I've been running Hermes Agent — an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research — for a few weeks now, and I'm genuinely impressed with it. If you haven't seen what it's been doing for me, I wrote about that recently. What I haven't mentioned is that I've got it running on four machines simultaneously,... Continue Reading →
Building My Personal AI Research Assistant: What I’ve Done So Far
I've been spending the last few weeks setting up Hermes Agent as a personal research assistant, and it's gone from "chatbot I talk to on Telegram" to "actually useful thing that does stuff" pretty quickly. Thought it was worth documenting what we've achieved so far, because some of it's genuinely useful and I suspect other... Continue Reading →
Getting Local AI Working for Me: LM Studio, OpenCode, and Hermes
I've been using Copilot in VS Code for a while now, and it's genuinely useful for the kind of small scripts I write regularly – visualising DEM output in Blender, sorting through CT scan data, that sort of thing. With an education account I get access to the top-end models, which is brilliant. But there... Continue Reading →
Using local AI/LLM in VS Code without third party software, on the CPU, GPU or NPU
[note May '26 - this post is a bit out of date now. By far the easiest way forward is to install LM studio and run your models there. Hook them up to VS code with the 'Continue' add on, or install opencode, as I've detailed in this post.] I've found VC Code copilot to... Continue Reading →