@farzyness
My super early impressions of OpenClaw vs Hermes Agent: Hermes seems WAY more reliable at executing actual tasks - even on GPT 5.4. It also feels way more stable. And I absolute love that it shows which tools it's calling as it's executing a task. I also really like that the personality with GPT 5.4 is FAR better on Hermes as well - after a bit of tweaking. With OpenClaw, I was finding it impossible to get GPT 5.4 to stop talking like a sycophantic idiot. On Hermes, I can get it to be direct & push back with little effort. I'm also finding that GPT 5.4 is FAR more reliable on Hermes vs OpenClaw (thanks @heyitsyashu for the tip). It really does feel like Opus 4.6 level performance on OpenClaw, but with even better execution on long-running tasks. Not sure what the Hermes team has done (I'm not technical at all), but it's obvious that the way they've constructed the back-end is far easier for LLMs to figure out what they should be doing. Because of OpenAI oauth being allowed, Hermes + GPT 5.4 os now EASILY the best intelligence per $ 'AI brain' for Agents. I think the @openclaw team needs to deeply study @NousResearch and what they've done because it can likely benefit MASSIVELY. Gut tells me OpenClaw has become FAR too bloated and FAR too 'jack of all trades, master of none'. When it comes to actual execution of tasks, Hermes feels WAY better equipped, and TBH I wouldn't be surprised AT ALL if it becomes adopted by actual businesses/operators at a far greater rate than OpenClaw. I'm also starting to really worry that the days of OAUTH with 3rd party tools is coming to a screeching halt very soon. I don't think OpenAI is going to allow their oauth tokens to be used on an AI agent competitor when they've invested a lot of money on OpenClaw's creator. What I think is gonna end up happening is OpenAI will stop allowing oauth use for 3rd party apps all together (including OpenClaw) and they'll likely release their own OpenClaw v2 to try and compete against Hermes/Computer/CC. Hope I'm wrong, but these tools are far too powerful to be "allowed" to be open source + heavily subsidized tokens, especially as the public outcry re: AI's cost to electricity continues intensifying. But this will give way for ultra-capable, ultra-efficient opensource models that will give 90%+ Opus 4.6/GPT 5.4 performance for 1/10th of the cost that are SPECIALIZED for agentic harnesses like OpenClaw/Hermes. It's starting to get REALLY interesting, folks.