u/O-ZeNe — reddlx

Will we need another classification for alien animals? - the form factor

So I inquire your opinion on classification and taxonomy...on non intelligent aliens so to say.

So, in the far future, we'd discover millions of alien species. Some may fit in current classifications like maybe they're mammals, endothermic or exothermic.

But these are very general things. Probably a lot will fit in these general classifications.

And there will be probably a lot that will not fit anywhere, but this is not my concern now.

I believe that due to both environmental factors and convergent evolution, there will be a lot of alien creatures that will probably look like something here, although its genetics will be very different I assume. "There's an infinite way of Building a cube out of Lego pieces" is my stance on this.

Therefore we'd need "the form". Just to be easier to catalogue things. Or to have at least more....familiar correspondents for education.

I mean who knows how many more new families and species are there. But I'm sure there will be a lot that "look like" a cat for example. Even though it may not be feline per se in its genealogy and/or genetics.

What do you think?

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u/O-ZeNe — 3 days ago

▲ 6 r/hermesagent

So I use openrouter. I used free models but hit rare limits.

I started yesterday using deepseek V4 flash. I spent 3 USD for a few basic tasks like writing a script and appending things to a few files. In this way I'm way better off just paying for Kimi 2.6 or Claude code.

Did you have the same issue? What do I need to do? I tried getting MCP tools, I tried tightening system.md and soul.md... I tried mixing and matching free and deepseek flash, I tried a lot in the last couple of weeks and I still cannot make it. It just burns a million tokens on a couple of trivial tasks.

What do I do?

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u/O-ZeNe — 24 days ago

▲ 2 r/hermesagent

Hello, I have been trying to get this working for the past week and it usually fails in coding workflows. It even fails when I tell it to change config.yaml and that was a whole set of other issues. Did anyone make it work?

I am using free models only in case:

Primary (Main Brain),nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free
Delegation (Coding/Architect),qwen/qwen3-coder:free
Auxiliary (Compression/Search),minimax/minimax-m2.5:free
Vision (Image Analysis),google/gemma-4-31b:free

And I added even more models for fallbacks. I only use Openrouter.

I even just Kept Soul.md and system.md. And told it to update in an obsidian vault memory and tasks and lessosn and stuff, I used a plan-execute-verify loop, idk, I tried a lot of things.

MCPs:

Core Utility: fetch, ripgrep, brave-search, time
Engineering: filesystem, git, github, puppeteer
Logic & Memory: sequential-thinking, memory, postgres, knowledge-graph (detected in logs)
System: everything (for testing/diagnostics)

Biggest issues are:

The 40-Minute Nothingness: It’ll say "Still working... (iteration 25/200)" for 35 minutes, only to end with "API failed after 3 retries."
The Loop of Death: I tell it to "Continue" or "Start the plan," and it just hits a rate limit or a provider error again. It’s like it’s trying to chew on a task too big for the gateway and just chokes.
Patching is a Joke: When it finally does try to write code, I get "patch failed due to escape-drift." It’s either doing nothing or, in one case, it "refactored" my 700-line file into a 9-line helper function and deleted the rest of my logic.
Layout Fail: I’m trying to move to a dynamic Bento/Flex layout for a PDF export, but it can’t even begin to handle the logic because it spends all its "brain power" just trying to stay connected to the API.
The Context Choke: Even with file_read_max_chars set, the agent keeps trying to cat entire 700+ line files instead of using surgical read_line_range. This seems to bloat the context until the provider just times out or returns a 500 error, which starts the 15-iteration loop all over again.

What is your experience? Did you make it work? What am I doing bad?

u/O-ZeNe — 26 days ago