Tag: Agents
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Owning Your Agent, Part 2: Local Agents in the Wild — Using Hermes to Upgrade My WHOOP
Before We Begin Welcome back. This is a follow-up from our part 1 agent poast I did a few months ago. A lot has changed since the first agentic post that I published. I built a new AI cluster, my v2 machine, and it’s juiced up big time compared to the previous machine, when I…
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Go Big or Go Home, Part 3: Testing A LOT of models on the New GPU Cluster
Two RTX 3090s, 128 GB of ECC memory, and four open-weight models: testing hybrid inference, long context, MTP, agents, and real applications.
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Go Big or Go Home, Part 1: My New AI Cluster
Before We Start I built a new local AI server. It is fully operational, and I have the benchmark data—and the results from running some seriously large open-source models—to prove it. Local AI rigs exploded in popularity in 2026 alongside the growing demand for models that people can run on their own hardware. Unfortunately, the…
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Owning Your Agent part 1: Local Agentic Work with Hermes on Dual RTX 3090s
“Never send a human to do a machine’s job.” – Agent Smith, The Matrix (1999) You fire up your machine and stare aimlessly into the terminal — “or whatever ‘insert AI company name’ app you opened today” — and your reflection stares back at you from the screen. You’re waiting on Claude Code. Again. The…
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Year of the Fire Horse, Year of the Agent: A Prelude to My Agentic Research
I just wrapped up the first research module on local agentic AI and I have a lot to say. Before I start publishing my work on agents, I wanted to drop this post as a warmup (and a warning). We are progressing rapidly with local AI. As of 2026, we fast-tracked our way via model…