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 →
The Local AI Treadmill – everything I’ve built will be obsolete in weeks
I've been writing posts here about getting set up with local AI, agents, harnesses, and what I've done with them. It's fun, and it stretches my computer legs in a way they haven't been stretched recently. But I can't shake this nagging feeling that it's all a colossal waste of time, because everything's moving so... 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[note May '26 - this post is a bit out of date now.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 →