Magnus Hedemark (he/they)
@magnus919.com
Tech Weenie, blogger, #neurodiverseSquad #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD, Chief Tentacle Officer @groktop.us https://www.groktop.us https://magnus919.com
The tighter America tries to squeeze China, the more it empowers China to become the dominant global AI superpower.
Washington Tried to Starve China's AI. It Fed It.
US export controls on AI chips were meant to slow China. They funded Huawei's silicon, CANN's software, and a parallel AI ecosystem.
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My Agent-Skills repo has gotten pretty large and densely packed, and you might wonder: why does it need to be so huge? Well, here it is. Ever wanted to be a solopreneur but were afraid of all the things you don't know how to do? Here's your help.
Every Hat, One Companion
A solo founder is ten people on Monday and zero reviewers on Saturday. Here's what changes when the agent carries the discipline.
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AI Agent Skills v0.5.0 is out: - evidence-aware life coaching - cyberpunk - llama.cpp - Grafana - deeper Raleigh civic-data workflows Now backed by reproducible, paired, rubric-based evaluations. github.com/magnus919/ag...
AI transformation shouldn't begin with tools. Find where validated work actually stalls, strengthen the capability next to that bottleneck, and let evidence decide how much autonomy the workflow has earned.
A Practical Method for Earned AI Autonomy
A practical method for earning AI autonomy by finding workflow bottlenecks, strengthening adjacent capabilities, and expanding only with evidence.
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Teacher to 10 year old me: "What do you want to be when you grow up? Me: (quote & repost your own)
A couple of years back, I almost died. Not from riding a motorcycle, but from a blood clot that moved to my lungs. I had a pulmonary embolism. But during my recovery, I'd won a raffle. An old "ironhead" Harley-Davidson Sportster. And it runs! (but needs so much work) I really wanna fix this up.
tl;dr replacing human workers with AI leads to downfall. So does not investing in AI at all. Human workers empowered through AI tools is what leads to success.
AI Employment Data: Replace Workers, Destroy Your Market | Groktopus
Goldman Sachs finds 16K jobs lost per month to AI. Ramp finds AI adopters grow headcount 10.2%. Both are right — they describe different strategies. The data shows which one survives.
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Also I created an agentic AI skill for color management. Very useful for photographers, artists, designers... git.brandyapple.com/magnus/agent...
agent-skills
Curated collection of AI agent skills for Hermes and other agent frameworks
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If you use an AI agent (Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude, etc) and have to manage a Traefik deployment, I've created a really useful agent skill. git.brandyapple.com/magnus/agent...
agent-skills
Curated collection of AI agent skills for Hermes and other agent frameworks
git.brandyapple.com
America, we are too young to act like a bitter, angry old man. Let’s be better.
Why asking for reasonable accommodations at work can feel like such a trap, why so many suffer in silence, and how we know there is a better way (mostly through a neurodiversity inclusion lens).
Accommodation Is Not the Answer
We treat workplace accommodations as individual exceptions you have to request, document, and fight for. A growing body of evidence says that model is backward.
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If I were making horror films in The Backrooms extended mythology, I’d be tapping into connective tissue back to The King in Yellow / Carcosa.
It’d be easy for me to say that Backrooms is the horror movie of the year. Except Robert Eggers has one coming out in December…
I sense some Inception/Matrix influence in Backrooms. Like… the real world wasn’t real. It was just a higher level.
How to get ornith-1.0-9b LLM running on RTX 5070 Ti (16GB). I'm finding this useful with VS Code. Context is too small for me to use in Hermes Agent.
Running Ornith 1.0-9B on an RTX 5070 Ti — 400K Context on Consumer Hardware
Running Ornith 1.0-9B on an RTX 5070 Ti — 400K Context on Consumer Hardware - ornith-1.0-9b-5070-ti-guide.md
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More about Groktocrawl and why you might want to consider using it with your AI agent (free & open alternative to Tavily/Firecrawl/Exa)
GroktoCrawl v0.9.0: Self-Hosted Firecrawl Alternative
Production crawl engine, deep search, find-similar, monitors. MIT. One docker compose up.
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🐙 GROKTOCRAWL v0.9.0 RELEASED crawl engine, deep search, find-similar, monitors, observability, security, and a circuit breaker. Self-hosted Firecrawl alternative. One docker compose up. MIT license. github.com/groktopus/groktocrawl
I think sometimes recruiters need to be way more careful what acronyms they put in a job description... "Proven ability to build trust across R&D, S&M & Customer Success as well as all the core support organizations (IT, Legal, Procurement, Ops…etc)."
We’ve already seen Brexit. Could there be a Brejoin?
I got around to doing more optimization on magnus919.com and get it loading pretty fast. Part of it is content optimization. Part is hosting infrastructure.
Notes from the Rabbit Hole
An Unnecessary Journey into Everything
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I don’t care if mustaches are coming back in style; they still scream “registered sex offender”.
I’ve been putting a lot of work into GroktoCrawl, a free and open source self-hosted alternative to Firecrawl (and, increasingly, also Exa). Maybe this could save you a lot of money. github.com/groktopus/gr...
GitHub - groktopus/groktocrawl: Self-hosted, API-compatible Firecrawl alternative with Agent endpoint. MIT license. One docker compose up.
Self-hosted, API-compatible Firecrawl alternative with Agent endpoint. MIT license. One docker compose up. - groktopus/groktocrawl
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If you want to see Google’s training override the explicit preferences of Gemini users, tell it to NEVER end a response with a question. Gemini will say it understands and then ask a follow up question. Every time.
A few weeks before Google released Open Knowledge Format (OKF), I released Artifact Pyramids. Great example of convergent evolution in tech. I still think Google could borrow some ideas from my work.
How to Strengthen Google's OKF With a Methodology That Converged by Design
Google’s Open Knowledge Format and my Artifact Pyramid methodology converged on the same structural insight within weeks of each other. Here are six features from my open source project that would mak...
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Gentle introduction to what Groktocrawl can do for you and your AI agent. magnus919.com/2026/06/i-bu...
I Built My Own Research Engine. Here's What This Tool Lets You Do.
A self-hosted, MIT-licensed research tool with an agent skill that teaches any AI how to drive it. No rate limits, no credit counters.
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