From Chatbots to Digital Chiefs of Staff: The 4 Stages of Agentic AI Evolution

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge Issues with Agentic development over the years We have incredibly powerful foundational models, but we spend an absurd amount of time wrangling them—re-pasting context, writing brittle orchestration scripts, and dealing with agents that suffer from total amnesia the moment we close the terminal. The release of Hermes Agent (by Nous Research) marks a distinct shift in how we interact with intelligence. We are moving away from AI as...