# Bad Influence story: Teknium asks users to share their Hermes stories

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-08 12:27. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/585b8166-ea8d-4ba0-85a6-b87198072dab

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Latest update (11-08 12:27): Teknium asks readers to share their Hermes stories

Overview: Teknium, on X, asks readers to post their own Hermes story, replying to a post by @EXM7777 that praises Hermes as an AI agent. The post says Hermes has kept evolving since March, sometimes runs more efficiently than Codex or Claude Code for its author, and can run any model or a local one.

The report records only the question and the praise from the original post. It contains no independent details about Hermes's features, performance or usage numbers.

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1. 11-08 12:27 · Teknium · [Teknium asks readers to share their Hermes stories](https://badinfluence.news/items/dl1jcskb03kwswhq7zr5hi512)
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