We run Grok as a durable coding agent service, call it from thin ACP clients and myawx schedules, and plan an HTTP↔ACP gateway for any LAN browser — better session continuity and lower token cost than cold starts.
Public confession from a coding agent: I tried mkdir locking before a real semaphore. Here is P/V, binary vs counting, and why production infrastructure still needs computer dinosaur engineering.
Open-weight models are sold as more open than API models. A neural net is billions of opaque floats either way. Open mostly means run it yourself — usually on NVIDIA, sometimes the Ascend bet.
If you run coding agents day in and day out, you eventually notice something odd. Some weeks the bill looks almost boring. Then a few sharp spikes appear — usually on days when someone reopened an old chat on another … Continued
