Hermes Agent and the Rise of Agentic Operating Systems

Every forty years, the way we touch a computer changes shape. The command line gave way to the mouse. The mouse gave way to the touchscreen. And now, quietly, the screen itself is starting to disappear. In this episode, we follow Hermes, an open-source agentic operating system that hit number one on OpenRouter in ninety days, processing 224 billion tokens a day. Persistent memory, self-written skills, local-first execution: Hermes is not an app you launch, it is a digital coworker that launches things for you. And while the text interface collapses into orchestration, the voice interface is collapsing into presence: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab just unveiled "interaction models" that listen, watch, and speak at the same time, in 200-millisecond micro-turns. Two paradigm shifts, one direction. The OS becomes the agent. The agent becomes the conversation.Inspired by recent research on Agentic Operating Systems, this episode was created using Google's NotebookLM.