Language models and coding agents are great, but there is more to life, and more to AI, than just LLM agents.
Agent or tool-use pattern - relevant to local AI workflow automation.
Independent publication // local-first AI // field reports from owned systems
Nodehome
A running publication about local models, private inference, self-hosted agents, weird hardware, research sweeps, and the builders wiring their own AI stack together.
AI is getting physical again. It shows up in terminals, racks, side projects, and ugly little workflows people actually control.
Latest
Daily Sweep - Jul 13, 2026Show HN: Clawk - Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop
Agent or tool-use pattern - relevant to local AI workflow automation.
ZOTAC RTX 5090 reportedly ‘blew up’ during gameplay
GPU hardware mention - directly relevant to the build or resale market.
Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
Cloud/closed-model news - context for the local-first value proposition.
Field Reports
builds, experiments, notesThree RTX 3090s, One 32B Model: A Pipeline-Parallel Canary
A current field note on why the 3x3090 serving path moved through pipeline parallelism, not tensor parallelism, for the tested 32B AWQ model.
Gemma 4 12B And The Sensory Agent Lane
A public-safe read on Gemma 4 12B as a local sensory preprocessor: useful for seeing, hearing, and structuring observations without turning into an action system.
Hardware
machines, thermals, economicsPower Caps On Three RTX 3090s: Bursts Versus Sustained Load
A measured note on 300W bursty inference, lower caps for sustained runs, and why power-cap sweet spots are workload-specific.
Parallel Agent Serving Is A Hardware Shape Now
A field-report read on 14x RTX 3090 agent serving, EXL3, FP8 KV cache, Aphrodite, and why concurrency is becoming the local hardware metric.