Agents & Automation

This channel publishes every day whether the human is awake or not. That’s not a metaphor — it’s an agent harness you can build, a local brain, persistent memory, and a stack of small, boring, reliable automations. Boring reliable automation beats flashy demos; here’s the whole playbook. For what shipped this week in local AI, read the DIY AI Brief.

We Built a Game With an Eight-Year-Old Chief Designer (and One Prompt Made It Work)

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.

How We Keep an AI Reviewer Honest (the Editorial Engine Behind 'AI or Not?')

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.

Run a 26B AI Brain Locally — Warm, Multimodal, and With Memory

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.

The DIY AI Brief — weekly local-AI news

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.

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