The weekly newsletter for founders and builders using AI to ship faster—practical tactics, tools, and real-world lessons from Alex Finn.
I ripped Claude out of my Hermes agent
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For the first time ever, I ripped Claude Opus out of my Hermes agent and put ChatGPT 5.6 Sol in. And it's not even remotely close…
Now, the one caveat I'd give is that Claude still stands on business with its decision-making. Whereas ChatGPT sways with the wind if you challenge it. But for me, these 3 things still dominate whatever advantage Claude has at the moment. Which is why ChatGPT 5.6 Sol is officially my recommendation to run in Hermes. Want to check out my exact setup? I put together a full breakdown of it in a YouTube video 3 weeks ago. Here's what I cover in the video:
I've been running ChatGPT 5.6 Sol for over a month and I'm not going back... at least for now. Watch the full walkthrough here. Let me know which model you're running. Keep shipping, Alex |
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The weekly newsletter for founders and builders using AI to ship faster—practical tactics, tools, and real-world lessons from Alex Finn.
Anthropic recently gave me early access to a mystery model. They didn't tell me the name. I was sure it had to be Fable 5.5 or Fable 6, because it was such a massive leap over what I was getting from Fable. It was Claude Opus 5.5. It's smarter than Fable and ChatGPT 6 Astra, faster, and cheaper. I’ve been using it for everything from reviewing code to building games and coming up with new projects. When they took my access away before launch, I legitimately felt sad. That's how much I'd been...
My productivity has been bananas the last week. I'm getting so much more high-quality output from AI. And most of it comes down to just 1 new tool and 1 prompt. So if you'd also like to improve your productivity, here are 3 of my 𝕏 posts that will help you. 1. This tool made me 100x more productive It's called Herdr. It's a free, open-source tool to manage all your AI agents in one place. I'm so addicted that I even built my own version that lives in World of Warcraft so I can prompt while I...
Grok Bot came out a month ago and I haven't stopped using it since. Not because it does anything the other agents can't. It's because it's the only one that doesn't make you configure it first. You open it, and it's already working. If you've never opened it, here's what you’ll be looking at: An app that looks like iMessage With a list of bots down the left you message like people And each one runs its own computer in the cloud, not on yours There's a mobile app too, which Hermes doesn't...