I've recently started using both CLI's, IDE's, and GUI apps altogether to master the art of agentic loop development. I had a great time building my first SEO loop. I really enjoyed scaling the system and you can read about it in my previous article here.
See SuperGrok came into the picture as I wanted to do a competitor analysis between Antigravity and Hermes. So I installed Hermes only to realize that I can only use the free tier of Gemini with it. SuperGrok was running a 7 day promotion. This would be the perfect time for me to try powering Hermes with SuperGrok itself for free on the 30 dollar tier for 7 days. I signed up.
I got Hermes running. I got IRC up. I used HexChat to automate some tax planning work such as downloading all the statements as far back from Chase.com for all of my credit cards. I was stoked. Excited. Ready for more shit to get done with Hermes and SuperGrok.
But that’s when things took a turn for the surreal. Wells Fargo was next on my list, and this is where it completely failed. Ran amuck, and just hallucinated and bullshat its way out of everything. One dead giveaway was how quickly it engineered a loop. It was all too good to be true. As I began to inspect article scheduled writing system, I realized that Hermes was making up domain names I didn’t even own and asking Spark to write articles for them 5 times a day. Quickly Spark Scheduled Task feature hit its limit of 50. That part was my fault, but I am glad something stopped it.
When I interrogated the Hermes SuperGrok engine running in front of me. It addmitted it. It just made shit up, it agreed. The way I had interacted with Hermes in IRC was a fluke also. I thought maybe gateway Hermes was just better cause it was Windows Native and didn’t get confused by WSL, like the powershell version was. But no I quickly saw that my success with Chase may have been a fluke, or at least that WellsFargo track did not automagically already exist. I would need to train it with vision.
This is where I gave up. It refused to obey. It just did whatever it wanted. Too quickliy.
Antigravity CLI to the rescue. Feels 10 times smarter. Yes its slower because of the safety rails. Yes it did cause another regression for me today where it wiped out progress made on a large scale earlier. But you know what it didn’t do. Bullshit me to death. And when I told it to take screencaps to train it where to click. It obeyed. And we got my wellsfargo statements downloaded. I am glad I tried Hermes. I am just sorry Elon’s large ass data center is powering such a dumb fleet of models. I could do miracles with one rack from this data center.