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Alex Finn
100 hours of Hermes Agent lessons in 19 minutes
Alex Finn condenses four months and more than a hundred hours with Hermes Agent, the personal AI agent from Nous Research, into nine practical lessons. He argues for running Opus when a task must finish, keeping a second agent as a failover, and stopping the habit of quarantining the agent on its own machine and accounts. The back half covers channel choice across desktop, Telegram, and iMessage, pruning cron jobs to fix a slow agent, wiring a headless device fleet onto Tailscale, and a morning reverse prompt that feeds tasks to a Kanban board. It is an opinionated operator guide with real dollar figures, including his roughly forty dollars a day in Opus spend.