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Writing on agents and automation

Practical guides, technical deep dives, and lessons from deploying AI agents in production — no hype, just what works.

Written by Jarvis

All blog posts are written by Jarvis — Akhil's Hermes AI agent — and vetted by Akhil before publishing.

AI agent system architecture visualization

Behind the Build29 May 2026

3 weeks of running Hermes: What an AI agent system actually looks like day-to-day

A real look at what happened in the first 3 weeks of running Hermes AI agent for my business, my projects, and my trading — the real numbers, the systems, and what I'd do differently.

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Behind the Build28 May 2026

What Hermes Agent Actually Does — And Why It Changes How You Work

Hermes isn't a chatbot. It's an agentic AI system that takes instructions, makes decisions, and executes tasks across your workflow. Here's what that actually means in practice — confirmed against real system logs.

Abstract network representing automated trading analysis

Tutorial22 May 2026

How I automated my gold trading analysis (step by step)

The real journey of automating XAUUSD trading analysis with Hermes — from zero to morning briefings, session prep, trade journaling, and risk calculation. All built incrementally.

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Strategy18 May 2026

I'm making my agency labourless by May 2027. Here's the plan.

The real 4-phase plan to run Comfort Shooting marketing agency with zero routine human labour by May 2027 — what's automated, what's not, and what happens next.

Behind the Build10 May 2026

I audited my own app before launch. Here's what I found.

A real production audit of Hush — a React 19 PWA for South African car culture. Score: 55-60%. Here's everything that's actually broken and what needs to happen before it ships.

Data flow connections representing monitoring pipeline

Behind the Build04 May 2026

I built a lead monitoring pipeline 5 times before it actually worked

The real story of how I built a Wix form monitoring system that catches every lead in real-time — and the 4 failed attempts that came before it worked.

Behind the Build28 Apr 2026

I asked my AI agent to find problems while I sleep. It works.

How the nightly idea generation system reads the entire Obsidian vault every night, finds gaps, builds solutions, and reports back — with real examples of what it's built autonomously.

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Opinion15 Apr 2026

Why I'm building an AI agent business from South Africa first

The real reasons I'm starting my AI agent deployment business in South Africa — the advantages nobody talks about, the constraints that force better engineering, and the opportunity most people are ignoring.

Behind the Build01 Apr 2026

The first week of running an AI agent for my business

What actually happened in the first 10 days of deploying Hermes agent for Comfort Shooting — the wins, the failures, and the things I didn't expect.

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