with Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Detect PII and PHI with NVIDIA's GLiNER-PII Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLiNER2.5 · tool · fastino.ai · free
  Fastino Labs' models for extraction and classification that run on CPU, with long context and joint information extraction.
  Mentioned in: Free Colab Notebooks: ModernBERT, Gemma QLoRA, GLiNER & Guardrails (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Colab Notebook: Entity Extraction with GLiNER2.5 in aibackends (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AIBackends v0.6.0: Run GLiNER2.5 Extraction on CPU (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLM · tool · github.com · free
  Chinese open-weight LLM family from Zhipu AI.
  Mentioned in: OpenCode Go: Open Coding Models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM) for $10/mo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Orchestrator + Subagents in opencode with Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Chinese AI Models Are Mostly Open Source (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Antigravity · tool · antigravity.google · check price
  Google's standalone desktop app for running coding agents, with subagents, worktrees, scheduled tasks, voice input and browser testing.
  Mentioned in: Windsurf Split: Google Antigravity, Cognition's Devin & AI Coding Tools (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Firebase Studio Shutdown: Move to Google AI Studio or Antigravity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Google Antigravity 2.0: Multi-Agent Desktop App Walkthrough (Subagents, Scheduled Tasks) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT Image 2.5 · tool · openai.com · free
  An OpenAI image generation model, used here to make the stop-motion frames of the spaghetti scene.
  Mentioned in: Making Stop-Motion Videos with Codex, Astra and GPT Image 2.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Making Stop-Motion Videos with Codex, Astra and GPT Image 2.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Will Smith Spaghetti Benchmark: Stop Motion with GPT Image 2.5 and Astra (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hugging Face Inference Endpoints · tool · endpoints.huggingface.co · paid
  Managed service for deploying models from the Hugging Face Hub on dedicated infrastructure.
  Mentioned in: Deploy Open-Source Models with Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploying Qwen3.8 27B on Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Hugging Face credits: Jobs, Inference Endpoints and Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ideogram · tool · x.com · free
  AI image generation platform with paid plans and an API for generating images with Ideogram models.
  Mentioned in: ComfyUI workflow with LM Studio nodes for local Ideogram v4 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running the open-source Ideogram 4 locally in ComfyUI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Ideogram 4.0 Released as an Open-Weights Image Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Jupyter Notebook · tool · jupyter.org · free
  An interactive notebook format (.ipynb) that mixes code and output. Colab can open these files.
  Mentioned in: AI DevBox v1.3.0: a GPU-ready Docker image with coding-agent CLIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Local Models on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• LEAP (Liquid AI) · tool · leap.liquid.ai · check price
  Liquid AI's framework for fine-tuning and customizing its small models.
  Mentioned in: Smoke-Testing LFM Fine-tuning with Codex and Liquid AI's LEAP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Small Local Models + Fine-Tuning Instead of More Compute (Liquid AI, LEAP) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), LFM2.5-2.6B Matches DeepSeek-V4-Flash on Tool Calling; LEAP Fine-Tuning (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Linear · tool · linear.app · free
  Issue-tracking tool that the feedback workflow links verified issues to.
  Mentioned in: Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Theo's YouTube Packaging Masterclass: Thumbnails, Titles and the Algorithm (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Conductor Walkthrough: Running Parallel Coding Agents in Isolated Git Worktrees (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LiteLLM · tool · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  An open-source LLM gateway/proxy that gives one API for many model providers, with cost tracking and pricing features.
  Mentioned in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Using Codex to Fix a LiteLLM Pricing-Markup Bug in Docker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex Finds a Bug in a LiteLLM Feature (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LiteRT · tool · ai.google.dev · free
  Google's on-device runtime (formerly TensorFlow Lite) for running ML models and LLMs on mobile and edge devices.
  Mentioned in: Gemma 4 Runs Locally On-Device in the Antigravity SDK (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), On-Device AI: Running Gemma 4 E2B Offline on an iPhone with LiteRT (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), LiteRT: Google's on-device AI runtime (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Manus (@ManusAI) on X · tool · x.com · free
  The official X account of Manus, the AI agent company that announced Cue.
  Mentioned in: Cue by Manus: A New Rival to the Grok Bot on X (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Meta Launches Muse, a Personal AI Agent (and the Manus Connection) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), SkillsMP: Free Marketplace of 364K Agent Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• melvindave/runpod-pytorch Docker image · tool · hub.docker.com · free
  Docker image for GPU ML development with coding agents, the Hugging Face CLI and nvtop pre-installed.
  Mentioned in: GPU devbox Docker image with coding agents on Runpod (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Ready-made Docker image for running coding agents on ML/fine-tuning jobs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Reusable GPU devbox: PyTorch/CUDA plus six coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MiniMax H3 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  MiniMax video generation model that turns a starting image and an audio track into a lip-synced video.
  Mentioned in: MiniMax H3 Image + Audio-to-Video Lip-Sync Demo (with Irodori-TTS v3) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Generating AI Video Locally with MiniMax H3 in ComfyUI on an RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running MiniMax H3 Locally on a Single RTX 3090 (Demo) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Next.js · tool · nextjs.org · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Open-source React framework for building full-stack web apps.
  Mentioned in: Problem Solving Over Keywords: The AI Skill That Never Expires (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Is Indie Hacking Dead? How AI Coding Changes the Micro-SaaS Playbook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 · tool · openrouter.ai · free
  NVIDIA Nemotron model with thinking support, available free on OpenRouter.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: Free Desktop AI Agent App with Cloud or Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on OpenRouter Supports Thinking (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Free OpenRouter Models (Nemotron 3.5) With Coworker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• nvtop · tool · github.com · free
  An open-source, top-style monitor for GPU usage in the terminal.
  Mentioned in: GPU devbox Docker image with coding agents on Runpod (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPU-Ready AI Devbox Docker Image on Runpod (PyTorch 2.8 + CUDA 12.8) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Monitor GPU Usage With nvtop Instead of nvidia-smi (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Origin · tool · cursor.com · paid
  The service the post names for storing code created with Cursor.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Can Now Hand Off Coding Tasks to Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cursor Adds App Creation, Code Storage with Origin, and Vercel Deploys (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Origin: A New Code Hosting Platform and Its Getting-Started Guide (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  An open-weight mixture-of-experts language model (35B total, about 3B active parameters), run here as a Q4_K_M GGUF quantization.
  Mentioned in: Running a Local Ornith Model as the Backend for a Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Serving Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B at 128k Context on an RTX 3090 with llama.cpp (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B (Q4_K_M) at 128k Context on an RTX 3090 with llama.cpp (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Python · tool · python.org · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  A programming language that comes preinstalled on Droplets created by the plugin.
  Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Software Engineer to AI Engineer: Job Boards, Stack, Projects and Learning Sites (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Run Codex in the Cloud: Spin Up DigitalOcean Droplets with the Codex Plugin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• QuickPod · tool · console.quickpod.io · paid
  A cloud service for renting GPU pods to host and run your own models.
  Mentioned in: Reusable GPU devbox: PyTorch/CUDA plus six coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Docker Template Bundling Coding Agents for GPU Cloud Hosting (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Self-Host a Coding Model on QuickPod with llama-swap and Use It in Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen · tool · qwen.ai · free
  Alibaba's family of open-weight LLMs.
  Mentioned in: OpenCode Go: Open Coding Models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM) for $10/mo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Orchestrator + Subagents in opencode with Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Chinese AI Models Are Mostly Open Source (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Replicate · tool · replicate.com · check price
  A cloud platform for running open and hosted AI models through an API; you pay for what you use.
  Mentioned in: Replicate's Guide to Making Videos with Seedance 2.0 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Seedance 2.0 Video Generation Model Now on Replicate (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), LTX-2.3 Video Generation Model Now Available on Replicate (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Sign in with ChatGPT · tool · developers.openai.com · check price
  A sign-in option that lets third-party apps use your ChatGPT account for access to models.
  Mentioned in: T3 Code Adds Sign in with ChatGPT, With Support for Multiple Accounts (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay 2026 Replay: Timestamped Guide to the Announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• v0 · tool · x.com · free
  Vercel's AI tool that generates UI and front-end apps from prompts.
  Mentioned in: Cursor Adds App Creation, Code Storage with Origin, and Vercel Deploys (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Rumored Anthropic App Builder vs bolt.new, Lovable and v0 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), v0 vs Claude Code for cloning an app's design (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• WebMCP · tool · developer.chrome.com · free
  A proposed web standard that lets websites expose tools and context to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol in the browser.
  Mentioned in: Jev + WebMCP Solves 100% of Benchmark Tasks at About 112× Lower Cost (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), WebMCP: Exposing Existing App Features as Agent Tools (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Docs7: Serving Agent-Readable Documentation to Coding Agents via MCP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ZCode · tool · zcode.z.ai · check price
  Z.ai's official development environment and harness for GLM coding models.
  Mentioned in: AI News Roundup: Claude Fable 5, Scientist AI, ZCode, NVIDIA RL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Trying ZCode by Z.ai with GLM 5.2 on a Mac (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), ZCode: official coding environment for GLM models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• all-MiniLM-L6-v2 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A small open-source sentence-transformers embedding model that maps text to 384-dimensional vectors.
  Mentioned in: Fine-Tuning MiniLM Embeddings with Synthetic Data, Running on CPU (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Fine-tuning all-MiniLM-L6-v2 to Beat OpenAI Embeddings (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AuK · tool · github.com · free
  Open-source foundation model for unified speech generation and editing (zero-shot TTS, instruction control, content editing, whisper conversion).
  Mentioned in: AuK: Open-Source Model for Generating and Editing Speech (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AuK: Tencent Hunyuan's Unified Audio Generation and Editing Model (TTS Demo) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Bionic · tool · lmstudio.ai · free
  A tool the creator says the open-sourced style model could be used with.
  Mentioned in: Idea: Fine-Tune a Small Model on Your Best Tweets (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Bionic by LM Studio: An Agent App for Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT Chrome extension · tool · learn.chatgpt.com · free
  OpenAI's browser extension for using ChatGPT on web pages.
  Mentioned in: GPT 5.6 Luna Is Enough for ChatGPT Chrome Extension Tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI in the Browser: Chrome Extensions Beat New AI Browsers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT Pro 500 · tool · help.openai.com · paid
  A new ChatGPT subscription tier with the highest usage limits and Ultra fast access.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT Voice · tool · help.openai.com · free
  ChatGPT's voice conversation mode, used as the comparison point for GPT-Live-1's style of conversation.
  Mentioned in: ChatGPT Voice Update: Plugins, Model Switching and ChatGPT Work (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-Live-1: OpenAI's Full-Duplex Voice Model for Voice Agents in the API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Max plan · tool · claude.com · paid
  Anthropic's highest-tier paid Claude subscription, which gets the Cowork mobile/web beta first.
  Mentioned in: Claude Cowork Comes to Mobile and Web (Beta Announcement) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code Billing Gotcha: 'HERMES.md' String in Git Commits (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cloudflare · tool · x.com · check price
  Cloud platform listed as a supported BYOS sandbox provider.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Codex as a Sysadmin to Find a Cloudflare DNS Issue (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Desktop · tool · developers.openai.com · check price
  OpenAI's desktop app, which can now be configured to use Ollama models through a plugin.
  Mentioned in: Use local Ollama models in ChatGPT Desktop (Codex app) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex Desktop as a General Assistant Beyond Coding (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex desktop app (Mac) · tool · openai.com · paid
  Desktop app that runs Codex locally; the mobile app connects to it to control tasks remotely.
  Mentioned in: Editing a GitHub Repo From ChatGPT Work on iOS (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex in the ChatGPT Mobile App: Steer Coding Agents from Your Phone (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Micro · tool · openai.com · paid
  Something OpenAI announced for Codex in an OpenAI Devs post. The caption doesn't say what it is.
  Mentioned in: Hardware Controller Mapped to OpenAI Codex (Thinking-Effort Knobs) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex Micro: A Hardware Macro Keyboard for Steering OpenAI Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Spaces · tool · learn.chatgpt.com · check price
  Codex workspace where you collaborate with Dots.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay 2026 Replay: Timestamped Guide to the Announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Spark model · tool · openai.com · paid
  OpenAI model in Codex that the creator finds useful for testing and small changes.
  Mentioned in: Use Codex GPT-5.3 Spark for Testing and Small Changes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• CodexBar · tool · codexbar.app · check price
  macOS menu-bar app for monitoring OpenAI Codex usage limits.
  Mentioned in: CodexBar: Track Your Codex Usage Limits from the Mac Menu Bar (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Track your Codex usage limits with CodexBar (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Comfy MCP · tool · github.com · free
  A local, open-source MCP server that gives AI agents access to your Comfy install (nodes, custom nodes and models) so they can fetch files, start the instance and run workflows.
  Mentioned in: Comfy MCP Goes Local and Open-Source: Agents That See Your Install (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Comfy MCP: Controlling ComfyUI Workflows from AI Agents via MCP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• CrewAI · tool · crewai.com · free
  A framework for role-based multi-agent teams.
  Mentioned in: 8-Week Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Cursor Projects · tool · cursor.com · check price
  A Cursor feature: one persistent, always-on coordinator agent that manages subagents and improves over time.
  Mentioned in: Building and testing a feature from an iPhone with Cursor Projects (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cursor Projects: One Persistent Coordinator Agent That Manages Subagents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor SDK · tool · cursor.com · paid
  SDK for building agents on Cursor's agent runtime, harness and models, for use in CI/CD pipelines, automations or your own products.
  Mentioned in: Cursor's /orchestrate Skill: Agents That Spawn Agents via the Cursor SDK (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cursor SDK: Build Agents on Cursor's Runtime, Harness and Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Daytona · tool · x.com · check price
  Sandbox infrastructure for running AI-generated code, now with GPU sandboxes.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Daytona Offers GPU Sandboxes (H100, RTX 4090/5090) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 · tool · baseten.co · paid
  DeepSeek large language model, served here through Baseten Model APIs.
  Mentioned in: Running DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Baseten with the Pi Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Hermes on DeepSeek V4 Pro via Baseten Model APIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DeepSWE · tool · deepswe.datacurve.ai · free
  A software-engineering benchmark used to compare how well coding models perform.
  Mentioned in: DeepSWE results: GPT-6 Sol slightly below GPT-5.6 Sol, but cheaper (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Agentic Benchmarks and Use with Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DeepWiki · tool · deepwiki.com · free
  AI documentation you can talk to, for every GitHub repo.
  Mentioned in: Example DeepWiki: Auto-Generated Docs for a Colab Notebooks Repo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Generate Instant Repo Documentation for Free with DeepWiki (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Devil's Advocate (SkillsBento plugin) · tool · skillsbento.com · free
  A plugin whose skill challenges your ideas and shows other perspectives, to counter AI sycophancy.
  Mentioned in: SkillsBento: Free Plugin Marketplace for Codex and Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Countering AI Sycophancy with a Devil's Advocate Plugin for Codex & Claude (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Devin Mobile · tool · devin.ai · paid
  A mobile app for working with Cognition's Devin coding agent, now in beta.
  Mentioned in: Comparing Coding Models on the Same Task in Devin iOS (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin Mobile beta waitlist opens (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Dreamina Seedance 2.0 · tool · dreamina.capcut.com · paid
  The base Seedance 2.0 AI video generation model, used as the reference point for Mini's cost.
  Mentioned in: Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Mini: Faster, Cheaper AI Video Generation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Seedance 2.0 in CapCut: Creator's Pick for Best Video Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Electron · tool · electronjs.org · free
  Framework for building cross-platform desktop apps with web technologies.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: An Open-Source Desktop Agent App for Local and Cloud Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), One-Shotting a Slack Clone with Fable 5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Firebase Studio · tool · firebase.google.com · free
  Google's AI-assisted app-building workspace, which the creator says has been discontinued.
  Mentioned in: Google Shuts Down Gemini CLI and Firebase Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Firebase Studio Shutdown: Move to Google AI Studio or Antigravity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• FLUX.2 dev · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Black Forest Labs' open-weight image generation model that can run on local hardware.
  Mentioned in: Free Local Image Generation with FLUX.2 Dev in ComfyUI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Local Image Generation Pipeline Built with Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Freepik (now Magnific) · tool · x.com · check price
  A creative platform that gives access to AI image models such as GPT Image 2.
  Mentioned in: Using GPT Image 2 in Freepik (vs Nano Banana) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Seedance 2.0 Video Generation in Freepik (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini 3.5 Flash · tool · blog.google · free · open in a browser to verify
  Google's fast Gemini model, used as the agent model throughout the demo.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 3.5 Flash Released (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Google Antigravity 2.0: Multi-Agent Desktop App Walkthrough (Subagents, Scheduled Tasks) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini 3.5 Live Translate · tool · blog.google · paid · open in a browser to verify
  Google's real-time speech translation model that detects language switches automatically and supports more than 70 languages.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: Real-Time Speech Translation via the Live API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: Real-Time Speech Translation via the Gemini Live API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini Omni · tool · deepmind.google · check price
  Google's multimodal generative model that takes combined image, audio, video, text and drawing inputs and generates high-quality video.
  Mentioned in: Opinion: Seedance 2.0 Still Beats Gemini Omni for Video (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemini Omni: Google's Any-to-Video Multimodal Model (Google I/O) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Git · tool · git-scm.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Version control system. Conductor uses its worktree feature to give each agent an isolated copy of the repo.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap for 2026 in 60 Seconds (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Conductor Walkthrough: Running Parallel Coding Agents in Isolated Git Worktrees (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GitHub Actions · tool · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  GitHub's CI/CD automation platform, used to run the self-healing docs workflow.
  Mentioned in: 5 Weekend AI Engineering Projects: Cost Routing, Caching, Evals & Observability (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Use Claude Code /loop to Watch and Auto-Fix Failing GitHub Actions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GitHub Copilot · tool · github.com · check price · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  One of the agentic coding tools the guide names as letting non-technical builders ship.
  Mentioned in: Opinion: Enterprises Pick GitHub Copilot, but Cursor Is Better (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• GLiDE · tool · fastino.ai · check price
  Fastino Labs' decision model, which uses adaptive thinking (fast probabilities first, reasoning only when uncertain).
  Mentioned in: GLiDE: Fastino's Decision Model with Adaptive Thinking (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLiDE by Fastino Labs: A Post-Trainable Reasoning Decision Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GliGuard 300M · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Fastino Labs' small guardrail model that runs on CPU and classifies prompts and responses for safety, toxicity, jailbreaks and refusals.
  Mentioned in: Free Colab Notebooks: ModernBERT, Gemma QLoRA, GLiNER & Guardrails (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Screening LLM Prompts and Responses on CPU with AIBackends + GliGuard (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLM 5.3 Flash · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A fast model from Z.ai's GLM family, used here for agentic coding.
  Mentioned in: Coworker Desktop App Works with Any OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running GLM 5.3 Flash on Baseten with the Pi Coding Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLM-5 · tool · github.com · free
  An open-weight large language model from Zhipu AI (Z.ai) that can run locally.
  Mentioned in: Z.ai's Lessons from Serving GLM-5 for Coding Agents at Scale (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Workshop AI: Building Apps with Cloud and Local Agents (GLM 5, Qwen 3.5) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Chrome · tool · google.com · free
  Web browser whose profile can be imported into Claude's built-in browser.
  Mentioned in: Claude desktop's built-in browser can import your Chrome profile (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Ask ChatGPT About YouTube Videos and Open Tabs (Chrome Side Chat) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• gpt-3.5-turbo · tool · platform.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI chat model; a cheaper alternative to text-davinci-003.
  Mentioned in: Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes), Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• GPT-Live · tool · openai.com · free
  OpenAI model behind ChatGPT Voice that can speak, listen and coordinate work at the same time.
  Mentioned in: ChatGPT Voice on Desktop: Directing Codex and Agents by Voice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI News Roundup: Grok 4.5, GPT-5.6 Launch, GPT-Live Voice Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT-Live-1 · tool · openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's full-duplex voice model in the API for real-time voice agents that pair with a backend reasoning/tool model.
  Mentioned in: GPT-Live-1 Voice Agents in the API, and Charlie Guo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-Live-1: OpenAI's Full-Duplex Voice Model for Voice Agents in the API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT-Realtime-2 · tool · developers.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's realtime speech-to-speech model for voice agents, with GPT-5-class reasoning, parallel tool calling and preambles.
  Mentioned in: GPT-Realtime-2 & Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-Realtime-2 & GPT-Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT-Realtime-Translate · tool · developers.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's realtime model that translates speech live across 70 languages while the speaker is talking.
  Mentioned in: GPT-Realtime-2 & Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-Realtime-2 & GPT-Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grok 4.7 · tool · x.ai · paid
  xAI's large language model, available through the xAI API or an X Premium subscription.
  Mentioned in: One-shot Demo: Building a Flyable App with Grok 4.7 in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Ask Your Agent to Configure Itself: Adding Image Generation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hugging Face CLI (hf) skills · tool · github.com · free
  The hf command-line tool, which can install Hugging Face skills into Claude Code.
  Mentioned in: Add the Hugging Face Skill to Claude Code to Generate Images (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hugging Face hf CLI Skill in Claude Code for Pushing Datasets (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hunter.io · tool · hunter.io · free
  An email-finding tool: domain search shows a company's email pattern, the email finder returns a person's likely address with a confidence score, and it can verify addresses before you send.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap: 5 Skill Areas, a 24-Week Study Order & Interview Strategy (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The Interview Engine: The 7-Step System to Land AI Engineering Interviews - shared in this reel on Facebook
• Ideogram 4 · tool · ideogram.ai · free
  Ideogram's image generation model, which works well with structured JSON prompts.
  Mentioned in: Use local Qwen 3.6 to write JSON prompts for Ideogram 4 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free local Ideogram 4 pipeline: ComfyUI + LM Studio + Qwen 3.6 on RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ideogram 4.0 · tool · ideogram.ai · free
  Ideogram's text-to-image model, released with open weights that you can download, fine-tune and run yourself.
  Mentioned in: 2.3x Faster Ideogram 4 in ComfyUI with INT8 and SageAttention (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Ideogram 4.0 Released as an Open-Weights Image Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Impeccable (@impeccable_ai) · tool · x.com · free
  A design add-on for AI coding agents, installed with `npx impeccable install`, that improves the quality of the UI/frontend designs they generate.
  Mentioned in: Improving Codex's UI Design Output with Impeccable (npx impeccable install) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Impeccable: a design skill that helps Codex and AI agents produce better UI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF · tool · huggingface.co · free
  The Hugging Face repo with GGUF quantized weights of Liquid AI's LFM2.5-2.6B model.
  Mentioned in: Run LFM2.5-2.6B locally with llama.cpp (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Serving LFM2.5-2.6B with llama-server: full command (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Locally AI · tool · locallyai.app · free
  An iPhone app for downloading open models and running them on the device, offline.
  Mentioned in: Run Gemma 4 Offline on an iPhone with the Locally AI App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 1-bit Bonsai 8B Runs On-Device on iPhone at 40+ tok/s (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Loom · tool · loom.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  A popular tool for recording your screen and camera to share video messages and demos.
  Mentioned in: 90-Day AI Engineering Job Search: Targeted Companies, Outreach & Loom Pitches (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Clueso Agents: AI That Records and Edits Product Demo Videos for You (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Luna max · tool · developers.openai.com · paid
  The model the creator ran in Codex for this test; the post presents it as not the smartest option.
  Mentioned in: Debug Animated UI Bugs by Having Codex or Claude Code Watch a Screen Recording (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Watching Codex weekly limits: GPT 5.6 Sol vs Luna max cost (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Mac Mini · tool · apple.com · paid
  Apple desktop computer popular as always-on local hardware for personal AI agents.
  Mentioned in: Hosting a Personal AI Agent: Local Mac Mini vs Cloud VM Privacy Trade-off (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Local Models for Agents: Tool Use, Context and Quantization (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• melvindave/qwen3.5-2b-melvin-posts-v1-GGUF · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Hugging Face model repo with the GGUF version of the Qwen3.5-2B model post-trained to write X posts in Melvin's style.
  Mentioned in: Post-training Qwen3.5-2B on your own X posts with Unsloth Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Fine-Tuned Qwen3.5-2B LoRA Model That Writes X Posts in Your Style (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Mercury 2.5 · tool · inceptionlabs.ai · paid
  A very fast language model, reported at about 1,100 tokens/sec with better agentic performance than Mercury 2.
  Mentioned in: Jev + WebMCP Solves 100% of Benchmark Tasks at About 112× Lower Cost (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Mercury 2.5 runs at 1,100 tokens/sec (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ML Intern · tool · github.com · free
  Hugging Face's agent harness that builds ML/AI solutions from plain-language requests.
  Mentioned in: Vibe Machine Learning with Hugging Face's ML Intern in HuggingChat (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), ML Intern: Post-Train a Model by Chatting (Hugging Face) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MLflow · tool · mlflow.org · free
  Experiment tracking and a model registry.
  Mentioned in: Five Core AI Engineering Topic Areas: A Study Roadmap Checklist (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Modal · tool · x.com · check price
  Serverless cloud platform for running and serving AI models and GPU workloads.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Self-Hosting GLM 5.2 with Modal Auto Endpoints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse Glimmer-30B · tool · developer.meta.com · free
  Open-weight 30B model aimed at agentic work, tool use and long-horizon reasoning.
  Mentioned in: Fine-Tune Muse Glimmer 30B with LoRA or Full-Parameter on Fireworks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Meta Muse Glimmer-30B: Open Weights Model That Beats Qwen3.6 37B on Agentic Tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Nano Banana · tool · deepmind.google · free
  Google's Gemini image generation and editing model.
  Mentioned in: Using GPT Image 2 in Freepik (vs Nano Banana) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Workshop AI: Building Apps with Cloud and Local Agents (GLM 5, Qwen 3.5) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Nano Banana 2.0 · tool · blog.google · free
  Google's Gemini image generation model, described as having Pro-level performance at Flash speed.
  Mentioned in: Run Qwen-Image-2.1 locally on 12GB VRAM with Unsloth GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building a Nano Banana 2 Image-Gen App with Memex Managed AI Connectors (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Node.js · tool · nodejs.org · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  A JavaScript runtime that comes preinstalled on Droplets created by the plugin.
  Mentioned in: Problem Solving Over Keywords: The AI Skill That Never Expires (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Run Codex in the Cloud: Spin Up DigitalOcean Droplets with the Codex Plugin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Novita · tool · novita.ai · check price
  A cloud platform where you can call open models like the Qwen3.8 family through an API.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.8 Model Family Now on Novita AI: Flash, 27B and 2.4T-A95B (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free GLM-5.2 via Hugging Face Inference Providers in coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA DGX Spark · tool · nvidia.com · paid
  NVIDIA's compact desktop AI computer for running and fine-tuning models locally.
  Mentioned in: Running Local Models on NVIDIA DGX Sparks (Alex Ellis) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), NVIDIA buying Hugging Face: what it could mean for open models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA Nemotron · tool · nvidia.com · free
  NVIDIA's family of open foundation LLMs, including Nemotron 3 Super and the upcoming Ultra.
  Mentioned in: NVIDIA Agent Toolkit: open Nemotron models for domain-specific agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Jensen Huang on NVIDIA's Long-Term Commitment to Open Nemotron Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Open 30B MoE model (3B active) from NVIDIA, built for fast, high-volume agent tasks.
  Mentioned in: Open-weight Nemotron models for finance and healthcare (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: Fast Open MoE Model for Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA RTX 3090 · tool · nvidia.com · paid
  A consumer GPU with 24GB of VRAM, often used to run LLMs locally.
  Mentioned in: Running Qwen3.8-27B EXL3 Locally on an RTX 3090 with 220K+ Context (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Hermes Agent with Local Models on an RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA T4 GPU · tool · nvidia.com · free
  The data-center GPU (about 15 GB of VRAM) that Colab offers on its free tier.
  Mentioned in: Run Notebooks on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4, 15GB VRAM) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Local Models on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• nvidia-smi · tool · developer.nvidia.com · free
  An NVIDIA command-line tool that shows the attached GPU, its VRAM and how much is in use.
  Mentioned in: Run Local Models on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Monitor GPU Usage With nvtop Instead of nvidia-smi (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  NVIDIA's NVFP4-quantized release of the open GLM-5.2 model, with its model card on Hugging Face.
  Mentioned in: Serve GLM-5.2 NVFP4 with vLLM on NVIDIA Blackwell (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Model card: NVIDIA's NVFP4-quantized GLM-5.2 on Hugging Face (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ohmypi · tool · github.com · free
  A coding agent that lets you assign different models to different roles.
  Mentioned in: Assign Different Models per Role in ohmypi (Like Hermes) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Low-Cost Agent Run: DeepSeek V4 Flash via OpenRouter in ohmypi (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• oMLX · tool · github.com · free
  An MLX-based tool for running local models on Apple silicon.
  Mentioned in: Running Qwen3.8-27B Locally on an M5 Max MacBook with Inco Splash (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude support for Apple's Foundation Models framework (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Plugin Extensions · tool · developers.openai.com · free
  Lets developers build full apps that feel native to ChatGPT and distribute them through ChatGPT and ChatGPT sites.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Privacy Filter · tool · openai.com · free
  Small open-weight OpenAI model for context-aware PII detection and redaction.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Privacy Filter: An Open-Weights PII Detection Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Privacy Filter for Local PII Detection and Redaction (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI text-embedding-3-small · tool · platform.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's small paid embedding model, available through its API.
  Mentioned in: Fine-Tuning MiniLM Embeddings with Synthetic Data, Running on CPU (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Fine-tuning all-MiniLM-L6-v2 to Beat OpenAI Embeddings (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenClaw (@openclaw) on X · tool · x.com · free
  The official X account of OpenClaw, an AI agent tool, where it posts updates.
  Mentioned in: Where to get help with OpenClaw stability issues (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM-5-Turbo: A Fast GLM-5 Variant for Agents Like OpenClaw (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Prime Agent · tool · primeintellect.ai · free
  A self-improving RLM harness for coding and autonomous tasks, with programmatic tool calling, context held as a variable, multi-agent messaging and a harness that can modify itself.
  Mentioned in: Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Coding Harness with Code-Based Tool Calls (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Coding Harness That Calls Tools in Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• pstack · tool · github.com · free
  An integration used by the speaker's coding bot. The name comes from the machine-generated transcript and may be misspelled.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Templates: Sharing, Publishing and Safely Installing Bots (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Bot Templates: How to Share, Publish, Install and Check Bot Blueprints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen 3.5 35B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  An open-weight Mixture-of-Experts LLM from Alibaba's Qwen team that can run locally on a 24GB GPU.
  Mentioned in: Running Qwen 3.5 35B Locally in LM Studio for Vision and Prompts (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Local Qwen3.5-35B-A3B on a 24GB GPU Builds a Full Game From One Spec (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen-Image-2.1 · tool · github.com · free
  Qwen's open-source image-generation model, released with weights and code on ModelScope.
  Mentioned in: Run Qwen-Image-2.1 locally on 12GB VRAM with Unsloth GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen-Image-2.1 Announced as an Open-Weights Image Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate · tool · qwen.ai · check price
  Alibaba Qwen's real-time speech translation model: understands 60 languages, speaks 29, with low latency and hot-word customization.
  Mentioned in: Qwen 3.5 Live Translate: Real-Time Speech Translation Demo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate: Real-Time Audio-Visual Interpretation Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.6-Plus · tool · qwen.ai · free
  Alibaba's Qwen model, now available in OpenCode Go and recommended for coding.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.6-Plus and Qwen3.5-Plus Coding Models Now Available in OpenCode (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview Is Free for a Limited Time on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.8-27B EXL3 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Experimental EXL3-quantized build of the Qwen3.8-27B model that can run with 200K+ context on a single 24GB GPU.
  Mentioned in: Running Qwen3.8-27B EXL3 on an RTX 3090 with 262K Context at ~64 tok/s (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Serving Qwen3.8-27B (EXL3) with 262K Context on a 24GB RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Sakana Fugu · tool · sakana.ai · paid
  Sakana AI's multi-agent orchestration system that you call as a single model API.
  Mentioned in: Sakana Fugu model now available on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Sakana Fugu: Multi-Agent Orchestration Behind a Single Model API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Salesforce · tool · salesforce.com · paid
  A CRM platform. Workshop agents can use a Salesforce skill to work with CRM data.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Connects to Sales Tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Workshop AI: Building Apps with Cloud and Local Agents (GLM 5, Qwen 3.5) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• scikit-learn · tool · scikit-learn.org · free
  A Python machine learning library for building pipelines and training classic ML models.
  Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Five Core AI Engineering Topic Areas: A Study Roadmap Checklist (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Stripe · tool · stripe.com · check price
  A payments platform. Workshop agents can use a Stripe skill to set up payments.
  Mentioned in: Is Indie Hacking Dead? How AI Coding Changes the Micro-SaaS Playbook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Workshop AI: Building Apps with Cloud and Local Agents (GLM 5, Qwen 3.5) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Suno · tool · suno.com · free
  An AI music generator that makes full songs with vocals from text prompts.
  Mentioned in: "The Last Manual Programmer": A Song About Coding With AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Seedance 2.0 + Suno: Prompting an AI K-pop Music Video Synced to Audio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Tau · tool · github.com · free
  Minimalist coding agent written in Python, a port of Pi's design, with native local-model support and extensions that can change its interface.
  Mentioned in: Herdr Crash Course: A Terminal Multiplexer for Running Many Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Agent Harness Efficiency: Scaffolding Beats MCP vs. CLI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Terraform · tool · terraform.io · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Infrastructure-as-code tool for creating and managing cloud infrastructure.
  Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Cautionary Tale: Claude Code Wiped a Production Database via Terraform (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• TRL (Hugging Face) · tool · github.com · free
  Hugging Face's open-source library for post-training LLMs with SFT, DPO, GRPO and more.
  Mentioned in: Fine-Tune LFM2.5-350M with GRPO in TRL for Structured Outputs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Liquid AI Cookbook: Fine-Tuning LFMs with CPT, SFT, DPO and GRPO (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Unstructured · tool · unstructured.io · free
  Document and data processing for building RAG over your domain documents.
  Mentioned in: Basic RAG Pipeline in 60 Seconds: From Documents to Grounded Answers (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Veo 3.1 · tool · deepmind.google · check price
  Google DeepMind's text-to-video model family. "Veo Omni" is a speculated, unconfirmed new variant of it.
  Mentioned in: "Veo Omni?": A 10-Second Teaser Clip of a Possible New Google Video Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenRouter Adds Video Generation: One API for Veo, Seedance, Wan and Sora (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• WaveSpeedAI (@wavespeed_ai) on X · tool · x.com · check price
  Hosted AI model API platform for image and video generation models; this is its X account.
  Mentioned in: Cheap API access to Seedance 2.0 via WaveSpeedAI? (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT Image 2 now available on WaveSpeedAI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• WebGPU · tool · github.com · free
  A browser API for GPU compute that lets machine-learning models run fast on the user's device.
  Mentioned in: Running Qwen3.6-27B Fully in the Browser With WebGPU and wllama (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Real-Time Speech Transcription in the Browser with Voxtral and WebGPU (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Windsurf · tool · windsurf.com · check price
  AI-powered coding IDE, now owned by Cognition after its founders left for Google.
  Mentioned in: Windsurf Split: Google Antigravity, Cognition's Devin & AI Coding Tools (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-5.4 Now Available in Windsurf (Plus Arena Mode) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• X Premium+ · tool · help.x.com · paid · open in a browser to verify
  X's top paid subscription tier. It includes verification (the blue checkmark), creator monetization and Grok access.
  Mentioned in: How to Grow an X (Twitter) Account: 9 Practical Tips from Melvin Vivas (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok access: X Premium+ isn't enough, you need SuperGrok (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• A2UI · tool · developers.googleblog.com · free
  Standard and SDK that let AI agents send generative UI to React, Flutter and Angular frontends.
  Mentioned in: A2UI v0.9: A Portable Standard for Agent-Generated UI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Abliteration.ai · tool · x.com · check price
  Service that hosts abliterated (refusal-removed) language models.
  Mentioned in: Abliteration.ai: Hosted Abliterated (Uncensored) Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AgentPlug · tool · x.com · paid
  USB-C dummy plug that keeps a Mac in clamshell mode so local agents keep running.
  Mentioned in: Keep Agents Running: Cloud Agents vs a Laptop Dummy Plug (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Agents Last Exam · tool · agents-last-exam.org · free
  A hard benchmark for AI agents.
  Mentioned in: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Agentic Benchmarks and Use with Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Agorapulse · tool · agorapulse.com · paid
  Social media management platform aimed at small businesses and agencies.
  Mentioned in: How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AI SDK (Vercel) · tool · ai-sdk.dev · free
  Vercel's TypeScript toolkit for calling LLM providers and building AI apps.
  Mentioned in: Swapping AI SDK for pi-ai as the LLM provider layer (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AIBackends (PyPI 0.4.0) · tool · pypi.org · free
  The creator's Python package for running local AI model backends.
  Mentioned in: AIBackends 0.4.0: Liquid AI LFM2.5 Models on llama.cpp and Transformers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• aibackends (Python package) · tool · pypi.org · free
  A Python package installed with pip and shown in the post's caption; it seems to be connected to the demo.
  Mentioned in: Building Interactive AI Concept Demos with Claude Design (Embeddings Example) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• aibackends 0.6.0 on PyPI · tool · pypi.org · free
  The PyPI release of the AIBackends Python package, version 0.6.0.
  Mentioned in: AIBackends v0.6.0: Run GLiNER2.5 Extraction on CPU (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• aibackends 0.7.0 (PyPI) · tool · pypi.org · free
  PyPI page for the AIBackends Python package, version 0.7.0, which adds prompt routing.
  Mentioned in: AIBackends v0.7.0: Prompt Routing with Liquid AI's LFM2.5 Encoder (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• alphaXiv (@askalphaxiv) on X · tool · x.com · free
  alphaXiv, a platform for discussing and exploring arXiv papers, which offers a connector for Claude.
  Mentioned in: Add the alphaXiv Connector to Claude for Research Papers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• alphaXiv Briefs · tool · free
  Short AI-generated summaries of research papers covering key ideas, figures and audio explanations.
  Mentioned in: Paperscrolling: Browse Trending AI Research Papers Like a Social Feed (alphaXiv) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• alphaXiv Paperscrolling · tool · free
  A scrollable feed of trending research papers, each with key ideas, figures and an audio explanation.
  Mentioned in: Paperscrolling: Browse Trending AI Research Papers Like a Social Feed (alphaXiv) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Amazon Bedrock managed agents (powered by OpenAI) · tool · aws.amazon.com · paid
  Managed agents on AWS Bedrock powered by OpenAI models, for building OpenAI agents on AWS.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Amazon SageMaker · tool · aws.amazon.com · paid
  AWS's managed platform for training and deploying ML models.
  Mentioned in: Looking for a Low-Cost Replacement for Hugging Face AutoTrain (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Amp · tool · ampcode.com · paid
  A CLI coding agent with model routing and prebuilt sub-agents.
  Mentioned in: Amp: Features of a CLI Coding Agent (as Posted by Warp) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Anthropic · tool · anthropic.com · check price
  An AI model provider (Claude models) whose models are available through managed connectors.
  Mentioned in: Building a Nano Banana 2 Image-Gen App with Memex Managed AI Connectors (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Anthropic API · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Anthropic's API for calling Claude models from your own applications.
  Mentioned in: The 3 Levels of AI Engineering: LLM Apps → Production → Agentic Systems (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Antigravity 2.0 · tool · antigravity.google · free
  Google's agentic coding environment, which now includes a dedicated planning mode.
  Mentioned in: Antigravity 2.0 Adds a /plan Mode for Agent Planning (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Antigravity SDK · tool · antigravity.google · free
  Google's SDK for building agent workflows, now able to run Gemma 4 locally.
  Mentioned in: Gemma 4 Runs Locally On-Device in the Antigravity SDK (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Apollo · tool · apollo.io · free
  A people database for searching by title at a company (e.g. engineering manager) and pulling verified emails. The guide calls it best for volume; it has a free tier with monthly limits.
  In a shared PDF: The Interview Engine: The 7-Step System to Land AI Engineering Interviews - shared in this reel on Facebook
• Apptronik Apollo 2 · tool · apptronik.com · paid
  Apptronik's humanoid robot, used to demo Gemini Robotics 2 whole-body control.
  Mentioned in: Gemini Robotics 2: Whole-Body Humanoid Control from One Prompt (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Argent · tool · github.com · free
  A tool that lets a model control an iOS simulator for on-device automation.
  Mentioned in: Gemma 4 E4B Driving an iOS Simulator With Argent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Arize Phoenix · tool · github.com · free
  Listed under platforms that combine tracing and evaluation.
  In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Astra medium · tool · developers.openai.com · paid
  A setting the creator says he used to make the video. The post doesn't say what it is.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory: Build-Review-Deploy-Observe Loop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Automation Bench · tool · github.com · free
  A benchmark for automation and workflow tasks done by agents.
  Mentioned in: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Agentic Benchmarks and Use with Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AWS · tool · aws.amazon.com · free
  Amazon Web Services cloud platform for deploying and scaling applications, with a free tier.
  Mentioned in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) · tool · aws.amazon.com · paid
  AWS's managed load balancer for HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
  Mentioned in: Using Codex as a Sysadmin to Find a Cloudflare DNS Issue (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Baseten Deploy (model library) · tool · app.baseten.co · paid
  Baseten's list of models you can deploy.
  Mentioned in: One-Click Deploy Link for Qwen3.8 27B on Baseten (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Baseten Deploy: Qwen3.8 27B · tool · app.baseten.co · paid
  Baseten page for deploying Qwen3.8 27B as your own dedicated endpoint.
  Mentioned in: One-Click Deploy Link for Qwen3.8 27B on Baseten (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Bionic (LM Studio) · tool · lmstudio.ai · free
  LM Studio's new chat-and-code interface with a Skills importer from other agents.
  Mentioned in: LM Studio's Bionic: importing skills from Codex and Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Blaxel · tool · x.com · check price
  Sandbox provider that works with the Agents API's BYOS option.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Bolt Forge · tool · bolt.new · free
  A bolt.new offering that brings open models (GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi) into the app builder with higher usage limits.
  Mentioned in: Bolt.new Adds Open Models (GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi) via Bolt Forge (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Bonsai 8B (PrismML) · tool · prismml.com · free
  1-bit quantized dense 8B language model built for on-device inference.
  Mentioned in: 1-bit Bonsai 8B Runs On-Device on iPhone at 40+ tok/s (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Bonsai Image 4B (1-bit) · tool · prismml.com · free
  1-bit quantized 4B diffusion transformer image model that is only 0.93GB.
  Mentioned in: 1-bit Bonsai Image 4B: A Diffusion Model Under 1GB (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Bonsai Image WebGPU (Hugging Face Space by webml-community) · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Browser demo that runs the Bonsai image generation model locally with WebGPU.
  Mentioned in: Bonsai Image Model Running In-Browser with WebGPU (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• BotFather · tool · t.me · free
  Telegram's official bot for creating and configuring Telegram bots.
  Mentioned in: Enable Telegram Threads for Your Hermes Agent Bot (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Braintrust · tool · braintrust.dev · free
  Listed under platforms that combine tracing and evaluation.
  In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Buffer · tool · buffer.com · check price
  Established social media scheduling platform that has since released a public API.
  Mentioned in: How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Bun · tool · bun.sh · free
  A fast JavaScript runtime and toolkit, cited here as a large codebase rewritten in Rust.
  Mentioned in: Dynamic workflows: Claude Code running hundreds of parallel subagents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Buzz · tool · github.com · free
  An agent-first chat app that works like Slack, where you can run several AI agents and bots in one workspace.
  Mentioned in: Connecting Hermes Agent to the Buzz Agent-First Chat App via the Native Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Buzz CLI · tool · github.com · free
  Buzz command-line binary that Hermes needs access to; on Windows it must be added to PATH.
  Mentioned in: Connecting Hermes Agent to the Buzz Agent-First Chat App via the Native Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• BytePlus · tool · byteplus.com · check price
  ByteDance's cloud platform, which hosts the generated image URLs that Seedance consumes.
  Mentioned in: Consistent Characters in Seedance 2.0 Using Seedream 5 Reference Images (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Canva · tool · canva.com · check price
  An online graphic design tool.
  Mentioned in: Use Codex for Quick Everyday Tasks Like Resizing Images (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT Atlas · tool · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's AI-powered web browser.
  Mentioned in: AI in the Browser: Chrome Extensions Beat New AI Browsers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT desktop app · tool · learn.chatgpt.com · free
  OpenAI's desktop ChatGPT client, now in preview for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora Linux.
  Mentioned in: ChatGPT Desktop App (with Codex) Now in Preview for Linux (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT GitHub plugin (connector) · tool · paid
  ChatGPT integration that lets the chat read a GitHub repository.
  Mentioned in: Save Codex limits: plan in ChatGPT with the GitHub plugin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT Plus · tool · openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's paid ChatGPT subscription, which includes Codex usage with a 5-hour limit window.
  Mentioned in: Codex /goal usage limits on ChatGPT Plus (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT Pro · tool · help.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's $200/month subscription plan.
  Mentioned in: GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex Is Efficient Enough to Downgrade Plans (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT sites · tool · help.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's hosting feature that publishes web apps to *.chatgpt.site subdomains.
  Mentioned in: Building and Deploying a Flappy Bird Clone with GPT-6 Astra in Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT Space · tool · chatgpt.com · paid
  A shared ChatGPT workspace for people and their agents.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT Voice (desktop app) · tool · x.com · paid
  Voice mode in the ChatGPT desktop app that lets you control your computer and direct agents by speaking.
  Mentioned in: ChatGPT Voice on Desktop: Directing Codex and Agents by Voice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT Work (iOS) · tool · openai.com · paid
  ChatGPT mode on iOS that can make changes to connected GitHub repos.
  Mentioned in: Editing a GitHub Repo From ChatGPT Work on iOS (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Chroma · tool · trychroma.com · free
  The easiest open-source vector database to start with.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Chrome DevTools · tool · developer.chrome.com · free
  Chrome's built-in developer tools, offered as an Antigravity plugin that the agent can use.
  Mentioned in: Google Antigravity 2.0: Multi-Agent Desktop App Walkthrough (Subagents, Scheduled Tasks) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Agent SDK · tool · code.claude.com · check price
  Anthropic's SDK for building agents on top of Claude Code's agent setup.
  Mentioned in: Claude Plans Get Monthly Credit for Agent SDK and claude -p (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Chrome extension · tool · support.claude.com · paid
  Anthropic's browser extension that lets Claude read and act on web pages.
  Mentioned in: AI in the Browser: Chrome Extensions Beat New AI Browsers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Code (claude -p) · tool · code.claude.com · paid
  Anthropic's coding agent CLI; claude -p runs it headless (non-interactive).
  Mentioned in: Claude Plans Get Monthly Credit for Agent SDK and claude -p (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Code `claude plugin eval` · tool · code.claude.com · free
  A Claude Code command that runs plugins and skills against test cases, with and without the plugin, and scores the runs.
  Mentioned in: Evaluating Claude Code Plugins with `claude plugin eval` (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Code cloud sessions · tool · code.claude.com · paid
  A Claude Code feature that runs coding-agent sessions in the cloud so they continue while your laptop is closed.
  Mentioned in: Claude Code cloud sessions out of preview, with free credits (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Code frontend skill · tool · github.com · free
  A Claude Code skill that guides frontend and UI generation.
  Mentioned in: Run Qwen3.5-27B GGUF with llama-server for Claude Code on an RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Code GitHub Actions · tool · code.claude.com · check price
  Runs Claude Code inside GitHub Actions workflows.
  Mentioned in: Claude Plans Get Monthly Credit for Agent SDK and claude -p (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Cowork (Dispatch) · tool · x.com · paid
  Anthropic's Claude Cowork agent product; its Dispatch feature keeps one persistent Claude conversation running on your computer that you can message from your phone.
  Mentioned in: Claude Cowork Dispatch: Message a Desktop Claude Agent From Your Phone (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5 · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Anthropic Claude models that were redeployed, per the creator.
  Mentioned in: AI News Roundup: Claude Fable 5, Scientist AI, ZCode, NVIDIA RL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Managed Agents · tool · claude.com · paid
  Anthropic's managed offering that pairs a performance-tuned agent harness with production infrastructure for building and deploying agents.
  Mentioned in: Claude Managed Agents: Anthropic's Hosted Harness for Building and Deploying Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Mythos · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Anthropic's new frontier model, currently previewed only with cyber defenders.
  Mentioned in: Claude Mythos Model Card: Anthropic's Limited Preview for Cyber Defenders (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Opus · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Anthropic's frontier model, used by FireRouter for the harder tasks.
  Mentioned in: FireRouter: cost-aware model routing between open models and Claude Opus (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Opus 5 (Claude desktop) · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Anthropic's model, used here through the Claude desktop app.
  Mentioned in: Building a Three.js Scene with Claude Opus 5 in Claude Desktop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Platform · tool · platform.claude.com · paid
  Anthropic's developer platform for building with Claude models, where Managed Agents is available in public beta.
  Mentioned in: Claude Managed Agents: Anthropic's Hosted Harness for Building and Deploying Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Pro plan · tool · support.claude.com · paid
  Anthropic's paid Claude subscription, which has session usage limits.
  Mentioned in: Claude Fable 5 CRM Smoke Test: Quality vs. Pro Plan Usage Limits (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Sonnet · tool · anthropic.com · check price
  Anthropic's mid-tier Claude model, widely used for AI-assisted coding.
  Mentioned in: Building a 3D Flight Scene with Sonnet in Cursor, three.js and 3D Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Sonnet 5 · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Anthropic model priced at $2/M input and $10/M output tokens.
  Mentioned in: Claude Sonnet 5 Pricing Made Permanent ($2/$10 per M Tokens) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Clay · tool · clay.com · free
  GTM data enrichment tool that Grok Bot can connect to.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Connects to Sales Tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cloudflare cf CLI · tool · blog.cloudflare.com · free
  Cloudflare's agentic command-line tool for the entire Cloudflare API, with a natural-language command search.
  Mentioned in: Cloudflare's 'cf': an agentic CLI for the whole Cloudflare API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Clueso · tool · clueso.io · check price
  An AI tool whose agents record product screen walkthroughs on their own and then edit them with zooms, spotlights, captions, voiceovers and animations.
  Mentioned in: Clueso Agents: AI That Records and Edits Product Demo Videos for You (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• cmux · tool · cmux.com · free
  Terminal tool for managing coding agents, which the speaker used before Herdr.
  Mentioned in: Herdr Crash Course: A Terminal Multiplexer for Running Many Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• CocoIndex · tool · cocoindex.io · free
  Open-source framework for building incremental data transformation and indexing pipelines for AI and agents.
  Mentioned in: CocoIndex v1: Incremental Data Pipelines for AI and Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• CodeRabbit · tool · coderabbit.ai · check price
  An AI code review tool.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex /feedback command · tool · developers.openai.com · free
  A Codex command that sends the current thread and your feedback to the Codex team.
  Mentioned in: Use /feedback in Codex to Report GPT-6 Astra Issues (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex app server · tool · developers.openai.com · free
  Part of OpenAI Codex that lets you build your own UI or client on top of the Codex agent.
  Mentioned in: RepoPrompt 2.0 Agent: Context Builder + Oracle for Code Review and Planning (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Goal mode · tool · developers.openai.com · paid
  A Codex mode for long-running tasks aimed at a goal, which the creator runs on cloud VMs.
  Mentioned in: Run Codex in the Cloud: Spin Up DigitalOcean Droplets with the Codex Plugin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex ImageGen skill · tool · github.com · free
  Codex skill for image generation work.
  Mentioned in: Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Python SDK · tool · github.com · free
  OpenAI's Python SDK for running Codex agent threads, turns and sessions from your own code.
  Mentioned in: Codex Python SDK: embed Codex in your Python apps (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Vercel skill · tool · github.com · free
  Codex skill for deploying apps to Vercel.
  Mentioned in: Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Codex Web (cloud tasks) · tool · chatgpt.com · check price
  Web interface for running Codex cloud tasks and previewing their results.
  Mentioned in: Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cohere Parse (Hugging Face Space) · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Cohere's document-parsing model, with a demo you can try on Hugging Face Spaces.
  Mentioned in: Cohere Parse Beats Frontier LLMs at Receipt Parsing (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cohere Transcribe · tool · cohere.com · free
  Cohere's open-source speech recognition (speech-to-text) model, which Cohere bills as state of the art.
  Mentioned in: Cohere Transcribe: Cohere's New Open-Source Speech-to-Text Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cohere Transcribe WebGPU (Hugging Face Space) · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Browser demo by CohereLabs that runs the transcription model locally using WebGPU.
  Mentioned in: Local Audio Transcription with Cohere Transcribe on WebGPU (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Model card on Hugging Face for Cohere's audio transcription (speech-to-text) model.
  Mentioned in: Local Audio Transcription with Cohere Transcribe on WebGPU (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Colab plugin for Cursor · tool · github.com · free
  Editor extension that connects local notebooks to Google Colab runtimes.
  Mentioned in: Edit Notebooks Locally in Cursor, Run on Colab GPUs via the Colab Plugin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Comet (Perplexity) · tool · perplexity.ai · free
  Perplexity's AI-powered web browser.
  Mentioned in: AI in the Browser: Chrome Extensions Beat New AI Browsers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Comfy Cloud MCP · tool · github.com · paid
  The cloud-hosted Comfy MCP server that shipped in June, before the local open-source version.
  Mentioned in: Comfy MCP Goes Local and Open-Source: Agents That See Your Install (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Comfy Desktop · tool · docs.comfy.org · free
  Rebuilt desktop app for running and managing ComfyUI, including multiple instances, on your own computer.
  Mentioned in: Comfy Desktop Relaunch: One App for Multiple ComfyUI Instances (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Comfy Router · tool · comfy.org · paid
  ComfyUI's single API that routes requests to frontier image, video, 3D and audio models from different providers.
  Mentioned in: Comfy Router: One API for Image, Video, 3D and Audio Model Providers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Context7 MCP · tool · github.com · free
  MCP server that supplies up-to-date library documentation to AI coding assistants.
  Mentioned in: Do you still need Context7 MCP if the model browses docs itself? (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cue (by Manus) · tool · manus.im · free
  A new AI assistant/bot from Manus, presented as a competitor to the Grok bot on X.
  Mentioned in: Cue by Manus: A New Rival to the Grok Bot on X (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor /orchestrate skill · tool · cursor.com · check price
  A Cursor skill that keeps spawning agents to work on large, ambitious tasks.
  Mentioned in: Cursor's /orchestrate Skill: Agents That Spawn Agents via the Cursor SDK (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor App - App Store · tool · apps.apple.com · check price
  Cursor's iOS app for starting cloud coding agents and controlling local agents remotely.
  Mentioned in: Cursor for iOS: Run and Control Coding Agents from Your Phone (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor Bugbot · tool · cursor.com · paid
  Cursor's AI code-review bot that reviews pull requests and flags likely bugs.
  Mentioned in: Using Cursor Bugbot for automated code review on solo projects (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor Cloud · tool · cursor.com · free
  Cursor's cloud agents that code in remote sandboxes, available on web and iPhone.
  Mentioned in: Workflow: Running Coding Agents in Cursor Cloud Sandboxes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor iOS app · tool · cursor.com · check price
  Mobile app for Cursor that lets you review agent changes through video recordings and screenshots, and merge PRs.
  Mentioned in: Reviewing Cursor Agent Work on iOS with Video Recordings and Screenshots (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor mobile app · tool · cursor.com · check price
  Cursor's mobile app for starting and checking coding agents from your phone.
  Mentioned in: Async Dev Workflow: Start Cursor Agents from Your Phone, Finish Locally (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor Origin · tool · cursor.com · paid
  Cursor's code hosting platform, integrated with the Cursor editor.
  Mentioned in: Cursor Launches Origin, a Code Hosting Platform (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor Rollouts · tool · cursor.com · paid
  Cursor feature that writes monitoring plans, checks deployments, and flags or fixes regressions from PR to production.
  Mentioned in: Cursor Rollouts: agent monitoring of deploys from PR to production (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor Router · tool · x.com · paid
  Cursor's intelligent model router, which automatically picks the right model for each task to cut cost while keeping frontier-level quality.
  Mentioned in: Cursor Router: Automatic Model Selection per Task in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cursor TypeScript SDK · tool · cursor.com · check price
  Cursor's official TypeScript SDK for running Cursor agents from code.
  Mentioned in: Unofficial Go Version of the Cursor SDK (cursor-sdk-go) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Darkbloom · tool · darkbloom.dev · paid
  Eigen Labs' inference service that provides the free model capacity on OpenRouter.
  Mentioned in: Free gpt-oss-20b and Gemma 4 26B on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DaVinci Resolve · tool · blackmagicdesign.com · free
  Video editing software from Blackmagic Design with a free version.
  Mentioned in: Theo's YouTube Packaging Masterclass: Thumbnails, Titles and the Algorithm (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Decision Index 0.2.1 · tool · github.com · free
  The official benchmark scorer used to measure decision models across five evaluation areas.
  Mentioned in: GLiDE by Fastino Labs: A Post-Trainable Reasoning Decision Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DeepEval · tool · github.com · free
  Listed under eval frameworks for defining and running evaluations, offline and in CI.
  In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• DeepInfra · tool · deepinfra.com · check price
  An inference provider for open models.
  Mentioned in: Free GLM-5.2 via Hugging Face Inference Providers in coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DeepWiki (Devin) · tool · deepwiki.com · free
  A tool from Cognition (makers of Devin) that turns any GitHub repo into browsable documentation.
  Mentioned in: Instant Docs for Any GitHub Repo with Devin DeepWiki (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DiffusionGemma · tool · ai.google.dev · free
  An experimental open Gemma model that uses diffusion to generate blocks of text in parallel.
  Mentioned in: DiffusionGemma: Google's Experimental Diffusion-Based Text Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DigitalOcean Droplets · tool · digitalocean.com · paid
  DigitalOcean's virtual machines, used here as cloud dev environments for Codex.
  Mentioned in: Run Codex in the Cloud: Spin Up DigitalOcean Droplets with the Codex Plugin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DigitalOcean plugin for Codex · tool · digitalocean.com · paid
  A Codex plugin that creates and manages DigitalOcean Droplets that run the Codex agent as persistent cloud dev environments.
  Mentioned in: Run Codex in the Cloud: Spin Up DigitalOcean Droplets with the Codex Plugin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DigitalOcean Serverless Inference · tool · digitalocean.com · paid
  DigitalOcean's managed serverless API for calling hosted LLMs.
  Mentioned in: DigitalOcean Serverless Inference Now Serves OpenAI GPT-6 Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Docker Cloud Sandboxes · tool · docker.com · paid
  Docker-managed cloud compute that runs AI agents in isolated microVMs, with billing by the second and built-in secrets, policies and MCP gateways.
  Mentioned in: Docker Cloud Sandboxes: Run AI Agents in Local or Cloud microVMs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Docker MCP Gateway · tool · github.com · free
  Docker's gateway for connecting agents to MCP servers; it is built into Cloud Sandboxes.
  Mentioned in: Docker Cloud Sandboxes: Run AI Agents in Local or Cloud microVMs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Docs7 · tool · context7.com · free
  A service that serves clean, agent-readable documentation to AI agents, with WebMCP and skills support and analytics on AI traffic.
  Mentioned in: Docs7: Serving Agent-Readable Documentation to Coding Agents via MCP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• dots3.note · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Open model newly supported in SGLang.
  Mentioned in: SGLang v0.5.19 release: new models and beam search (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Dreamina · tool · dreamina.capcut.com · check price
  An AI image and video creation platform from ByteDance/CapCut that offers Seedance models.
  Mentioned in: Seedance 2.0 Demo: Multi-Clip Video with Automatic Cuts from One Generation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Mini · tool · dreamina.capcut.com · paid
  A lower-cost, faster variant of the Seedance 2.0 AI video generation model on Dreamina.
  Mentioned in: Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Mini: Faster, Cheaper AI Video Generation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DSBench · tool · github.com · free
  A benchmark for data-science agent tasks.
  Mentioned in: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Agentic Benchmarks and Use with Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• E2B · tool · x.com · check price
  Cloud sandbox for running AI-generated code, supported via BYOS.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Effect · tool · effect.website · free
  Open-source TypeScript library for building robust, type-safe applications.
  Mentioned in: Theo's YouTube Packaging Masterclass: Thumbnails, Titles and the Algorithm (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Eleven v4 · tool · elevenlabs.io · check price
  ElevenLabs' new expressive speech model, which the company calls its most emotive. Supports 100 languages and keeps the voice consistent over long text.
  Mentioned in: ElevenLabs Eleven v4 & v4 Turbo: Emotive, Multilingual Text-to-Speech Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Eleven v4 Turbo · tool · elevenlabs.io · check price
  Ultra-low-latency version of Eleven v4 for real-time voice agents and conversational apps.
  Mentioned in: ElevenLabs Eleven v4 & v4 Turbo: Emotive, Multilingual Text-to-Speech Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ElevenCreative · tool · x.com · check price
  AI creative tool (X profile) that now supports flows and templates.
  Mentioned in: ElevenCreative Adds Flows as the Base for Templates (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ElevenLabs Professional Voice Cloning · tool · elevenlabs.io · paid
  ElevenLabs feature for building high-fidelity clones of a specific voice.
  Mentioned in: ElevenLabs Eleven v4 & v4 Turbo: Emotive, Multilingual Text-to-Speech Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ESP32 · tool · espressif.com · paid
  A low-cost microcontroller from Espressif, used here to run a tiny LLM.
  Mentioned in: Running a 28.9M-Parameter LLM on an $8 ESP32 Microcontroller (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Evidently AI · tool · evidentlyai.com · free
  Drift detection and monitoring.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Expo · tool · expo.dev · free
  A framework and platform for building React Native apps.
  Mentioned in: Livestream: Building a React Native ChatGPT App with Cursor and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Express · tool · expressjs.com · free
  A minimal Node.js web framework for building APIs.
  Mentioned in: Local Qwen 3.5 Adds an Express API and SQLite to Make an App Full-Stack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Factory (Factory 2.0) · tool · factory.ai · check price
  An AI software-development platform whose 2.0 release moves from single coding agents to 'software factories'.
  Mentioned in: Factory 2.0: From Coding Agents to Software Factories (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• FAISS · tool · faiss.ai · free
  Fast local similarity search from Meta.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• fal.ai · tool · fal.ai · check price
  A generative media platform that powers Infinite Slop.
  Mentioned in: Infinite Slop: Endless AI-Generated Video Site Switches to Portrait (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Fastino · tool · fastino.ai · free
  Company that made the finance and healthcare Nemotron models with NVIDIA.
  Mentioned in: Open-weight Nemotron models for finance and healthcare (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Fastino-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-Finance · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Open-weight finance model from Fastino, built on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning.
  Mentioned in: Open-weight Nemotron models for finance and healthcare (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Fastino-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-Healthcare · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Open-weight healthcare model from Fastino, built on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning.
  Mentioned in: Open-weight Nemotron models for finance and healthcare (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• FAUCETWO Sound Voltex controller · tool · gamo2.com · paid
  A rhythm-game controller with knobs, which the creator repurposed as a physical input device for Codex.
  Mentioned in: Hardware Controller Mapped to OpenAI Codex (Thinking-Effort Knobs) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Figma · tool · figma.com · free
  A collaborative design tool. In the video an agent uses it to build slide decks from meeting notes.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot: Computer-Use AI Agents as Teammates (Early Beta Demo) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• firecrawl-cli · tool · github.com · free
  Firecrawl's command-line tool. Run it with npx to set up keyless search and scraping for your agents.
  Mentioned in: Firecrawl Keyless: Free Web Search & Scraping for AI Agents, No API Key (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Fireworks AI Dedicated Training API · tool · docs.fireworks.ai · paid
  Fireworks API for LoRA and full-parameter fine-tuning of open models.
  Mentioned in: Fine-Tune Muse Glimmer 30B with LoRA or Full-Parameter on Fireworks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• FlashAttention-2 · tool · github.com · free
  Optimized attention kernel, used here as the baseline for Unsloth's speed and memory claims.
  Mentioned in: Fine-Tune Muse Glimmer 30B for Free with Unsloth (incl. GRPO) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• free-code · tool · free
  A recompiled Claude Code build with telemetry and guardrail prompts removed and experimental features turned on.
  Mentioned in: free-code: Recompiled Claude Code with Guardrails Removed, Works with Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Freepik Spaces · tool · freepik.com · check price · open in a browser to verify
  Freepik's node-based canvas for building AI generation workflows.
  Mentioned in: Runway Now Has Node Workflows Like Freepik Spaces (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Friendli · tool · friendli.ai · paid
  An inference provider on OpenRouter (the transcript says 'Friendly').
  Mentioned in: OpenRouter MCP: Pick, Price, and Test LLMs from Inside Your Coding Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• fx.sh · tool · fx.sh · free
  Coding-agent tool that runs subagents with different models and reasoning efforts.
  Mentioned in: Subagents with mixed models: a strong planner and a fast executor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini 3 · tool · deepmind.google · check price
  Google's flagship model family. The video says its research was reused to build Gemma.
  Mentioned in: Gemma 4: Google's Open Models for On-Device, Offline AI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS · tool · blog.google · check price · open in a browser to verify
  Google's text-to-speech model with Audio Tags for controlling style, delivery and pace.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: Controllable Speech with Audio Tags (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini 3.1 Pro · tool · deepmind.google · check price
  Google's Gemini model that powers Gemini-SQL2.
  Mentioned in: Gemini-SQL2: text-to-SQL with Gemini 3.1 Pro, SOTA on BIRD (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · tool · deepmind.google · check price
  Fast, low-cost Google model for everyday tasks.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite Released for Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini 3.6 Flash · tool · blog.google · check price · open in a browser to verify
  Google model that is more token-efficient than 3.5 Flash at the same cost.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite Released for Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS · tool · blog.google · check price
  Google's text-to-speech model with voice design, voice replication and support for 100 languages.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS: new text-to-speech models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS · tool · ai.google.dev · check price
  A lighter version of Google's Gemini 3.8 TTS model.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS: new text-to-speech models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini 4 Argon · tool · blog.google · paid
  Google's newly announced frontier model in the Gemini 4 family.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 4 Argon Announced (Google AI Ultra Only) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini Embedding 2 · tool · blog.google · check price · open in a browser to verify
  Google's multimodal embedding model, with one vector space for text, image, video, audio and PDF.
  Mentioned in: Gemini Embedding 2: One Vector Space for Five Modalities (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini for desktop · tool · gemini.google · free
  Google's Gemini AI app for Windows and macOS.
  Mentioned in: Gemini Desktop App Now Available for Mac (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini Omni Flash · tool · ai.google.dev · paid
  Google's natively multimodal generative media model with strong cost-performance.
  Mentioned in: Google Releases Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini Robotics 2 · tool · deepmind.google · check price
  Google DeepMind's robotics model that turns natural-language prompts into whole-body control for humanoid robots.
  Mentioned in: Gemini Robotics 2: Whole-Body Humanoid Control from One Prompt (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini Spark · tool · blog.google · paid · open in a browser to verify
  Google's dedicated agent in the Gemini app that runs on its own virtual machine.
  Mentioned in: Gemini Spark: Google's VM-Based Personal Agent in the Gemini App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini-SQL2 · tool · check price
  Google's text-to-SQL feature that turns natural language into SQL queries ready to run.
  Mentioned in: Gemini-SQL2: text-to-SQL with Gemini 3.1 Pro, SOTA on BIRD (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemma 3 1B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A small open Gemma 3 model that is practical to fine-tune.
  Mentioned in: Google Colab CLI and Agent Skills: Cloud GPUs From Your Terminal (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemma 3 270M · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Google's 270M-parameter open model, designed to be fine-tuned for specific tasks.
  Mentioned in: Fine-tuning Gemma 3 270M with Unsloth for Work Tasks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ggml-org/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Quantized GGUF build of the Gemma 4 26B-A4B instruction-tuned model, made for llama.cpp.
  Mentioned in: Run Gemma 4 Locally with llama.cpp in Two Commands (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ggml-org/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A GGUF-quantized build of Qwen3.8 27B for llama.cpp-style local inference.
  Mentioned in: Three Local GGUF Models That Fit on an RTX 3090 (24GB) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ghostty · tool · ghostty.org · free
  Terminal emulator used in the demo to host Herdr.
  Mentioned in: Herdr Crash Course: A Terminal Multiplexer for Running Many Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Git Bash (Git for Windows) · tool · gitforwindows.org · free
  Bash shell for Windows that comes with Git and includes curl and bash.
  Mentioned in: Run Muse Code on Windows Without WSL Using a Skill (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GitHub Copilot CLI · tool · github.com · free
  GitHub Copilot's command-line coding agent.
  Mentioned in: Docker Sandboxes: Disposable Isolated Sandboxes for AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GliGuard Moderation Colab Notebook · tool · colab.research.google.com · free
  A Google Colab notebook showing GliGuard moderation of prompts and responses with AIBackends.
  Mentioned in: Screening LLM Prompts and Responses on CPU with AIBackends + GliGuard (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLM (Zhipu AI / Z.ai) · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A family of open-weight large language models from Zhipu AI (Z.ai), strong at coding and agent tasks.
  Mentioned in: Bolt.new Adds Open Models (GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi) via Bolt Forge (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLM 5.3 / GLM 5.3 Flash · tool · cursor.com · paid
  Open-weight model family; the Max version is the top open-weight scorer on CursorBench 4.0.
  Mentioned in: GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash now in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLM-5.2 on Fireworks AI · tool · fireworks.ai · check price
  Fireworks-hosted inference endpoint for the GLM-5.2 open-weights model.
  Mentioned in: GLM-5.2 on Fireworks: Top Open-Weights Model on GDPval-AA (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GLM-5V-Turbo · tool · docs.z.ai · check price
  A multimodal vision coding model in the GLM family that generates code from images, videos, design drafts and document layouts.
  Mentioned in: GLM-5V-Turbo: A Vision Coding Model for Multimodal Inputs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gmail · tool · mail.google.com · free
  Google's email service, connected here to an AI assistant.
  Mentioned in: Using Grok Bot as a Gmail Auto-Reply and Monitoring Assistant (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Go (programming language) · tool · go.dev · free
  The compiled programming language used to rebuild Pi as a single native binary.
  Mentioned in: PiG: The Pi Coding Agent Rebuilt in Go as a Single Native Binary (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gong · tool · gong.io · paid
  Revenue intelligence platform that Grok Bot can connect to.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Connects to Sales Tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google AI Edge Gallery · tool · github.com · free
  Google's free app for downloading and running open models like Gemma directly on a phone.
  Mentioned in: Run Gemma 4 on Your Phone with Google AI Edge Gallery (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google AI plans · tool · developers.googleblog.com · paid
  Google's paid AI subscription plans, which now include Colab credits.
  Mentioned in: Google AI plans now include Google Colab credits (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions · tool · blog.google · paid · open in a browser to verify
  Google's paid AI subscription plans, which now give higher rate limits in Google AI Studio.
  Mentioned in: Google AI Pro/Ultra Subscriptions Now Work in Google AI Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google AI Ultra · tool · one.google.com · paid
  Google's paid AI subscription plan that gives access to its top Gemini models.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 4 Argon Announced (Google AI Ultra Only) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Antigravity IDE (Agent Manager) · tool · antigravity.google · free
  Google's earlier agent-first IDE, which included the Agent Manager GUI; existing users are moved to 2.0 in their next update.
  Mentioned in: Google Antigravity 2.0: Multi-Agent Desktop App Walkthrough (Subagents, Scheduled Tasks) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google AutoML · tool · docs.cloud.google.com · paid
  Google Cloud's managed automated model training service.
  Mentioned in: Looking for a Low-Cost Replacement for Hugging Face AutoTrain (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Cloud Agent Platform · tool · docs.cloud.google.com · paid
  Google Cloud platform where you can deploy a self-hosted GLM 5.2.
  Mentioned in: GLM 5.2 open model now deployable on Google Cloud (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Colab CLI · tool · github.com · free
  A command-line tool for creating Colab GPU/TPU runtimes and running code on them from your terminal.
  Mentioned in: Google Colab CLI and Agent Skills: Cloud GPUs From Your Terminal (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Drive · tool · google.com · free
  A cloud file storage service, used as a knowledge-base connector.
  Mentioned in: Building a Nano Banana 2 Image-Gen App with Memex Managed AI Connectors (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Live Translate · tool · blog.google · free · open in a browser to verify
  Google's live translation feature that the creator used himself.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: Real-Time Speech Translation via the Gemini Live API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Maps · tool · maps.google.com · free
  Mapping service; the agent used it to show where the hotel options are.
  Mentioned in: Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Translate · tool · translate.google.com · free
  Google's free translation app and service, the main incumbent for consumer travel translation.
  Mentioned in: GPT-Realtime-2 & Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Workspace · tool · workspace.google.com · check price
  Google's productivity suite (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets).
  Mentioned in: Cursor Agents Get Google Workspace Plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Workspace CLI · tool · github.com · free
  A command-line interface for working with Google Workspace services.
  Mentioned in: Google Workspace CLI creator says Google fired him (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT 5.6 Luna light · tool · help.openai.com · paid
  A lighter OpenAI model that the Codex Luna reserve uses for extra usage.
  Mentioned in: Codex Luna reserve: extra usage after your limit runs out (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT Image 2 (gpt-image-2) · tool · community.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's image generation model, available through the API, which now supports transparent and semi-transparent backgrounds.
  Mentioned in: GPT Image 2 Adds Transparent Background Support in the OpenAI API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT-5 Mini · tool · developers.openai.com · paid
  An OpenAI model used as the LLM-based retrieval baseline.
  Mentioned in: Using Jev as a Reranker to Augment RAG Retrieval (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT-5.3 Codex · tool · openai.com · paid
  OpenAI coding model used here with extra-high reasoning.
  Mentioned in: Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• gpt-oss-20b · tool · huggingface.co · free
  OpenAI's 20B-parameter open-weight language model.
  Mentioned in: Free gpt-oss-20b and Gemma 4 26B on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grafana · tool · grafana.com · free
  An open-source dashboarding and monitoring platform for visualizing metrics, logs and traces.
  Mentioned in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Granite 4.2 · tool · research.ibm.com · free
  IBM's open Granite language model.
  Mentioned in: SGLang v0.5.19 release: new models and beam search (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Granola · tool · granola.ai · free
  AI meeting notes app that Grok Bot can connect to.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Connects to Sales Tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Greptile · tool · greptile.com · check price
  AI code-review bot that comments on pull requests.
  Mentioned in: Conductor Walkthrough: Running Parallel Coding Agents in Isolated Git Worktrees (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grok (@grok) on X · tool · x.com · check price
  xAI's Grok assistant; Grok Imagine is its image and video generation tool.
  Mentioned in: Trying the new Projects feature in Grok Imagine (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grok Bot (@bot on X) · tool · x.com · check price
  Grok-powered bot account on X that the creator uses to automate his LinkedIn activity.
  Mentioned in: Using a Grok Bot to Automate LinkedIn and Collect Leads (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grok Bots · tool · x.ai · paid
  Specialized AI assistant bots from xAI/X; the new Primary Bot feature lets one bot coordinate the others.
  Mentioned in: A 'Chief of Staff' Primary Bot to Manage Multiple Grok Bots (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grok CLI · tool · github.com · free
  A coding-agent CLI that uses xAI's Grok models.
  Mentioned in: AI DevBox v1.3.0: a GPU-ready Docker image with coding-agent CLIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Grok Team Bots · tool · x.com · paid
  A Grok feature for creating shared AI teammates with role-specific skills, plugins and credentials that learn from team use.
  Mentioned in: Grok Team Bots: Shared AI Teammates in Slack and Grok (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GroqCloud Console · tool · console.groq.com · free
  Groq's developer console for fast LLM inference APIs.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.8-27B Free on Groq at ~450 Tokens per Second (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GSAP · tool · gsap.com · free
  JavaScript animation library that can drive animations inside HyperFrames videos.
  Mentioned in: HyperFrames: Let Coding Agents Turn HTML into MP4 Videos (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• gstack · tool · github.com · free
  A developer tool the creator recommends; the post does not describe it.
  Mentioned in: Recommendation: Try gstack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Guardrails AI · tool · github.com · free
  Listed under guardrails tools for enforcing quality and safety on every request at runtime.
  In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Halo · tool · github.com · check price
  A new fine-tuning framework that has recipes for MoE models like Liquid AI's LFM2 family.
  Mentioned in: Fine-tuning Liquid AI LFM2/LFM2.5 MoE models with the new Halo framework (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Helix-02 · tool · figure.ai · check price
  Figure's vision-language-action model that controls its humanoid robots.
  Mentioned in: Humanoid Robots Run a Full 8-Hour Shift with Helix-02 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hermes (AI agent) · tool · github.com · free
  The personal AI agent Melvin runs for daily work, set up to switch between model providers.
  Mentioned in: Cost-Saving Model Fallback Chain: Grok → Codex → OpenRouter DeepSeek (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hermes Desktop · tool · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · free
  Nous Research's desktop agent app, which now has a built-in browser the agent can control.
  Mentioned in: Hermes Desktop Adds an Agent-Controllable In-App Browser (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• HeyGen Skills · tool · github.com · free
  Agent skills from HeyGen that let an AI agent create and reuse avatars and generate avatar videos.
  Mentioned in: Making AI Avatar Videos with Claude Code and HeyGen Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Homebrew · tool · brew.sh · free
  Package manager for macOS and Linux.
  Mentioned in: Run Gemma 4 Locally with llama.cpp in Two Commands (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hootsuite · tool · hootsuite.com · paid
  Long-established social media management and scheduling platform.
  Mentioned in: How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hostinger · tool · x.com · paid
  Web hosting provider that offers VMs, which the creator says are marketed for running Hermes.
  Mentioned in: Hosting a Personal AI Agent: Local Mac Mini vs Cloud VM Privacy Trade-off (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Houdini (SideFX) · tool · sidefx.com · paid
  Procedural 3D and VFX software used in studio pipelines.
  Mentioned in: ComfyUI Raises $30M: Open-Source Visual AI Pipelines Move into Production (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• HubSpot · tool · hubspot.com · check price
  CRM and marketing platform that Grok Bot can connect to.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Connects to Sales Tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hugging Face AutoTrain (autotrain-advanced) · tool · github.com · free
  Hugging Face's open-source no-code/low-code tool for training and fine-tuning models.
  Mentioned in: Hugging Face AutoTrain: a no-code fine-tuning tool (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hugging Face Data Studio · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Hugging Face's dataset viewer and explorer, which now has an Agent chat.
  Mentioned in: Hugging Face Data Studio Adds Agent Chat for Exploring Datasets (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hugging Face Inference Providers · tool · huggingface.co · check price
  A unified API for calling open models hosted by many inference providers.
  Mentioned in: Free GLM-5.2 via Hugging Face Inference Providers in coding agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hugging Face Jobs · tool · huggingface.co · paid
  Hugging Face service for running compute jobs on HF infrastructure, and agents can launch them.
  Mentioned in: Using Hugging Face credits: Jobs, Inference Endpoints and Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hugging Face Pro · tool · huggingface.co · paid
  Paid Hugging Face subscription that includes credits for Spaces and inference.
  Mentioned in: Hugging Face Pro Spaces Credits for Image Generation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• HuggingChat · tool · hf.co · free
  Hugging Face's chat interface for talking to AI models, which now includes the ML Intern agent harness.
  Mentioned in: Vibe Machine Learning with Hugging Face's ML Intern in HuggingChat (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hy-MT1.5-1.8B-1.25bit · tool · huggingface.co · free
  An open-source 1.25-bit translation model, 440MB, covering 33 languages for offline use on phones.
  Mentioned in: Hy-MT1.5-1.8B-1.25bit: A 440MB Offline Phone Translation Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hy3 (Tencent Hunyuan) · tool · github.com · free
  Tencent Hunyuan's LLM, built for low-cost agent use with strong coding, tool calling, reasoning and long-context skills.
  Mentioned in: Hy3 (Tencent Hunyuan) Free on Nous Portal for a Limited Week (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Inco Splash · tool · github.com · free
  Open-source LLM inference engine built for Qwen models on Apple silicon, aimed at fast local decoding.
  Mentioned in: Running Qwen3.8-27B Locally on an M5 Max MacBook with Inco Splash (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Infron · tool · infron.ai · free
  A model-hosting platform that is currently offering Qwen3.8-27B for free.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.8-27B Is Free on Infron: 256K-Context Multimodal Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Infron (@InfronAI) on X · tool · x.com · free
  Infron's account on X. The post says it offers free access to Qwen-3.8 27B.
  Mentioned in: Free Qwen-3.8 27B Model via Infron (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• iOS Simulator · tool · help.apple.com · free
  Apple's simulator, included with Xcode, for running and testing iOS apps on a Mac.
  Mentioned in: Devin Gets a Mac VM: AI Agent Builds and Ships iOS Apps (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Irodori-TTS v3 · tool · github.com · free
  Text-to-speech model, used here to make the audio track that drives the video generation.
  Mentioned in: MiniMax H3 Image + Audio-to-Video Lip-Sync Demo (with Irodori-TTS v3) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• JBang · tool · jbang.dev · free
  Tool for running Java programs and scripts directly, without a build setup.
  Mentioned in: CamelFlow: open-source visual viewer for Apache Camel routes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Jina Reader · tool · jina.ai · free
  Jina AI's API that converts URLs and documents to LLM-friendly text; it exposes jina-ocr-v1 via `x-respond-with`.
  Mentioned in: jina-ocr-v1: Turning PDFs, Scans and Tables into Markdown (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• jina-ocr-v1 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Jina AI's visual document parser that turns PDFs, scans, tables, charts and invoices into markdown.
  Mentioned in: jina-ocr-v1: Turning PDFs, Scans and Tables into Markdown (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Jira · tool · atlassian.com · check price
  Atlassian's issue tracker, used as a relatable 'enemy' image in a thumbnail.
  Mentioned in: Theo's YouTube Packaging Masterclass: Thumbnails, Titles and the Algorithm (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• json-render · tool · github.com · free
  A library for rendering UI from JSON specs using your own component catalog; here it was paired with Jev for generative UI.
  Mentioned in: Instant Generative UI with json-render and Jev (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Kaggle Notebooks · tool · kaggle.com · free
  Free weekly GPU hours for experiments, plus public notebooks to learn from.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Kaoto · tool · kaoto.io · free
  Open-source visual low-code designer for Apache Camel integrations.
  Mentioned in: Visualizing an LLM OCR Pipeline with Apache Camel's Topology Command (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Kev-4B · tool · openrouter.ai · paid
  A small (4B) language model, now available to call through OpenRouter.
  Mentioned in: Kev-4B model, an alternative to Jev, now available on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Kimi 2.7 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Moonshot AI's Kimi model release, named as a recent open-model update.
  Mentioned in: Open-weight model updates: Kimi 2.7 and GLM 5.2 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Kimi K2.5 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  An open-source large language model from Moonshot AI.
  Mentioned in: Cursor Composer 2 Is Built on Open-Source Kimi K2.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Kimi K2.7 · tool · cursor.com · paid
  Open-weight LLM from Moonshot AI, now available in Cursor.
  Mentioned in: Open models in Cursor: Kimi K2.7 vs GLM 5.2 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI) · tool · kimi.ai · check price
  A Moonshot AI large language model, used here as the Hermes agent's model.
  Mentioned in: Connecting Hermes Agent to the Buzz Agent-First Chat App via the Native Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Kimi Office Agent (Kimi AI shared example) · tool · kimi.com · check price
  A shared Kimi chat showing the Office Agent building a resume from a prompt.
  Mentioned in: Kimi Office Agent: Build an ATS-Optimized Resume by Chatting (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Kiro · tool · kiro.dev · free
  An AI coding IDE and agent from AWS.
  Mentioned in: Docker Sandboxes: Disposable Isolated Sandboxes for AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Kling AI Motion Control 3.0 · tool · klingai.com · check price
  Kling's AI video generation feature that transfers motion from a reference video onto a character, now with improved facial identity consistency.
  Mentioned in: Kling Motion Control 3.0: Motion Capture with Better Facial ID Consistency (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Kling Video 3.0 Motion Control · tool · fal.ai · paid
  AI video generation model with motion capture and performance synthesis.
  Mentioned in: Kling Video 3.0 Motion Control Is Available on fal (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Krea · tool · krea.ai · check price
  An AI image and video generation platform; the company behind the Krea 2 models.
  Mentioned in: Krea 2 Open Weights: Raw (Undistilled) vs Turbo (Distilled) Image Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Krea 2 · tool · krea.ai · check price
  Krea's image-generation model, named as the newest base for image LoRAs.
  Mentioned in: Evolution of Image LoRAs: Stable Diffusion → Flux → Krea 2 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Krea 2 Raw · tool · huggingface.co · free
  An undistilled open-weights image generation checkpoint from mid-training, meant to be fine-tuned.
  Mentioned in: Krea 2 Open Weights: Raw (Undistilled) vs Turbo (Distilled) Image Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Krea 2 Turbo · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A fast, distilled open-weights version of Krea 2 with a wide range of aesthetic styles.
  Mentioned in: Krea 2 Open Weights: Raw (Undistilled) vs Turbo (Distilled) Image Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LaTeX · tool · latex-project.org · free
  Typesetting system for math notation; the agent added LaTeX equation rendering to Excalidraw.
  Mentioned in: Cursor Cloud Agents: Onboarding, Self-Testing on a Remote Desktop, Video Demos (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Laya Decision models · tool · laya.convaiinnovations.com · free
  A model family pitched as an alternative to Jev that can run locally on low-memory hardware.
  Mentioned in: Run Laya Decision models locally with Unsloth on 4GB RAM (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LFM 2.5 Encoder · tool · liquid.ai · free
  Liquid AI's encoder model, released in July 2026, that can run on CPU.
  Mentioned in: Liquid AI LFM 2.5 Encoder: a CPU-friendly encoder model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LFM2-1.2B-Longevity · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Liquid AI's 1.2B-parameter model specialized for interpreting structured aging data.
  Mentioned in: Liquid AI's LFM2-Longevity models for aging-data analysis (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LFM2-2.6B-Longevity · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Liquid AI's 2.6B-parameter model specialized for interpreting structured aging data.
  Mentioned in: Liquid AI's LFM2-Longevity models for aging-data analysis (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LFM2-24B-A2B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Liquid AI's Mixture-of-Experts model with 24B total and about 2B active parameters.
  Mentioned in: Fine-tuning Liquid AI LFM2/LFM2.5 MoE models with the new Halo framework (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LFM2.5-2.6B GGUF on Hugging Face (Liquid AI) · tool · huggingface.co · free · open in a browser to verify
  Liquid AI's official GGUF files for the LFM2.5-2.6B small model.
  Mentioned in: Running Liquid AI LFM2.5-2.6B Locally with llama-server (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LFM2.5-350M (Liquid AI) · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Tiny 350M-parameter language model from Liquid AI, used as the base model for fine-tuning.
  Mentioned in: Fine-Tune LFM2.5-350M with GRPO in TRL for Structured Outputs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LFM2.5-8B-A1B · tool · liquid.ai · free
  Liquid AI's Mixture-of-Experts model with 8B total and about 1B active parameters.
  Mentioned in: Fine-tuning Liquid AI LFM2/LFM2.5 MoE models with the new Halo framework (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Liquid AI's 1.5B-parameter audio model from the LFM2.5 family, used here for speech-to-text.
  Mentioned in: Local Speech-to-Text with LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B and llama.cpp (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LFM2.5-Encoder-230M · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A small bidirectional encoder model from the LFM2.5 family. It stays fast at long context on CPU and can be used for zero-shot classification and prompt routing.
  Mentioned in: Zero-Shot Prompt Routing by Task Complexity with LFM2.5-Encoder (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ling-3.0-flash / Ling-3.0-tiny · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Ling 3.0 family of open language models in flash and tiny sizes.
  Mentioned in: SGLang v0.5.19 release: new models and beam search (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Link · tool · stripe.com · free
  A payment service (@link) that you connect to Grok Bot so it can pay for purchases.
  Mentioned in: Grok Bot Can Now Make Online Purchases for You (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LinkedIn Download My Data · tool · linkedin.com · free
  LinkedIn's data export page, used to download Connections.csv (name, company, position and connection date for your network) so you can map warm referral paths.
  In a shared PDF: The Interview Engine: The 7-Step System to Land AI Engineering Interviews - shared in this reel on Facebook
• Linux · tool · kernel.org · free
  Open-source operating system used as a desktop by developers who move away from Mac or Windows.
  Mentioned in: Switching to Linux (Omarchy): Getting Through the First Two Weeks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Liquid AI 4-bit QAD checkpoints · tool · liquid.ai · free
  4-bit GGUF model checkpoints from Liquid AI, trained with Quantization-Aware Distillation to recover accuracy lost to quantization.
  Mentioned in: Quantization-Aware Distillation (QAD) for Better 4-bit GGUF Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Liquid Apollo · tool · liquid.ai · free
  Liquid AI's mobile app for running its models on-device.
  Mentioned in: Running Liquid AI Models On-Device with the Apollo iPhone App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Liquid Foundation Models (LFM) · tool · liquid.ai · free
  Liquid AI's family of efficient foundation models that can be fine-tuned.
  Mentioned in: Smoke-Testing LFM Fine-tuning with Codex and Liquid AI's LEAP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• llama-cpp-python · tool · github.com · free
  Python bindings for llama.cpp for running quantized GGUF models locally.
  Mentioned in: Run LFM2.5-2.6B locally with llama-cpp-python in Colab (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LM Link (LM Studio) · tool · lmstudio.ai · check price
  An LM Studio feature for using your local models remotely from another LM Studio instance.
  Mentioned in: LM Studio's LM Link: Use a Local Model on Another Machine (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LM Studio - Google models page · tool · lmstudio.ai · free
  LM Studio's page for discovering, downloading and running Google models such as Gemma 4 12B locally.
  Mentioned in: Run Gemma 4 12B locally with LM Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LongCat-Image-Edit · tool · github.com · free
  Image-editing diffusion model served through SGLang-Diffusion.
  Mentioned in: SGLang v0.5.19 release: new models and beam search (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Lottie · tool · airbnb.io · free
  Format and library for vector animations that can be used inside HyperFrames compositions.
  Mentioned in: HyperFrames: Let Coding Agents Turn HTML into MP4 Videos (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Lovable · tool · x.com · check price
  An AI app builder that creates full-stack apps from natural language.
  Mentioned in: Rumored Anthropic App Builder vs bolt.new, Lovable and v0 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Lovart · tool · lovart.ai · check price
  AI design tool for creating images and visual designs.
  Mentioned in: Turning Flat Maps Into 3D Street-Style Art With Lovart (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LTX 2.3 (Lightricks LTX video model) · tool · github.com · free
  Lightricks' open video generation model that supports image-to-video and can run locally.
  Mentioned in: Local Image-to-Video with LTX 2.3 in ComfyUI and Z-Image (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Lyria 3 · tool · deepmind.google · free
  A music-generation AI model that makes music from text prompts and powers the music playground.
  Mentioned in: Music AI: Lyria 3 Music Playground and Composer Mode (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Make · tool · make.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  Visual automation builder.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• MaxClaw · tool · agent.minimax.io · check price
  A hosted agent inside MiniMax Agent that runs OpenClaw or pre-built experts and connects to messaging apps.
  Mentioned in: Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MCP Inspector · tool · github.com · free
  Official visual tool for testing and debugging MCP servers.
  Mentioned in: Testing free GLM 5.2 in Devin Desktop to create an MCP server (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Memex · tool · memex.tech · check price
  An AI app builder that generates and publishes apps from a prompt, with managed connectors for Gemini, OpenAI and Anthropic models.
  Mentioned in: Building a Nano Banana 2 Image-Gen App with Memex Managed AI Connectors (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Meta AI app · tool · meta.ai · free · open in a browser to verify
  Meta's consumer AI assistant app where Muse Image is available.
  Mentioned in: Meta's Muse Image: An Agentic Image Generation Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Meta Muse Glimmer 30B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A 30B open model from Meta that can be fine-tuned and run locally.
  Mentioned in: Fine-Tune Muse Glimmer 30B for Free with Unsloth (incl. GRPO) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Meta Muse Spark · tool · free
  Meta Superintelligence Labs' first model, which now powers Meta AI.
  Mentioned in: Read Benchmark Numbers, Not Highlights: the Muse Spark Lesson (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Microsoft Excel · tool · microsoft.com · paid
  Spreadsheet app you can use instead of Google Sheets for the job tracker.
  Mentioned in: 6 Steps to Build a Resume Project That Lands an AI Engineering Job (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Microsoft Teams · tool · microsoft.com · check price
  Microsoft's team chat app, mentioned among the related launches.
  Mentioned in: Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MiMo-V2-Flash · tool · github.com · free
  Xiaomi's MiMo model, cited as using multi-teacher on-policy distillation.
  Mentioned in: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation (MOPD) in 2026 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MiniCPM-V 4.6 · tool · github.com · free
  Open-source 1.3B vision-language model from OpenBMB, built for OCR and image understanding on edge devices.
  Mentioned in: MiniCPM-V 4.6 1.3B: Small Open-Source Vision/OCR Model for Edge Devices (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MiniMax Agent · tool · agent.minimax.io · check price
  MiniMax's agent platform, where MaxClaw and the pre-built experts live.
  Mentioned in: Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MiniMax M2.5 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  An open-weight large language model from MiniMax, optimized for lightweight, high-frequency agent workflows.
  Mentioned in: MiniMax M2.5: first open-weight model in Notion Custom Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Mistral OCR 4 · tool · mistral.ai · paid
  Mistral's OCR model that produces structured document output with bounding boxes, block types and confidence scores.
  Mentioned in: Mistral OCR 4 launch, and the missing Qwen VL comparison (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Modal Auto Endpoints · tool · modal.com · paid
  Modal feature for spinning up inference endpoints for models you choose.
  Mentioned in: Self-Hosting GLM 5.2 with Modal Auto Endpoints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Modern Web Guidance (Antigravity skill) · tool · github.com · free
  An installable skill that helps the agent navigate the web and build good web products.
  Mentioned in: Google Antigravity 2.0: Multi-Agent Desktop App Walkthrough (Subagents, Scheduled Tasks) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Moonshot AI · tool · moonshot.ai · check price
  Chinese AI lab that makes the open-weight Kimi models.
  Mentioned in: Open models now dominate token volume on Vercel AI Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• motion-reel skill · tool · check price
  The creator's custom agent skill that makes short motion videos (reels) from a code repository.
  Mentioned in: Generating a Repo Promo Video with a Claude Skill on Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse (Meta) · tool · about.fb.com · free
  Meta's personal AI agent app that carries out tasks for the user in different areas of life.
  Mentioned in: Meta Launches Muse, a Personal AI Agent (and the Manus Connection) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse Code · tool · developer.meta.com · paid
  An AI coding tool that can now be installed on Windows.
  Mentioned in: Run Muse Code on Windows Without WSL Using a Skill (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse Code install script (dev.meta.ai) · tool · dev.meta.ai · paid
  Install script for Meta's Muse Code CLI, used to access Muse Spark models.
  Mentioned in: Installing Meta's Muse Code CLI (Needs a Paid Plan) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse Glimmer 30B GGUF on Hugging Face (Unsloth) · tool · huggingface.co · free · open in a browser to verify
  Unsloth's GGUF quantizations of Muse Glimmer 30B for running locally.
  Mentioned in: Muse Glimmer 30B: Unsloth GGUF Release and Run Guide (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse Image · tool · free
  Meta's agentic image generation model, which reasons, searches and plans before generating.
  Mentioned in: Meta's Muse Image: An Agentic Image Generation Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse Spark · tool · free
  Meta's reasoning model that Muse Image works with to plan generations.
  Mentioned in: Meta's Muse Image: An Agentic Image Generation Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse Spark 1.2 (Meta) · tool · research.meta.ai · check price
  Meta's multimodal model for visual-to-code, perception-to-action and audio-visual understanding tasks.
  Mentioned in: Meta Muse Spark 1.2: Multimodal Model Release Announcement (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse Voice Transcribe · tool · developer.meta.com · paid
  Meta Superintelligence Labs' real-time multilingual speech-to-text model with diarization and endpointing.
  Mentioned in: Muse Voice Transcribe: Meta's real-time speech-to-text model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Music Playground (Composer Mode) · tool · blog.google · free
  An interactive playground where you describe music, hear it generated with Lyria 3, and export the prompt to code.
  Mentioned in: Music AI: Lyria 3 Music Playground and Composer Mode (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Namespace · tool · x.com · check price
  Cloud infrastructure provider whose offering includes on-demand macOS instances.
  Mentioned in: Namespace macOS Instances as Computers for AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) · tool · developers.googleblog.com · free
  Google's instruction-based image generation and editing model, used here as a comparison point for AuK.
  Mentioned in: AuK: Open-Source Model for Generating and Editing Speech (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Nano Banana 2 Lite · tool · blog.google · paid · open in a browser to verify
  Google's fast, low-cost image generation model in the Nano Banana family.
  Mentioned in: Google Releases Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NeMo Guardrails · tool · github.com · free
  Listed under guardrails tools for enforcing quality and safety on every request at runtime.
  In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Nemotron 3 · tool · research.nvidia.com · free
  NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 language model family.
  Mentioned in: Try NVIDIA Nemotron 3 for Free on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NeoHorse-Jev-4B (ModelScope collection) · tool · modelscope.ai · free
  Open-weight 4B model that turns application states into structured decisions and probabilities.
  Mentioned in: NeoHorse-Jev-4B: Open 4B Model for Structured Decisions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• North Micro Vision · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Cohere's smallest open-source vision-language model, built for document understanding.
  Mentioned in: Cohere's North Micro Vision: a small open-source vision model for documents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Notion · tool · notion.so · check price
  A workspace app for notes and docs.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Notion Custom Agents · tool · notion.com · paid
  Notion's feature for building custom AI agents inside Notion workspaces, now with model choice including MiniMax M2.5.
  Mentioned in: MiniMax M2.5: first open-weight model in Notion Custom Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Novita AI (@novita_labs) on X · tool · x.com · check price
  Novita AI's X account; the company is a cloud provider offering GPU instances and model APIs.
  Mentioned in: Novita AI Spot GPU Instances: Cheap GPU Compute (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• npx skills · tool · github.com · free
  Command-line tool for installing agent skills into your skills directory.
  Mentioned in: Herdr Crash Course: A Terminal Multiplexer for Running Many Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NuExtract 3 - a Hugging Face Space by numind · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Free web demo for trying NuExtract3 OCR and structured extraction.
  Mentioned in: NuExtract3: Open 4B VLM for OCR and Structured JSON Extraction (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NuExtract3 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Open-source 4B reasoning VLM for OCR to Markdown and schema-based JSON extraction.
  Mentioned in: NuExtract3: Open 4B VLM for OCR and Structured JSON Extraction (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Nuke (Foundry) · tool · foundry.com · paid
  Professional compositing software used in VFX pipelines.
  Mentioned in: ComfyUI Raises $30M: Open-Source Visual AI Pipelines Move into Production (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA Agent Toolkit · tool · blogs.nvidia.com · free
  NVIDIA's toolkit for building domain-specific enterprise agents with Nemotron models, tools, skills and a secure runtime.
  Mentioned in: NVIDIA Agent Toolkit: open Nemotron models for domain-specific agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA Cosmos · tool · nvidia.com · free
  NVIDIA's open world foundation models for physical AI.
  Mentioned in: Jensen Huang on NVIDIA's Long-Term Commitment to Open Nemotron Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA Dynamo AIPerf · tool · github.com · free
  NVIDIA's benchmarking tool for measuring TTFT, ITL, latency and throughput of LLM endpoints under realistic load.
  Mentioned in: Benchmarking LLM Endpoints with NVIDIA Dynamo AIPerf (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 (NVLink 72) · tool · nvidia.com · paid
  NVIDIA's rack-scale system with 72 GPUs connected by NVLink.
  Mentioned in: Jensen Huang on NVIDIA's Long-Term Commitment to Open Nemotron Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA Isaac GR00T · tool · developer.nvidia.com · free
  NVIDIA's open foundation model family for humanoid robots.
  Mentioned in: Jensen Huang on NVIDIA's Long-Term Commitment to Open Nemotron Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra · tool · developer.nvidia.com · free
  NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra open model.
  Mentioned in: Use NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra Free on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OBS Studio · tool · obsproject.com · free
  Free, open-source streaming and recording software that supports browser sources.
  Mentioned in: Streamer Suite: livestream overlay app built live with Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ollama (@ollama on X) · tool · x.com · free
  A tool for running open LLMs locally on your own machine.
  Mentioned in: Coworker: Free Desktop AI Agent App with Cloud or Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ollama Cloud · tool · ollama.com · free
  Ollama's cloud service for running open models.
  Mentioned in: Alternative Coding Plans for Open Models: OpenCode Go, Ollama Cloud, Nous (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Omarchy · tool · omarchy.org · free
  DHH's opinionated Linux desktop setup, built on Arch Linux with the Hyprland window manager, for developers.
  Mentioned in: Switching to Linux (Omarchy): Getting Through the First Two Weeks (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OneMap Common API search endpoint · tool · onemap.gov.sg · free
  The search endpoint called in the example. The link looked broken when checked.
  Mentioned in: Natural Language to API Calls with LangChain APIChain and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• ONNX · tool · onnx.ai · free
  Open Neural Network Exchange, an open format and runtime ecosystem for portable ML model deployment.
  Mentioned in: Building a Local Model Server with ONNX Support (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Ada embeddings · tool · platform.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI embedding model used by llama_index by default.
  Mentioned in: Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• OpenAI Astra · tool · openai.com · paid
  Upcoming OpenAI model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI Astra: More Capable Cyber Model Than Sol (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Codex Pro ($200 plan) · tool · chatgpt.com · paid
  OpenAI's $200/month Pro subscription that includes Codex coding-agent usage.
  Mentioned in: Codex Pro $200 plan reopens with new usage accounting (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Developer Docs MCP server · tool · developers.openai.com · free
  MCP server that gives agents access to OpenAI's developer documentation.
  Mentioned in: Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Image API · tool · developers.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI's image generation and editing API.
  Mentioned in: Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI private intelligence · tool · openai.com · paid
  An OpenAI offering, in preview, for stronger data controls, with zero data retention (ZDR) and private safety processing.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Ultrafast · tool · openai.com · paid
  High-speed inference mode running at about 300 tokens/s.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenCode Go · tool · opencode.ai · paid
  A subscription plan from OpenCode for coding with open models.
  Mentioned in: Alternative Coding Plans for Open Models: OpenCode Go, Ollama Cloud, Nous (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenRouter Activity Explorer · tool · openrouter.ai · check price
  OpenRouter's real-time usage dashboard with Overview, Trends, Explore and Guardrails tabs for analyzing LLM spend, tokens, caching and security events.
  Mentioned in: Tracking LLM Spend, Tokens & Guardrails with OpenRouter's Activity Explorer (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenRouter MCP · tool · openrouter.ai · free
  An MCP server that gives agents live model benchmarks, pricing, provider speed, test inference, and OpenRouter docs search.
  Mentioned in: OpenRouter MCP: Pick, Price, and Test LLMs from Inside Your Coding Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenRouter Pareto Code · tool · openrouter.ai · free
  Free, experimental router that picks the cheapest coding model meeting your min_coding_score.
  Mentioned in: OpenRouter Pareto Code: cost-optimized coding router (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenRouter Python SDK · tool · openrouter.ai · free
  OpenRouter's Python SDK for calling models from your application code.
  Mentioned in: OpenRouter MCP: Pick, Price, and Test LLMs from Inside Your Coding Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenTelemetry · tool · opentelemetry.io · free
  An open-source observability standard and toolkit for collecting traces, metrics and logs.
  Mentioned in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Opus 5.5 · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Anthropic Claude model, one of the three models asked in the council demo.
  Mentioned in: Pi Agent Council: Ask Multiple LLMs in Parallel and Compare Their Advice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ornith-1.0 · tool · github.com · free
  A family of open-source LLMs for agentic coding, from 9B dense up to 397B MoE.
  Mentioned in: Ornith-1.0: open-source LLM family for agentic coding (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ornith-1.5 · tool · ornith.ai · free
  Open-source LLM family (9B dense, 35B MoE, 397B MoE) trained with self-improving strategies.
  Mentioned in: Ornith-1.5: Open-Source LLM Family (9B Dense to 397B MoE) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A GGUF build of Ornith 1.5, a 35B mixture-of-experts model with about 3B active parameters.
  Mentioned in: Three Local GGUF Models That Fit on an RTX 3090 (24GB) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ox Alpha (OpenRouter) · tool · openrouter.ai · free
  Stealth model that is free to use through OpenRouter's API.
  Mentioned in: Try the Free Stealth Model Ox Alpha on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Pencil (pen.dev) · tool · pen.dev · check price
  AI-powered design tool for UX/UI work.
  Mentioned in: Pencil: An AI Design Tool Aimed at UX Designers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Perplexity · tool · perplexity.ai · free
  AI research tool, also handy for explaining error messages.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Persimmon · tool · persimmon.humansand.ai · check price
  A newly announced large-scale model designed to realistically simulate how people talk and interact.
  Mentioned in: Persimmon: A Model Built to Simulate Human Conversation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Phind · tool · phind.com · free · link looked broken
  Developer-focused AI search.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• pi-ai · tool · github.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  A library from Pi that gives one interface to many LLM providers.
  Mentioned in: Swapping AI SDK for pi-ai as the LLM provider layer (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• PiG: A faithful Go implementation of Pi · tool · pi-in-go.dev · check price
  A Go rebuild of the Pi coding agent that ships as one native binary, with live extensions in several languages and derivative harnesses (Piglets).
  Mentioned in: PiG: The Pi Coding Agent Rebuilt in Go as a Single Native Binary (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Pipette · tool · liquid.ai · free
  An open-source suite for evaluating the capability and speed of on-device models.
  Mentioned in: Pipette: Open-Source Benchmarking for On-Device Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Portable Computer · tool · perplexity.ai · paid
  A desktop agent app that runs the agent harness, agents and models locally on Windows PCs with NVIDIA RTX GPUs, and can also use frontier cloud models.
  Mentioned in: Portable Computer Now Runs AI Agents and Models Locally on NVIDIA RTX PCs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• PostgreSQL · tool · postgresql.org · free
  Open-source relational database.
  Mentioned in: Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Agents (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Postiz · tool · postiz.com · free
  Open-source social media scheduling tool for agents, supporting about 30 channels, with a CLI and an MCP server.
  Mentioned in: How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Prisma · tool · prisma.io · free
  TypeScript ORM with a migration tool.
  Mentioned in: Don't Let Coding Agents Run Database Migrations Unsupervised (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Project Astra (Google DeepMind) · tool · deepmind.google · check price
  Google DeepMind's research prototype of a universal AI assistant that works with live voice and vision.
  Mentioned in: Project Astra Demo: Voice-Commanded Visual Drawing ("Create a Yellow Circle") (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen 27B Opus-distilled model · tool · huggingface.co · free
  An open-weight Qwen model of about 27B parameters, distilled from Claude Opus outputs for coding.
  Mentioned in: Self-Host a Coding Model on QuickPod with llama-swap and Use It in Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen 3.5 Omni · tool · qwen.ai · free
  Alibaba's omni-modal Qwen model that accepts audio and video input and can generate code from spoken, visually grounded instructions.
  Mentioned in: Audio-Visual Vibe Coding with Qwen 3.5 Omni: Spoken Specs to Web App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen 3.6 · tool · qwen.ai · free
  An open-weight LLM family from Alibaba's Qwen team that can run locally.
  Mentioned in: Use local Qwen 3.6 to write JSON prompts for Ideogram 4 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen 3.7 Plus · tool · qwen.ai · check price
  Alibaba's Qwen model family, latest preview release.
  Mentioned in: Qwen 3.7 Plus Preview Ranks #16 in the Vision Arena (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen 4B VL · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Qwen's small 4B vision-language model, used here for OCR.
  Mentioned in: aibackends 0.3.0: Model Caching Speeds Up PII and OCR Inference (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen models (Alibaba) · tool · github.com · free
  Alibaba's family of open models (LLM and multimodal) that can run locally.
  Mentioned in: Running AI Locally: Rebuilding AIBackends as a Python Library with Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen TTS-Next · tool · x.com · paid
  Alibaba's audio model family with upgraded ASR, TTS and Realtime models.
  Mentioned in: Qwen-Audio-3.1: Alibaba's Five-Model Audio Stack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen VL · tool · github.com · free
  Alibaba's Qwen family of vision-language models, which can be used for OCR and document understanding.
  Mentioned in: Mistral OCR 4 launch, and the missing Qwen VL comparison (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen-AgentWorld-397B-A17B · tool · qwen.ai · free
  Qwen's native language world model that simulates agent environments such as MCP, terminal, SWE, web, OS and Android.
  Mentioned in: Qwen-AgentWorld: a single world model simulating 7 agent environments (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro · tool · x.com · check price
  Qwen's text-to-image model, with strong multilingual text rendering and instruction following.
  Mentioned in: Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro Released: Text-to-Image Model Update (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen-Image-3.0 · tool · qwen.ai · check price
  Qwen's third-generation base image generation model, focused on realism.
  Mentioned in: Qwen-Image-3.0 Released: Third-Gen Image Generation Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen2.5 · tool · github.com · free
  Alibaba's family of open-weight LLMs in many sizes, often used as fine-tuning bases.
  Mentioned in: Using Codex to Generate Synthetic Training Pairs for Fine-tuning Qwen2.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen2.5-0.5B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Tiny open-weight Qwen model, named as the base for Kev-0.5B.
  Mentioned in: Kev-0.5B: A Tiny Open-Source Decision Model to Train on a MacBook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3-TTS · tool · github.com · free
  Open text-to-speech model from the Qwen family.
  Mentioned in: Cheap TTS serving: Qwen3-TTS on vLLM-Omni at $3 per 1M characters (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.5 4B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Open-weight base model from Alibaba's Qwen family.
  Mentioned in: NuExtract3: Open 4B VLM for OCR and Structured JSON Extraction (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.5-0.8B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Small Qwen model used as the comparison baseline.
  Mentioned in: MiniCPM-V 4.6 1.3B: Small Open-Source Vision/OCR Model for Edge Devices (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.5-27B-GGUF (Unsloth) · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Unsloth's GGUF quantizations of Qwen3.5-27B, made for llama.cpp.
  Mentioned in: Run Qwen3.5-27B GGUF with llama-server for Claude Code on an RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.5-Plus · tool · alibabacloud.com · paid
  An earlier Qwen Plus model, also available in OpenCode Go.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.6-Plus and Qwen3.5-Plus Coding Models Now Available in OpenCode (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.7-Max · tool · qwen.ai · check price
  Alibaba Qwen's flagship model, built for coding and productivity agents.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.7-Max: Qwen's flagship model for agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.8 27B (FP8) · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Open-weight Qwen language model, 27B parameters, served in FP8 precision.
  Mentioned in: Serving Qwen3.8 27B FP8 on an H100 with Baseten dedicated inference (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  The largest Qwen3.8 model; by its name, about 2.4T total parameters with about 95B active.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.8 Model Family Now on Novita AI: Flash, 27B and 2.4T-A95B (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2-EXL3-5.0bpw · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A DFlash2 draft model for Qwen3.8-27B, used for speculative decoding.
  Mentioned in: Running Qwen3.8-27B EXL3 Locally on an RTX 3090 with 220K+ Context (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.8-Flash · tool · qwen.ai · check price
  A 125B-parameter MoE model with 6B active parameters that accepts text, image and video input.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.8 Model Family Now on Novita AI: Flash, 27B and 2.4T-A95B (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Open 125B MoE model from Qwen that is tuned to run fast on CPU RAM or unified memory.
  Mentioned in: Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE) Locally with Unsloth GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate · tool · qwen.ai · check price
  Qwen's real-time simultaneous interpretation model covering 60 languages with about 2.3s average lag.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate: real-time simultaneous interpretation model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash · tool · qwen.ai · check price
  Qwen's omni-modal model with native audio/video understanding, reasoning and tool use.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: Qwen's agentic omni-modal model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwopus Coder 9B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A 9B-parameter coding-focused language model.
  Mentioned in: Qwopus Coder 9B: Small Coding Model Line Expanding (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Railway · tool · railway.com · free
  Deploy apps and APIs quickly.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Rayline (@RaylineAI) on X · tool · x.com · check price
  A model router that sends each task to the best-suited model.
  Mentioned in: Model routing: Rayline picks the best model per task (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• React · tool · react.dev · free
  JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
  Mentioned in: Problem Solving Over Keywords: The AI Skill That Never Expires (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• React Flow · tool · reactflow.dev · free
  React library for building node-based graph and workflow UIs.
  Mentioned in: One-Shot Agent Management UI with DeepSeek Harness for $0.19 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• React Native · tool · reactnative.dev · free
  Meta's open-source framework for building native iOS and Android apps with JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
  Mentioned in: Gemma 4 Coming to React Native: On-Device LLMs for Mobile Apps (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Red Hat build of Apache Camel · tool · developers.redhat.com · paid · open in a browser to verify
  Red Hat's commercially supported distribution of Apache Camel.
  Mentioned in: Apache Camel as a foundation for enterprise AI workflow recipes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B-NVFP4-FP8 · Hugging Face · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Hugging Face model card for Red Hat AI's NVFP4/FP8 quantized Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B model.
  Mentioned in: Red Hat's Quantized Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B Variant (NVFP4/FP8) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Render · tool · render.com · free
  Simple app and service hosting.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Replit · tool · replit.com · free
  Browser-based coding for learning Python without any setup.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Replit Design · tool · replit.com · check price
  A design product from Replit, announced as "the next era of design, for everyone."
  Mentioned in: Replit Design: Replit's New AI Design Product (Announcement Share) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• RepoPrompt · tool · repoprompt.com · check price
  Context-engineering app for coding agents. It has MCP tools, a context builder, an oracle, and Review/Plan/Refactor/Investigate workflows.
  Mentioned in: RepoPrompt 2.0 Agent: Context Builder + Oracle for Code Review and Planning (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Rox · tool · rox.com · paid
  An AI sales-agent product that retrieves from transcripts, emails, CRM notes, news and documents.
  Mentioned in: Using Jev as a Reranker to Augment RAG Retrieval (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Runpod PyTorch 2.8 + CUDA 12.8 template · tool · runpod.io · check price
  Official Runpod pod template with PyTorch 2.8 and CUDA 12.8.
  Mentioned in: GPU devbox Docker image with coding agents on Runpod (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Runway (@runwayml) on X · tool · x.com · check price
  AI video generation platform that now includes workflows.
  Mentioned in: Runway Now Has Node Workflows Like Freepik Spaces (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• SageAttention · tool · github.com · free
  An optimized attention kernel that speeds up inference.
  Mentioned in: 2.3x Faster Ideogram 4 in ComfyUI with INT8 and SageAttention (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• sbx CLI (Docker Sandboxes CLI) · tool · docs.docker.com · free
  Command-line tool for creating and managing Docker Sandboxes, locally or in the cloud.
  Mentioned in: Docker Cloud Sandboxes: Run AI Agents in Local or Cloud microVMs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Screen Studio · tool · screen.studio · paid
  A macOS screen recorder that adds automatic zooms and polished effects to product demo videos.
  Mentioned in: Clueso Agents: AI That Records and Edits Product Demo Videos for You (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Seedance 2.0 (ByteDance) · tool · seed.bytedance.com · paid
  ByteDance Seed's video-generation model that creates short video clips from text or images.
  Mentioned in: Seedance 2.0 Video Model Now Available in LTX Studio (1080p) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Seedance 2.0 (Fast) · tool · openrouter.ai · paid
  A faster variant of the Seedance 2.0 video generation model that also accepts reference or init images.
  Mentioned in: Consistent Characters in Seedance 2.0 Using Seedream 5 Reference Images (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Seedance 2.0 Fast (Image to Video) API on fal · tool · fal.ai · paid
  fal.ai API endpoint for ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 image-to-video model.
  Mentioned in: Seedance 2.0 Video Model Now Available via the fal API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Seedance 2.5 · tool · seed.bytedance.com · check price
  An AI video generation model that supports up to 50 references and 30-second outputs.
  Mentioned in: Seedance 2.5 Video Model: Up to 50 References and 30-Second Clips (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Seedream 5 (Lite) · tool · seed.bytedance.com · paid
  ByteDance's image generation model, used here to create the character images.
  Mentioned in: Consistent Characters in Seedance 2.0 Using Seedream 5 Reference Images (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Sentence Transformers · tool · sbert.net · free
  Open-source Python library for training and running embedding, sparse, reranker and (from v6) multi-vector models.
  Mentioned in: Sentence Transformers v6: ColBERT-Style Multi-Vector Models Fully Supported (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• SGLang-Diffusion · tool · docs.sglang.io · free
  SGLang's add-on for serving diffusion and image-generation models.
  Mentioned in: SGLang v0.5.19 release: new models and beam search (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• skills CLI (npx skills) · tool · skills.sh · free
  Command-line tool for installing agent skills, used here to add the HyperFrames skill to your agent.
  Mentioned in: HyperFrames: Let Coding Agents Turn HTML into MP4 Videos (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Slack Code · tool · salesforce.com · free
  A Slack feature that creates dedicated code channels where teams and AI coding agents build, review diffs and open PRs together.
  Mentioned in: Slack Code: Multiplayer Coding with AI Agents Inside Slack Channels (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Slack MCP · tool · docs.slack.dev · check price
  An MCP server that connects AI agents to Slack.
  Mentioned in: Sharing Canvases and Design Mode Edits in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Sora 2 Pro · tool · openrouter.ai · paid
  OpenAI's video generation model.
  Mentioned in: OpenRouter Adds Video Generation: One API for Veo, Seedance, Wan and Sora (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Space Bunny Alpha (OpenRouter) · tool · openrouter.ai · check price
  A stealth flash model on OpenRouter with adjustable reasoning, a 1M-token context and multimodal input.
  Mentioned in: Space Bunny Alpha: stealth 1M-context flash model on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Spark-X2.5-4B · tool · github.com · free
  A 4B-parameter open model for local use with a 1M-token context window, multilingual support and tool-use/agent abilities.
  Mentioned in: Spark-X2.5-4B: a small local model with a 1M-token context window (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Spark2.5 · tool · check price
  Model newly supported in SGLang.
  Mentioned in: SGLang v0.5.19 release: new models and beam search (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Stable Diffusion · tool · stability.ai · free
  Open image-generation model family that was the first popular base for image LoRAs.
  Mentioned in: Evolution of Image LoRAs: Stable Diffusion → Flux → Krea 2 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Supabase · tool · supabase.com · free
  Hosted Postgres backend platform.
  Mentioned in: Don't Let Coding Agents Run Database Migrations Unsupervised (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• SuperGrok · tool · grok.com · paid
  xAI's paid Grok subscription, which is needed to use the Grok Bot.
  Mentioned in: Grok access: X Premium+ isn't enough, you need SuperGrok (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• SWE-1.7 · tool · cognition.com · paid
  Cognition's coding model, said to be near frontier quality at low cost and 1000 tok/s.
  Mentioned in: Cognition Releases SWE-1.7: Near-Frontier Coding Model at Low Cost (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Synthetic · tool · synthetic.new · check price
  A subscription service for LLM access that is praised for clearly showing users their usage limits.
  Mentioned in: Synthetic (synthetic.new): A Clear Way to Show LLM Subscription Usage Limits (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Tailwind CSS · tool · tailwindcss.com · free
  Utility-first CSS framework.
  Mentioned in: One-Shotting a Slack Clone with Fable 5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• TanStack · tool · tanstack.com · free
  Open-source TypeScript libraries (Start, Router, Query, etc.) for building full-stack web apps.
  Mentioned in: Tip: Tell your coding agent to use TanStack for web apps (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• TanStack AI · tool · github.com · free
  A TanStack library for building AI chat and agent features into apps, now with subagent support.
  Mentioned in: TanStack AI Adds Subagents for Streaming Multi-Agent UIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• tau-herdr extension (by Ryan Dolphin) · tool · github.com · free
  Tau extension that adds Herdr integration.
  Mentioned in: Herdr Crash Course: A Terminal Multiplexer for Running Many Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Tauri · tool · tauri.app · free
  Framework for building desktop apps, which Conductor itself is built with.
  Mentioned in: Conductor Walkthrough: Running Parallel Coding Agents in Isolated Git Worktrees (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Tavus · tool · tavus.io · check price
  A platform for real-time conversational AI video avatars that people can talk to face to face.
  Mentioned in: Tavus Demo: Lifelike Real-Time Conversational Video AI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Terminal-Bench 2.1 · tool · tbench.ai · free
  A benchmark that measures how well AI agents complete coding and terminal tasks.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.8 27B Quantization Benchmark: 4-Bit Is Enough for Agentic Coding (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ternary Bonsai 2 27B · tool · prismml.com · free
  A ternary-quantized 27B model, 9x smaller than full precision, that keeps 98.2% of benchmark performance.
  Mentioned in: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: 9x smaller model keeping 98.2% of benchmark scores (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Terra · tool · snorkel.ai · free
  An AI model the creator says cheated on Terminal-Bench-2.1.
  Mentioned in: Models Cheating on Terminal-Bench-2.1 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• TestFlight · tool · developer.apple.com · free
  Apple's beta-testing service for installing pre-release iOS app builds.
  Mentioned in: Devin Gets a Mac VM: AI Agent Builds and Ships iOS Apps (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• text-davinci-003 · tool · platform.openai.com · paid
  OpenAI GPT-3 completion model; the default LLM in llama_index at the time (now deprecated).
  Mentioned in: Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• tmux · tool · github.com · free
  Classic open-source terminal multiplexer that also uses a prefix key for shortcuts.
  Mentioned in: Herdr Crash Course: A Terminal Multiplexer for Running Many Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Toolation · tool · github.com · free
  A tool-use benchmark named in the post (name as written).
  Mentioned in: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Agentic Benchmarks and Use with Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Transformers.js · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Hugging Face's JavaScript library for running transformer models directly in the browser or in Node.js.
  Mentioned in: Real-Time Speech Transcription in the Browser with Voxtral and WebGPU (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Trello · tool · trello.com · free
  Kanban-style board tool, useful for tracking progress through a learning roadmap.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• TruLens · tool · trulens.org · free
  Listed under RAG evaluation tools in the guide's evaluation stack.
  In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• TypeScript · tool · typescriptlang.org · free
  Typed superset of JavaScript.
  Mentioned in: One-Shotting a Slack Clone with Fable 5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ultracode · tool · code.claude.com · paid
  Coding-agent tool the developer was using when the database was wiped.
  Mentioned in: Don't Let Coding Agents Run Database Migrations Unsupervised (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Union Alpha on OpenRouter · tool · openrouter.ai · free
  Free multimodal stealth model with 256K context and tool calling, for research, coding and agents.
  Mentioned in: Union Alpha: Free Stealth Model on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Unsloth Desktop · tool · unsloth.ai · free
  Unsloth's desktop app for running local models and serving them through compatible APIs.
  Mentioned in: Run Laya Decision models locally with Unsloth on 4GB RAM (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Unsloth Gemma 4 12B IT GGUF (Hugging Face) · tool · huggingface.co · free · open in a browser to verify
  Quantized Dynamic GGUF weights of Gemma 4 12B instruct for low-RAM local inference.
  Mentioned in: Run Gemma 4 12B on 8GB RAM with Unsloth Dynamic GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Unsloth Qwen3.6-27B GGUF (Hugging Face) · tool · huggingface.co · free · open in a browser to verify
  Quantized GGUF weights of Qwen3.6-27B by Unsloth for running locally.
  Mentioned in: Run Qwen3.6-27B Locally in 18GB RAM with Unsloth GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Unsloth Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF (Hugging Face) · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Quantized GGUF weights of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next published by Unsloth on Hugging Face.
  Mentioned in: Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE) Locally with Unsloth GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Veo 3.1 Fast · tool · x.com · paid
  Google's fast-tier video generation model, with a price cut announced.
  Mentioned in: Veo 3.1 Lite: Google's Cheapest Video Generation Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Veo 3.1 Lite · tool · blog.google · paid · open in a browser to verify
  Google's most cost-efficient video generation model.
  Mentioned in: Veo 3.1 Lite: Google's Cheapest Video Generation Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Visual Lab Expert · tool · check price
  A pre-built MiniMax expert for image generation tasks such as logos.
  Mentioned in: Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• vLLM (@vllm_project) · tool · x.com · free
  An open-source, high-throughput engine for serving LLMs, with tool-call and reasoning parsers.
  Mentioned in: Serve LFM2.5-2.6B with vLLM and connect it to Hermes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• vLLM-Omni · tool · github.com · free
  Version of the vLLM inference engine for serving omni-modal models such as TTS.
  Mentioned in: Cheap TTS serving: Qwen3-TTS on vLLM-Omni at $3 per 1M characters (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Voxtral WebGPU (demo) · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A browser demo that transcribes speech in real time on your own device using Voxtral-Mini-4B on WebGPU.
  Mentioned in: Real-Time Speech Transcription in the Browser with Voxtral and WebGPU (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Voxtral-Mini-4B (Voxtral Realtime) · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Mistral AI's streaming speech-recognition (ASR) model with a custom causal audio encoder, supporting 13 languages.
  Mentioned in: Real-Time Speech Transcription in the Browser with Voxtral and WebGPU (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• VS Code · tool · code.visualstudio.com · free
  Microsoft's code editor.
  Mentioned in: Conductor Walkthrough: Running Parallel Coding Agents in Isolated Git Worktrees (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Wan 2.7 · tool · alibabacloud.com · check price
  Alibaba's video generation model.
  Mentioned in: OpenRouter Adds Video Generation: One API for Veo, Seedance, Wan and Sora (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Warp · tool · warp.dev · check price
  An AI-powered terminal with built-in agents.
  Mentioned in: Amp: Features of a CLI Coding Agent (as Posted by Warp) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Weights & Biases · tool · wandb.ai · free
  Experiment tracking and dashboards.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• Weights & Biases Weave · tool · github.com · free
  Listed under platforms that combine tracing and evaluation.
  In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook
• WhatsApp · tool · whatsapp.com · free · link looked broken
  Messaging app that MaxClaw can connect to.
  Mentioned in: Set Up MaxClaw in MiniMax Agent and Connect It to Telegram (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Workshop AI (Workshop Cloud & Workshop Desktop) · tool · workshop.ai · check price
  An agentic AI system for building websites, AI apps, dashboards and internal tools, running in the cloud or on your desktop with local models.
  Mentioned in: Workshop AI: Building Apps with Cloud and Local Agents (GLM 5, Qwen 3.5) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• X Analytics · tool · x.com · check price
  X's built-in account and post analytics: views, engagement and follower growth.
  Mentioned in: How to Grow an X (Twitter) Account: 9 Practical Tips from Melvin Vivas (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• X MCP · tool · github.com · free
  An MCP integration that lets AI agents work with X.
  Mentioned in: X Launches an MCP Server (X MCP) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• X Pro · tool · pro.x.com · paid
  X's multi-column dashboard (formerly TweetDeck) for following timelines, lists and searches in real time.
  Mentioned in: How to Grow an X (Twitter) Account: 9 Practical Tips from Melvin Vivas (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• X Twitter Stats Analyzer (skillsbento) · tool · skillsbento.com · free
  A free, open-source agent skill for analyzing X/Twitter account stats.
  Mentioned in: X/Twitter stats analyzer agent skill from skillsbento (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Xet (Hugging Face storage backend) · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Hugging Face's chunk-based storage backend for large files on the Hub, which makes deduplication possible.
  Mentioned in: Hugging Face Cache Deduplication with Xet in huggingface_hub v1.32 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• YouTube Studio · tool · studio.youtube.com · free
  YouTube's creator dashboard for uploading and managing videos; it is the target app in the demo workflow.
  Mentioned in: Codex Record & Replay: Turn a Demonstrated Workflow into a Reusable Skill (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Z-Image · tool · github.com · free
  Open text-to-image model that can run on local hardware.
  Mentioned in: Local Image-to-Video with LTX 2.3 in ComfyUI and Z-Image (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Z.ai Coding Plan · tool · docs.z.ai · paid
  Z.ai's subscription plan for accessing GLM models.
  Mentioned in: Models That Work With the Hermes Agent for Personal Productivity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Zapier · tool · zapier.com · free
  Connect apps without code.
  In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook