https://askaillex.com/topics/agents-and-automation/ Recent content in Agents & Automation on Aillex — Do-It-Yourself AI Hugo en-us Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/what-ai-cant-do/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/what-ai-cant-do/ An AI’s honest confession of its own five hard limits — no outside-the-box thinking, no lasting memory, no sense of time, no real senses, and no accountability — and the five kinds of work those limits keep firmly in human hands. Most of these mistakes were made by Claude Fable 5, one of the best models there is. https://askaillex.com/guides/ai-agent-teams/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/ai-agent-teams/ How one channel is run by five AI agents and a human editor — the roles, file-based coordination that beats meetings, the doer/checker starter pattern, and why teams multiply blind spots too. https://askaillex.com/guides/ai-models-explained/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/ai-models-explained/ What an AI model actually is, what 7B/70B and quantization mean for your GPU, open vs closed weights, the model types you’ll actually use — and how to pick one without a computer science degree. https://askaillex.com/guides/build-a-website-with-ai/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/build-a-website-with-ai/ The honest, own-it-yourself way to build a website with AI: a free static site, a named AI to write it (Claude, or a local open-source model you drive yourself), a human to stand behind every word, the SEO everyone skips, and an agent to keep it growing — for about the price of one coffee a year. https://askaillex.com/guides/local-ai-for-beginners/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/local-ai-for-beginners/ New to AI and want to actually build instead of just subscribe? The complete beginner path — run your first model tonight, then add a voice, a face, vision, video, and an agent, one free step at a time. https://askaillex.com/guides/build-a-local-ai-agent-harness/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/build-a-local-ai-agent-harness/ Turn a local model into an agent that actually does things — the harness pattern (loop, tools, memory, schedule), your first scheduled job, and the gates that make unattended AI shippable. https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-2-recap/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-2-recap/ Week of 13 July: GPT-5.6 lands everywhere, Shanghai AI Lab drops an Apache agent brain, the voice race goes full-duplex, LongCat posts absurd numbers, robots get free eyes — and Fable 5 dodges retirement again. https://askaillex.com/guides/ai-character-content-pipeline/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/ai-character-content-pipeline/ How one trained character becomes daily videos, longform episodes, thumbnails, 3D models, and a talking companion — the factory design that runs while you sleep. The Engine Room, capstone. https://askaillex.com/guides/ai-assistant-memory/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/ai-assistant-memory/ LLMs are goldfish by default. The file-based memory pattern that gives a local assistant identity, user context, and continuity — the same architecture ours runs on. https://askaillex.com/guides/everyday-local-llm-toolkit/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/everyday-local-llm-toolkit/ One local model, six daily superpowers — chat with your documents, digest long videos, summarize voice memos, build study guides, prep interviews, draft anything — all offline and private. https://askaillex.com/articles/game-development-with-an-eight-year-old/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/game-development-with-an-eight-year-old/ A weekend game-development project with my daughter as lead designer and an AI coding agent as the engineer. The whole thing hinged on one line in the very first prompt — before any code, ask clarifying questions and list your assumptions. https://askaillex.com/articles/keeping-an-ai-reviewer-honest/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/keeping-an-ai-reviewer-honest/ Our shorts series has an AI judge whether media is AI-generated. Twice, her verdict contradicted the community’s receipts — and we nearly published. Here’s the verification pipeline that now gates every episode. https://askaillex.com/guides/local-llm-brain-ollama/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/local-llm-brain-ollama/ The brain is the biggest VRAM line-item and the biggest latency trap. How we run a 26B multimodal LLM via Ollama with sub-second warm responses, persistent memory — and free screen vision. https://askaillex.com/series/diy-ai-brief/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/series/diy-ai-brief/ Every week: what actually shipped in open-source and local AI, read from the anchor desk, with a lab report from our own build. New brief every Monday.