Peter Yang spent the last few months running OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini through ten capabilities he thinks a personal AI agent needs to handle. The headline is in his subtitle: nobody has won yet.

Yang on OpenClaw, an open-source personal-agent platform:

I estimate that 10% of my time with OpenClaw is spent fixing it instead of using it. Examples: It forgot it had access to edit Google Docs. It randomly started using a robot voice instead of the one I like. It breaks half the time after every update.

He switched to Hermes (a newer personal-agent platform from Nous Research) anyway:

If OpenClaw’s maintenance tax is wearing you down, give Hermes a try. A week in, it’s been more reliable for me.

Yang’s full comparison of Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini—plus the stack he ends up running—is in the post. His advice for the rest of us:

Pick one or two agents that work for you based on the pros and cons above and just commit.

His promise to anyone who picks one and stays:

Once you have an agent that’s available 24/7 and can actually get work done for you, you’ll never go back to a regular AI chat interface again.