by Scott Howard Swain | Jul 25, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM |
While OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code keep adding useful features like sub-agent delegation to their coding assistants, no one is as far along with this as Hermes Agent where the feature has been working for weeks. The mental model, kept generic...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jul 7, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM |
OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code keep adding useful features to their coding assistants, which I’m glad for because I like competition. Cool stuff! Until you dig a bit. Much like OpenClaw (the first to make a big splash way back in the dark...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jun 13, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM |
A lesson in agent training: One of my agents within a Hermes Agent system takes the path someone new to coding might take. Here’s how that happens and how I help it learn from the mistake. Scotter:Modify Tasky’s morning report. Add topic to watch price of...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 8, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM |
February 2026: OpenClaw Ooh shiny! Easy install. Check. Hmmm something isn’t working right. Some time later, I got it fixed. Ooh an update! Installed. OpenClaw broken. Some time later, I got it fixed. Hearing good stuff about Hermes. Friend raving about how it...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 3, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, Life, LLM, Politics, Relationships, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
“Big bad company fired employees! There should be a law against that!” Do you understand what “free market” means and why it matters? Laws and regulation to “fix” this by forcing companies to explain decisions, hire, or keep...
by Scott Howard Swain | Apr 19, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, ASI, Coding Assistants, LLM |
I have a nuanced opinion on this that has some big caveats. First, I want to debunk the assumption I see most often: I think most projections of “We need to hire Junior Developers now so we can train them up so we have that knowledge/experience in 2-3...
by Scott Howard Swain | Apr 16, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, LLM, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Let’s talk about AI trainers “stealing” people’s data or creations. Every human artist spends their entire life training on the world around them – the songs they heard, the books they read, the paintings they stood in front of, the faces...
by Scott Howard Swain | Apr 12, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, ASI, Coding Assistants, LLM |
We’re witnessing a collapse of the entire software value chain – from how it’s built, to who builds it, to whether it needs to exist at all. Phase 1: The Deskilling of Coding (Now) AI is learning to write code so well that humans barely need to...
by Scott Howard Swain | Apr 4, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, LLM, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Let’s talk about AI trainers “stealing” people’s data or creations. “I thought something, so I own it. I capitalized on it by spreading it for money, fame, or ego. How dare you copy it, modify it, use it for your purposes!? Waaaaa!”...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 28, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, ASI, Coding Assistants, LLM |
Recursive Self-Improvement Challenges An exploration between a human an two AIs to explore ways to recursively improve AI-related systems. The conversation begins with Scotter querying his OpenClaw [2026-03-28 17:27] Scotter: Thought experiment: Recursive...
