I Was Wrong About Hermes Agent transcript

I installed Hermes Agent last week thinking that it was another Open Claw clone with better marketing. I was [music] wrong. I've been running Open Claw for 3 months. It powers my trading bot, my content agents, >> [music] >> my entire business basically. I thought nothing was going to touch [music] it. One week in with Hermes, here's what I actually found. So, I've been using both for a week now and I keep coming back to this analogy whenever someone asked me, "How are you finding Hermes Agent?" Open Claw is the guy you'd go to a bar with on the weekend. >> [laughter] >> He's got a personality, he's got opinions.

He feels human. You actually enjoy talking to him. Hermes, and hear me out, is that nerd in the corner at work who you can't really joke with. He's a little socially awkward but very serious. But hands-down the most professional person you've ever met. He just gets things done. Both using the exact same model with that example being Claude Sonnet 4.6, you can get totally different output and that's wild to me. And it comes down to one thing.

The thing that got me with Hermes Agent was task execution. I did something pretty ambitious. I started out by asking Hermes to look at all of my Open Claw cron jobs, files, processes, workflows, everything I basically run with Open Claw on a day-to-day and I asked it to evaluate how it could run them better in a separate instance. What I expected was a summary. But what I got was a breakdown so clear and structured, I actually learned something about my own setup.

It mapped every single step. It identified inefficiencies and it proposed an execution plan for us. >> [snorts] >> Then it packaged that as a reusable skill. So, next time it can be even faster. Here, look at that. Hermes is literally creating a skill from the task it just completed. It's not storing it in some sort of hidden database. It's turning it into a documented procedure it can load and improve on every single time.

And it's that self-improving loop that I find so astounding. And it's why I've started routing more of my content and trend spotting to Hermes in the last week >> [snorts] >> because it's been able to find patterns, spot what's working. It gets sharper every day without me having to do anything. For workflow design, processing, and execution, Hermes is better. I'll say it clearly. Here's why I'm not completely switching to Hermes though.

Open Claw still to me feels more human. It has a personality. It has a file that gives it a soul. When I talk to Max, which is my Open Claw agent, it feels like I'm talking to someone who actually knows me, who knows my business, knows my my rules, knows me as a person. Hermes is exactly what it's supposed to be. It's an AI agent. But Open Claw, for some reason, still feels like a person who just happens to be an AI.

So, here's my actual plan. I'm going to keep testing them on specific tasks and track which one does it better. If after, say, a month Hermes consistently beats Open Claw at finding trending topics or processing workflows, then those tasks migrate to Hermes. If Open Claw wins at, say, content strategy and orchestration, then it stays there. It's the logical next step. I'm treating them like two employees with different strengths and give each one of them a job they're built for.

Funny story, by the way, I got a bad script from one of my Open Claw agents last week. I sent a voice note to it and I was like, "What the hell is this? Why did you create this?" And Max, my main Open Claw agent, replied immediately and said, "That wasn't me. That was Nova." He threw his own sub-agent under the bus, which that was genuinely funny. And that's the personality you get with Open Claw that I feel that Hermes still doesn't have yet.

Was I wrong about Hermes? Yeah, sort of. It's genuinely a fascinating AI agent and a fascinating development from something that I thought Open Claw was going to be unbeatable at. I mean, Open Claw is already genuinely an amazing AI agent framework. The fact that Hermes can come in and shake up the space and stir up the space so significantly just shows and tells you as much as you need to know about the powers of this AI agent.

I mean, the task breakdowns it has, the self-improvement skills, the speed, it's legitimately impressive for a project that's only been public for a few weeks. But I don't think it's replacing Open Claw. I think it's joining it. I mean, if you're interested in seeing the 30 days of real data with me operating both, which tasks went to Hermes, which stayed with Open Claw, you know, actual results, then subscribe. That might be my next video.

Oh, by the way, one last thing. The full Hermes Agent installation guide is on my channel. Go check it out. I filmed the whole setup including the mistakes I made along the way. Watch that first if you haven't installed it yet. Anyway, subscribe for the follow-up. I'll see you in the next one.