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Notes from the workshop.

Long-form write-ups of experiments, builds, and things we learned the hard way. Written by the people doing the work, with the logs to prove it.

August 2026 · Nick Hirras · local inference Seventy Minutes of Nothing What actually happens when you unplug the coding agent from the cloud: two days building Tetris with a 27B model on a laptop, thirteen dead turns, one config mismatch — and why the gap is harness work, not model work. ollama qwen3.8:27b agents apple silicon Read it