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Thoughts on local AI agents, developer workflows, and building tools that respect your privacy.

Why Your AI Coding Agent Should Run Locally

Most AI coding tools route your source code through a cloud service. A local-first agent keeps your code on your machine — here's why that matters.

AI agents can overwrite your work in ways that are hard to recover from. Automatic git checkpoints give you instant, per-turn rollback.

Connect a Telegram bot to your local muxd daemon and send tasks from your phone — same agent, same tools, anywhere you go.

Both are open-source AI coding agents, but they make fundamentally different architectural choices. Here's how to pick the right one.