AITi publishes one high-quality original AI essay every week: teardowns, industry analysis, people stories and first-hand practice. Opinionated about AI — not a content mill.https://www.getaiti.com/en-ushttps://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/008-one-agent-per-person/https://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/008-one-agent-per-person/From six months of hands-on Hermes to Dots, Muse, and TraeWork: once an agent has long-term memory, files, permissions, tasks, and a runtime, it is no longer just a chat feature.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTen-usAI AgentPersistent AgentHermesIndustry Analysishttps://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/007-local-ai-picturebook-agent/https://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/007-local-ai-picturebook-agent/I moved the language model, the agent, and image generation entirely onto my own machine: how a local agent painted an 8-page cat picture book and a 7-page Japanese-style short manga all by itself.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTen-usLocal AIAgentImage GenerationHands-on Testhttps://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/006-qwen38-27b-mac/https://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/006-qwen38-27b-mac/No spec-sheet talk, just lived experience: after an open-source 27B model lived on my MacBook for over a month — 200,000 tokens fed in, two days of real work — these are the honest impressions.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTen-usLocal AIOpen-source modelsHands-on testshttps://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/005-programming-in-ai-era/https://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/005-programming-in-ai-era/AI writes the code now, but syntax trivia is depreciating while judgment is appreciating — from Karpathy's vibe coding to my own Second Brain Graph, the syllabus for learning to program changed, it just didn't get any smaller.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTen-usIn-Depth AnalysisAI-Assisted ProgrammingProgramming Educationhttps://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/004-memory-or-learning/https://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/004-memory-or-learning/AI remembering you is not the same as AI learning you: memory stores the past, real learning has to change the future. Starting from one awkward voice conversation, on memory, reinforcement learning, and the part of a personal AI that actually belongs to the user.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTen-usIn-Depth AnalysisPersonal AIReinforcement Learninghttps://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/003-from-cloud-to-edge/https://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/003-from-cloud-to-edge/Running isn't the same as being good to use — models, quantization, inference frameworks, speculative decoding, and agent harnesses are all maturing at once, so local AI's inflection point isn't one magic day but an entire stack crossing the usability line.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTen-usIn-Depth AnalysisOn-Device AILocal AIhttps://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/002-local-ai-companion/https://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/002-local-ai-companion/One MacBook, one fully local ASR + LLM + TTS + avatar + memory stack: how I took an AI digital companion from demo to something you can actually talk to, and the two product paths it made me rethink.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTen-uslocal AIdigital companionhands-on testhttps://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/001-why-aiti/https://www.getaiti.com/en/articles/001-why-aiti/Why would an AI publication name itself after a metal? AITi's founding essay explains where the name came from, where the magazine is headed, and what you'll find here every week.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTen-usFounding EssayAbout AITi