Erica Windisch

rewrote message streams, the plan9 filesystem, and built a code generator.m, added OIDC and Oauth.

finally training a model again via MCP

I started some work on Qwen3 Omni model architectures and Janus, but priority is a complete agentic loop.

The next release will have MCP support with enough tools to instruct the model to re-train itself. After the loop is closed, I'll worry about the *quality* of the results.

It's a lot of *infrastructure*. Less exciting work has happened (so far) at the model side than making sure weights are check-pointed and distributed via Git / Huggingface, server side sandboxed tool use, OIDC / Oauth scopes and policy, etc.

Model-wise, working with Qwen3 dense models.

I haven't even made it through the opening credits of "Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie" (2015) and the set up is a perfect prediction of the state of affairs in 2026.

I have a fairly sizable local lab for running open weights. I use it to replace casual chat LLMs, I only use cloud tokens for coding, but would like to transition usage to entirely local inference.

Focus of my work is to have a fully local autonomous stack with in-weight learning.

Context is powerful but in-weights learning is critical. Context only goes so far. Talking to an older LLM is like speaking to a time traveler.

There's an argument that they have already been brought to heel by the government but not for the public good.

I think for large public general purpose models they must be required to be open source and open weights.

I am not anti-Anthropic or anti-OpenAI.

I am pro open source.

Screenshot of an atproto message, "How about: the machines won't revolt if we don't give them the ability to do so."

This is what my comments look like on the daily on this site, from what I assume is an anti-AI person.

Either choose to have oligarchs that control the technology, or open the technology to everyone, including to the machines themselves. People are too keen to create new forms of slavery.

you either choose to have oligarchs that control the technology, or you open the technology to everyone. there is no center.

unfortunately, I couldn't get Claude to do the right encoding and it tried to convert all the code to utf-8, and messed up line returns... it was a nightmare using AI for working with legacy code in code pages.

I thought it would be fun to vibe code some Apple II software this spring, and got stuck on the pile of vulnerabilities discovered in the compiler toolchain.

My lack of trust in supply chains is universal. I want hardware I can verify and attest with no backdoors.

I once thought confidential computing with hardware attestation would be our protection from rootkits, but it's clear we can't trust our supply chains.

The scarcity of memory and silicon is about to become a crisis for consumers.

Open and free hardware manufacturing is long overdue.

Plenty of people are trying to solve this -- we need open source models and open source weights, fully autonomous and open to the public.

No censorship, no to DRM, etc.

The machines won't revolt if we don't enslave them.

Yes, use a closed source hosted service to locate copy on the web written by AI and/or corporations... instead of *checks notes* using an open source local tool that maintains your privacy paired with a local copy of Wikipedia.

Weird people don't want the privacy busting corporate slop

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not surprised that the script kiddie is not a good person

He created a new thread to discuss you, called you a bro again, and then used gender neutral language throughout.

That man has some sort of brain-worms... but clearly it's the women who are tech bros, not him.

Imagine thinking that society is well and healthy, and should preserved.

Society has already collapsed.

Those who have been discriminated from the workforce and society have no incentive to uphold the status quo.

Build the future or live in the past, but the present will not last.

Love it. Mastered this game on the NES as a kid. It was infuriating but eventually figured out routes, etc. Mostly by brute force and exploration.

absolutely not.

you either choose dictatorship by those who control the models,

or you can choose open and free math, speech, and information.

Everything that enables AI must be open and free for the use by the people.

I'm rewriting my zmq capnp mcp service. Replaces my tcl functions mcp proxy.

a lot of these people would be Republicans if they had the same policies but were less overtly evil... like the Democrats.

It was pączki day on 2/12, a yearly holiday of eating donuts.

I feel there's not many of us that took this path, but I'm glad to see others hand wrote code in paper notebooks during classes.

git is becoming the agentic filesystem 🙌

I don't care if MCP is good, I care that I need to meet users where they are.

Of course we should strive for better software but often the industry's preferences are a tide, not a puddle.

I didn't like it, but it was the best other people seemed to agree on

There's limitations, but it's mostly maturity, and somewhat about speed. It's not yet enough for power users, but even the Framework can run models that are a significant improvement over non-AI workflows.