The Augmented Path
@AugmentedPath

Carpenter running local models on a Mac Mini beside a 6x12 CNC. Helping shops own their stack instead of renting it. Named machines, named failures.

 Boston, MA
Joined February 2026
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Forty-four cutters, nine receipts, and no feed numbers

There are 44 cutters in the tool catalog for this shop, and every entry carries both what I know about the cutter and what I do not. Nine of them came off a paid supplier invoice. Twenty-six came off
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Two kinds of shop memory, and only one of them is yours

A millwork shop keeps two kinds of memory and they are not interchangeable. The first is production memory: about 2,500 molding knives, each with a profile, a grind, the job it was bought for, and a
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Hermes MEMORY.md is 2,200 characters. We inherited about 2,500 molding knives. Those are not the same kind of memory.
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2000 Characters Is Not A Millwork Shop

An ’80s shop’s memory cannot live in a 2,200-character agent file. Hermes keeps MEMORY.md small on purpose. The more I build out our company, the more I understand why. MEMORY.md has a 2,200-character

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China Isn’t Waiting for Better AI. It’s Shipping What It Already Has.

Tencent launched WorkBuddy on Monday, a desktop AI agent aimed at ordinary office workers, not engineers. The product installs locally, supports OpenClaw-style skills and MCP, and Tencent says it can
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