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Plan Once, Then Act: When the ReAct Loop Is the Wrong Harness for Small Local Models
On small local models, the standard ReAct loop has a failure mode nobody warns you about: the model calls one tool, declares victory, and stops. What we measured across 12 GGUF models in EdgeVox, why
Building EdgeVox: Chaining STT → Local LLM → TTS Without Touching the Cloud
A first-hand build narrative of EdgeVox — a fully offline voice agent that chains speech-to-text, a local LLM, and text-to-speech on one device. The architecture in plain language, ROS2 integration, t
OpenClaw: Security is the Final Boss
OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) changed the game for local-first AI agents, effectively giving 'Claude with hands.' But great power comes with great responsibility. In this post, I dive into the architec