After a painful rebuild, fejau concedes: build on Hermes and you own your AI for life
Teknium · x · 2026-11-02
fejau laments not building on Nous Research's Hermes—swapping models now means rebuilding a ton of infrastructure. Shaughnessy119's argument, retweeted by Teknium: building on Hermes lets you own your AI for life and swap models freely, a small but telling datapoint for the open-source model portability pitch.
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