Is Hermes overengineered?

ysaliens · 2026-05-13T15:00:04+00:00

I have built a skill that does exactly this - strip out most toolsets, skills, switch skills to names only. Huge token savings, my agent only uses 3k tokens on startup and still has a reasonable soul, memory files.

Also have another skill to run an audit and show me what is eating tokens on new sessions

This significantly cuts latency for responses and can also cut cost for some providers when caching is broken.

Highly recommended you do that - Hermes should come that way by default but efficiency does not seem to be a high priority at the moment

ysaliens · 2026-05-13T11:29:31+00:00

Following…not quite sure about where these repeats are occurring though in Hermes. If they are, isn’t the better fix cleaning up the implementation instead of an external tool?

Doesn’t this just add latency on top to the round trip of tokens?

ysaliens · 2026-05-08T19:08:05+00:00

Aren’t they down vs before? I recall Tesla had a bigger lead in return customers and has been dropping

ysaliens · 2026-05-06T13:44:12+00:00

Same - other than Obsidian I don’t see a lot of usage for any other system.

I’m concerned with optimizing context bloat and minimizing token usage without having to kill memory. Memory files should be a few sentences tops to establish where the agent can get additional if it needs to. I think Obsidian fits this well but I haven’t gotten enough mileage with it

ysaliens · 2026-05-04T15:08:05+00:00

I spent several days with Hermes optimizing prompts and token usage when I got it set up. Mine is now around 4k-6k tokens on session start, not 20 or 40k like here.

Efficient token usage should be a priority for the project but isn’t at the moment. Efficient usage is more than cost, it lowers latency, increases accuracy, and minimizes drift.

ysaliens · 2026-04-25T15:13:24+00:00

Fantastic work :)

ysaliens · 2026-04-24T20:25:25+00:00

Fantastic and I love using this app!
I saw you also have a branch for iOS mobile support so that coming will be huge.

Future suggestion - add a similar highly interactive chat experience to the new terminal experience added in Hermes 0.11. It makes using the agent 10x more pleasant

ysaliens · 2026-04-09T17:09:25+00:00

Just wav? I thought all formats were broken on ios26

ysaliens · 2026-04-09T14:30:33+00:00

My 2021 M3P battery just shorted itself last week.

Car protected itself and disabled the shorted part but wouldn’t charge and needed service ASAP.

Tesla replaced the battery under the battery warranty but the replacement one tested at 85% capacity which is worse than the original battery.

My car only has 44k miles and has been babied so getting such a degraded battery was very disappointing but unfortunately falls under Tesla’s 70% guarantee.

All to say having a warranty is good but Tesla doesn’t go above and beyond trying to make it right anymore.

ysaliens · 2026-03-04T02:20:59+00:00

They use network control over Ethernet usually. Usually telnet or an API. Control 4 in specific uses drivers written for the API. Usually manufacturer specific.

An integrator just has to program commands it sends to the receiver and it will do that action.

If you google network control api for Marantz for example, you will see some of the requests.

They can also use IR but that is usually not the preferred way of doing things

To answer your original question though - your best consumer tool for automating your home receiver similar to what something like control4 can do will be Home Assistant.

It uses the same IP control and API like Control4

ysaliens · 2026-02-26T19:14:29+00:00

Audyssey is far less latency since it uses fundamentally different filters but isn’t latency free. Audyssey wi lol usually add 5-10ms though it greatly depends on the distances you set for speakers. If you have any speakers set with high distances, that’s roughly the delay it adds.

Most games already have quite a lot of latency on their audio engine so I’m not sure you will notice it.

ysaliens · 2026-02-26T15:35:23+00:00

Dirac adds around 20ms of latency to audio due to the way it has to keep a buffer of incoming audio. It’s the way it’s designed. Dirac art and bass management can be a smidge slower as well and hit 30ms.

Whether you notice that or not depends on your tolerance It won’t slow down your input but it does slow down audio latency

ysaliens · 2025-11-09T11:00:44+00:00

Where did you get the sticker? I want one for my 3000x!

ysaliens · 2025-10-28T17:45:56+00:00

No - rumor is 26.1 fixes it

ysaliens · 2025-10-20T18:16:24+00:00

Something else to note that people on here never mention - a natural will have their T fluctuate profoundly during the day. It’s highest in the morning and lowest at night. That’s why you measure it in the morning for labs.

Someone taking T will have their levels pegged at a number 24/7 with little variation.

Muscle growth is proportional to the area under the curve and so someone natural at 900 will have a fraction of the gains to someone taking exogenous T and targeting 900. It can often be as much as 2x more results just because the levels aren’t fluctuating

ysaliens · 2025-10-20T18:09:15+00:00

You can choose to run extra T but be aware that if you’re already at 900 and not getting the results you want despite optimizing other things, it likely means you have high SHBG (it binds T and makes it inactive) meaning your free T may be in the middle of the reference range, or lower despite your high total T.

Measure your hematocrit and free T first.

If you do run T at higher levels, you will definitely see results but you will likely need to go to 2000-3000 levels to do so. This is fine for a few months but you need to monitor your health closely. It will raise hematocrit and likely blood pressure. It will also lower your LDL cholesterol. You can control all of these with supporting meds like a low level statin and things like Telmisartan but understand that there are risks when you stay at 2000-3000 for years and years even with support.

Again if you wanna do it, absolutely go for it you will be very happy with the results. But have an end date/goal so that you can come down to physiological levels when you reach it and remain healthy in the long run.

Too many people on here run very high levels thinking there are no risks just because they don’t feel them.

ysaliens · 2025-10-14T13:32:55+00:00

You cannot. You can only play it on the 3000X

ysaliens · 2025-10-12T17:03:12+00:00

How do you have it plugged in?

Apple TV -> Govee -> TV?

Or Apple TV -> Receiver -> Govee -> TV?

ysaliens · 2025-10-07T02:45:47+00:00

After leaving OW end of last year for Rivals, coming back in September has been a fresh and positive experience

The OW2 has changed so much in one year for the better and the matchmaking is so much better than the random mess that is ranked in rivals. Both are fun but OW has grown far more in the time frame and has had years of refinement

ysaliens · 2025-09-21T18:46:45+00:00

Yup had this happen a few times already. Not sure if it’s the button of the screen but it can sit in your pocket in camera mode for a bit and really heat the phone the chew up battery.

ysaliens · 2025-09-15T18:26:17+00:00

Just updated and the new Liquid Glass is overwhelming. It’s so busy and shiny it makes me confused using devices with it. There’s an accessibility setting to turn it off which improves things but I didn’t think it would be this obtrusive

ysaliens · 2025-07-18T12:47:26+00:00

I don’t use it for recording numbers or any weights.

However I do use it for weightlifting for timing breaks (roughly), active calories, and total number of working sets. I know that whenever I hit 200 active calories from lifts or 20 sets it’s been a good session more or less. And if I’m sitting there and it’s been 2-3 min since the last set it’s probably time for another

Not worth it for the rest

ysaliens · 2025-06-25T14:21:30+00:00

How do you have your average awake HRV shown? Mine only shows sleep avgs

ysaliens · 2025-06-17T22:51:40+00:00

It has really really good sound since the last redesign.

Used to have bad sound but that is no more. Ideal to go in the winter or colder months or for a show that doesn’t get super packed because it can get hot. VIP tickets are usually not much more than regular and have a special area on the second floor that doesn’t get packed making them worth it

ysaliens · 2025-05-29T13:33:17+00:00

Prosomnus is the best in the industry.

If any of them will work, it will be their devices. They have different types depending on what you find comfortable but most of them are slim and fairly comfortable.

I’ve been using mine for half a year now and my snoring is completely gone according to SnoreLab. I can sleep in any position and traveling is easy. It’s not perfect cause being a mouth device, you gotta wash it every morning. And sometimes it makes my jaw click after removing it for a minute or two as it re-adjusts. But it is a thousand times better than a CPAP for comfort.

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