Hermes Agent Is the One That Actually Gets Work Done
I have not written here for a good while. A lot happened in between. A series of events shifted my whole trajectory, and I moved back to Indonesia after almost a decade abroad. I decided to stay and work here, in my home country.
Anyway, back to what this post is about :)
For a long time, generative AI meant one thing to me: open a chat window, type a question, copy the answer, paste it somewhere else, repeat. ChatGPT answered questions well. Claude wrote code blocks nicely. But neither one ever closed the loop. They never ran the terminal command, never edited the file, never scheduled a job, never remembered what I was working on last Tuesday. They answered. I did the rest.
I first tried Hermes Agent after seeing it on X (Twitter). A couple of AI influencers I follow were posting screenshots of terminal sessions where the agent was running full research pipelines and editing code while they did something else. I installed it that evening. Two weeks later, I stopped opening my browser chat tabs entirely.