No, We Have AI At Home Chapter 1: A Box Of Scraps August 13 2026 It's an interesting time to be a software dev; the transformer large language model is, in my opinion, the first really new and interesting technological development in the field in a long time. AI coding agents built on this have rapidly become core to working in this profession, and the feeling is kind of like going from doing woodworking with hand tools to using power tools, for better or for worse. Me, I've only ever been able to trust a piece of technology if I can take it apart and put it together in my garage. The thing where you connect to a service and use a coding agent under somebody else's control bugs me; there's too many ways for this to go wrong. You'll start depending on it and then it'll get taken away from you. This whole technology is exciting, but I don't want to go and connect to some big AI data center somewhere; I want a little AI data center in every home!…