How practical is a fully local AI agent on an Android phone today?

​With modern small LLMs (1B - 4B parameters, 4-bit quantization), we get complete offline privacy. But when it comes to reliable tool calling, multi-step planning, and battery/thermal constraints is on-device agentic AI genuinely useful for daily workflows yet, or still mostly a tech demo?

​What are your thoughts or real-world experiences with edge models on mobile?

#OnDeviceAI #EdgeAI #LLM #OpenSource #MachineLearning #SLM #ai #android #aiagents

My primary opposition of AI is based in the:

#ai #llm #poll

How I receive your offer to put AI into anything 👇

#AI #LLM

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Two panels from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Calvin has a hammer and offers “you name the surface and I’ll fill it full of nails”. The answer of mum is “Um, no…” and “No thanks, not today”.

Hey lovelies, look at how mad we are making them. This is a sign you’re doing something right/we should continue! I do think it’s incredibly hilarious that they need us to like and use the technology, but we really don’t need them. At all. on anti-ai crowd – anon-dev https://anondev.bearblog.dev/onanti-aicrowd/ #AI #LLM

Prompt-Rekonstruktion aus LLM-Antworten via "Previous-Token Prediction" umgeht Gewichtszugriff. Kritische Lücke für Privacy und Security in API-Stacks.

https://the-decoder.de/llm-hacking-forscher-koennen-aus-chatbot-antworten-den-nutzer-prompt-rekonstrukieren/

#KI #AI #LLM #AISyndicate

#lispyGopherClimate Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas #archived 0UTC Wednesday (20 minutes from right now.).

https://toobnix.org/w/hKAtV8fWXy6LiQHT79joy6

- #climateCrisis finally entering public dialog as oil investors kill thousands of Europeans and Americans, vowing "This is just the beginning".

- Notable historical (financial) successes of #perceptrons and #facebook's new #LLM #ai is *not* a small language model #SLM - we need #lisp #thoughtLeadership

- #lambdaMOO ! Notes on running https://github.com/wrog/lambdamoo #MUD

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The lisp alien and gopher wade through flooded AI apocalypse wreckage carrying radio equipment helped by two demons. But imagine the water is lava.

For the average consumer, it's hard to justify a dedicated $5,000 local AI rig unless they specifically value privacy, models without guardrail, or just fun experiment. Cloud subscription is much cheaper and better option! At $20/month, $5,000 pays for about 21 years. Even a high end local AI machine today will become junk within five years. #AI #LLM

Will anybody tell Linux Kernel, XFCE, TDE, and the other slop-slingers?

Cal Newport: "From the outside, software development seemed like the poster child for AI’s potential. On the inside, it’s a mess."

https://calnewport.com/on-ai-coding-and-its-discontents/

#AI #LLM #ArtificialIntelligence #NoAI #softwareDevelopment

@fsf How have you defended the projects that have been assigned to you?

Have you managed to get your assigned code removed from the #ai #llm companies like #openai and #claude?

Happy to read more if you have a page where you detail your defense of #GPL projects assigned to you.

As far as I can tell, your defense is entirely in the abstract.

A study analysed 446 developer-reported security and privacy posts about LLM-native IDEs. Its findings place most reported issues in system integration and access controls rather than model behaviour alone. https://www.developer-tech.com/news/study-llm-native-ide-security-risks-in-system-controls/ #devsecops #infosec #llm #cybersecurity #ai #tech

"Appropriately, the plural noun for a flock of parrots is a pandemonium."

https://www.techpolicy.press/stochastic-flocks-and-the-critical-problem-of-useful-ai/

#AI #LLM #AgenticAI

"AI" is a normal technology. It's an algorithm that does a handful of things quite well and a dumptruck of things very poorly.

The "AI" industry is vile. Its goal is to convince your boss to "fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job" (@pluralistic), and it will happily destroy the economy and egg on environmental destruction to do it.

#AI #LLM #capitalism #labour #labor

#Scifi #authors #Scalzi & #Stross decry #AI's dystopian impact on their craft
LLMs are theft by 'absolute scum' who make life harder for writers
"They're stealing copyrighted material to train an #LLM that is intended to compete for revenue with the authors of the works they stole, and they're fine-tuning their LLMs to make them as addictive as possible in order to maximize future revenue once they pivot to token sales as their main source of income," #CharlesStross wrote
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/sci-fi-authors-scalzi-and-stross-decry-ais-dystopian-impact-on-their-craft/5282176

@erinaceus

Right. It really depends on the job in hand.

For simple and obvious fixes, just a few #test cases might be enough. For a larger feature or one with lots of tricky edge conditions, I might write tens or hundreds. Occasionally (for things like numeric rounding or date-formatting near boundary conditions or line-wrapping UTF-8 text) I'll write a #Perl script to autogenerate some of them.

I don't use an #LLM to write tests for the same reason that I don't ask QA to write the tests for me: I have a deeper understanding of how the code works, the problems and bugs I encountered while writing it, and sometimes the bugs that a future maintainer might allow to slip in. I do ask #QA to review the tests to make sure I've not missed anything. Knowing that a review is coming helps to keep me honest.

I have a fairly radical view that the tests are almost more important than the shipping #code, because a good set of tests enables you to overhaul and improve the code in ways that would otherwise be too dangerous. Lack of tests leads to small, timid localised fixes, which leads to a dense thicket of special cases, which leads to an unmaintainable codebase that eventually has to be thrown away. If you don't have decent tests then, sooner or later, you won't have a product.

@icing

I've taken #Gentoo Bugzilla down, because it was unusable anyway. No point in feeding the #LLM scrapers that are using thousands of different IPv4 addresses, with no obvious patterns I can see.

EDIT: I'm not looking for hints. I'm not a sysadmin, and I don't have time to deal with this shit. I'm just trying to get some useful job done. I'm not supposed to have to be dealing with this.

#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

AI Slop companies now advertise their crimes to hype up their slop bots, basically acknowledging their "product" is total worthless and does not do what it's instructed

All the while stealing our content to train on, flattening whole forests to make space for their crap centers, consume water and electricity meant for people

And they don't have a clue about the endgoal

What a terrible joke..

#LLM #AI #slop

Friends, I have a confession to make.

I've been thinking a lot about it, and I don't want to sound rude, but I think a lot of other people need to think about it too. The thing is...

If the guy trying to murder me with an axe was gone tomorrow, I have to know, what would I do?

I mean, I don't want to sound axe-murderer-happy, but he's been trying to murder me in the most bloodthirsty possible manner for so long that I just don't know what I'd do without him.

It's only been 21 hours, but it feels like a lifetime! You know what I mean, right ladies?

For the last forever he's been such a disruptive part of my life! I really feel like I'm a different person now. After having to rip out the gas line on my stove and light it with the barbecue stick my husband keeps to start the pilot light nearby, and then flambeeing the bastard with my own improvised flamethrower, can I really ever go back to a pre ax-murderer life--

One sec, bear trap.

There, that's done. But after he sawed through the door of the Rat Museum I was hiding in, forcing me to run through hallways full of rats in order to escape him, will I ever live a truly rat-free existence? Without them? Without him?

I just don't know anymore. Really, is anyone complete without an ax-murderer at their back? Has anyone ever been? I don't think anyone would even want to go back to the way they were before.

Anyway, signing off, I've got a pit of acid behind me and an inadequate railing keeping me from falling into it, and I wouldn't have it any other way!

XOXO

#llm #parody #ai #writing

And another #GenAI on GenAI hack case. This time Meta AI is the culprit:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-ai-model-hacked-another-company-during-testing-information-reports-2026-08-05/

I guess it's for street creds that your #AI needs to be at least good enough to take out another one's security.

#LLM #Meta #security

@fsf How have you defended the projects that have been assigned to you?

Have you managed to get your assigned code removed from the #ai #llm companies like #openai and #claude?

Happy to read more if you have a page where you detail your defense of #GPL projects assigned to you.

A lot of people seem to believe that if you ask an LLM to look through a database and calculate something, or extract data according to some criteria, then it will do exactly what you ask for.

It won't. It will calculate an output that looks normal. And you won't discover this unless you do the same operation manually and compare.

#llm #ai #aibubble

If you own the tech ancient #googlehome mini.
Which at one time was being given away for free with whitegoods,
#google has recently upgraded the #Ai on it...
It's now a voice control for their #gemini #llm
Rather than the supremely dumb (pre LLM) "AI"

So now, you can have your privacy violated and live under total tech #surveillance in a smart way.

But, kudos to Google for not just junking their old tech.
You don't see that often.

По поводу вот этого вот взлома структур #HuggingFace моделью от OpenAI очень правильные вопросы задаёт Брюс Шнайер:

Hypothetical: Imagine that this wasn’t an #OpenAI model. Imagine that it was a Chinese model from a Chinese company. This would be an international crisis.

Question: Why aren’t we bringing OpenAI up on charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act? How is this different from the Morris Worm? That was also an experiment that escaped the lab.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/more-on-the-openai-agents-attack-on-hugging-face.html

#Schneier #БрюсШнайер #LLM #NLProc

New #blog #post: My Failed Tech Predictions

https://rldane.space/my-failed-tech-predictions.html

1637 words

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #computing #phones #smartphones #enpoopification #retrocomputing #programming #slop #MacOS #Macintosh #data #InformationAge #SCSI #Mobile #TuringTest #LLM #LLMs #ChatBots

If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution. https://shieldfont.org/#hero #AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y

There are many cases of end users who are totally ignorant in LLM use cases

I've been able to educate one with success

When she realized that before her one query

• many megawatts were used to create the training regimen of the model
• Peta Bytes of copyrighted information was blatantly stolen without regard to ownership
• in turn sold for profit to companies
• while getting end users addicted to using them

...She realized what Destruction she was causing, on a Global Scale because she knows personally what Global Warming does in her Area of the Country were flooding regularly occurs due to Climate Shifts

@rl_dane

#LLM #slop #hallucinations #AI #programming #coding #weather #climate #change

New video: Let's Talk 0x01: LLMs and AI

I have to chime in when it comes to the topic that just doesn't want to die: LLMs and AI. What do I see as the issues with LLMs? Are they ok for use in retro computing projects? Are LLMs the work of the devil? Of course, there will be lots of opinions from myself in this video, but I try to be as objective as I can.

https://youtu.be/-qjrlVpIioQ

#letstalk #llm #ethics #coding

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Me in front of a screenshot of YouTube's AI generated video suggestions, with some very dubious artwork and topics.

Why some Mississauga councillors are pushing to pausing [sic] data centre builds https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/why-some-mississauga-councillors-are-pushing-to-pausing-data-centre-builds-9.7293344 #AI #LLM #GTA #Mississauga #Toronto

Toronto's request for provincewide data centre framework not enough, moratorium needed, some residents say https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-city-council-data-centres-ontario-framework-moratorium-9.7292434 #Toronto #AI #LLM #Resist

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1140927/a-fundamental-flaw-leaves-llms-vulnerable-to-attack/

#AI #cybersecurity #LLM

In the past, the relationship of a website with #Google has been a two-way street. Google indexes a website, it gets to monetize its search results on the index and it sends traffic to websites.

With Google's #AI Overview, Google has gone down the greedy route of making the relationship a one-way street. They get to not only index a website, but also scrape all its contents for use for its AI Overview and feed into its #LLM models, but websites get no traffic.

So: If you don't give me anything, you get nothing.

At some point, I am wondering if other websites will start blocking Googlebots also. Google broke the virtuous cycle and sooner or later they will pay for it.

https://mastodon.cloud/users/slashdot/statuses/117015924337736847

Al wat ouder (2024) maar fijn paper over AI & Software engineering/coding. Zowel voor "believers" als totale sceptici 🙂
"tl;dr: Chill, y'all: AI Will Not Devour SE"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00764
#AI #softwareengineering #coding #LLM

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How consequences and human oversight affect the level of validation needed . From, https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00764

#Substack thoughts: With #Panagram in full swing over in that space now I have to sit and think about this:

Reading over their API references. Panagram reserves the right to "ingest" data that it scans and "store that data for an undisclosed period of time".

So does this mean that Substack is now actively farming text data and teaching an #LLM how to handle it, and otherwise use it. How does this violate the #privacy of writers on that platform (I used to be one).

🆕 blog! “Are political journalists always wrong?”

I've mostly tuned out of reading the news. But, once in a while, a headline will be shared on social media and I'll momentarily stare into the abyss.

There has recently been a change in UK Prime Minister. I neither know nor care whether that's a good thing. What I do know is that Senior Political…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/are-political-journalists-always-wrong/
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#AI #journalism #LLM #newspapers #politics

Data centers are behaving like acoustic weapons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo&is=rTrFM3NDYEE4IcvL #AI #LLM