Hermes and I

I've been using Hermes a lot lately. Especially after reading Duarte's post At first it was interesting mostly as a tool. Another AI agent, another interface, another way to ask models to do things. I've tried Openclaw, Nanoclaw and many others. But none of them clicked with me. I couldn't do anything really useful with it. But recently I've realised how useful it can be when I asked it to help me with some maintenance and updates on my Raspberry Pi server, where I run several apps, including Immich. Recently I asked Hermes to help me back up all my photos from Immich to a storage box and then help me update Immich to version 3. That is not a toy task. That is my real data, my real server and something I did not want to mess up. And it worked amazingly, surprisingly, well. With no hiccups, nothing wrong. Of course, I also felt safer because it could stay with me through the whole process. Checking things. Preparing steps. Watching long-running tasks. Helping me think about risk before…