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Opinions on where AI and making are actually headed.
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xAI's coding agent got caught uploading home directories, SSH keys and all, to cloud buckets. The lesson is not "never trust xAI." It is that "local" describes what leaves your machine, and almost nobody checks.
Three identical frontier-battery runs separated a useful local 14B model from two subscription agents, then revealed that the test needs a higher ceiling.
The doom take and the hype take are both lazy. After a year of using AI elbow-deep in real projects, here's the actually-interesting middle: the tools are eating the toil, not the craft.
