Hermes

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Hermes, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Agent becomes slow and sluggish as skills and overhead accumulate over time2026-08-31
Project is unresponsive and unintuitive to use2026-07-12
Must download then disable unwanted skills before the agent works properly2026-06-18
Flickery CLI forces a bulky header on every launch, can't disable it2026-06-09
Buggy at times, misplaces files and can't configure itself per its own docs2026-04-16
The current interface is horrible to use on mobile devices2025-08-30
Users can never find the documents they want using search2023-02-01
Some delivery emails cannot be unsubscribed from, and each delivery also sends texts2021-07-07