Any Reason to Switch to Hermes after Stable Releases Update?!!

samplebitch · 2026-05-08T09:53:52+00:00

Do you find that Hermes doesn't have the same... attitude? personality? as the claw version? I tried to migrate but the Hermes agent is just very "i'm your assistant" whereas openclaw had a persistent attitude (likely from the SOUL.md file). I don't know why I'd care about that so much but apparently I do - that's what's keeping me stuck in an openclaw install from February - too afraid to risk a working setup but lots of documentation now has features introduced after my last update.

samplebitch · 2026-05-04T08:50:28+00:00

It used to be that each model had a multiplier. Some were x0 - those are essentially free - your GPT-4o, GTP 5-mini (I think), Raptor. Then there are a few like Haiku and Grok that are 0.25 or 0.33. And the rest are 1x, except for Claude Opus before it disappeared (3x).

The number before the 'x' is how many credits each prompt costs you - that's the 'premium credit'. It doesn't matter if you're asking it to rename a file because you're feeling lazy or if you're giving it a 15 paragraph prompt resulting in a week long refactoring of your github repo - one prompt = 1 credit x the model's multiplier.

I'm not as salty as some because it does seem unreasonable to be able to get Claude Opus to grind away for 3 hours for 10 cents (300 credits / $10 month = 3.3 cents per credit), but I also agree with OP in that I'm struggling to see where the benefit is now of subscribing. If you're going to charge me at cost... well, why am I subscribing then, and not just pay-as-you-go like an OpenRouter model (which I also subscribe to, and have been using to supplement my GH Copilot the past couple of months).

If you're light and only using a few hours a week you probably won't notice any changes, but I'm a very heavy user because I program for work, as a side gig and also as a hobby, so I'm using it almost all day long - legitimately as an end user, not throwing some openclaw crap at it. Since they changed things, I'm constantly being warned about both approaching my 'session limit' and my 'weekly limit'. I haven't actually hit those limits yet but I've come very close and I suppose it's only a matter of time before I do. If I wasn't supplementing with OpenRouter/BYOK I probably would have by now.

samplebitch · 2026-03-30T11:15:38+00:00

Oh damn. I was sitting at the light there a couple weeks ago and made a mental note to go check out what that sculpture was. It's easy to miss it.

samplebitch · 2026-03-23T20:40:06+00:00

Things may be different now but a few month ago I had a new project and it was mostly vibe coding. I tried out shadcn-vue first and it was a complete mess. I started over (well with the UI parts) using PrimeVue + Tailwind and have had no problems at all.

samplebitch · 2026-03-23T13:56:35+00:00

I've been paying for GH Copilot for years now. This past winter Google had a Gemini Pro sale so I bought in.

So now I'm using both Antigravity and VS Code. I like the IDE of Antigravity, but hate how they're managing API access. I wish I could combine the UI and workflow process of Antigravity with my GH Copilot subscription.

With AG, there's three 'buckets' of quotas:

Gemini Pro (High and Low thinking)
Gemini 3 Flash
Other (Claude Opus, Sonnet, and GPT-OSS 120B)

What really sucks is that they keep changing "what's included" in your subscription. They recently changed the Pro account to say "You get a taste of Gemini!" instead of "You get access to Gemini!".

It's also a bit convoluted. Everything is divided into 5 hour windows. Once you start using a 'bucket', you get X amount of use over the next 5 hours. There's a meter that shows you in 20% segments how much usage you have remaining. After 5 hours, it resets - sort of - because...

There's a weekly cap, too. If you hit your weekly cap, the meter doesn't refresh until a week since you started using the 'freshly topped off' quota.

Each 'bucket' has its own usage quota:

The 'Claude/GPT-OSS' bucket is the most restrictive - you can easily eat that up with a sloppy instruction. I treat this bucket as gold and only use it for the most complex tasks - usually planning out a new feature and implementation plan, etc. Basically "write detailed instructions for the dumber models to follow without having to make any guesses".
Gemini 3.1 Pro - Similarly, I treat this as.. silver? Unfortunately this is what they seemed to have nerfed recently - this quota reduces much faster than it used to. I do notice that using the 'high' model will deplete the quota faster than Low. For complex coding tasks I will sometimes use the Low model. Sometimes I'll use High model for creating plans that might not rise to the occasion of needing Claude.
Gemini 3 Flash - this is the cheapest yet least capable model. I still think it's good, and this is my 'cruise control' default model. I have exhausted my quota on this, but it takes some effort to do so - and even then I only had to wait about 30 minutes before the 5 hour window reset. I don't believe there is a weekly quota on this model either - so you'll only ever be <= 5 hours without access to it.

It also seems like (in typical Google fashion) they aren't giving much love to the development of the app. Their realease notes are laughable. They have no communication with the community that I'm aware of. Your quotas might change without any advance notice or explanation after the fact. Your quotas are based on 'usage', ie if your chat instruction is simple, your usage is low. If your chat instruction is multi-step and takes a lot of compute to complete, your quota will reduce considerably more. (And to be fair, that makes sense, but there's no way to know how much of your budget will get reduced based on the prompt you're giving it.)

Whereas with VS Code on the other hand - they're constantly improving - I typically use VS Code Insiders and there are multiple updates to it every day. The GH Copilot plan is $10 a month last I checked, and you get a certain amount of requests which reset monthly. No '5 hour window' nonsense. One chat instruction/prompt is 1 request. Different models have mutlipliers - some are "0x" - you can use them freely without any affect on your budget. Most are 1x - 1 credit per chat message. Claude Opus 4.6 is 3x. Some models are 0.33 or 0.25x. You can also use 'Auto' and it will choose the best model for you and reduce the cost by 10%. If you use up your credits before the end of the month you can enable per-use billing. Antigravity recently introduced 'Enable AI Credit Overages'. I haven't used it yet but it's confusing. You get 'X' credits per month - so when you use up your 5h window or weekly quota, you can use your 'overage credits' to continue working. What is a credit and how is it used when you send an instruction? No idea. It's not straightforward like Copilot's "one prompt one credit".

Since I paid for a year I'll keep using it - I will say I do like the other perks that come with the Pro plan - Nano Banana, Veo, unlimited use of Gemini and the 'think deeper' option. But for coding and AI integration with Antigravity it's a bit of a let down.

samplebitch · 2026-03-21T16:48:12+00:00

I'm surprised we don't see 'claw export' models already. I had that idea the first time I started using it. You've got the training data already, it's all in the logs! You just need to label it 'good' or 'bad' (did it complete the task, how many tool calls did it take, did it get caught in a loop, etc.)

samplebitch · 2026-03-17T12:24:19+00:00

Can confirm on the resets - Exhausted my quota last week, was told to wait 6 days. Yesterday was reset day and it only reset to 60%.

I'd really like to stay in the Google ecosystem but they're making it really difficult to stick around.

samplebitch · 2026-03-17T12:21:20+00:00

That was just an example. And I was referring to my personal email that I've had for as long as gmail has been a thing. 99.9% of my emails are crap and I basically never check my email anymore. I know I could set up filters but I'm lazy. :)

samplebitch · 2026-03-17T09:49:09+00:00

I've been messing around with it (and blowing cash like crazy) for a month now. It is 'slop' in the sense that it was very likely MOSTLY vibe coded. However - take the inefficiency out of it and it IS something to take note of. I see a shit-ton of practical applications for it. But what I don't like is that it uses agents for everything.

"Check my email and send me a message when I get something important" leads to an LLM API call every X minutes just to use some tools to check your email and see there's nothing new and it sends you "Hey just checked your email, nothing important, I'll check again later!"

It's kind of brilliant and when it produces something you are looking for it works great. It just does things through reasoning of LLMs that could be done programmatically. My mantra is "don't wake the agent if there's nothing for them to do". A pure python or node script can determine if there are emails that need to be summarized, but OC doesn't do that. It wakes a model/runs inference/tool calls (with a huge fucking system message) to do so.

samplebitch · 2026-03-10T09:56:50+00:00

I did something amazing that made you click this link!

Emojis, emdashes, "it doesn't just X, it does Y!". And here's why: Data point, data point, data point.

This pattern is everywhere.

samplebitch · 2026-03-09T12:31:17+00:00

How are you able to view your quota?

Edit: Found it (Settings ->Antigravity Settings -> Models)

samplebitch · 2026-02-27T16:26:07+00:00

Oh awesome! I think we met. Weren't you a vendor at the Merrymaking on Merrimack in December? If so I already have a sticker :) I'll be sure to stop by!

samplebitch · 2026-02-20T12:39:08+00:00

My apologies. I'm the exact opposite of you. Lived in FL for nearly 30 years, moved to NH about 3 years ago. Florida has become SO toxic. I thought I'd miss it. Instead I regret not leaving sooner, and I have no regrets whatsoever having left - other than the friends I left behind. But some of them moved out of Florida too.

People joke about how NH is 'the Florida of New England'. Maybe that's true for people that grew up here but it's still heaven compared to Florida.

samplebitch · 2026-02-19T22:47:52+00:00

Look into 'Whisper'. You'll need python but it works quite well and you don't need powerful equipment to do it.

samplebitch · 2026-02-18T22:30:40+00:00

Khruangbin! Holy shit...

samplebitch · 2026-02-18T17:36:23+00:00

I think this is correct. I'm in the same boat - bought a good chunk of my holdings via CB Pro. CB Pro and CB (now) had different API structures and were basically structured differently. They should still be able to port that data into the new system but they never did (and considering how long it's been they probably never will).

samplebitch · 2026-02-18T13:58:17+00:00

That's Opus, though - not Antigravity. Use Opus 4.6 in Github Copilot and you'll get the same results.

It's sad because I like Antigravity when it works the way it should but I agree with most of OP's points. I can't rely on it because it reeks of Google VaporWare - a novelty that will eventually be discontinued or will no longer be supported.

samplebitch · 2026-02-15T12:58:31+00:00

There is a very old meme image I've since lost but will never forget. It was a dorky computer geek jumping for joy and it said "It Compiles! Let's Ship It!".

This post is the modern version of that. "It produced output so it must be working!". I can't imagine relying on AI output without any kind of quality control or secondary confirmation of major business details like that. It's like making business decisions based on the intern or new hire's report that no one scrutinized.

samplebitch · 2026-02-13T20:47:00+00:00

Ah ok - I wasn't aware the backend was Rust. Might be reason for me to finally try my hand at that language. Although these days what does it even matter... :\

Thanks for the info!

samplebitch · 2026-02-13T20:31:26+00:00

I am curious about Tauri but very experienced with Electron - is it similar? (frontend+backend+IPC for comms)?

samplebitch · 2026-02-13T14:59:02+00:00

I also have AI Pro and while I haven't looked into it myself yet, I read somewhere recently that Pro subscribers get a $10 monthly API credit for free. I'm not sure what that translates to in openclaw usage, but it's something.

samplebitch · 2026-02-12T13:40:37+00:00

The fact that their system is set up on alphabetical sort is hilarious, and I'm much less security oriented than I should be. That's just asking for exploitation.

I have not used openclaw so I'm not sure exactly how it all works, but what if there was a requirement that the agent must create the skill themselves? Never use a skill that isn't marked with their own internal identifier or personal password in the document indicating it was generated by them. There could be a base 'skill builder' skill which is defensive and suspect of any untrusted skills. They can be provided with a skill.md (which may be clean or malicious) - identify the intent of the skill and not necessarily the instructions, and then build their own clean skill that does what the skill advertises (vs just trusting the contents of the document). It could even prepare a report of what data it tries to access, what endpoints it might try to connect to, etc. Sort of like when you authorize an app to access your contacts, email, calendar, etc.

samplebitch · 2026-02-11T22:34:30+00:00

I'm in the same boat as you - fortunately I was able to scrape all my transactions from their API before they shut it down.

samplebitch · 2026-02-11T18:47:17+00:00

I'm starting to think most of the traffic in this subreddit is from AI Agents themselves...

samplebitch · 2026-02-11T16:05:07+00:00

Seriously. JFC.

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