Teknium asks readers to share their Hermes stories

i've spent over 1,000 hours building with AI agents... and i've tried them ALL from OpenClaw to Grok Bot, ChatGPT Dots and Open Bot... every single time, i end up back on Hermes here's why: - it hasn't stopped evolving since i first tried it in march, it keeps absorbing the best features from its competitors - the team behind it is locked in, new models, connectors and plugins land extremely fast - it's one of the best harnesses you can use, sometimes more efficient than Codex or Claude Code for me - you can run any model, bring your own subscriptions, or run it locally and it picks the best model for your machine - it just works... and when it breaks, one 'hermes doctor' fixes it i get why people are impressed by Grok Bot's UI, but it takes 5 minutes to make the Hermes desktop app look exactly how you want hide the tool calls, the extra menus, everything you don't need, and you end up with a setup that's yours forever the mobile app is in beta right now, i should get access in a few hours, and what i've seen so far is legit once it goes public, a lot of people will realize no other personal AI agent can compete so the time you put into your Hermes setup today pays off hard in the coming months because when Grok Bot runs on a nerfed model, when Muse gets locked to the US, or when your usage limits everywhere else get ridiculous... Hermes will still be standing and delivering, like it has for me for the past 6 months