JBDWW — engineered.

The log · local AI, in public

Build notes from the edge — boxes, stacks, verified numbers.

This is the public build log for the local-AI work: what I run, what I'm wiring up, and the specs I actually checked against before I trust them. No vendor copy, no benchmark theater — just what the box does when it has to work.

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local AI privacy cost resilience

Why I run local AI — privacy, cost, and the day the internet left

Six honest reasons to run AI on your own hardware: your data never leaves the building, a model shaped to your job, no per-token meter — and it's still your AI on the day the uplink is down.

Sept 14, 2026·~6 min read·the case for local-first
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