@dabit3: Simple mental model for cloud agents: clone the exact state of your laptop, multiply it infinitely, and make it accessi…
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Niall Dabit explains a mental model for cloud agents as infinitely cloned laptop environments accessible via HTTP, and describes an experiment using a fork of Hermes Agent with DevinAI for automated fork maintenance.
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Simple mental model for cloud agents: clone the exact state of your laptop, multiply it infinitely, and make it accessible via HTTP.
Most people still don’t know cloud agents can spin up full Linux, Windows, Android, etc.. environments on demand, run computer-use tests, record annotated video proof of your app working through updates, drive Playwright against live Chrome with persistent auth, all triggerable from anywhere.
Here I’m experimenting with a fork of @NousResearch Hermes Agent built specifically on low latency.
I’ve set up a @DevinAI automation that checks Hermes daily for upstream changes, implements the updates, runs tests to make sure it works, sends me proof that it does, creates a PR, and reviews it. All I have to do to keep the fork up to date is review the daily morning PR.
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