I’m at a Steve where I’ve invested so much time in Hermes Agent that I want it to succeed but I can’t help to notice that systems like Grok Bot are rapidly getting all the features… but without the bugs. Bot mod ? Yeah it’s there. But if a card gets blocked or has an error ? Your bot never finds out, it just stays stuck. Sure you can go to the Kanban view and unblock it, right ? Right. Except there’s no fucking Kanban view when you’re in bot mode. Live / duplex chat is cool right ? You can talk back & forth with a model, interrupt it and it creates cards for your requests, just like in grok bot. And Hermes is open source so surely you can use any provider for that right ? Well you can, after 12 hours of agent prompting to create a plugin AND a fork of Hermes. Fork that will disappear and need to be re-applied after the next update. Configure a bot and activate plugins for it ? Great, it’ll work right ? Well, not exactly. Your plugin can be activated for a bot, work and still not show up in the interface. Why ? Because it needs to be activated 3 times : for the plugin, for the gateway and for the desktop app. Obviously none of that is located at the same place. So you send 5 fucking messages and screenshots to your agents telling them that yes, it’s activated but no it’s still not working. After 30 minutes, you and the agent find out that it was the other plugin activation that was needed, not gateway, not bot, but the desktop plugin activation this time. It’s all so tiresome having to waste countless hours just due to bad UI/UX. I suppose that the UI is “good enough” for people who have followed the development cycles from the start but not for others. They’ll say I’m a damn normie that’s just too stupid for the product, and maybe I am, even though I do a LOT with Hermes. But even my dev friends and my CTO have a hard time using it. Even the freaking search bar is broken on the desktop app : type in “voice oAuth” for a plugin called “Grok Voice oAuth”, no results found. Type in “Grok” ? 10s of plugins that don’t have grok in their name will appear first and after scrolling for a while, you’ll find your plugin called “Grok Voice oAuth » from the start. It’s like if you allowed devs to merge stuff but there’s no product owner on the project. A lot of things “work for them” but in certain cases, certain configurations and nothing is tested. Sure it’s open source so I can build my own implementation in order to get fixes that work. But that’s literally what people are complaining about : you need to be tweaking everything for it to work, even for basic stuff.

Let them steal without doing anything on the 17th, what happens on the 18th? This :