Explore the mess / 5 entries

Local AI

Projects, experiments, and notes involving local ai. Follow a topic across otherwise unrelated rabbit holes.

PublishedOct 3, 2026
project

Odysseus

Exploring a self-hosted AI workspace led to authorization hardening, blocking CI, local release checks, and a first-run setup test that exposed a missing-directory problem.

Documented activity: June 7, 2026 – June 8, 2026
PublishedOct 3, 2026
project / experiment

An AI agent in a disposable VM

A personal lab for watching how an ordinary sudo-capable agent handled normal Linux tasks, including malformed actions and a suspected loop.

Documented activity: May 21, 2026 – May 23, 2026
PublishedOct 3, 2026
project

WhackyDesk

A local AI desktop concept developed around Linux identities, a trusted broker, staged outputs, and evidence that could actually support its security claims.

Documented activity: May 17, 2026 – June 7, 2026