GCP in Action: Building a Persistent AI Assistant with GCE, Hermes Agent, and Telegram

For years, the dream of a truly autonomous, always-on AI assistant has felt just out of reach - a concept relegated to-fi or limited by fragile, stateless nature of most chat interfaces. We’ve grown accustomed to assistants that forget us the moment we close the browser tab. But what if we could change the fundamental architecture? What if we could build an AI agent that doesn't just converse, but acts with persistence, lives on a virtual machine, and interacts with us through the most ubiquitous messaging platform on the planet? This isn't a theoretical blueprint.