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This is worth reading, I think:
Every B2B CEO we talk to right now has some version of the same question. “How do we become more agentic? What’s the first move? Do we need a Chief AI Officer? A forward-deployed engine…
Lots of articles about the unsustainability of AI for all kinds of reasons.
But none mention that you can configure and run super capable AI locally and on-prem.
I'm not sure why this is. Why the blind spot, and why the omission?
It seems a little suspicious, actually.
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Tech journalists that do not understand prohibitions on shipping software as power relations, or do not understand technology enough to connect API access to profits and predation, are not useful as narrators of the present moment:
https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/
Armed with new powers to rein in the worst excesses of mobile's duopolists, regulators around the world are struggling to find their footing. The UK's CMA is only the latest to pose capitulation as success. Far from unlocking growth and dynamism, regulatory timidity is reducing enforcers' future room for manoeuvre and hampering home-grown competitors to Big Tech. Unleashing the web would fix a great deal of what's broken, but regulators are falling down on the job. It's time we spoke plainly about it.
ICYMI, all of the arguments the mobile duopolists make to justify their chokehold over mobile software are bullshit, starting with security. Cutting off side loading furthers the coverup of native app insecurity:
https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/#the-security-argument
MADA hijinks (look it up), nerfing PWAs in Play, and failure to open up WebAPKs is a funhouse mirror of Apple's anti-web strategy.
Portability and interoperability are the duopolist's enemies, so a safe, powerful web is kryptonite.
/cc @owa @pluralistic
I'm seeing the active de-skilling happen in corners that were somewhat insulated from previous episodes of "yolo, what is an engineering?" (e.g., widescale adoption of React), but it's much more intense in the communities that already decided that evidence isn't an epistemic requirement.
#lmstudio model loading panel has an extremely useful and time saving interface that shows you an estimate of the effective memory usage based on your model runtime parameter settings.
Great tool 🙏
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