As an engineer with 20+ years of experience working from the silicon up—programming bare-metal C, motion control, and industrial automation—I’ve always been skeptical of "AI coding assistants." Writing auto-complete snippets is easy; architecting complex, production-ready systems is a completely different beast.
But recently, during the launch of my new ventures—specifically a modular Flutter Web PWA Book-to-App Framework (tefila_meditation), a Go-native desktop app (remote-viewer), and optimization of a women's health cycle calculator—I decided to do something different.
I deployed Hermes (by Nous Research), an autonomous, CLI-driven AI agent, directly into my Linux terminal environment.
Unlike standard chat widgets that sit in a browser tab and ask you to copy-paste code, Hermes was deployed locally with full filesystem, package manager, and terminal access. It doesn't write "stubs" or "placeholders"; it writes code, compiles it, analyzes the static output, runs git, and deploys the builds directly.
Here are 3 real-world battles we won together:
