Nate Herk
@nateherk
Founder & CEO @ AI Automation Society
Amazon Bestselling Author in AI
Featured in Forbes & Inc.
1M on YT
nate@smoothmedia.co
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In 2024 I was an analyst at Goldman Sachs trying to become "the AI person." That role never came, so I took it to YouTube.
Two years and 1M subscribers later, @Inc wrote about it. Thanks @tobiamure for telling the story.
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I just gave Claude Code a hideous coffee shop website and told it to make it better 100 times in a row.
I ran it twice, once with Sonnet 5.5 and once with Opus 5.5, both on medium.
Every round was a fresh session with no skills, CLAUDE.md, plugins, or memory.
The prompt was the same every time: look at the site, innovate, make one bold change, use any tool you have, and ship something every round.
What happened:
- Sonnet played it safe and spent 100 rounds making small tweaks to the ordering flow. It finished in under 2 hours for about $22 in API value.
- Opus kept inventing (voice ordering, a chat assistant, a pumpkin you can carve, a Spanish version) until the site hit 21,000 lines and started breaking its own features. It took 8.5 hours and about $137.
- Neither model searched the web once in 200 rounds, even though the tool was right there.
If you want AI to go find inspiration, you have to ask it to.
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🚨 TRENDING: Qwenputer entered It's Automated Trending at #8# with 543 points on Hacker News, a real RISC-V CPU compiled into Qwen 3.5's weights that runs C code inside the model.
Let’s do it!
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نيت هيرك، خبير في أتمتة الذكاء الاصطناعي، ومؤلف، ومؤسس AI Automation Society الذي يضم أكثر من 425 ألف عضو، ينضم إلى النسخة الخامسة من #قمة_المليار_متابع#. 🔥
🎟️ لا تفوّت الفرصة، واحجز تذكرتك الآن!
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My favorite Claude skill lately helps me think like the top 0.01%
/roast-room spins up an AI board of advisors.
Default board
→Jeff Bezos: strategy and decisions
→Paul Graham: product and startups
→Alex Hormozi: offers, pricing, and sales
→Gary Vaynerchuk: marketing and attention
→Dan Martell: people, hiring, and founder time
→Gino Wickman: operations and scaling
→Warren Buffett: money and capital
On call
→Elon Musk: first principles and execution speed
→Naval Ravikant: leverage and wealth
→Codie Sanchez: buying and owning small businesses
→Sara Blakely: consumer product and brand from zero
→Leila Hormozi: leadership and scaling teams
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🚨 HOT: SEO that feels illegal climbed to #2# on It's Automated Trending with 898K views and 8.6K saves on X, a Claude Opus 5.5 workflow for SEO pages that actually rank.
How am I getting more done than ever, but I'm busier than I've ever been?
How am I more productive than ever, but lazier than I've ever been?
AI is wild.
Gave it a try. Good write up sir!
Holy f*ck, Opus 5.5 replaced After Effects
It's f*cking insane…
Drop the PDF below into Opus 5.5 and see what it makes
Then read the full guide on motion design in the article below ↓
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Nice AI generated video
Holy sh*t, I’m running Claude Code on CarPlay right in BMW dealership
Claude Opus 5.5 just reverse-engineered my CarPlay...
1 prompt + 20 min = 4 Claude Code agents shipping code live on my dash. Apple never approved a thing
here’s the full guide step by step:
step 1 → plug an Android CarPlay AI box into your car’s USB (Ottocast, Carlinkit Tbox)
step 2 → paste the prompt below into Claude Code on Opus 5.5 with a photo of your head unit
step 3 → Opus maps how CarPlay draws pixels and finds the loophole: whatever runs on the box, the car displays
step 4 → it spins up 4 Claude Code agents in tmux and streams them to your dash
step 5 → approve the connection on the screen once, the last time you lift a finger
step 6 → tap a pane to jump between agents, approve diffs, ship from the driver’s seat
the result: the laptop does the work, the dash is the control room...
p.s: works on almost any car with wireless CarPlay. Mine in the video is a BMW iDrive. Parked only
Find full prompt below
Then read the article below on how to reverse-engineer anything
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My top 7 AI tools of 2026
1/ I sat down with @mattpocockuk and asked about the most valuable AI skill to learn for 2027.
His answer was communication, because the clarity of your thinking ends up in what you build.
No model can read your mind, so whoever explains what they want best gets the best output.
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I built /roast-room, a Claude skill that stress tests your idea in front of a council of seven.
Each seat is a sub-agent with its own brain, built from that person’s books, frameworks, and stories. Each one owns a single question:
Bezos: Is this the right bet, and how reversible is it?
Paul Graham: Do people actually want this?
Hormozi: Will people pay, and how much?
Gary Vee: Where does the attention come from?
Dan Martell: Who does this, and what does it cost your calendar?
Gino Wickman: Can the business run it without you?
Buffett: What does it do to cash and risk?
They form their opinions, debate each other, and hand me a final verdict.
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It generally does have a bad brand
You are underestimating how much people out there hate AI
I was at a wedding this weekend and the consensus take among people I met was that using AI for anything is morally wrong and generally inexcusable
Guess I’m living in a bubble bc I was shocked…?
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Muse Wonder is disappointing but if you’ve never used Meta AI in an instagram group DM with your friends… please try it.
It’s actually got a sense of humor and it will get in on the jokes.
Been entertaining me and my buddies for a few hours today🤣
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Muse Wonder is disappointing but if you’ve never used Meta AI in an instagram group DM with your friends… please try it.
It’s actually got a sense of humor and it will get in on the jokes.
Been entertaining me and my buddies for a few hours today🤣
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What's something you wish AI agents could do for you that isn't possible? (yet)
Thousands of startups just died
Today, we are announcing ChatGPT.
It is here:
