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5 GPT-6 Astra behaviour changes
6 September 2026 · AI tools

GPT-6 Astra has an official migration skill

OpenAI dropped the best practices guide, but they also shipped a Codex skill that reads your repo and applies migration changes automatically.

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First Intermediate Hermes Agent workshop with The AI Capitol
22 August 2026 · Agentic AI tips

Hermes Agent in 5 Hours: our first Intermediate workshop

I ran our first Intermediate Hermes Agent workshop today with The AI Capitol and the community. Five hours and we covered more than just installing an agent. A few participants…

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Benjamin Cheng at Hermes AI Agent Night: The AI Operating System at SGInnovate
19 August 2026 · Agentic AI tips

Hermes AI Agent Night: Obsidian as a local company wiki

I spoke at Hermes AI Agent Night: The AI Operating System at SGInnovate in Singapore, with thanks to Lionel Sim from The AI Capitol for organising and An Ting Lim from…

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Post on the hidden instruction problem in AI agents
15 August 2026 · Agentic AI tips

The hidden instruction problem in AI agents

A Connecticut judge just flagged something I built a guard against by default.

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White spitz dog walking through a desert at dawn, generated locally with MiniMax-H3
14 August 2026 · Local AI

Open-weight AI models are having a moment

Open-weight AI models are having a moment.

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Still frame from my HTML slide human-review workflow demo
12 August 2026 · Build note

How I edit HTML slide decks with a human-review workflow

I build a lot of my slide decks in HTML. The first draft is easy to change with an agent. The slow part was giving lots of small visual edits in chat.

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10 August 2026 · Data privacy

How I redact documents with Hermes Agent

Privacy-first AI means the sensitive part of the work happens locally, before any model sees the data. This is my end-to-end workflow: the original ledger, the secure Telegram…

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Benjamin Cheng at The AI Capitol House of AI event at Mandala Club
8 August 2026 · Privacy-first AI

Hermes Agent for private finance work

At The AI Capitol's House of AI event at Mandala Club in Singapore, I shared how Hermes Agent can support finance work without treating private data as an afterthought.

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Benjamin Cheng speaking at Building the Agentic AI Infrastructure in Singapore
6 August 2026 · Agentic AI infrastructure

Local or cloud inference for your AI agents

At the "Building the Agentic AI Infrastructure" event I shared the one question every team building AI agents eventually has to answer: when do you run inference locally and…

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Cloudflare Wallet reservation for the handle @bencheng
5 August 2026 · Agentic payments

Agentic payments, x402 and AI

You can now reserve your handle on Cloudflare's new Wallet.

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