https://basswoodcreative.com/insights Essays on protocol frontends, governance UX, and agent-assisted engineering. Published here first, mirrored to Protocol Grade. en-us https://basswoodcreative.com/insights/my-coding-agent-lost-the-plot https://basswoodcreative.com/insights/my-coding-agent-lost-the-plot Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://basswoodcreative.com/insights/the-128gb-box-that-replaced-my-api-key https://basswoodcreative.com/insights/the-128gb-box-that-replaced-my-api-key Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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.