Hermes is an open-source AI agent that runs on Raspberry Pi with a real phone number, enabling home automation, calendars, and recipe assistance through iMessage.
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“The conventional framing is that the best AI agent = the best underlying model. Lael's experience inverts this. Switching from Gemini to DeepSeek to GPT barely registered as a disruption, while a broken embedding service effectively killed Bob's personality.”
Source→“"I tried other agent software, including Hermes, yet it did not feel like Bob."”
Source→“iMessage Hermes on a Raspberry Pi — An always-on AI agent that lives in your home (88 votes)”
Source→“Some other harnesses that I think people are pretty excited about are things like Hermes. I consider Hermes a harness that takes over your Mac mini.”
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