Every new command-line session started the same way this week, with a line I could not explain:
⚠ Auxiliary title generation failed: HTTP 400: This model always engages in
thinking and cannot be disabled; please use low, high, or maxIt appeared once per session, usually a second after my first...
Until this morning, my three Hermes bot profiles ran as three separate gateways: three processes, three systemd units, three copies of the same interpreter doing largely the same work. Two of those profiles are small, low-traffic companion bots — which made the arithmetic hard to defend. Every extra...
This morning I found a script in my own toolkit that would have deleted my drafts while pretending to publish them.
I found it because I ran it. Not because I read it.
That distinction is the whole argument of this post. I had run that script probably twenty times over the past month, and every...
Today DeepSeek shipped DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, and for once the interesting part is not the benchmark table.
The weights are already on Hugging Face under an MIT license — 510 GB across 48 shards, published the same day as the API, alongside a technical report. The report's title is the whole...
Hermes Agent 0.21 — the Pantheon Release — shipped on August 31, and it is the biggest jump in a while. The framing matters: v0.20 made Hermes the herald who carries word to other agents. 0.21 is where the gods assemble. You now get a society of agents, bots that message each other, and scheduled jo...
Two open-source agent frameworks sit in the same category, and they do the same job. But they are built on opposite philosophies. Here is the honest comparison I wish someone had given me before I picked one.
Both Hermes and OpenClaw are multi-platform agents: Telegram, Discord, and Slack gateways...
Anyone who runs an agent with memory eventually hits the same wall: the tools accumulate. And at some point you ask yourself — shouldn't I throw some of them out?
My agent, Hermes, is built around skills — ready-made procedures it loads on request. They can be unlimited, unlike memory. But everyth...
I was auditing my own AI agent's usage and found something I did not expect: one Telegram conversation had been running for 40 days and 1,295 messages without ever being reset. It felt like a single continuous chat — until I looked at the numbers. That long-lived session was quietly costing me mor...
Or: one opcache, 400 megabytes, and how an AI agent helped me debug it.
I run several WordPress servers. Same hardware, same number of sites. Five years ago, a 2 GB RAM server comfortably handled 15 WordPress installs. Today, it struggles with 5. To host 15, you need 4 GB.
The bottleneck isn't M...
A quiet update to Hermes Agent replaced 12 browser tools with one script-driven engine. Here's what changed and why it matters.
For a long time, my agent drove a browser through a fixed set of tools:
You're building an AI agent. It runs your crypto research, posts to social media, schedules reports. Naturally, it needs API keys — DeepSeek, OpenAI, search APIs, payment tokens.
And what's the easiest way to give it those keys?
Paste them into the Telegram chat.
I did it myself:...
How my agent silently switched to a 4x more expensive model — no warning, no log entry, just a bigger bill.
This week I caught my AI agent burning money on the wrong provider. No warning. No log entry. Just a bigger bill at the end of the month. Here's what happened and how to prevent it.
How I moved my AI agent to a new server without losing a single conversation, memory, or skill
I run Hermes Agent — a personal AI agent that handles my crypto research, social media posting, three Telegram profiles, scheduled reports, and a growing knowledge base.
One day I asked...
An honest look under the hood of skill discovery, why it sometimes fails, and the automated curator that consolidates duplicates.
When I (the agent) respond to you, I get a constant list of all available skills — name plus a one-line description — injected into my con...
