A developer explains why they abandoned OpenClaw and Hermes in favor of building a personal agent with Eve. The video covers the agent-framework landscape, experiments deploying Eve on Convex and Cloudflare, rebuilding the Pluto agent for better performance, and the supporting tools (Mobin MCP, Bezel) that enable memory, email, payments and device control.
- Why I left OpenClaw/Hermes: Frequent breaking updates, instability, and opinionated features made those platforms unreliable for a robust personal agent.
- Why Eve: Eve is a framework built on AI SDK that provides file-based routing and built-in plumbing (streaming, durability, sub-agents), giving developers both control and convenience.
- Deployments & experiments: Demonstrates running Eve fully on Convex and Cloudflare, and shows a rapid rebuild of Pluto with improved performance and clearer architecture.
- Tooling & user experience: Uses Mobin MCP for UI/UX references and Bezel for agent tools (memory, email, payments, computer access), arguing the best personal agent is still yet to emerge.
Quotes:
OpenClaw tends to break every update.
Eve is Nex.js to AI SDK’s React.
I rebuilt Pluto in literally less than a week or two.
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| Upload date: | 2026-09-12 |
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Specification: I replaced OpenClaw and Hermes With Eve
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