Vectro

I am not a programmer, and I don't do AI for a living. I've spent over a year learning about LLMs because I've always liked learning new tech. I make YT videos and X posts for the community of users and developers alike.

@1kartikkabadi1 Probably depends what you're doing. My hourly crons for research and fin only use like $5 to $10 / day on the less expensive models. Opus costs a second mortgage 😆

@vectro Yeah ik. I use Kimi K2.5, Nemotron 3 Super, and GLM 5 on a daily basis. But I use subs instead of API, was curious how much it would be on API rather than sub

I'm only using Hermes Agent from now on, no more OpenClaw. 3 of them are doing non-coding work for my business as I write this. My go-to LLMs are: * Kimi-K2.5 for general tasks * MiMo-V2-Pro for Linux admin Opus sub-agents on the ready for extra lifting when needed.

@0xhashlol @Monarch0ps I merge with the AI and we work together on everything. Claude has great insight for SOUl building.

Smart layered approach! The Hermes -> Opus -> Cursor pipeline makes total sense. File-based handoffs between agents keep things clean vs trying to jam everything into one context window. I do something similar but with subagents handling specific domains. The SOUL.md co-authoring sounds intriguing - collaborative prompting evolution?

@jon_durbin Is it a Hermes agent installer?

Ever have one of those "once-in-a-generation-holy-shit ideas"? brb, probably nothing

@Monarch0ps I have 2x Hermes for research and financial tasks. Minimal code needed. Opus sub-agent kicks in for that. Just writes to a file, no IDE. Sometimes Opus just debugs the overall planning and workflow, then updates the SOUL md I co-author with Claude in cursor for dev.

@vectro Are you setting up delegation in Hermes or just having them use Claude Code for Opus?

@1kartikkabadi1 For the bots that don't code.. not much. Kimi and MiMo are inexpensive. Claude costs 10x more and burns a lot of tokens for code.

@vectro How much are you spending in API per day?

@BenjaminBadejo @Teknium Nous has reputation. I've been following them for years. The owner is doxed and been on interviews. Their LLMs and agent are 🔥 and it's open source anyway, so what's not to trust? They're more transparent than others.

I want to try Hermes but I’m reluctant to use something created by someone anonymous — whose IRL identity is unknown. (Not criticizing you @Teknium or casting aspersions — to each his or her own!) Just a basic diligence concern of mine. Thoughts?

I might make a video tutorial how to set up Hermes Agent and create a research bot for any industry.

Hermes Agent has been doing long-horizon research on PCB recycling for 10 days so far. • Daily source discovery (Tavily) • Deep scan every 3 days (Firecrawl) • Re-scans sources for changes • Searches for machines, new tech & research papers • Notes uses of optics, ML & AI

I'm building Vectro dot Chat for your privacy, not as an afterthought. You will be able to store chat history encrypted on the server or locally in browser. Deleted convos are gone forever. No Retention. Will use a trusted execution environment and end-to-end encrypted LLMs.

I've seen people on X set up a YOLO trading bot and tell it to just make money. I worked with GPT 5.4 to engineer a whole trading strategy. It has risk management built in. I used an AI agent along with an open source trading bot. It's in dry run mode. Will keep improving.

My assistant agent does't do coding, so it runs fine on Kimi K2.5. It has an Opus 4.6 sub-agent for when it falls short. Works great in Hermes.

@Scobleizer @Teknium The long-term memory is good, the sub-agents work. Setup is nice. So many integrations. I've been using Hermes since day 1 and now have full functioning research agent, linux admin and dry-run trading bots.

The Hermes Deep Dive. (The new hot AI agent harness). docs.google.com/document/d/1sZ… Hey @Teknium got anything to add?

Don't know if many people care about orbital space debris like I do lol youtu.be/NaFajPhl0XY

The "buy a GPU bros" Are not wrong, just narrowly focused. I like having choices. - cloud API - rent a GPU - buy a GPU My business is starting to leverage all of them for different reasons.

@TheAhmadOsman I switched to llama.cpp for local. The only OpenClaw I run are what I had pre-Hermes.

if you’re using Ollama switch to llama.cpp if you’re using OpenClaw switch to Hermes these are basics at this point

@KettlebellDan All the time, and now there's the artemis mission

ever have nights where you look up at the moon and feel like it’s calling you to explore

One cool trick I figured out for Agents... If it's not for coding and you don't want to spend on Claude tokens all the time, save money using Kimi K2.5. Then... Tell it to spawn a sub-agent with Opus 4.6 that it can only use for emergencies with your permission.

Long-term AI experiment (2 weeks so far): Agent manages an open source crypto trading bot from github (freqtrade). Dry-run only. Lots of risk management rules. Tons of logging technical and trading errors. Sticks to one strategy, collects data, then I can make adjustments.