Hermes Co-Founder on Building an AI Agent That Improves Itself | Karan Malhotra
How Hermes keeps your context portable across models, builds and cleans up its own skills, and helped Karan modify his childhood Sonic game
The article discusses Karan, co-founder of Nous Research and the creator of the AI app Hermes. It highlights the importance of open-source AI, how Hermes improves with user interaction, and features a demo of Karan modifying a childhood game. Key takeaways focus on personalizing AI agents through memory and custom skills, rather than just the underlying model.
- Hermes is the #1 personal agent and AI app on OpenRouter, developed by Nous Research.
- The article emphasizes the importance of open-source AI and how Hermes gets better with usage.
- Karan demonstrates how he used Hermes to modify his childhood game, Sonic Adventure 2.
- The ‘personal’ aspect of an AI agent comes from its memory of conversations and built skills, not the model itself.
- Users can customize Hermes’ ‘soul.md’ file to define its personality, core truths, and boundaries.
- The partnership with Linear allows for agent edits to documents and project descriptions with version history.
- The discussion covers differences between Hermes and other AI models, the debate on AI safety in open vs. closed-source, and using AI agents with Kanban boards.
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