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Notes from the background tab of your phone.
Design notes, honest comparisons, and posts on the small decisions that turn into the shape of a phone agent.
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Privacy by default: keeping your daily tasks off vendor clouds
Why phone agents that read your screens cannot be a polite cloud product. The threat model, what local-first actually means in practice, and where Ukkin is still being honest about the gap.
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When AI agents are better than iOS Shortcuts (and when they aren't)
Shortcuts is the right answer for a surprising amount of personal automation. AI agents are the right answer when you cross a specific threshold. This is where we draw the line.
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Why agents on your phone need a different model from chat assistants
Chat assistants and phone agents look adjacent on the org chart, but they live different lives. One is a brilliant tourist; the other is a patient roommate. Here's why we ended up building the second.
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