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I asked Claude to build my daughter an app that plugs into our piano, can read live key strokes, can show her sheet notes and key view and ends with a Guitar Hero style game. All while giving progressively harder songs. Today she’s using It and crushing It.

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okay the fuss around hermes agent is not just air. this thing has substance. installed it on a single RTX 3090 running Qwen 3.5 27B base (Q4_K_M, 262K context, 29-35 tok/s). fully local. my machine my data. first thing i did was tell it to discover itself. find its own model weights, check its own GPU, read its own server flags, and write its own identity document. it did all of it autonomously. nvidia-smi, process grep, file writes. clean execution. the TUI is genuinely premium. dark theme, ASCII art, color coded tool calls with execution times, real time streaming. you actually enjoy watching it work. 29 tools. 80 skills (that's what it reports on boot). file ops, terminal, browser automation, code execution, cron scheduling, subagent delegation. and it has persistent memory across sessions. setup took 5 minutes. one curl install, setup wizard, point to localhost:8080/v1, done. dropping qwopus for this test btw. distilled models compress reasoning and lose precision on real coding tasks. base model only from here. more experiments coming. octopus invaders (the same game that broke qwopus) will be built using hermes agent next. comparing flow and results against claude code on the same model. if you want to run local AI agents on real hardware this one deserves a serious look.

fell asleep on the couch last night testing models. woke up to DMs and comments filled with openclaw users wanting to migrate to hermes agent. will reply to all of you today. if you're still on openclaw you deserve better tools. good morning.

i run every model through octopus invaders. same prompt, same game spec if a model can build this autonomously on a single GPU it passes. if it can't it doesn't. qwen 3.5 9B Q4 on a RTX 3060. first attempt was blank screen built 2,699 lines across 11 files and nothing rendered. i wrote it off as a ceiling. then last night i came back with a precise bug list and the same model on the same card fixed every single one surgically. game came to life. enemies spawning, background rendering, collisions working. but bullets didn't fire and the enemies looked like colored squares instead of octopi. today i pushed again. listed 9 more bugs. the agent read every file, patched across 4 modules, validated syntax and restarted the server on its own. bullets fire. enemies look like actual pixel art. screen shake works. the game is playable and i genuinely enjoyed it. level upgrades still don't trigger and there's more to fix but i'm iterating on a single 12GB card running everything locally. every file, every prompt, every output stays on my machine. 29 tok/s generation, 417 tok/s prefill, 128K context window on a card that most people bought to play warzone. if you use AI in any part of your life and you have a computer with a GPU in it you should not be sleeping on this. the model weights are free. the hermes agent framework is free. your data never leaves your house. own your cognition.