iMessage Hermes on a Raspberry Pi vs BDFL - Benevolent Delegator for LLMs

An always-on AI agent that lives on a cheap little Raspberry Pi in your home, with a real phone number you text over iMessage or SMS from anywhere. It runs Hermes, an open-source agent, and installs by handing the guide to a coding agent that works over SSH. Best of all, it's a foundation: build a family calendar on a kitchen screen, a recipe helper on the fridge, whatever you dream up. We build in public — join the Discord to see what others are making.

BDFL (Benevolent Delegator for LLMs) is an open-source terminal supervisor designed to orchestrate complex coding sessions using AI agents like Codex, Claude Code, and Ollama. Instead of relying on a single AI window, BDFL separates the workflow into specialized roles. Users interact with a 'planning agent' to create versioned, deliberate plans. Once the human user approves the plan—or specific sections of it—BDFL automatically delegates the tasks to isolated 'worker agents' that execute the code in parallel. Beyond just task delegation, the platform handles the heavy lifting of scheduling, running checks, verifying code, and managing integration. Every worker operates in an isolated environment, ensuring that code changes are properly sandboxed and reviewed before being merged. Because it operates entirely locally without any telemetry or centralized tracking, BDFL offers developers a secure, deterministic, and highly observable way to scale their AI-assisted software development.