I spent some time over the weekend setting up a hermes AI agent on my old gaming PC. It took a lot of fiddling but I finally have some models running locally on it that make it feel like a slower slightly stupider version of claude. It feels so good to finally have a fully local stack.
There are a lot of boring chores in my life that I want AI to do and that it's probably capable of, but up until now I have refused to share much personal information with any of the big companies. I'm hoping that I can build up trust with a local agent and gradually make it more useful over time. I gave it an email address and already have it submitting some receipts for reimbursement (after approval by me) which feels like a good start.
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