Technical
Focus on the Solution, Not the AI Hype
AI hype promises autonomous software factories and imminent AGI. In the customer trenches every day, the real work looks very different.
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Skin in the Game: Being Serious About AI
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We built a custom, almost entirely local family AI named Sadie. Powered by an AMD inference box, HomeAssistant, and a tailored Open WebUI fork.
Technical
Hybrid LLMs: Cloud for Code, Local for Home
Cloud models do my work. Local models run my home. I built a hybrid LLM setup on an Infplane Hilbert, and this post is my first local coding experiment.
Technical
How I'm Building Software in August 2026
I threw out my prescriptive agent harness and rebuilt it around Anthropic's v5 guidance. The migration was miserable. The results are worth it.