Hermes in My Homelab: Living With a Personal AI Agent

I have more ideas than time. My side-project backlog is full of things I genuinely want to explore: “Is a Crossplane Composition plus function-sequencer really equivalent to a hand-written Kubebuilder controller?”, “Can Temporal reliably drive a Deep-Agent loop?” and more recently “Can TigerData run on CNPG without a custom operator?” In theory, these just need a focused weekend. In reality, between work, chasing after my kids in playground, and sometime my wife need a husband as well, my window for “sitting at a desk to explore” is maybe two evenings a week....

May 30, 2026 · 8 min · Pradithya Aria Pura