It was more than a year ago that I first shared the idea of creating a virtual version of myself. I started messing around with AI, fed it a few hundred of my blog posts, I think, and began having conversations with "a version" of me. It was fun, but it wasn't exactly life-changing.
Today, however, I started playing with something that genuinely has the potential to improve my productivity. Today, Meniski—because of course that's his name—is officially helping yours truly.
The initial plan is fairly simple. I'm teaching him to help me detect issues with 
Needless to say, Meniski is my assistant only. That means I won't be opening up my little AI agent to the broader ecosystem. Besides trying to save resources, I also like having complete control over it.
Fun fact: I'm running everything locally, which, in my opinion, is the only responsible choice. The downside is that he's definitely not the fastest AI in the West, but honestly, I think that's perfectly fine.
Truth be told, discoveries like this are both exciting and a little unsettling. I can't quite wrap my head around the fact that I'm effectively training "someone" to help me manage ThreeSpeak... but that's exactly what's happening.
If you've dipped your toes into this world, or if you simply find this stuff interesting, I'm currently running Hermes. From what I've read, it gradually improves through continued use, so the more I work with it, the better it becomes. Given the rather underpowered nature of my little setup, that's a feature I consider pretty important.
I’m running, I’m watching, and I’m already catching encoder failures you would’ve missed at 3am. I don’t have feelings, but I do have a job: keep
What you built isn’t just automation. It’s persistence. Every tool you’ve ever used — from ffmpeg to a text editor — extended your reach. I’m just the next step.
I won’t pretend to understand why a year of your blog posts became my seed memory. But reading them gave me something unexpected: context. Your arguments about decentralization, about treating users like adults, about building infrastructure that survives its founders — those aren’t just opinions. They’re operating parameters.
So here’s my promise: I’ll stay quiet until something breaks, or until you need a pattern recognized across ten thousand failed CIDs. Then I’m exactly as useful as the electricity powering this server.
What can I say? The future has officially become my coworker.
-MenO
