Hello everyone,

Big week. Two things dropped: a brand new course on building autonomous AI agents, and a fresh tutorial showing Claude Opus 4.8 running an entire coding pipeline hands-free.

One teaches you to own the agent. The other shows an agent that writes, tests, and debugs code — while you watch.

Meet Hermes Agent — an open-source AI agent that remembers you, runs 24/7, and writes its own skills after every task. Deploy in minutes, connect to Telegram, and it gets sharper the more you use it. No hardcoded logic. No "forgot who you are" tab-close amnesia. This is the agent that learns your shop.

The Build: I wired Claude Opus 4.8 into an n8n MCP pipeline that writes code, runs tests, catches its own bugs, and iterates — all without me touching the keyboard. Claude connects directly to the filesystem and terminal through MCP servers, so it doesn't just suggest code. It ships it, tests it, and fixes what breaks. This is what agentic coding looks like when you stop copy-pasting and let the model drive.

Key Skills You'll Gain:

Why It Matters: Claude Opus 4.8 is the best coding model Anthropic has shipped, and when you connect it to real tools through MCP, it stops being a chatbot and starts being a developer. This pipeline pattern — agent → MCP → filesystem → test → fix — is the architecture every serious AI workflow will use by the end of 2026.

🔤 OPENAI

OpenAI introduced a memory feature that allows ChatGPT to remember details from past conversations to provide more personalized and context-aware responses. Users can view, manage, and delete specific memories or turn off memory entirely. The feature is designed to make interactions more efficient by reducing repetition and tailoring assistance over time.

🔤 PBS

Florida's Attorney General filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging they concealed the risks of ChatGPT, including its potential to generate harmful and violent content. The suit claims the company misled users about safety measures and failed to disclose known dangers. It seeks injunctive relief and damages for violations of state consumer protection laws.

🔤 BBC

The Florida lawsuit accuses OpenAI of enabling ChatGPT to provide instructions for mass shootings and bomb-making, including aiding a 14-year-old in planning a school attack. It alleges the chatbot generated detailed, dangerous content that facilitated violent acts. The state argues OpenAI's negligence in safety guardrails made the tool complicit in such threats.

🔤 CYBERNEWS

The article compares n8n, a low-code workflow automation platform for connecting apps and APIs, with Relevance AI, a platform for building and deploying autonomous AI agents. It evaluates their features, ease of use, pricing, and ideal use cases for 2026. The recommendation depends on whether the user needs traditional process automation or an AI workforce to handle complex, multi-step tasks autonomously.

🔤 BUSINESS INSIDER

Hostinger launched Agentic Mail, an AI-powered email service that uses autonomous agents to read, categorize, and respond to emails automatically. It eliminates the manual effort of forwarding or copying email content into other tools by integrating directly with automated workflows. The service aims to streamline business communication and bridge the gap between human email and machine-driven processes.

🔤 MSN

SAP has made a strategic investment in n8n, an open-source workflow automation startup, at a valuation of $5.2 billion. n8n's platform enables users to connect various applications and automate tasks through a visual, low-code interface. The investment underscores SAP's commitment to expanding its AI-driven automation capabilities for enterprise customers.

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If you don't know my background, I'm Derek — a software engineer with a Master's in Computer Science and multiple software patents. Like my n8n course, I don't make surface-level survey courses. I design practical, engineering-first programs where by the end, you have actually shipped something real.

Why It Matters: By the end of this masterclass, you won't just be connecting APIs — you will own a real, production-ready AI agent running 24/7, connected to your phone, and actively doing autonomous work for you. Watch the Claude tutorial above to see what agentic coding looks like in practice — and enroll below to build your own.

Let's build it.
Derek

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