Folks,

I’m setting up Hermes Agent on my Mac with Ollama hosting a local model. But I’m on the fence on whether I should go with Hermes or OpenClaw. Hermes makes some pretty bold claims about “growing with you” and “self improvement”.

Anyone have any insight into whether it’s as good as promised?

  • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’m a little surprised to hear you say PAYG for Opus sub agents is economical. Maybe the superpowers and ponytail really do have a massive impact on things. I’ll send these to three people I know building heavy production apps right now. And integrate them into my own Hermes setup.

    Thank you for the recommendations!

    • obelisk_complex@piefed.caEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Any time, I hope they’re helpful! (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

      I’m a little surprised to hear you say PAYG for Opus sub agents is economical

      I did say it was surprising! 😂 To give you an idea what I mean by “economical”, it’s never more than a few bucks a day, even on days of heavy use and development with “loop until clean” instructions on QA (for which I use Opus). I accidentally blew through my opencode go quota really early in the first month, so I ended up on PAYG; here’s the usage graph: image

      And here’s the numbers breakdown for the highest day (I was evaluating GLM5.1 for general tasks - don’t use it for that, it’s really token hungry)
      image

      That includes a lot of experimentation too while I figured out which models were best for what. I hid Fable because it crushed the rest of the table - really expensive, but worth it for one-shotting very long tasks on the Anthropic subscription is what I found.