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superfrankyesterday at 10:04 PM0 repliesview on HN

I don't use OpenClaw I tried but found it fragile and it's personality off putting. I then tried NanoClaw, but found the lack of communication channels limiting and could never really get it to create skills that felt solid. I recently just switched to Hermes Agent (like last week) and it's the first one where it didn't feel like I was constantly needing to fix it, so at the moment I'm happy with it.

What do I use it for? I basically just use it as a personal assistant and a way to centralize a lot of other automations that I have elsewhere.

- I have an automation that rolls everything on my todo list over to the next day at 11:59pm

- I have one that checks the weather and tells me if it's going to be windy in the next few days since I need to bring the lawn furniture in

- I have it set up so that I can forward it email with invoices and it will extract the data from a PDF and enter it into a cost tracking sheet

- I have it check my outlook calendar and tell me if there are any 1:1 meetings where the other person has declined the invite (since Outlook doesn't show that clearly and I'd often show up to meetings and sit for 5 minutes before realizing the other person cancelled)

Nothing I'm doing is life changing, it all could be done using other tools, and honestly, for anything important, I want something more deterministic anyway, but I kind of love. It's just a low lift way to automate away minor annoyances through a single interface that I can access from just about anywhere. It's far from perfect, but I don't use it for anything where I need to to be perfect, so I'm happy.