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Software + markets + AI — tools for the individual. Darkly Energized LLC. Writing the long-form behind darkmux, ProactiveAgent, and the DE liquidity platform.

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Curing the doom loop

A quick recap, and what’s changed

If you have followed this series, you know darkmux as the tool I have been building to run local AI as real infrastructure rather than a toy. The short version, for anyone arriving fresh: darkmux is a l...

4 days ago
2

Darkmux 1.0: Own your AI workforce

A Note from Kain:

This is the only non-AI generated version of my voice in the article. This section is written by me at the keyboard directly into the draft. The reason is that I want to address something personally that this article...

16 days ago
7

Darkmux Genesis III: Hybrid by Design

I used to think of AI as a tool to get work done. It does what you ask it to do, and asking philosophical questions was fun, but a waste of tokens if it was eating into usage limits.

Then I decided to make local AI work, and the technical...

a month ago

Darkmux Genesis II: Charting the Wake

Where this picks up

Part 1 was the casual comparison: which local-AI model felt right for agentic work on Apple Silicon? Same task, same machine, see what each one did. The data was real and the conclusions held under what I tested.

Bu...

2 months ago
3

Darkmux Genesis I: Can a 35B Local Model Write Your Unit Tests?

The 2026 question — the one that nudged me into running this experiment — is whether local OSS models have finally caught up to the point where they can do real autonomous engineering work on consumer-grade hardware. Not “answer questions a...

2 months ago

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