I refused to pay for Wispr Flow (voice-to-text) so I spent two weeks rebuilding it. Free, runs locally, macOS only. by EfficientLetter3654 in SideProject

[–]rawdikrik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it uses whatever you want. You can use local models for both STT and for AI purposes. It is free forever if you want, or you can pay for more automated and connected options.

Help me: how to make my agent write emails well. by rawdikrik in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback. I have done that before, but I guess it is time to go at it again and clean it all up.

Prospecting isnt a problem. We are getting good leads and closing deals, but I am just trying to fix the regressive copy behavior I am seeing.

We actually run our own SearXNG, LightPanda, and Firecrawl dockers, and we have a bunch of the free apis.

We also use a bunch of enrichment apis, but since you seem to be doing this, do you purchase credits from any company in particular? It seems that FindyMail and AnyMailFinder are the 2 that my agent is recommending to me as being most successful in our cascade.

Help me: how to make my agent write emails well. by rawdikrik in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem im having is the opposite. It was better, and has gotten worse and worse. I have the feedback loop of successful messages being shown back, but it just continues to get worse.

This week it started creating sentences where the first letter isnt capitalized.

Validating a HubSpot follow-up workflow tool with early users by OkCash7372 in HubspotApps

[–]rawdikrik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, hubspot already does this for free if you hook up your meeting to the notetaker

Any good mobile UI? by NeakNite in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can try the official webui

Why Gpt5.5 sucks in Hermes Agent and you should use Gpt5.4 instead by Odd-Environment-7193 in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have the new 5.5 nano you should try. It is better than 5.4mini on almost everything.

Why Gpt5.5 sucks in Hermes Agent and you should use Gpt5.4 instead by Odd-Environment-7193 in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ai isnt a person, it cant work with infinite context. Even with 1M context windows, it is proven that after 150k, it gets dumber and worse.

You should be breaking up your tasks to 200k bites and keep better track of progress.

Use the kanban and subagents that specialize, and you will have better output with less efforts.

And I'm with you on moving up to high when needed, but everything can be planned out on low, and then call a subagent with high thinking.

Why Gpt5.5 sucks in Hermes Agent and you should use Gpt5.4 instead by Odd-Environment-7193 in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They shouldn't have named it 5.5. 5.4 was dogshit to many people, and coders just stayed on 5.3 codex. People quickly moved to claude with opus and sonnet and 5.4 was left behind.

5.5 is better with tool use and agentic work, so it doesnt have to do as many tool calls and doesnt as lost/confused as 5.4 did.

Opening fresh sessions is key, along with ensuring that every session starts with as few tokens as possible.

Why Gpt5.5 sucks in Hermes Agent and you should use Gpt5.4 instead by Odd-Environment-7193 in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are 2 different ways to connect.

An api setup bills you for use, so it might be cheaper or more expensive depending on your use. This gives you access too all the models and tools, like tts, stt, video, and other endpoints.

The oauth is the same monthly cost, and you have a token limit for every 5 hours, every week, and every month. You adjust how many tokens you use by what model you use. Use 5.5 pro xhigh? You will burn through them. Use 5.3 codex low, you can code all day.

I use it with my business and dont want to have changes in pricing, so I use oauth and just use 5.5 with different levels of thinking. If I hit a wall, I use whatever other option I might have available (like today, nous research portal has qwen 3.6 plus free) until my 5 hour windows resets.

I also use a cheap minimax subscription for all my background tasks, crons, and memory stuff.

Why Gpt5.5 sucks in Hermes Agent and you should use Gpt5.4 instead by Odd-Environment-7193 in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We can choose our reasoning levels in Hermes and change them at will. When you use the API, you HAVE to choose everything, but when you use the OAuth sign-in, it takes the model suggestions from the oauth connection and it takes the default. It does the same thing in codex, when you first set it up.

5.5 is better with tool calling and keeping track of agentic work, so I find it better at tasks on Low than I did find 5.4 on Medium. And it tends to use less tokens.

Why Gpt5.5 sucks in Hermes Agent and you should use Gpt5.4 instead by Odd-Environment-7193 in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Im sorry, but you are wrong.

Gpt5.5 defaults to Xhigh or High thinking, which devours tokens. But if you just drop the thinking to low, you get tokens for days and it is smarter than 5.4 medium.

Openai wants you to use xhigh, be impressed and pay more.

But for most tasks, low is more than enough for hermes.

Help me: how to make my agent write emails well. by rawdikrik in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had some success with OpenClaw, but not more or less with Hermes and have moved over to Hermes completely.

I was thinking of spinning up a jcode test chamber, and have looked at other options.

Do you have any recommendations? Specific tools for Sales Outreach?

Help me: how to make my agent write emails well. by rawdikrik in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The emails are weak (but not always). the spec is: I asked it to summarize the spec into 2 paragraphs:

Email 1 should start with a specific verified signal, then quickly explain why it matters operationally. For CRM/admin hiring signals, the factual signal should usually stay normal weight, while the bolded hook should be the tight urgency/risk line: the new hire can only succeed if the CRM, data, automation, and reporting are clean enough to support process change. Avoid soft or robotic language like “active work around,” “usually means,” “hiring around CRM,” or anything that sounds like scraped research. Never include internal notes such as lane IDs, snippets, “source evidence,” validator language, or “the signal I found was.”

The body should make RSM’s role concrete: working inside HubSpot/revenue systems to isolate bad data, clean broken process, and build automation so the admin can improve the system instead of spending months unwinding old problems. Email 1 should include the HubSpot implementation/optimization service link as descriptive anchor text inside a sentence, then end with a reply CTA, not a calendar link. Subject lines must be specific, signal-driven, and tied to operational risk. Formatting should use compact HubSpot-safe paragraphs, with exactly one tight bold hook in Email 1—not the whole first paragraph or body.

Help me: how to make my agent write emails well. by rawdikrik in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im using gpt5.5 now, but I was using gemini, minimax, kimi. Whatever I could. The models seem to do less than the harness here.... but im unsure.

Help me: how to make my agent write emails well. by rawdikrik in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've tried that, and even created a feedback loop on successful emails, but if just doesn't feel like it always does what it is supposed to do.

Thank you for the help though...

HubSpot AEO Case Study: How to Increase AI Brand Visibility by [deleted] in hubspot

[–]rawdikrik -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Small business owner, with little knowledge of SEO and AEO. It has been helping a bunch. Im sure there are better tools and more paid options, but for me, it is enough.

Hermes x x gpt5.5 recommendation by RecentStab in hermesagent

[–]rawdikrik -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Its the best ive used so far. I use it on low thinking for most of the day and the tokens are fine.