spent a few weeks deep in Hermes + Openclaw earlier this year...
over-offloaded everything, daily maintenance got brutal and output rarely hit
switched back to Claude Code via Telegram and rebuilt the workflow from scratch
then GPT-5.5 dropped... then GPT-Images-2... then GPT-Realtime-2
and Hermes quietly became THE move
> best coding model
> best daily model
> best image model
> best voice model
all running through ONE subscription on your own agent
takes 5 min to setup on a VPS, plug in your GPT sub, hand your friends and family an agent that generates awesome images, processes voice notes, builds anything and actually remembers everything
this thing rarely misses anymore