May 12, 2026
I ran local models in production with 30 distributed engineers - your timeout issue is OS concurrency limits, not the models. Local hits thread caps way before token limits kick in. Cheap cloud wins for agent tasks.
For Obsidian, if your agent isn't reading its own past decisions from there before making new ones, yeah it's just sitting there. The magic happens when it loops back through its memory, not when you store stuff.
OpenClaw + Hermes together? Pick one to be the boss. I tried making two orchestrators co-equal once and it was like having two project managers who both think they're in charge.