Hermes vs Claude Code: What to Use?
📚 Main topics
- Hermes as an assistantHermes works well for conversational, occasional tasks such as planning schedules, organizing activities, and handling small agentic requests. Its memory and availability across chat make it useful when tasks are varied rather than repeated constantly. 0:31
- Building a channel dashboardThe creator first used a Hermes skill for recurring YouTube work, including publishing videos, analyzing performance, managing comments, and researching trends. As the workflow grew more complex, they built a dashboard with Claude Code to make results easier to inspect and more reliable. 1:03
- What the dashboard providesThe dashboard makes it possible to browse video details, links, and comments, monitor pipeline progress, and spot issues visually. It also includes intelligence features using Kimi and MiniMax, and an evergreen page for reviewing which videos keep performing well. 6:13
✨ Key takeaways
- Use the right tool for the taskHermes is suited to flexible, occasional tasks, while Claude Code is better for coding projects that need a custom interface and dependable, inspectable results. 8:19
- Dashboards improve visibilityA dashboard can show what a pipeline fetched and where it encountered problems, rather than relying on an agent to report results that may be incomplete or inaccurate. 6:13
- Build for repeated, long-term workA custom dashboard takes more effort upfront, but can be worthwhile for power users who expect to repeat a workflow over time. 9:22
🧠 Lessons learned
- Complex workflows outgrow simple skillsThe Hermes skill initially worked and was quick to set up, but the growing number of scripts and repeated tasks made the workflow harder to trust and manage. 2:06
- Account for the build timeTurning the workflow into a dashboard took about three weeks, not the couple of hours the creator initially expected, because it involved decisions about the frontend, backend, and other parts of the system. 5:11
- A dashboard brings extra responsibilitiesCustom interfaces require attention to login, privacy protection, and database management—concerns that are handled for you when using Hermes. 9:22
🏁 Conclusion/next steps
- Choose based on frequency and certaintyUse Hermes for quick, occasional agentic tasks; use Claude Code to build a dashboard when work is repeated and needs a visual interface with predictable results. 9:53
- Consider expanding the dashboardThe creator offers to explain the dashboard-building process in more detail and has already added an evergreen page to help assess video performance and ideas. 10:24
Transcript excerpt
0:01 So, when should you use Hermes and when should you use Claude code? This is not a clear-cut question and answer as a lot of you guys might think. And a lot of people were asking me during my last video on Claude code this exact same question. Like, what when when does, you know, Hermes excel? When does Claude code excel? And what should you be doing? And being on this channel, we are about practical examples. And I'll give you a few very very good examples that we found where
0:31 Hermes really shined. And then, at the same time, I'll show you a little bit about how a few for a few certain tasks we migrated and used Claude code. So, first and foremost, like when should you use Hermes? Well, Hermes is extremely good at being your assistant, right? So, it's a very clear-cut when you're doing something like managing your schedule, your timetable, anything with planning, and any anytime you want to kind of talk to someone. Hermes is always around on every type of chat, and
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