X Search Used to Mean Scrapers, OAuth, or Paid Tiers. x_search Does It for $0.005.
xAI shipped x_search as part of their Agent Tools API. The price is $0.005 per query. Twenty dollars of credits covers roughly 4,000 searches. Here is what t...
Perplexity Cut Pro Deep Research to 20 a Month. My Hermes Agent Stack Runs Each Query for 22 Cents.
Perplexity cut Pro Deep Research to 20 queries a month in February 2026, a 900x downgrade. I rebuilt the loop on Hermes Agent, Exa, x_search, one local model, and a Claude Max subscription. Here is...
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Before You Swap Your Local LLM Backend, Two Things to Check
If you’ve thought about switching the local LLM server on your Mac from Ollama to llama.cpp, there are two things that don’t show up in the obvious benchmark...
The Loop Tax Is Wall-Clock, Not Quality
I built a 4-branch falsification looking for the iteration ceiling on a local 27B-class agent. The quality cliff didn’t surface. The wall-clock divergence di...
Ollama and llama.cpp: Three Structural Differences on the Same Model
The community framing is simple: ‘Ollama is a ggml fork, llama.cpp is faster.’ I ran the same model blob through both runtimes on a Mac Studio M2 Max with th...
A Shared Memory for Hermes and Claude Code
Hermes ships with a strong built-in memory system, but it lives inside Hermes. If you drive a second agent (in my case, Claude Code), the memory stays behind...
Two Weeks of OpenClaw That Never Landed: The Day I Packed for Hermes
I packed my box for Hermes and it held almost nothing. Two weeks of OpenClaw, and the things worth carrying over fit in a single cardboard box. I spent the f...
Is OpenClaw Actually Broken This April? Two Weeks of My Local Ollama Logs
OpenClaw has been brittle since late March. On my local Ollama setup I can now point at the exact line of code, the exact minute it went wrong, and the three...