having fun 🧪 learning AI

Exploring LLMs local and cloud, what works, what breaks, what surprises me. Agents (MCP) + Home Assistant. Posting the wins and the failures. Engineer.

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

@witcheer Not sure if it’s just me but the desktop app update process seems to be a lot slower these days.

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

@thsottiaux @maria_rcks

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

@MatthewBerman Same. I just assume it’s magic

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

gotta catch em all

[maria @maria_rcks]

so do i choose muse or grok bot or hermes or poke or orchid or openclaw or

[Osaurus @OsaurusAI]

It's here. The first fully native agent harness, built for Windows. No electron in sight.

Osaurus for Windows is almost ready for beta. Get ready for a team of agents running right on your PC, local and private.

Watch Qwen3.8-27B set up a team of agents to perform a code review.

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

Astra for making flashy visuals. Fable 5.1 for real work.

[tara_ @TechByTaraa]

Which one is actually better right now?

GPT-6 Astra or Claude Fable 5.1

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

This is huge

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Hermes Desktop now sets up local models in one click.

It automatically reads your hardware, picks the best model for you, then downloads it and configures the runtime.

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

New in Hermes Agent v0.21.0: Persistent Multi-Gateway Connections for Desktop

Hook in any combination of remote gateways at once, whether Hermes Cloud instances or local agents, then see every bot and chat across all of them.

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

@blueemi99 @bot yes, it’s fun and interesting! it is agent bots on easy mode

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

@Teknium what about switching reasoning levels?

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

It was a fun ride

[Zixuan Li @ZixuanLi_]

Ox Alpha was an early version of GLM-5.3-Flash. The official release delivers stronger performance and significantly better stability.

Huge thanks to @opencode and @OpenRouter for making it available to the community. And thank you to everyone who tried it, pushed it to its limits.

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

@witcheer /facepalm of course there’s already a slash command in Hermes!

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

This just keeps getting weirder and I am here for that.

[Hugging Models @HuggingModels]

🚨Just in: Apple maybe behind mystery model Ox Alpha.

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Just FYI. If you are switching models in a session all the time - you are doing it wrong.

Every time you switch, your entire prompt cache is invalidated on the new model you switch to, and you have to repay the full input tokens price for all of it.

Stop doing this unless those models are free.

This is not a hermes thing - this is a fundamentals of inference thing.

[bluedev @blueemi99]

If anyone wants to make their own tier list:

https://t.co/VfO28PdrP5

[maria @maria_rcks]

here

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

Love this comparison of quants!

[atomic.chat @atomic_chat_hq]

Qwen 3.8 27B Q4 quant destroyed Q8 at voxel island creation ⛏️

We gave our Atomic Dynamic Q4, Q5, Q6 and Q8 quants the same voxel island tasks:

- Cliffside Hamlet
- Autumn Road
- Winter Cabin
- Jurassic Volcano Isle
- Pirate Cove Sunset
- Overgrown Ruins
- Steampunk Sky Island

Q8 wasn’t always the best, with Q4 often times producing a comparable or better result, which shows that lower quants are also a viable and more accessible option. AD-Q5_K_M is our top-pick, it fits on a 32GB MacBook Air with 32K content and picks the same next token as the BF16 original 97.3% of the time

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

@witcheer @phani2930 waiting for reply in suspense…

[having fun 🧪 learning AI @sailormoonballr]

🤯

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Hermes now has /loop - a command that will allow your session or bot to perform an action over and over again at any interval you like.

It's like cronjobs, but lives inside a session with your context and other activities.

Enjoy!