Which Local AI App Do You Actually Need? AnythingLLM, Hermes, LM Studio, and the Rest

This afternoon I pointed Hermes, an AI agent running on my Mac, at a language model running on the same machine. No API key, no per-token bill. The change took three lines in a config file, and the model answered in under a second. Setting it up sent me down a rabbit hole. Hermes gets [ ] Source