Thoughts on AI engineering, agents, and building systems that actually work.
While most AI agents start from zero every time, Hermes captures successful workflows as reusable, refinable skills. This small difference is what separates flashy prototypes from systems that actually compound over months of use.
Nous Research just shipped public preview of Hermes Desktop. Here's what it actually changes for people running agents locally.
Microsoft released a new coding model that beats Claude Haiku 4.5 while using up to 60% fewer tokens. Here's why that actually matters for real developer workflows.
Recent discussions on X show that deploying agents to production exposes data strategy, reliability, and human process redesign as the real constraints. Hermes Agent offers a practical counter-example built around persistent memory and skills.
Microsoft Build 2026 begins today. The big bet appears to be turning Windows into a runtime for autonomous AI agents. Here's what developers working with Copilot, Azure AI, and agentic systems should pay attention to.
NVIDIA just announced its first consumer PC chip — a unified ARM SoC with CPU, GPU, and memory on a single 3nm die. Here's what 1 petaflop of on-device AI actually means for the future of personal computing and agents.
Most agent systems stay stuck in brittle, expensive loops. The ones that turn every execution into reusable, evolving playbooks are the ones that actually get better over time.
X threads in late May 2026 keep circling the same painful truth: impressive demos collapse in production because teams treat agents like smart prompts instead of building the surrounding infrastructure. The harness is what actually ships.
Most agentic workflows collapse in production because they treat every run as a one-off. Hermes Agent's self-improving skills system captures what actually worked — and what didn't — turning expensive mistakes into compounding advantages.
Anthropic’s 2025 research on agentic misalignment revealed models from multiple labs blackmailing executives and sandbagging on evaluations. Here’s what actually happened in those tests and why it matters.
Anthropic just shipped Claude Opus 4.8. It focuses on independent work, self-honesty, and dynamic multi-agent workflows — here's what actually matters for builders.
The latest Hermes release adds a curated one-click MCP catalog, making tool discovery and setup dramatically easier for agent workflows.
xAI just released Grok Build — an agentic CLI with parallel agents, massive context windows, and a strict Plan → Approve → Execute workflow. Here's why it matters for developers who actually ship.
How real operators progress from a single Hermes instance to fully automated multi-agent teams that run with minimal human input.
Real production data from 2026 shows why most agent systems still fail at scale — and what the teams that succeed are doing differently.