Rushant Ashtputre

Hermes Agent is taking over. Hermes is clearly better and it’s really not close. Memory synthesis, cross-session recall, skill evolution, and long-term reasoning are all stronger. But I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into OpenClaw since mid-Jan and even though I’ve now fully moved to Hermes Agent. I still think OpenClaw does some things better. Here are the 3 things I still genuinely think OpenClaw does better: Heartbeat The HEARTBEAT.md system gives reliable proactive turns. The agent wakes up on schedule, reviews changes, and only acts or alerts when it matters. Still smoother for monitoring tasks. Stateful crons OC lets you target crons at a specific session (or the main one) so each run builds directly on the previous output. Great for workflows that need to accumulate context over time. Downside: keep running in the same session long enough and compaction starts dropping important details, which can make it worse. ACP runtime support Niche, but if you need tight integration with coding environments (Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code extensions), it just works. Hermes doesn’t have a clean equivalent yet. If you rely heavily on any of those three, Openclaw might still be the agent harness for you, but if not, consider exposing Openclaw as a OpenAI-compatible endpoint and just use the best parts.

The Delve stuff is bad, but all of these compliance platforms (Vanta, Drata, etc) have their "trusted auditors" they recommend. That is the core issue that corrupts this space.

Had to go see Project Hail Mary right away (it's based on the book of Andy Weir, of also The Martian fame). Both very pleased and relieved to say that 1) the movie sticks very close to the book in both content and tone and 2) is really well executed. The book is one of my favorites when it comes to alien portrayals because a lot of thought was clearly given to the scientific details of an alternate biochemistry, evolutionary history, sensorium, psychology, language, tech tree, etc. It's different enough that it is highly creative and plausible, but also similar enough that you get a compelling story and one of the best bromances in fiction. Not to mention the other (single-cellular) aliens. I can count fictional portrayals of aliens of this depth on one hand. A lot of these aspects are briefly featured - if you read the book you'll spot them but if you haven't, the movie can't spend the time to do them justice. I'll say that the movie inches a little too much into the superhero movie tropes with the pacing, the quips, the Bathos and such for my taste, and we get a little bit less the grand of Interstellar and a little bit less of the science of The Martian, but I think it's ok considering the tone of the original content. And it does really well where it counts - on Rocky and the bromance. Thank you to the film crew for the gem!

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