I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1501 - My Agentic-AI Adventure with Hermes Agent Continues, and the Challenges of Rate Limits - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, August 28, 2026

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 7 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Since the free-preview period for GLM5.3-Flash (under the anonymous 'Ox Alpha' moniker) ended on OpenCode earlier this week, I've been testing an assortment of open-weight LLMs and LLM-inference providers via free offerings, to find a combo that works consistently and reliably for my setup with Hermes Agent. Aside from OpenCode, I've also given OpenRouter, AIHubMix, and Nvidia a try, and I've had success using all of them, but in the end rate limits, especially on weekends (when servers are overloaded), have always come back to bite me. With that being the case, I've been jumping around a bit.

In my LLM-inference-provider hopping, I've worked (even for a short time) with some excellent, very capable models, like my favorite GLM5.3-Flash, Kimi-K3, Nemotron-3-Ultra, and Hy3. I still want to test out Laguna-S-2.1, Deepseek-V4-Flash, and Mimo2.5, but according to Grok (on X), of those models Nemotron-3-Ultra is the best fit for use in Hermes Agent for long-running agentic workflows and coding.

Running my own LLMs locally is the best choice for day-to-day routines and tasks, but I'm still working on stability and reliability over long-running sessions, so for the moment I'm primarily using open-source and open-weight cloud-based models for my work with Hermes. Although it's a bit hit or miss due to rate limits, good progress is still being made using various capable models.

At the moment I'm working with Hermes on tying up any loose ends and breaks in our agentic flow, which we're accomplishing bit by bit, to make our whole agentic operating system more resilient. Thankfully most of this work can be delegated to Hermes to carry out, with my direction and suggestions.

Even with the frustrations and setbacks, everything is moving a lot more quickly now in terms of development and progress, and free cloud-based models have made it possible. I'm also getting a good bit of experience working with, and getting to know, different models and model families, which is super interesting to me, as they each have their own unique agentic flavor inside Hermes.

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 3PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, after which I went to the shop to collect some twine, an iron stake, and a mallet, and then I traversed the property to stake one of my allspice trees back upright after it got knocked semi-sideways during the last hurricane. With that completed, I got my machete and I went to do some clearing in the new orchard behind Kana's place. Once I had that done for the day, I trekked back across the property again to take a shower, and to make myself some food, and to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge in Wabisabi, before heading back to the Flow House to work with Hermes a bit more, and to begin on my evening Hive tasks. It's now just before 2PM, so it's an excellent time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on some jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's manifestation of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

2026 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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