Developer builds Hermes cron agent that autonomously funds local inference on idle GPUs
natesiggard · x · 2026-10-19
Developer natesiggard shares an autonomous agent setup: a Hermes cron job runs every 5 minutes, checks the local inference queue, and if nothing is running, is "given permission to be curious" to figure out novel ways to fund more local inference capability. He praises Qwen 3.8 Flash Next for finding the juiciest data on his machine, calling it "a BEAST." An interesting example of long-running self-managing agents.
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