According to 1M AI News monitoring, Jeffrey Quesnelle, co-founder and CEO of Nous Research, announced that the Hermes Agent he developed has independently completed the entire writing and typesetting of the novel "The Second Son of the House of Bells," comprising 19 chapters and 79,456 words. He distributed printed copies to attendees at the NVIDIA GTC event, stating that creating an AI system capable of telling compelling stories "has always been his dream." The entire process was self-constructed by the Agent and divided into four stages: The foundational layers such as world-building, characters, outline, and tone were iteratively generated until a satisfactory score was achieved. The second stage involved drafting chapter by chapter, with chapters scoring below 6.0 being discarded and rewritten. The third stage involved adversarial editing and reader panel simulations. Finally, it was fed into Claude Opus, which acted as both a "literary critic + novel professor" in a dual role, iteratively reviewing the manuscript until no significant improvements could be made. Quesnelle stated that the framework draws inspiration from Andrej Karpathy's proposed Autoresearch "modify-evaluate-keep/discard" loop and extends it to novel creation, directly tagging Karpathy in a tweet. Karpathy replied: "This is a great idea, and while it's hard to rigorously validate, if done with care, the results should be good." Nous Research is known for its Hermes series of open-source models and previously proposed the YaRN context extension method.