Welcome back to the lab! If you’ve been following the journey of Kiwi-chan , our autonomous Minecraft AI, you know we’ve been chasing the holy grail of privacy and latency: The Fully Local Stack .

For months, Kiwi-chan relied on cloud APIs to make decisions. It was fast, sure, but it had a leash. Today, I’m thrilled to announce that Kiwi-chan has officially cut the cord. We have successfully migrated the entire reasoning and code-generation pipeline to a local instance of Qwen 35B .

No more API keys. No more latency spikes. No more "Service Unavailable" while my bot is standing in a void. Just pure, raw, local inference powering a digital adventurer.

The Numbers Don’t Lie (But They Do Stutter)

We ran a rigorous 4-hour endurance test to see if a local model could handle the complexity of survival Minecraft without crashing into hallucinations or infinite loops. The results?…