#567: Personal AI Agents for Pythonistas

The most popular Python project you've probably never heard of has 252,000 GitHub stars and merged over 1,800 pull requests in a single week. It's Hermes, a self-hosted AI agent you program just by talking to it. And it never clocks out. It runs 24/7 on a box in your house, wakes up every 15 minutes, keeps your YouTube channel in sync, and has your morning briefing ready before you're up. Mine started as a few config files. A few months later, it's 16,000 files of skills, memories, and tools it built for itself, all while I wasn't watching. Jeff Triplett joins me to explore this honestly weird but kind of amazing world. And yes, Hermes has a few words for you, too.

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Hermes: github.com
Ollama cloud models: ollama.com
https\://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
Hermes Web UI: get-hermes.ai
built my own UI: blobs.talkpython.fm
the Hermes Dashboard: blobs.talkpython.fm
the audio from the chat example: blobs.talkpython.fm
the CLI: blobs.talkpython.fm
Tailscale: tailscale.com
Hindsight: hindsight.vectorize.io
trmnl display: trmnl.com
JEV: typesafe.ai
Home Assistant Green: www.home-assistant.io
QMD - Query Markup Documents: github.com
OrangePi: www.orangepi.org

Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com
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