How I Hermes

In January this year, OpenClaw went viral. You probably heard about it. My guess is some of you even use it - or at least tried to. I certainly did. I remember it clearly. I installed it, and very quickly noticed I was now spending time debugging a cron job created by an AI agent - in what looked like a pretty messy code base. Quickly deleted it after that episode. A couple months later I decided to download Hermes Agent. I must admit, I've been using it pretty much every day since then. I was hooked. Let's talk about it. What the Hermes Agent is, and isn't Nous Research is a research lab that first got popular by building uncensored models. After the OpenClaw boom, they launched their own version of it: Hermes Agent. An always-on agent that runs on your computer and can act as your personal assistant. It's like a ChatGPT that has 24/7 access to your computer, can read/edit files, can browse the web, can write code, etc. You talk to it via the terminal, a web interface, messaging apps…