https://www.fabswill.com/tags/governance/ Recent content in Governance on Fabian G. Williams Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.fabswill.com/blog/i-added-a-second-local-agent-and-kept-the-receipt/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.fabswill.com/blog/i-added-a-second-local-agent-and-kept-the-receipt/ This week I trialed a second local coding agent, Hermes from Nous Research, on my own MacBook Pro M3 Max, pointed at the same local Qwen 3.8 model I already run. I installed it additively, so nothing already working could break, governed it with manual approvals, and did not stop until it proved it behaves. Here is the trial, in tables and screenshots. One housekeeping note before the story. Last week’s post got called AI slop on Reddit.