Notes from the build.
Essays on protocol frontends, governance UX, and agent-assisted engineering — published here first, mirrored to Protocol Grade.
AI & AGENT-ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT · AUGUST 20, 2026
My coding agent lost the plot. So I brought it in for questioning.
The box builds itself; the agent still needs taming. The config that routes Pi through llama-swap, the two context dials that have to agree, the truncation that ate a session — and the fix the agent found in its own logs, once I sat it down and asked the right questions.
AI & AGENT-ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT · AUGUST 16, 2026
The 128 GB box that replaced my API key
A Bosgame M5 with 128 GB of unified memory, turned into a headless Fedora server that runs 70B–120B-class models and drives a fully local, open-source coding agent — every decision, every gotcha.
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