Hermes Agent: Agents that grow with you

About this episode

The episode explores Hermes Agent and the evolving landscape of self-improving AI technologies with guest Jeffrey Quesnelle.

Open Source AI is entering a new era, one shaped by self-improving AI Agents, recursive learning systems, and rapidly evolving AI Tools that blur the line between software and autonomous collaborators. In this episode, Daniel and Chris sit down with Nous Research co-founder and CTO Jeffrey Quesnelle to explore Hermes Agent. Along the way, they discuss models vs. harnesses, the changing role of developers, and one of the biggest questions facing the AI Future: what remains uniquely human as AI capabilities continue to accelerate? Featuring: Jeffrey Quesnelle – Website , LinkedIn Chris Benson – Website , LinkedIn , Bluesky , GitHub , X Daniel Whitenack – Website , GitHub , X Links: Nous Research Hermes Agent Sponsors: Framer: The enterprise-grade website builder that lets your team ship faster. Get 30% off at framer.com/practicalai Prediction Guard: A self-hosted AI control plane for running agents in high impact environments. predictionguard.com/practicalai Upcoming Events: Register for upcoming webinars here ! Midwest AI Summit 2026

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Benson, Daniel Whitenack

Guest: Jeffrey Quesnelle

Topics covered

• self-improving AI Agents
• recursive learning systems
• AI Tools
• role of developers
• AI capabilities
• human uniqueness in AI

Keywords

• Hermes Agent
• self-improving AI
• recursive learning
• AI tools
• developers
• AI future
• Nous Research

Sponsors

Framer, Prediction Guard

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Organizations: Nous Research

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