Hermes Agent is the most powerful AI

tool ever, and ChatGPT 5.6 makes it even

better. But, here's the thing. If you

don't set up the right way or use it the

right way, it's going to absolutely

suck. In this video, I'm going to cover

why Hermes Agent over OpenClaw, why

ChatGPT 5.6 in Hermes dominates Claude,

and give you a few Hermes use cases

today that will 10x your workflow. Now,

let's lock in and get into it. Before we

get into setting up 5.6, I just want to

do a quick update on Hermes versus

OpenClaw. I get 10,000 replies under

every single video, but why Hermes over

OpenClaw? Are you still using OpenClaw?

You do Hermes what?

Let's just get this out of the way, then

I'll get into why ChatGPT 5.6. Here is

why I talk mostly about Hermes right

now. One, and this is the most important

out of all of them, it is just more

reliable. When I update Hermes Agent, it

does not break. When I update OpenClaw,

it breaks. So, because of that, I use

Hermes Agent more. There was a string of

like five OpenClaw updates that broke it

and I had to spend half an hour fixing

it. That never happens with Hermes.

That's why I talk about Hermes more.

That's why most of my videos are about

Hermes. It's just the tool I use more

and can rely upon more. The updates are

better. They do not break. I like their

road map better. They they seem to have

a much clearer vision of what they are

trying to build. OpenClaw, ever since

OpenAI bought them, the updates have

just been less clear in what they are.

They don't really have a theme. They

seem to be a little bit more

unorganized. The the releases seem to be

a little bit more unstable. So, I like

the road map and kind of vision more on

Hermes Agent. And as I said, it just

works. When new models come out, they

seem to be available in Hermes the

moment they drop. Like, ChatGPT 5.6 was

available the moment it dropped. It was

inside Hermes. It was not in OpenClaw. I

went to OpenClaw. I said, "Hey, update

the ChatGPT It said, "Hey, I have no

idea what the hell you're talking

about." It just works. Everything in

Hermes works as expected. Now, I will

say this, open claw does have two

advantages and it's the reason why it's

still in my stack. I still use it, not

quite as much as Hermes, but I still use

it. One, I just like the way it talks to

me more. I don't know what they're doing

over there. The way it talks to me, I

just like it more. It's clearer, it's

warmer. I like the way it speaks. And it

seems to do less overthinking. I'll give

a prompt to Hermes, I'll give a prompt

to open claw. It seems like Hermes will

do 10 trillion different things and give

me a response. Open claw just seems to

do a lot less overthinking. I think it's

because Hermes does a lot more

self-improvement things, which are

great. I like the way that works, but

sometimes I just want a quick answer. Uh

open claw seems to do less overthinking

at times, but everything combined,

Hermes for me, that's why a lot of my

videos are about Hermes, it just works.

It's reliable. And for what I do in my

life, I will take reliability over I

like the way it talks to me. So, it is

what it is. Listen, I use both, you

should use both, you should experiment

both. Figure out what's best for you,

but the reason why all my content's on

Hermes is because it works. All right,

now what the core point in this video

is, chat GPT-5.6

inside Hermes is the winner. For the

first time ever,

ever, I am ripping out Claude, I am

putting in chat GPT-5.6. Chat GPT is

officially my recommendation for the

model to use with Hermes agent. Now, why

is that? Well, first of all, it is

smarter than Opus. For the last several

months since Hermes came out, Opus has

always been smarter, but like I've been

trying to make chat GPT work because it

works in the subscription, which Claude

does not. So, it's smarter. It's

cheaper. I was literally spending, I

think, about $200 a day on the Claude

Opus API to get Hermes to work. ChatGPT

works in a subscription. You can get

away with the $20 a month plan. So, it's

smarter, it's cheaper, and this one's

important. This is a big one. It has way

better computer

use. The model just seems to be more

agentic than Claude. Uh it can control

your computer better, your browser, take

screenshots, create videos, do whatever

you need on your computer, load up local

models. We'll talk about that a little

bit when we get to the use case part.

Stick around for that. But, it is just

overall better computer use as well. So,

now there is literally no reason to be

using Claude over ChatGPT. The one

reason, the one little caveat I'd give

is Claude, and this has been the same

way since day one, I believe has a

better personality than ChatGPT. I

believe it's more decisive and easier to

talk to. ChatGPT, one thing it does that

pisses me off a little bit, is it it

kind of sways with the wind with its

decision-making. If you challenge it on

stuff, it always agrees with you and

changes its mind. Claude stands on

business, as the kids say. But, these

three things absolutely dominate

whatever advantage Claude has at the

moment. You need to be switching to

ChatGPT 56 inside your Hermes agent, and

for the first time ever, it's not even

remotely close. I mean, take a look at

this. This is my usage over the last

month. Ever since I have switched

full-time to ChatGPT 56 inside of

Hermes, you can see the drop-off. I was

literally spending hundreds of dollars a

day on this. I am now saving tremendous

amounts of money to get significantly

better performance. All right, let's

talk about now setting the model inside

Hermes. The best way to do that, what

thinking level you want, all of the

above. What you want to do is go into

your terminal, type in Hermes dashboard,

hit enter. What that will do is pop open

this dashboard you see here. This is a

really awesome dashboard. If you've

never seen it before, highly recommend

taking the time to go through all the

options, all the configuration you can

do. But what you want to do for the sake

of this video is click models. This will

allow you to switch basically all the

models you're using, your mixture of

agents, which is a really cool feature.

I talked about this in a previous video.

Make sure to check that out. But what

you want to do is change the main model

here. What you want to do if you are on

your Chat GPT subscription is type in

Codex and then choose OpenAI Codex. This

will allow you to set the model to

GPT-5.6

Soul. Soul is the highest version of

Chat GPT-5.6. There's Soul, Terra, Luna.

Soul is the smartest. It is the best.

This is the one we want to be using.

Even if you're on the $20 a month plan,

you could be using Soul. Actually, if

you're on 20, I'm probably going down to

Terra or Luna. But if you're on the $100

month plan or the $200 month plan,

definitely go with Soul. You set that up

and you are good to go. There is one

more step you want to do here though. Go

into Telegram after you set 5.6 Soul and

type this in. Do {slash} reasoning

medium and then hit enter on that. This

is critical. You want to have the

thinking level be medium, not high, not

extra high, not ultra. I've tested all

the thinking levels. Medium is the best

way to go. In fact, the second best way

to go is low. I have not enjoyed Chat

GPT-5.6 on ultra or extra high. I

believe it overthinks too much. I

believe it's not quite as good at

instruction following. I believe because

it overthinks so much and burns so many

tokens, it actually forgets a lot of the

instructions you give it. Medium I have

found to be the sweet spot. In fact, low

I found it works really, really well too

if you want to improve your speed and

velocity of your agent, so make sure you

set this to medium. If you're on the $20

a month plan, you can set it to low.

You'll still get great usage out of

this. It'll still be better than Claude.

Highly recommend doing that. Those are

two critical things. Switch to 5.6, put

it on reasoning medium. Let's talk about

some use cases you can do with Hermes

agent. We talked about setting up Chat

GPT 5.6, which is the best model for

now. Now, let's talk about some things

you can do with Chat GPT 5.6 inside

Hermes agent that is really, really

awesome. Let's start off with number

one, and that is the home AI lab. I

don't care what hardware you have. You

can have a Mac mini, you can have an old

dusty laptop, you have a Mac Studio. I

don't care. You should be starting your

home AI lab. What does that mean? That

is your ability to run and use and

monitor local AI models on whatever

hardware it is. Now, not many people

know this, but you can run local AI

models on literally anything. You can

run them on iPhones, you can run them on

really crappy Mac minis. It doesn't

matter. There's a AI model for every

single piece of hardware you have. But,

how do you know which models to run?

Well, I got good news for you. Your

Hermes agent powered by Chat GPT 5.6 is

excellent at figuring this out. So,

here's what you want to do. Take this

prompt, I'll put it down below. Check

out the hardware and specs on my

computer, then go through Hugging Face,

which is like the best repository for

local models on the entire internet, and

find the best local AI model I can run

on it. Then, list the use cases that I

can do with that AI model. Again, I'm

putting that down below. Copy and paste

it into your Hermes agent now. And what

that's going to do is send off your AI

agent to look at your hardware, look at

your specs, your memory, your GPU,

everything, and find the best local

models you can run on it. Now, I've been

obviously doing stuff with local AI for

a while now, so I have an entire home AI

lab set up. But once your Hermes agent

loads up one of those models onto your

computer for you, you can start doing

really interesting things. For instance,

I built out this local intelligence

control pane. This is like my home AI

lab with all the functionality. It shows

me all my computers, what models are

running on each computer. I can go in, I

can test any of the models currently

running. So, if I want to say, "Hey, are

you there?" I can speak directly to the

models on each one of my computers and

test them out. And I can assign it a

bunch of different jobs. You can see it

is running jobs all day and night, just

churning through code at all times. You

can get really custom and do really

interesting things. Build your own chat

GPT type front end, build your own codex

type app. You can do all that. So, use

case number one, using 5-6 to find local

models you can run on whatever device

you have, and then building really cool

interfaces for those local models. The

second use case I've been doing a ton

with chat GPT 5-6 is an AI game studio.

Check this out. With loot, enemies,

complex 3D lighting. You kill that, and

then you can loot stuff, and then

actually extract. But here's the point.

The point is is that you can use Hermes

to be a full 3D video game studio. What

I have figured out is Unity is the best

game engine for this. Some people have

been doing uh 3 JS. I've dabbled around

with Unreal Engine. What I have figured

out with Hermes agent is it can control

everything in Unity engine front to back

fully, completely autonomously. It

generates all the assets, it generates

all the characters, the environments,

the lighting. You saw this. Look how

good the lighting and the graphics are

here. There's full loot. Everything was

generated with AI. Nothing I had to to

to different websites or anything. I

just say, "Hey, build this out." and it

does that. So, I've been building my own

video game studio here. It's with Unity.

Unity is completely free. You can go

download that use They don't sponsor

this. I've just tried like every video

game engine under the sun and Unity is

the one where it feels like the AI can

handle the absolute most part of the

games. So, definitely check this out. I

am a massive gamer at heart. It is one

of my biggest passions and hobbies

outside all this stuff. So, this is a

really cool use case for me. The last

one I've been doing with Hermes agent is

having it keep an eye on websites for

changes. One of those changes is on

Microcenter site for Nvidia RTX 5090s. I

want another RTX 5090. So, I'm having

Hermes check It has a cron job that does

this. Checks the website every single

day looking for price drops on Nvidia

RTX 5090s. Checking for price drops

especially on super hard to get super

rare hardware like GPUs, like memories

is a really good use case to be doing

right now. If you're trying to build

your own home AI lab setup, maybe you

want to build a computer, something like

that, have your Hermes agent go and then

keep an eye on different websites. You

can have it keep an eye on Best Buy, any

local electronic dealer you have. If

Microcenter is near you, it's the best

like electronic store on planet Earth.

Have it keep an eye on that website and

it'll check for price drops and then

text message you when there's price

drops. So, this is a really awesome use

case as well. There are literally

millions of use cases. I have a 100,000

different use cases with Hermes agent I

do on a daily basis. These are three of

my latest ones that I really enjoy.

Obviously, I have hundreds of thousands

of viewers of this channel. Everyone has

different hobbies and requirements and

careers. I can't give every single

person a use case that's relevant to

them. All I can do is tell you the use

case that are relevant to me and

hopefully that inspires some cool ideas.

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