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@HermesAgentTips Albert is my partner in crime… all of the above! 👆🏻

@Man68Pivot lol

what do you use hermes agent for the most? - vibe coding - lead generation, competitive intelligence, and price monitoring - automation - X scraping using (premium + sub) - content production

@nlw The pendulum swings… crazy to watch from the outside, but so true

Flat token cap across everyone in the org ensures you miss on the tiny fraction of employees that could 100x themselves.

Just want to make this clear: We didn't make Hermes Agent to be a "starts with nothing, you work it all out" agent. This is not the minimalist, start from nothing, agent. We want Hermes to work out of the box for most people. So you aren't spending weeks just getting the agent to work, or have the capabilities you need. This means that yes, there are more built in things then something like nanoclaw or pi, which start with nothing, and you just have to figure it out. That is an intentional design decision. You can from the modest baseline that has capabilities that are likely broader than you need, but not egregious, take it from there if you want to tinker with it. Run `hermes skills config` or `hermes tools` to disable whatever you want. We even have a way to upload your whole "Agent" as a github repo, so you can install hermes fresh with your exact setup again later or share them. We have a massive interface for extensions so you can tinker with it to infinity. But if you don't want to become an agent engineer - with Hermes, you don't have to.

@NousResearch @StepFun_ai I played around with it this morning, so fast!

Step 3.7 Flash is now free for 30 days via Nous Portal It is a new MoE vision-language model focused on agent efficiency, coding, search, and multimodal workflows — and Hermes Agent users have been loving it, so thank you to @StepFun_ai for hooking them up!

Here’s the email to employees: Team, Hope everyone’s doing well and enjoying the productivity enhancements from our AI tooling initiative. Unfortunately, Finance has asked me to clarify a small issue. It appears someone, and by “someone” I mean apparently all of you simultaneously, managed to spend $500,000,000 on @claudeai usage in a single month. For context: •NASA landed on the moon for less. •We are now the proud owner of approximately 14% of Anthropic. •Claude personally sent us a thank-you fruit basket. •Our CFO has entered a fugue state and only communicates through Slack emojis. •The electricity usage from your prompts briefly dimmed parts of Northern Virginia. While we appreciate innovation, there are concerns that: •“Can you make this email sound slightly warmer?” did not require 11,400 generations. •Asking Claude to “rewrite this in the style of Succession, Hemingway, and Tony Soprano combined” may have been excessive. •One employee appears to have used Claude to generate “a quick list of lunch options” that somehow consumed the GDP of a small island nation. Going forward, please observe the following guidelines: 1Do not upload the entire internet into Claude “for context.” 2If your prompt begins with “simulate every possible outcome,” reconsider. 3Claude should not be used to: ◦settle fantasy football disputes, ◦write your wedding vows 97 times, ◦generate revenge edits of your ex’s LinkedIn bio, ◦or ask “what if Rome had WiFi?” Most importantly: 
If you see the message: “This request may require additional datacenter construction” …please stop immediately and contact IT. Thank you all for your cooperation during this challenging yet technologically groundbreaking time. Warm regards,
Management P.S. Whoever prompted: “Generate every possible PR angle for every company founded since 1983” …we just want to talk.

@lennysan You mean besides my own?

What are your top 3 dream companies to work for right now?

@Teknium Doing great!

Okay if you are on the latest Hermes Agent update and use OpenAI OAuth, how is it doing now? Reliably working yet?

@HermesAgentTips I’ve back on Codex via OAuth all morning… no issues yet but I’m on a long task updating GBrain…

if youre running Hermes with OpenAI models, we all know they are still having issues right now... and now that DeepSeek V4 flash is no longer free on Nous portal i wanted to let everyone know that there's some great free models offered by OpenRouter right now for those looking for free alternatives until OpenAI fixes their models My recommendation is to switch to Owl Alpha for the day.. it seems like most people that are using Hermes agent are switching for the day anyway baed on todays data

@HermesAgentTips Anyone else having issues with OpenAI Codex OAuth not working? I keep getting a ⚠️ 'NoneType' object is not iterable in Telegram... so frustrating

@Man68Pivot Is soo good!

whats your favorite model to use with Hermes agent?

@HermesAgentTips I’ve found the stating “We’re in planning mode now, don’t do anything yet, don’t assume anything, ask questions and confirm them” has worked so well for using Hermes as my thought partner… now I just say “planning mode” and it knows what is expected..

Hermes daily tip when talking to Hermes give it operating principles.. don’t just ask it to do something add on top like when you do this “always verify sources” when doing this “never hallucinate APIs” or “Think step by step before executing” some of these compound and stack overtime to make your Hermes exceptional at accomplishing your goals

@garrytan Very well said, couldn't agree more. Never wait for perfection in that environment, ship it and iterate. Never let perfection be the enemy of the good.

Geoffrey Moore says startups die in the chasm because pragmatist buyers demand a "whole product." These folks won't tolerate gaps. They need references. They need the complete solution. The chasm is lethal because because the buyers won't buy without perfection. But Moore's model assumes there's an EXISTING solution the buyer is comparing you to. The whole framework assumes the buyer has a status quo they're comfortable with. When the *bar is zero*, when the alternative is literally "we die" or "we do this entirely by hand with 2,000 people" (Block's compliance team) or "we just don't have this capability at all"? The chasm doesn't exist for those. Buyers start acting like visionaries instead of skeptics, because they have to buy. The alternative doesn't exist. They'll tolerate a 60% solution, missing features, no references, because 60% of something beats 100% of nothing. The companies I get most excited about aren't disrupting incumbents. They're filling voids. 9 Mothers in the YC Spring 2026 batch is a counter-drone defense co for whom bar is zero, there is no viable close quarters defense otherwise! There's no chasm to cross for that. The practical implication for founders: if you're in a market where the bar is zero, stop worrying about whole product, stop worrying about crossing the chasm, stop worrying about pragmatist references. Ship the 60% solution. They're begging for it. If you're NOT in a bar-is-zero market (if there's an incumbent, a status quo, a "good enough") then Moore applies in full and you need the whole playbook (beachhead, bowling alley, whole product, the works). The question every founder should ask: is my customer's current alternative literally nothing? If yes, you're in a different game than the textbooks describe. Ship it in whatever form you have. You'll know. And it's a great place to be.

@HermesAgentTips @Bitwarden Yes, I've bene a @Bitwarden user for the past 6 months for all my passwords, and having the ability to leverage my existing account to save and store my secrets is huge, Hermes had it set up for me in about 5 minutes, pretty slick!

@Man68Pivot @Bitwarden Nice! u tried it yet?

JUST IN 🔥 @Bitwarden Secrets Manager has now been added to Hermes Agent Hermes can now - Secure your keys using a single BWS_ACCESS_TOKEN instead of multiple plaintext API keys in a local configuration file - Dynamically fetch your OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenRouter keys directly into memory at startup - Sync key updates instantly across your deployments by reading directly from your central Bitwarden vault AND MOST IMPORTANTLY FOR YALL LIVE PUBLIC BUILDERS uhh @_MaxBlade and others… - Prevent accidental API key leaks into your shell histories, log files, or LLM prompt contexts Your favorite agent just got an upgrade!

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@israfill I did… haven’t regretted it a bit! So much like I wanted OC to be it’s insane

be honest: how many of you switched Openclaw → Hermes (this week) i'm not judging, i just want to know who is intelligent

Everyone should have an agent with a GBrain

@DJ_CURFEW The real advantage won’t be more AI output — it’ll be better judgment, better orchestration, and better customer outcomes.

Today we reduced headcount by 22%. The business is the strongest it's ever been. So I think it's important to be direct about what I'm seeing and why. First, I made this decision and I own it. I did it because the way to operate at the highest level of productivity is changing, and to win the future, ClickUp needs to change with it. Second, this wasn't about cutting costs. Most savings from this change will flow directly back into the people who stay. We'll be introducing million-dollar salary bands. If you create outsized impact using AI, you'll be paid outside of traditional bands. Most importantly, I have the deepest gratitude for those affected. We're doing this from a position of strength specifically so we can take care of people properly. Everyone affected receives a package aimed at honoring their contributions and easing the transition. I only see two options: wait for this to play out gradually in the market or be honest about what I'm seeing and act proactively. THE 100X ORGANIZATION The primary change is that we're restructuring around what I call 100x org. The goal is 100x output. The roles required to build at the highest level are fundamentally different than they were a year ago. Incremental improvements to existing systems won't get us there. We need new ones. That means creating enough disruption to rebuild rather than iterate on what's already broken. The common narrative is that AI makes everyone more productive. It doesn't. Many of the workflows of today, if left unchanged, create bottlenecks in AI systems. These roles will evolve. But waiting for that to happen naturally means falling behind now. The 100x org is actually heavily dependent on people - infinitely more than today. This is only possible with 10x people that have embraced and adopted new ways of working. THE BUILDERS, AGENT MANAGERS, AND FRONT-LINERS — THE BUILDERS: 10X ENGINEERS I don't think most companies have internalized what's actually happening with AI in engineering. The common narrative is that AI makes all engineers more productive. That may be true in isolation, but at an organization level - that is the farthest thing from reality. Here's what we've validated recently at ClickUp: the great engineers, the ones who can orchestrate, architect, and review, are becoming 100x engineers. They're not writing code. They're directing agents that write code. The skill is judgment. AI makes the best engineers wildly more productive, and everyone else using AI slows these engineers down. Think about it - the bottlenecks are (1) orchestration - telling AI what to do, and (2) reviewing - what AI did. Everything is leapfrogged and no longer needed. So who do you want orchestrating and reviewing code? And how do you want your best engineers to spend their time? If your best engineers are spending time reviewing other people's code, then this is inherently an inefficient bottleneck. These engineers can review their agent's code much faster than reviewing human code. The new world is about enabling your 10x engineers to become 100x. The wrong strategy is to push every engineer to use infinite tokens. Companies doing this are celebrating 500% more pull requests. But customer outcomes don't match the volume of code being generated. I call this the great reckoning of AI coding, and every company will face this soon if not already. More code is just another bottleneck to the best engineers, and ultimately to your company's impact as well. — THE BUILDERS: 10X PRODUCT MANAGERS Product management and design roles are merging. Designers that have customer focus, become more like product managers. And product managers that have intuition for UX become more like designers. The bottleneck of user research is gone. It takes us just one mention of an agent to kickoff research and analyze results. The bottleneck of product <> design iteration is also gone. The product builder iterates on their own, along with agents and skills that ensure alignment with quality and strategy. Also controversial today - I believe that the wrong strategy is to have your PMs shipping code - that just introduces another bottleneck that the best engineers will waste their time on. To be clear, PMs should be coding but they should do this in a playground to iterate, validate, and scope. That code should not go to production. Everything outside of managing systems, orchestrating AI, and reviewing output becomes a bottleneck. That's why the other roles that are critical along with these are the systems managers (to reduce bottlenecks) along with a bottleneck you can't replace - customer meeting time. — THE SYSTEM MANAGERS Ironically, the people that automate their jobs with AI will always have a job. They become owners of the AI systems - agent managers. We have many examples of these people at ClickUp. The underlying systems in which we operate are absolutely critical to get right. I think most companies are delusional to think they can iterate on existing systems and compete in this new world. You must create enough disruption so that old systems are deprecated entirely. If there's any definition for 'AI native' that's what it is. — THE FRONT-LINERS In a world that will become saturated with AI communication, the human touch will matter more than anything to customers. This is a bottleneck that you shouldn't replace - even when agents are high enough quality to do video meetings. One-on-one meeting time with customers is something that shouldn't be automated. The systems around the meetings should be - so that front-liners spend nearly 100% of their time with customers. REWARDING 100X IMPACT In a world where companies are able to do so much more with less, where does that excess money go? In our case, much of the savings in this new operating model will flow directly back to those that enabled it. We must reward people that create productivity accordingly. This aligns incentives on both sides. Plus, in a world where your best people create 100x impact, you can't afford to lose them. You should aim to retain these employees for decades. The context they have and their ability to efficiently orchestrate and review will be nearly impossible to replace. Compensation bands of today should be thrown out the door. We're introducing $1 million cash/year salary bands with a path available to nearly everyone in the company if they produce 100x impact by creating or managing AI systems. THE FUTURE Nearly every company will make changes like these. The ones that do it proactively will define what comes next. The future is not fewer people. It's different work, new roles, and better rewards for those who embrace it. We're already seeing entirely new roles emerge, like Agent Managers, that didn't exist a year ago. ClickUp is positioning to lead this shift, not just internally, but for our customers too. I've never been more certain about where we're headed.