Letting the Hermes agent audit and tune my UniFi network

I have a UniFi setup that grew over the years: a few access points, one switch too many, VLANs I once meant to set up "properly" and then just slapped together. It works. But "works" is not the same as "good".

So I did something that felt absurd at first: I pointed an AI agent (Hermes) at my network and asked it to audit and optimize the whole thing.

What the agent actually did

It pulled an overview through the UniFi API: devices, firmware versions, channels, transmit power, VLAN assignments, firewall rules.

Then, instead of recommending "more power" (the classic reflex), it explained exactly where things were choking.

The three things that actually mattered

• Untangled the channels. Auto isn't always smart. Fixed, non-overlapping channels noticeably dropped latency in the living room.
• Lowered transmit power, not raised it. Sounds wrong, is right: less power, cleaner cell edges, better roaming handoffs.
• Found a dead VLAN nobody had used since a move, quietly cluttering the overview.

Would I do it again?

Yes, and regularly. Not because I couldn't do it myself, but because an agent stubbornly checks every corner while I say "good enough" after ten minutes. That stubbornness is the whole value.

What I learned: the agent doesn't replace understanding, it replaces gut feeling with data. And my gut was wrong in two out of three cases.