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SH Sam Herring On MLOps.community

“In SF and New York, they drive around these little three-wheel ticketing cars… I started to do some research and found out they're sold on government auction. In February, the first live demo of Hermes agent that we did on Discord, I got on and showed everyone the end-to-end process of me tasking Hermes to write a script to search government auction sites every day… A listing came up that I bought.”

MLOps.community · AI Builders · November 2026

“In SF and New York, they drive around these little three-wheel ticketing cars… I started to do some research and found out they're sold on government auction. In February, the first live demo of Hermes agent that we did on Discord, I got on and showed everyone the end-to-end process of me tasking Hermes to write a script to search government auction sites every day… A listing came up that I bought.” — Sam Herring, MLOps.community

Context

The story behind the episode title. Herring had his Hermes agent watch government auction sites every day until a retired parking-enforcement three-wheeler came up, which he bought and now drives around San Francisco.

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Transcript

MLOps.community Around 02:56 into the episode
Sam Herring

…with doing it and an hour later I came back to him with a program that, you know, it was like codas on GitHub in an hour. No way. And it could find any clothes currently listed that matched either clothing that you could send it or a picture of something random. Like yeah. So I still use that. A

Speaker 2

random item, just like pottery. Yeah. That is, and it's like, what, what vibes with this? I really am inspired by this pottery. I need that. Yeah. All right. I'm going to go look up that.

Sam Herring

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dude. It's, it's a, um, it was a fun use, and I still use it when I want to find clothes. That's great. Uh, the other thing is in SF and New York, I guess other cities, they drive around these little three-wheel ticketing cars. They're these tiny triangular cars. Yeah. I have seen one in my neighborhood, one or two, and I started to. Some research and found out they're sold on government auction. So, in February, the first live demo of Hermes agent that we did on Discord, I got on and showed everyone the end-to-end process of me tasking Hermes to write a script to search government auction sites every day. And you can find one of these cars in May. A listing came up that I bought. No, and I know you have one. Yes, I tried to get

Demetrios Brinkmann

a bit too far.

Speaker 2

You really, you

Sam Herring

have one, and I drive it around San Francisco all the time.

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