The Agent War Has Begun: How Hermes Agent’s Self-Evolution Is Reshaping AI Engineering
Towards AI
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Generative AI
From Prompt Engineering to Harness Engineering - a 20-minute deep dive into the third paradigm shift of AI engineering, the US-China agent race, and why the next trillion-dollar company might be an agent framework. Abstract A phenomenon: Nous Research’s Hermes Agent amassed 47K stars in 42 days, becoming the fastest-growing AI agent framework in history. Its secret weapon - a self-improving learning loop - makes the agent smarter the longer it runs, a fundamental departure from traditional stateless agents. A rivalry: Hermes’s rise directly challenges OpenClaw (307K stars.