HeyJaredAI Weekender
I write about lean, production AI systems that run on under $10/month for independent builders
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Stop paying for every LLM: My $0 AI toolkit (opens the original)
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Note: AI Weekender has moved. New posts are published at ai-weekender.com, and this Substack is now an archive.To keep receiving weekly issues, please subscribe at ai-weekender.com instead of here.Last week Claude Code hit me with a usage-limit message, right after I had the repo loaded into context and had finally settled on an approach I wanted to execute. This usually happens near the end of a billing cycle.Instead of upgrading immediately, I’ve built a small overflow
Get Hermes + Telegram on Your $0 Cloud VM (Part 2) (opens the original)
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Note: AI Weekender has moved. New posts are published at ai-weekender.com, and this Substack is now an archive.To keep receiving weekly issues, please subscribe at ai-weekender.com instead of here.Last week, I walked through setting up a $0 cloud VM you can SSH into from your laptop. This is part 2 on installing Hermes on your VM and hooking it up to Telegram.By the end you’ll have $0 Hermes running 24/7 on your VM. You can text it on Telegram and SSH in from your laptop
Set Up a $0 Cloud VM to Run Your Hermes Agent (Part 1) (opens the original)
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Note: AI Weekender has moved. New posts are published at ai-weekender.com, and this Substack is now an archive.To keep receiving weekly issues, please subscribe at ai-weekender.com instead of here.In this post, I showed what a Hermes agent on Telegram looks like in daily use. Over the next two weeks, I’ll be sharing step-by-step guides on how I set this up so you can replicate your own.This p
I Built a $0 Hermes Agent I Text From Telegram (opens the original)
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Note: AI Weekender has moved. New posts are published at ai-weekender.com, and this Substack is now an archive.To keep receiving weekly issues, please subscribe at ai-weekender.com instead of here.I set up Hermes agent on my laptop for $0 a few weeks ago using NVIDIA’s free API tier. I’ve been using it for research, but the moment I shut my laptop, the session ends.I wanted it on my phone around the clock, so I ran Hermes on a small free cloud box and hooked it up to Telegram. It points at my Gi
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