Hermes can automate a lot, but upkeep can become the real work
After two months of using Hermes, the practical covered many daily and online tasks. Hermes was used to put an agent-related website on GitHub, manage a YouTube channel, create short videos every day, and make one longer video each week. It also handled and email management.
was the main model choice because it was cheaper, while OpenAI was used for illustrations or tasks that could not handle well. A small LLM was installed on a home VM with Hermes for . Some still had problems, and the Kanban setup sometimes stopped without a clear reason.
What started as a fun experiment became less satisfying once there were fewer new ideas for and more messages about things breaking.
Key points
- Hermes was used for website work, YouTube management, daily shorts, and weekly longer videos.
- and email were also placed under Hermes management.
- was used mainly to keep costs down, with OpenAI used for images or harder tasks.
- A small LLM on a home VM was used to handle more locally.
- Unreliable and Kanban stoppages can turn into extra .