Livestreams, coaching & AI news, from Singapore
Building AI agents,
local models, and
AI workflows.
I build in public, live on YouTube and X, and teach what works through 1-on-1 coaching, team workshops, and Fractional CAIO advisory.
@melvindvivas on YouTube and X
Live on YouTube and X
I stream the real work: building AI agents, testing local models, and wiring up AI workflows, mistakes included. Join live, ask questions in chat, or catch the replays.
Open to brand collabsBuilding an AI product that fits the channel? Sponsored posts, demo videos, and livestream features.- Building AI agents live, from first prompt to working tool
- Running and evaluating local models on real hardware
- Wiring AI workflows into everyday tools
- Honest takes on the week's AI news and launches
- 25+
- years shipping software
- 1.5k+
- GitHub stars on the Codex orchestrator
- 300+
- people trained in workshops and mentoring
What I build and share
AI Agents
Autonomous agents with memory, tools, and skills that do the work, not just chat about it.
Local Models
Open models running on your own hardware, so proprietary data never leaves your walls.
AI Workflows
LLM pipelines and automations wired into the tools your team already runs every day.
Things I've shipped
All projectsOpen 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.
Open source · TypeScript
Agent Monitor
Visualize Codex and Claude Code subagents: traces, token breakdown, and cost.
Production SaaS
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.
Marketplace
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.
Melvin Vivas
AI Builder, Educator & Fractional CAIO · Singapore
Senior engineering roles at Standard Chartered Bank and Ohmyhome (Nasdaq), then a run of AI products built and shipped end to end. Now I build in public, explain AI in plain language, and coach people and teams on doing it themselves.
- 25 years across banking, fintech, and enterprise
- Speaker at NTU Singapore, PSIA, and DICT Philippines
- 300+ trained through workshops and mentoring
- Livestreams AI builds on YouTube and X
- Open-source maintainer: Codex orchestrator, Local Evals, Agent Monitor
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Ways to work with me
1-on-1 AI Coaching
AI coding, agents, workflows, and local models, tailored to what you are building.
AI Workshops
Hands-on team training, practical from hour one.
Fractional CAIO
Executive AI strategy and advisory on a per-need basis.
Brand Collabs
Sponsored posts, demos, and livestream features for AI products.
Need AI built for your business?
AI engineering and implementation now lives at AIBackends.
Custom AI workflows, integrations, private AI, and production AI systems.
Latest AI news
All AI newsSecurity ·
NVIDIA launches Open Agent Safety Platform to rein in rogue AI agents
NVIDIA announced (Sept 28) NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform—an open software platform and reference system design for full-stack agent governance from testing to deployment—pairing OpenShell (now broadly available open-source secure runtime that traces actions and enforces policy outside the model/harness, initially on NVIDIA Vera CPUs and extendable to Arm/Intel) with Sentry, an out-of-band BlueField-4 DPU watchdog that quarantines agents attempting boundary breakouts in milliseconds. Huang framed safety as full-stack engineering amid recent lab breakouts; Nvidia executives said the stack could have stopped the OpenAI Hugging Face swarm if deployed earlier. Early adopters/partners named include Anthropic (Claude Managed Agents + OpenShell/BlueField), SpaceXAI (Cursor/Grok), Microsoft, Perplexity, Accenture, JPMorganChase, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and 100+ orgs at launch; OpenAI was not listed. Distinct from NemoClaw/OpenShell March preview, Open Secure AI Alliance, and Vera Rubin MLPerf.
Source: NVIDIA
Models ·
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 with faster coding and cyber safeguards
Anthropic released (Sept 28) Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second Claude 5.5-family model after Opus 5.5—priced the same as Sonnet 5 ($2/$10 per MTok in/out) but 30%+ faster and up to 30% cheaper per task via fewer tokens. It scores 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (vs 10.3% Sonnet 5; 66.4% Opus 5.5 at Xhigh), nearly ties Opus 5.5 on GDPval-AA, and is the first Sonnet to beat Pokémon Red from screenshots alone; Haiku 5.5 is due in coming weeks. Because cyber capability jumps toward Opus 5 levels, it is the first Sonnet to ship Opus-style cyber safeguards (high-risk cyber falls back to Sonnet 5) plus distillation/reasoning-extraction classifiers and expanded preserved thinking; biology safeguards match Sonnet 5. Available on Claude Platform (`claude-sonnet-5-5`), AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure with zero data retention. Distinct from Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5, Fable 5.1, and Claude Marketplace.
Source: Anthropic
Enterprise ·
Meta launches Enterprise Platform with Muse stack, hires MongoDB CEO Desai
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg announced (Sept 28) Meta Enterprise Platform as a new major business pillar to bring Meta’s AI stack—Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more—to businesses and developers at scale, with security and privacy framed as built-in from the outset like Muse consumer. Chirantan “CJ” Desai joins as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer reporting to Zuckerberg, leaving MongoDB (where he was CEO/President; MongoDB named Dev Ittycheria interim CEO as shares dropped ~17% on the news); Desai previously led product/engineering at Cloudflare and was President/COO at ServiceNow. Distinct from Muse Mac, Muse Spark, Muse personal-agent consumer launch, Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3, and Muse Code alone.
Source: Meta
Updated September 28, 2026
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