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Melvin Vivas · AI coder & educator · Singapore

Coding with AI.Teaching AI Agents, Local Models, and AI Workflows.

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Coding agents I build with and teach

  • Codex
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Pi Agent
  • Devin
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No slides, no hype. I teach by building live on YouTube and X: AI agents, local models, and AI workflows, mistakes included. Join live and ask questions in chat, catch the replays on YouTube, and follow on X for the latest AI updates.

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Cloudflare launches Clef open-source decision models on Workers AI

Cloudflare announced (Oct 1) Clef and Clef-flash—the first models trained by the Workers AI team—open-sourced under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and hosted on Workers AI as `@cf/cloudflare/clef` (27B, highest-precision) and `@cf/cloudflare/clef-flash` (9B, hot-path latency), both with 64K-token context. Decision models in the TypeSafe Jev / System One family return calibrated probabilities over typed noul/choice/score questions (up to 64 per request) instead of free-form text; Cloudflare says Clef leads 7 of 10 decision benchmarks vs Jev and open rivals, is ~2.5× faster than Jev at median latency (flash ~13×), and is drop-in Jev-API compatible. Same-day also launches an RL fine-tuning design-partner service to tune Clef on customer workloads. Distinct from TypeSafe Jev, Amazon Strands Decider 2B, and prior Cloudflare Workers AI / AI Search cards.

Source: Cloudflare

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Amazon open-sources Strands Decider 2B local decision model for agents

AWS Strands Labs released (Oct 1) Strands Decider 2B—an ~2B-parameter open-source decision model (Apache 2.0) built from a Qwen3.5-2B torso with the LM head replaced by a ~1M-parameter pointer head (LoRA rank-16) that returns calibrated choices/probabilities in one forward pass for agent routing, tool selection, evals, and guardrails. Weights, training data, and scripts ship on GitHub/Hugging Face for local CPU/GPU/Mac runs (median ~115 ms on RTX 3090; ~153 ms small tasks on M3 MacBook); AWS cites competitive JevBench accuracy/calibration in the 2B class and no hosted API for now. Framed as a self-hostable TypeSafe Jev alternative from Strands Labs. Distinct from TypeSafe Jev, Cloudflare Clef / Clef-flash, and Mapika decider-2b community replicas.

Source: Strands Agents

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Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and MAI-Voice-2.1 models

Microsoft AI launched (Oct 1) MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming—its first streaming speech-to-text model—plus MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash for multilingual TTS. Streaming ASR covers 60 languages with continuous language detection, ranking #1 on Artificial Analysis for final and partial transcript accuracy (~2.5% final WER; first partials in ~100+ ms) at intro pricing $0.54/audio-hour through year-end. Voice-2.1 spans 23 languages / 26 locales with stable cross-language speaker identity ($22/M chars); Flash targets high-volume agents with ~150 ms end-to-end latency for up to 45s audio ($15/M chars), voice cloning with consent guardrails, and a 4,000-listener Turing test where 50.3% rated MAI-Voice ≥ human. Available via Microsoft Foundry, MAI Playground, Vercel AI Gateway, Azure Voice Live, and OpenRouter (voices); LiveKit coming. Distinct from MAI-Transcribe-2 batch ASR (Sept 3) and MAI-Voice-2 / Voice-2-Flash.

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Updated October 1, 2026

What I teach: AI Agents, Local Models & AI Workflows

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Open source · 1.5k+ stars

Codex Astra/Luna Orchestrator

Astra as the orchestrator, Luna for subagents, inside Codex.

Desktop app · v0.5.1

Coworker

Personal and work AI agents for non-technical people. Local and cloud models.

Open source · TypeScript

Local Evals

Eval app that runs locally against local models or any OpenAI-compatible API.

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Agent Monitor

Visualize Codex and Claude Code subagents: traces, token breakdown, and cost.

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AI Dream Photo

GenAI photo generation and face cloning, used by paying customers.

AI engineering for businesses

AIBackends

My AI engineering brand: custom AI workflows, integrations, private AI, and production AI systems.

Installer · Docker

GAIA

Runs multiple private Hermes agents on one machine.

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Skillsbento

Agent skills for Claude Code: analytics, research, finance, growth.

Open source · Go

Cursor Go SDK

Typed SDK for the Cursor Cloud Agents API with streaming and artifacts.

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Melvin Vivas at his desk in front of an AI agent architecture diagram

Melvin Vivas

AI Educator, Creator & Builder · Singapore

I teach AI Agents, Local Models, and AI Workflows to people who want to use AI, not just read about it. Before the channel: senior engineering roles at Standard Chartered Bank and Ohmyhome (Nasdaq), then a run of AI products built and shipped end to end. That's why every video, talk, and post is grounded in what actually ships.

  • Livestreams AI builds on YouTube and X
  • Speaker at NTU Singapore, PSIA, and DICT Philippines
  • 300+ trained through workshops and mentoring
  • Open-source maintainer: Codex orchestrator, Local Evals, Agent Monitor
  • 25 years across banking, fintech, and enterprise
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