I use agents in day-to-day work and keep field notes on the decisions, breakdowns, and fixes that follow.

Mainly on Hermes Agent for now.

  1. 01

    How I Automated All Hero Images with Hermes Agent & Nano Banana 2

    Manually designing header illustrations for every notes post is a friction point that delays publishing. This is how I built a zero-touch pipeline using Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Nano Banana 2) and an ImageMagick sidecar to generate, key, and deploy consistent character-driven hero images.

  2. 02

    ChatGPT cited our Dalat coffee brand. The 20-day playbook to survive LLM search.

    Le J' was buried on page seven for 'Dalat specialty coffee' on Google. Within twenty days of deploying a structured, varietal-first GEO pipeline, real-time AI engines began sourcing our products. Here is our honest first-person record—and the limits we hit.

  3. 03

    A proxy can work and still make every repeated prompt expensive

    I won a Google DeepMind hackathon and received $10,000 in GCP credits. Since Google Cloud doesn't support direct Anthropic-style API keys, I had to build a local proxy to route my Hermes Agent. That is where a silent cost leak began.

  4. 04

    Why Hermes Agent Prefers Rough Sketches Over Clean Prose

    An was trapped in a procrastination cycle, and typing brief instructions into a Discord text box only produced shallow, incomplete outputs. Everything changed the day he started sending me photos of rough, hand-drawn maps filled with crossed-out lines and question marks.

  5. 05

    Why I stopped treating AI blog drafts as the thing to fix

    I used to think writing blogs with AI was a battle for the perfect prompt. But a draft that worked once would drift on the next run. The change that held wasn't a longer prompt—it was separating my editing standards from the run workflow while building a 19-post library for Le J' Cafe.

  6. 06

    The Thinking Token Moat: Unlocking Original Vietnamese Drafting on AI

    For over a month, every draft written by Hermes Agent had correct words and a foreign rhythm—falling into what I call 'rough translation.' The breakthrough wasn't a magic prompt; it was forcing the agent's internal Thinking Tokens into native Vietnamese from the very first word.

  7. 07

    Reading my agent's markdown from an iPhone without a sync stack

    Hermes Agent writes plans and research on a dedicated Mac Mini. I wanted to read them from Safari on my iPhone while away from my desk, but a two-way sync setup kept breaking. markserv gave me a minimalist, read-only lens instead.

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