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AI

Everything we publish on AI: the models we run on our own machines, what the tools send home, the benchmarks we measure ourselves and the claims we check against the code. Start with the investigations, then the guides.

Local AI agent for morning routine automation: setting up Hermes Agentautomation
Guides

Local AI agent for morning routine automation: setting up Hermes Agent

Learn how to set up Hermes Agent for morning routine automation. Use local AI to synthesize calendars, goals, and weather…

7 min
Graphify on a local model: we ran it and watched the networkgraphify
Research

Graphify on a local model: we ran it and watched the network

We ran Graphify on a local model and watched every socket it opened. 358 went to LM Studio, none went…

8 min
OpenCode vs OpenJarvis: which local AI agent phones home?local-ai
Research

OpenCode vs OpenJarvis: which local AI agent phones home?

OpenCode vs OpenJarvis: we captured what each one sends home. One has a working off switch. The other, the agent…

7 min
OpenJarvis on a Mac: we retested Stanford’s local AI agentlocal-ai
Guides

OpenJarvis on a Mac: we retested Stanford’s local AI agent

We reinstalled OpenJarvis on a Mac, captured its telemetry with a local sink, and found the undocumented off switch. What…

9 min
Sovereign AI Stack: Ownership vs Cognitive Rentallocal-ai
Case Studies

Sovereign AI Stack: Ownership vs Cognitive Rental

Explore the shift from cognitive rental to a sovereign AI stack. Learn why local LLMs are essential for preserving creative…

6 min
How to build a private, always-on AI assistant on your Mac with Hermes Agent and LM Studioapple-silicon
Guides

How to build a private, always-on AI assistant on your Mac with Hermes Agent and LM Studio

How to build a private AI assistant on Mac with Hermes Agent and LM Studio, running on an M4 Pro.…

5 min
Set up a brand voice across OpenCode, Hermes, and Picoding-agents
Guides

Set up a brand voice across OpenCode, Hermes, and Pi

One brand voice spec, wired into three agents. How we point OpenCode, Hermes, and Pi at the same voice files…

7 min
Brand voice for AI agents: the layer that beats a better modelcoding-agents
Research

Brand voice for AI agents: the layer that beats a better model

We built a five-file brand voice for AI agents. Why the output spec, not the model, is the layer that…

6 min
How exo Clusters Macs to Run a 671B Model Locallyapple-silicon
Research

How exo Clusters Macs to Run a 671B Model Locally

exo is open-source software that pools several Apple Silicon Macs into one machine, so a cluster can run models like…

5 min
Set up local LLM tool calling in Hermes and OpenCode on a MacGemma 4
Guides

Set up local LLM tool calling in Hermes and OpenCode on a Mac

We set up local LLM tool calling in Hermes and OpenCode on a 48 GB Mac mini. Why small models…

5 min