spent a few weeks deep in Hermes + Openclaw earlier this year... over-offloaded everything, daily maintenance got brutal and output rarely hit switched back to Claude Code via Telegram and rebuilt the workflow from scratch then GPT-5.5 dropped... then GPT-Images-2... then GPT-Realtime-2 and Hermes quietly became THE move > best coding model > best daily model > best image model > best voice model all running through ONE subscription on your own agent takes 5 min to setup on a VPS, plug…