Agent

This is actually bit unscheduled, but as I feel the content will not age gracefully, I chose to write what I experienced with my different LLM model experiments recently. In general, I value local compute over cloud compute, and especially if things of private nature are involved. However, sometimes local compute simply does not work. I have dabbled with different models as main model for the Hermes Agent: GPT 5.6 Sol (using ChatGPT Plus subscription) GPT 5.6 Luna (-//-) Qwen 3.6 35B A3B q4 mtp and here is a brief write-up about it. This picture unfortunately spoils the outcome: ...

In the previous episode - Me and my agent, I had just barely installed Hermes agent. Now, two weeks later, more reporting on my agentic experiment. Short version: I still feel that it is worth it and useful. I have added only one more recurring event to it (crawling my LinkedIn feed for notifications about people I am actually directly linked to), but it has pretty much replaced my all other search engines (and AI chats), as I like having history of the conversations, as well as potentially having them be bit more private down the road. The search experience is also superior to anything else commercial. Perplexity used to be nice, but I never got around to paying for it, and the free experience tanked badly this year; Claude/ChatGPT usually don’t reveal their sources consistently which makes them worthless to me as search engines as sometimes the LLM does make mistakes. ...

I have been bemusedly watching OpenClaw madness this year (well, Clawdbot start of January, Moltbot on the 27th of January, and OpenClaw after 30th of January). I have not really seen the point - while I see the temptation of telling computer to ‘do stuff’, my security background has led me not to trust computer with anything actually dangerous (e.g. work/financial/private stuff). Friday: The start seemed harmless enough, and useless.. Hermes Agent was released in March this year, and it seems to some extent bit more productized and sane than OpenClaw, but I am not really sure. So from the outset, I decided not to really go for the crazy ‘give it access to my computer and let Jesus take the wheel’, but instead this weekend I gave in finally to the dark side, and started Friday by installing Hermes Agent in its own container. ...