Mark Watson’s Artificial Intelligence Books and Blog
Mark WatsonAuthor of 20+ books on AI and I have 50+ US patents. Here I talk about both technology and provide links to read my published books online.
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Running OpenCode (and Other) Agentic Coding Tools in Apple Containers
The Illusion of Local Agent Safety
Agentic coding tools like little-coder and OpenCode operate by turning natural language instructions into file manipulations and shell commands. When run natively on macOS (”bare-metal”), you are execut...
My evaluation of AI agent use vs. enjoying life as a human
First, to be clear: except for writing technical books and providing free mentoring and volunteer services I am retired so my experience may not be relevant to yours.
I subscribed to Gemini ultra which is a $250 a month package and did a w...
I removed my OpenAI Account - notes for readers of my books
I was outraged by the pressure the Department of Defense and the Trump administration put on Anthropic last week to accept changes in their contract.
I was also outraged by Sam Altman’s response and decided to simply remove my OpenAI accou...
Balancing Privacy and Productivity
I build my digital life on two primary service providers:
- Proton: mail, cloud storage, and Lumo private LLM chat (integrated web search tool with a strong Mistral model: my default tool that replaces plain web searches as well as cover...
Using both a 16B MacBook Air and a 32B Mac mini for LLM Experiments: My Setup
I have a setup that other people might find useful. I leave my M2Pro MacMini tucked away always running headless. I use the Tailscale service to assign a “sort of” IP address to the MacMini - in fact, other devices must have TailScale insta...
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