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#567: Personal AI Agents for Pythonistas

2026-10-27

The most popular Python project you've probably never heard of has 252,000 GitHub stars and merged over 1,800 pull requests in a single week. It's Hermes, a self-hosted AI agent you program just by talking to it. And it never clocks out. It runs 24/7 on a box in your house, wakes up every 15 minutes, keeps your YouTube channel in sync, and has your morning briefing ready before you're up. Mine started as a few config files. A few months later, it's 16,000 files of skills, memories, and tools it built for itself, all while I wasn't watching. Jeff Triplett joins me to explore this honestly weird but kind of amazing world. And yes, Hermes has a few words for you, too.

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Hermes: github.com
Ollama cloud models: ollama.com
https\://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
Hermes Web UI: get-hermes.ai
built my own UI: blobs.talkpython.fm
the Hermes Dashboard: blobs.talkpython.fm
the audio from the chat example: blobs.talkpython.fm
the CLI: blobs.talkpython.fm
Tailscale: tailscale.com
Hindsight: hindsight.vectorize.io
trmnl display: trmnl.com
JEV: typesafe.ai
Home Assistant Green: www.home-assistant.io
QMD - Query Markup Documents: github.com
OrangePi: www.orangepi.org

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Talk Python to Me is a weekly podcast for Python developers, data scientists, and AI builders, hosted by developer and entrepreneur Michael Kennedy. We dive deep into the packages, tools, and people shaping Python, from web development and data science to AI and LLMs. If you're new to Python, you'll quickly learn the ins and outs of the community by hearing from its leaders. And if you've been Pythoning for years, you'll hear about your favorite packages and the hot new ones coming out of open source.