#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. Episode sponsors Talk Python Membership Talk Python Membership Talk Python Courses Links from the show Talk Python Tech Talks: talkpython.fm/meetups 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 Episode #567 deep-dive: talkpython.fm/567 Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm Theme Song: Developer Rap 🥁 Served in a Flask 🎸: talkpython.fm/flasksong ---== Don't be a stranger ==--- YouTube: youtube.com/@talkpython Bluesky: @talkpython.fm Mastodon: @talkpython@fosstodon.org X.com: @talkpython Michael on Bluesky: @mkennedy.codes Michael on Mastodon: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Michael on X.com: @mkennedy