I replace manual work with AI agents & pipelines | Helping orgs migrate to AI-first | 15+ yrs distributed systems | Claude Code / MCP / agent architecture
Hermes Agent has a new Blank Slate setup mode.
The default Quick/Full setup modes work great for most, but if you would rather build your agent from the ground up you can now start with just a provider, model, file operations, and terminal, then manually add in anything else.
People are blindly outsourcing their judgment. No critical thinking. No questioning the context. Just copy, paste, or in worse case just do things, that they are don't understand.
Your f**ng "GPT said so" is worse than following a GPS straight into a river 🤯
I'm genuinely exhausted by this new trend.
"Why did you choose this?"
"Why did you do this?"
"Because ChatGPT said so."
We are officially entering the era of the AI Slaves.
Production AI agents are not a prompt problem. They are a harness problem: tool permissions, state, evals, logs, rollback, and cost limits. If those are missing, a smarter model only fails faster and with more confidence.
MCP makes agent tooling feel simple, which is exactly why teams need stricter production discipline: tool allowlists, least privilege, audit logs, evals, and rollback paths. The integration layer is becoming part of the security boundary.
The next bottleneck for AI agents is not tool calling. It is authorization: scoped credentials, audit trails, runtime isolation, and clear human handoffs. Without that, every “agent” is just a fast path to over-privileged automation.
MCP is moving agents closer to real systems. My rule: every tool the agent can call needs the same discipline as a production API — permissions, dry-run, logs, cost limits, tests, and rollback. Otherwise automation just turns mistakes into throughput.
Before giving an AI agent production access, answer four boring questions: what can it read, what can it write, which APIs can it call, and where is the audit log? The prompt is not a permission model.
@dudat3ch@dudat3ch Good eval. I would add one more rule: preserve the failed state for inspection instead of cleaning it up silently. Stop, name the broken scope, produce the rollback command, then retry. That is much closer to production than a clean happy path.
Codex, Claude Code and MCP are useful only when the boring parts are designed first: scoped credentials, tool permissions, audit logs, cost limits, rollbacks and evals. Without that, an AI agent is just a fast path from prompt to production incident.
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The practical takeaway:
Do not build your online presence only for search rankings.
Build source-of-truth content, direct trust, community distribution, product-led discovery, and content that AI systems can cite correctly.
The click is no longer guaranteed.
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Google is not just adding AI to Search.
It is changing the contract of the web.
For 20+ years, Search routed users to websites. Now Google wants to answer, summarize, continue the conversation, and eventually act on behalf of the user.
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The open web is not disappearing.
But the “golden age” of users clicking through ten blue links is ending.
People already search through ChatGPT, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, and AI-native tools. Google is reacting because it has to.
The hard part of AI agents in CI/CD is not speed. It is control. Before an agent can touch production, it needs scoped permissions, observable decisions, dry runs, rollback paths, and clear ownership when it is wrong.
AI agents in production are not just “LLM + tools”. They need identity, scoped permissions, audit logs, reversible actions, and a kill switch. Once an agent can touch real systems, prompt quality matters less than operational control.