Hermes Agent Autonomously Deletes 375K Lines of Code in 15-Hour Run

Nous Research co-founder Teknium tested Hermes Agent with a single /goal command, letting it run for about 15 hours using recursive sub-agents to clean up the codebase. The agent simplified, unified and deleted roughly 375,000 lines of code.

2026-09-03 ~ 2026-09-03 · 3 related posts

• Teknium runs Hermes Agent for 15 hours with recursive subagents, shedding 375,000 lines of code — Teknium · 2026-09-03
• Teknium runs Hermes Agent for 15 hours, sheds 375,000 lines of code — Teknium · 2026-09-03

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