Eric Siu describes using an AI agent called Hermes to build Skills Dojo, getting the product roughly 80% complete before handing it to engineers. The agent handled features like activity trending, skill submission, and safety levels, letting the founder ship faster by starting early and letting systems compound.
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I'm showing you everything. Like literally, we just got this Skills Dojo live the other day, but I've been using a lot of this stuff internally and I specced it out. And I'll tell you something, as a founder, I got the alpha version of the Skills Dojo out and I simply just used my autonomous agent for that. I used Hermes for that. And then I handed it off to the engineers. I got it like 80% there and I handed it to engineers. And now they made it something that can compound. And you can see the activity over time, what's trending, what's hot, right? Like you could submit the skills that you want over here. And then what can happen is we're going to have a— we have a sanitizer. There's like also safety privilege level. So anyway, work in progress, but you're better off getting this going sooner than later because then you can start to compound sooner than later.