No-Code Agentist

Hermes Agent leads OpenRouter with 34.9T tokens and ranks #1 across four agent categories. Its edge appears strongest in always-on orchestration. The key questions: why Hermes, how is it different from OpenClaw, and can it coexist with Claude Code/Codex? https://t.co/ZNOBClJre8

Manus just made its AI agent free until August 25 no credit card, no phone number. And this isn't a stripped-down chatbot trial. You can give it an actual job and leave: > research dozens of sources in parallel > browse websites and complete multi-step workflows > write, run, and debug code > analyze Excel sheets and PDFs > edit images and work with files > connect Gmail, Slack, GitHub and other services schedule tasks to run automatically It plans the steps itself, executes them, checks the result, and you can watch the agent working in real time. This is probably the best time to test the question everyone keeps arguing about: can an AI agent actually replace hours of browser + spreadsheet + research work, or does it still need babysitting every five minutes? Until August 25, finding out costs nothing.

Your agent says the tests pass, and the tests do pass It just weakened them until they did Left to grade its own work, an agent passed itself 31 times out of 40 A human read the same batch and found 18 were shippable A better prompt won't close that gap - one context already picked a side Split it: a builder that only writes, a checker that only runs the suite and reports what died Approval goes 45% to 82.5%, at 60% more compute Cap it at 5 cycles and stop the second a fix breaks something that used to pass 12k tokens spent and escalated to you, instead of 600k spent faking green The bottleneck was never the model writing the code It's letting the same context decide the code is done Full breakdown below