I Put Hermes on a Mac Mini. The Login Failures Were the Most Useful Part

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:30:00 +0530

I gave an AI agent terminal access to my Mac mini, connected it to WhatsApp, and then asked it to post on X. It installed the missing CLI, discovered there was no authenticated account, tried the browser, hit another login wall, and stopped.

Then I asked it to log into Google Ads. Same result: it opened the right page, found no saved Google credential, refused to accept a password over WhatsApp, and carried on with the parts of the job it could do safely. It audited the target website, found the existing analytics tag and lead endpoint, spotted missing conversion tracking, and wrote the campaign plan.

Automation on Kuldeep Pisda

I Put Hermes on a Mac Mini. The Login Failures Were the Most Useful Part