Goodbye, Hermes

While on vacation a month ago, I needed help with our itinerary. We had a list of things to do and where they were, but for some activities, we didn’t know which passes we needed to buy or what routes to take, so my wife asked me to investigate. I kept hearing about Hermes Agent by Nous Research, “the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.” I saw how people have used it to help them research homes before buying, helping them run their business, and automating repetitive tasks. I decided to give it a try, to see if it could help us during our trip. Setting it up I’ll accept that my path to setting up Hermes was unconventional. We were on vacation and I didn’t have my laptop with me. My options were my phone or my iPad. I researched a few options for hosting and settled on a DigitalOcean droplet, setup thru my phone on…