Hermes + Qwen3.5:4b on a 5060Ti is all I need
I have a 5060ti 16gb VRAM and 64gb DDR5 System Ram. I started out wanting to test Hermes as a Claw alternative. After a few days I set up Telegram with the botfather, and I haven't gone back to CLI. Hermes is now almost entirely a personal assistant on my Telegram App. Where the 9b chugged along, the 4B model is snappy, responsive, alive and chatty.
— u/Birdinhandandbush, 2026-04-16, via Reddit.