All essays

May 15, 2026

I Built a Personal AI Agent That Runs on My Phone — Here's What I Learned

A Galaxy S21, a local LLM, and cascading inference — building Julian without subscriptions or cloud lock-in.

A Galaxy S21, a local LLM, and cascading inference — building Julian without subscriptions or cloud lock-in.

This essay is being republished on-site. The full Medium version remains available while the complete text is migrated.

Read the full essay on Medium →

Also on Medium

LinkedInXEmail

Follow the work

New essays by email — a list I own, not a Medium follow.

One field. Exportable list I own. Unsubscribe anytime.