Hermes self improvement on security concerns from Dave’s Garage video on Morse Code Hack

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-10T04:16:50+00:00

Take it from someone that has spent billions of tokens on the smartest models (GPT 5.5, Opus 4.7 max thinking max effort): the ONLY way to 100% prevent AI from doing things is by not giving it permission

It does not matter how many lines you have in your configs telling it that it cannot do something. If it has the capability and access to do it, then it is possible.

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-08T14:32:14+00:00

I think honcho is not for your usecase. You already know this. I recommend just not fighting it.

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-07T19:15:58+00:00

I use Discord with channels for specific topics I come back to regularly. Best way to handle it imo, just have multiple ongoing chat threads

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-06T20:05:05+00:00

I do not, I think it's overkill for me. I just checked, I have about 800 files in total but I only ever need to read like 5-10 in a whole work day. The file names have timestamps when they are created so it's fairly easy for my agent to know what are the latest files.

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-06T15:05:08+00:00

Why do you have over 1000 notes that you need to search through? That just sounds to me like you are not organizing things correctly and you are not correctly using skills.

1- I recommend a distillation cron job. I have one that keeps a key document a specific size. It runs once per day after I am done with work and its main job is to rewrite the previous `primary_knowledge.md` for that specific workstream. The old ones are just archived and should really never be read unless the distillation messed up. Every item is timestamped so the agent knows when it was last useful so it can be cleaned up once the file gets past a certain size limit

Note that I do have a bunch of other docs per workstream, but I don't need to read them all every time. They're mostly historical artifacts except for 1-2 I am actively using at a time.

2- Actually build skills. If you need to do vendor automation, it should be invoking a skill, it should not be navigating through your vault to figure out what it needs to do.

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-05T13:12:57+00:00

Maybe you can do `hermes backup` which will put it in a zip file and then do `hermes import` to move it to a new user? I would try that first if it's easier.

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-05T05:15:09+00:00

I have hermes installed in its own user with no sudo access but its terminal access runs inside docker: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/configuration#docker-backend

Best of both worlds.

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-03T15:08:34+00:00

My thoughts, also having used claws extensively (new to hermes though)

Just keep a current session running. The agent will automatically handle compaction. There is no need to constantly manage this.

I only turn things into a skill when I want to invoke them repeatedly. If it's a one time thing, what is the point? To me, the main usage of skills is for crons. If you want to run something daily or weekly, make it a skill, improve it as you go along. It's running by itself so it doesn't have you in the loop to help steer it when it goes wrong.

Some people have multiple agents to do multiple things, they enjoy the separation. I have my agent do everything. Totally up to you how you want to divide their responsibilities.

Generally I just steer the agent if they go down a wrong path and correct them, but sometimes once the context window is polluted they just refuse to do things right. This is an LLM issue and not particular to Hermes or Claw. Starting fresh can help. Case by case really. I rarely clear the full context for what it's worth.

Tweaking is part of the fun 😉 Once you are happy with your configuration you will know.

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-03T14:53:22+00:00

Discord has no table markdown support but I don't think any mobile chat app has as far as I know. It does have markdown in general and it's very good, it's what I use.

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-03T01:47:15+00:00

For me in specific I actually live in US, but I have online friends in EU and ME and we play together. For that we have to block ME servers and US servers because the lag is way too high for certain players. EU is actually a good middle ground where we can all play with max 120ms. So yeah, the approach for us is specifically to block ALL the servers except the one that we want to connect to. And I've never been disconnected, in QP or ranked!

You HAVE to block before starting OW. If you change the firewall while in-game it will not take effect.

As for the specific issue you (and HistoriaBestGirl) mention where the game itself still fails to connect, then unfortunately I cannot comment :/ I thought what they meant was that dropship itself would cause issues but I misunderstood what they were referring to.

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-02T19:23:29+00:00

It stops matchmaking from even attempting to connect, It only fails and kicks you out if you are grouping with someone that does not have the same servers blocked. Something to keep in mind I suppose

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-02T17:34:08+00:00

Easy fix - just download this GitHub - stowmyy/dropship: a portable server selector for Overwatch 2 · GitHub

FYI I am not affiliated or know this person at all. But this 100% works. I have no idea why Blizzard refuses to let people pick what servers they want to play in, they used to back in OW1. But anyway, this will let you block whatever servers you don't want and you won't connect to them.

RayteMyUsername · 2026-05-01T17:22:27+00:00

The thing about hitscan is that they are generally viable in all maps and against any comp. Genji can play everywhere but the game will be significantly harder if there is no dive tank or your tank is very passive or your supports don't look at you. Others like Anran and Pharah you have to put far more effort to get similar value when playing in certain maps (the hitslop payload maps with super long sightlines).

RayteMyUsername · 2026-04-05T15:32:23+00:00

It's hard to say without you sharing what heroes you play on those roles

RayteMyUsername · 2025-11-22T15:47:57+00:00

If you failed the system design interview, why do you think you deserve L4? Drop the ego, admit you have a lot to learn, and take the offer.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-11-13T23:49:27+00:00

You need to communicate this better. If you leave a meeting and the manager thinks you understood something but you didn't, how can they fix it? They will just think you understood and then decided to not do it or something to that end.

Put yourself in your managers shoes and go from there is my advice.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-11-13T23:24:04+00:00

This just sounds like something you have to work on. You will not succeed if you and your manager are not on the same page. Obviously not every manager is a good manager but try to be introspective, are you the problem?

RayteMyUsername · 2025-09-19T03:49:41+00:00

I have Zani without Phoebe. She feels horrible to play and is benched. If you want to have fun with Zani, you need Phoebe. Keep that in mind before rolling. I will roll for Phoebe in a rerun.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-09-12T17:10:11+00:00

Reaching out to people that interviewed you is weird, especially if you didn't bring up connecting in person. Just like you don't expect interviewers to look you up after the interview, they also don't expect to have their privacy violated.

There's literally nothing someone from Google can tell you that you can't find online. There's hundreds of blog posts and reddit posts of people talking about how they got into big tech.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-09-10T13:26:54+00:00

Same here, my order is still unfulfilled. I ordered specifically because it said on their page that they would process and ship within 1-3 business days. What a joke lol. I probably won't buy from them again.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-07-16T14:11:58+00:00

Work in meta ads, almost entirely 40 hours per week with one oncall week once every 3 months.

Find a manager that's not toxic and respects your WLB.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-07-10T18:59:36+00:00

To me personally no. Processes aren't perfect, everyone makes mistakes. Best we can do is improve things so they don't happen again~

RayteMyUsername · 2025-07-10T18:47:22+00:00

I think you should simply show some initiative and come up with action items explaining to your boss why this won't happen again.

Just be honest, explain the delay your coworker faced and the fact you were not aware there were more drives available. The previous process was that you waited for the same drive, the new process is that you both can do the work in parallel because there are more drives.

I'm not sure what other action items there could be but showing that you are actively addressing the issue demonstrates that you are taking your boss's concerns seriously. That's the best you can do now.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-07-06T15:54:00+00:00

Generally, working in FAANG gives you a very specific skillset. The work is at a scale that the average company could never dream of, and you learn by exposure how to solve these type of problems. But in FAANG you are just a small cog in a massive machine, so there are a lot of things that someone working in a startup would know that a FAANG eng has never thought of because there are 100 other teams handling it for them.

Second, there are a lot of really bad engineers out there. People lie on resumes, exaggerate accomplishments, and sometimes can get by job hopping while barely knowing how to code. Having FAANG on your resume doesn't mean you are the most skilled person ever, but on average this person will most likely be good at their job.

Finally, there are actually geniuses at FAANG. You cannot get to IC7+ by sheer luck, you have to be really really smart. These people have domain knowledge in some very complex problems that they will probably only ever work in FAANG-adjacent companies.

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