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Not the "AI reads your email" kind. The AI gets its own independent inbox. You know, an actual mailbox. xxx@agent.qq.com. Feels pointless to me. I just gave Hermes a random Gmail and wired it up with an SMTP skill. Same thing for $0. But Tencent is probably going for the sort of person who has never configured SMTP in their life. That's a lot of people. Hard to argue with that.
The old Pi workflow was heavily coupled — tons of hooks and scripts trying to enforce a fixed dev SOP. One wrong step and everything would just collapse.Models have gotten strong enough that I’m comfortable leaning into them now. New flow is fully decoupled. Just a few subagents handling context isolation and model routing, with agents.md + append_system.md steering the main agent’s behavior. Simple tasks? Main agent just does them directly. Complex ones get researcher and explorer subagents called first (serial or parallel) to gather web + local info, then planner subagent builds the detailed execution plan.
Won't refund the subscription either. I'm half convinced the appeal email is itself phishing, because I'm pretty sure they log the IP. DHH came to Shenzhen recently and showed how he uses Claude Code over there. That's the safest way now, honestly: run Claude Code on an overseas machine, connect through Tailscale, never use it locally. So I need to rent an overseas box with a residential IP, and register and log into Claude there.
Until late September it was the usual setup: parked in front of my laptop, terminal open, bossing pi around, fanning out subagents, then eyeballing diffs myself and filing the PR. Glued to the chair all day, every day. Late September I moved the whole thing to my phone, Hermes runs the show, pi takes the orders. My back is very grateful. Three weeks in, still no regrets. Stack: Hermes on flagship brains (gpt-6-astra / opus-5.5), pi on mid-tier (ds-v4.1-flash / sonnet / terra) with as few plugins as possible, the two talking over a2a. Hermes reads the issues, slices them into small tasks, spins up a worktree for each one, and dispatches a pi into it. When a pi finishes it pings Hermes, who decides: ship the PR or bounce it back for rework. I get back from a full day of being a tourist, or just wake up, and a dozen PRs are sitting there done. Pretty sweet. The catch is how black-box the whole thing is. My emotional arc has been a rerun of early vibe coding, except back then I at least read the diffs. Now even that goes to a flagship model. Boxes all the way down. If you don't have data anxiety, grok-bot and chatgpt-dot basically ship this out of the box, grok-cli and codex built in, native agent-to-agent comms. Downside: your code lives on their servers, everything's moderated, and one ban takes it all with it.
