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Homelab

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you need to use Hermes RIGHT NOW!! (goodbye OpenClaw!!)

NetworkChuck makes the case for switching from the OpenClaw agent harness to Hermes, the agent from Nous Research, and walks through installing it on a Hostinger cloud VPS wired to ChatGPT Codex and Telegram. He builds a Hogwarts themed IT agent named Ron Weasley, then shows the five reasons he switched: the vibe, the memory system with hard caps that force curation, the people and story behind the tool, agents that write their own skills via a self improvement loop, and the fact that it just does not break. Live demos have the agent learn the network over Twingate, control a Home Assistant studio, and manage UniFi, crystallizing its own skills as it goes. Cofounder Jeffrey Quesnelle joins to explain the philosophy: give the model hands and get out of its way.

AIDevOpsHomelabMay 20, 2026

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David Bombal

My Dream "home lab"

David Bombal tours Cisco's 20 million dollar AI networking lab to answer the question most AI coverage skips: once you have the GPUs, how do you wire hundreds of thousands of them into one computer. Three Cisco engineers walk through scale up, scale out, and scale across, the new G300 100 terabit and P200 routing switches, why optics are often the most expensive line on the bill, and how a 128 GPU scalable unit plus simulated flows proves designs at much larger scale. The recurring lesson is economic: a 10,000 GPU cluster rents for 175 million dollars a year, so a 5% efficiency loss or one bad cable costs millions. It also settles the InfiniBand versus Ethernet debate (Ethernet wins at scale) and shows security moving off the edge firewall and into the fabric on DPUs and switches.

NetworkingHardwareAIMay 17, 2026