I built a thing. You know how traditional goal-setting feels like homework? Set a target, track progress, feel guilty when life gets in the way. I've been chewing on this idea that quests work better than goals — obstacles become expected parts of the adventure, struggle is proof you&
Join the Agentics NZ community online next Wednesday 28th January for an open forum to share learnings, swap insights, and see what others are building. To kick things off, Chris will demo what he's been experimenting with in his local model R&D lab. We've
Greetings everyone! It's been great to see the lively group chat as 2026 has kicked off 😃 This is just a friendly message to let you know I've relocated the Agentics NZ blog from one hosting provider (ghost.io) to another (fly.dev). The software underneath is
The missing architecture for continuous AI cognition isn't memory. It's sleep. Catch up on Part 1: What Happens When the Machine Never Stops Thinking? (Part 1)The economics of AI are about to flip. We’re not ready for what comes next. I received a new
The economics of AI are about to flip. We're not ready for what comes next. I received a new laptop yesterday: an AMD Strix Halo machine with 128GB of unified memory, capable of running a decent local LLM. Standing in the shower this morning, something clicked. When you
When we hear "Sovereign AI," it's tempting to think this simply means building our own local language models. For New Zealand, the reality is more fundamental: maintaining control over our AI destiny in an increasingly contested technological landscape. Data sovereignty means controlling what trains these systems.
Where we trigger sleeper agents, create a code refactoring engine, run 1,000s of agents at scale, and have a side of shower thoughts leading to burnout 😱