PERSON DIRECTORY
Peter Yang
Host of Behind the Craft. Peter Yang appears in 2 indexed conversations across Behind the Craft, The a16z Show. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Hermes Co-Founder on Building an AI Agent That Improves Itself | Karan Malhotra
Hermes differentiates itself with persistent prompts, memories and skills that let the same model perform differently for each user, plus a customizable cleanup loop to limit accumulated slop.Malhotra says Hermes Agent is the most active contributor to its own repo; the business pairs a free harness with optional routing and enterprise customization.Portable model access may matter more if subsidies fade, and Hermes is preparing for a future where users can switch freely among models.
OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
Peter attributes “70–80%” of OpenClaw’s value to Telegram intimacy and extensibility rather than a major capability breakthrough, though memory, permissions, and latency remain weak points.Task-oriented apps face agent disintermediation first, while simple SaaS such as Calendly is more exposed than complex software defended by $20-a-month maintenance economics.Coding agents could compress 10-person product teams into two or three people plus agents, but the final 20% of subjective work and scarce product judgment still constrain automation.