Mini-AGI: What It Really Is, Why My 2 GB GPU Couldn’t Handle It, and What I’d Try Next

A solo developer built a byte-level language model that trains itself on an 8 GB laptop GPU, grows its own experts on disk, and claims to reduce catastrophic forgetting. I tried to run it on a 2 GB GT 1030. Here's what mini-AGI actually is, where my hardware hit a wall, and the realistic paths forward — including cloud GPUs and shrinking the model to fit.

90 Seconds of Nothing: Fixing a TPM Boot Stall and Building a Learn-First Claude Code Setup on Omarchy

A kernel update left my Omarchy laptop waiting 90 seconds on every boot for a TPM that would never answer. I traced it through systemd's critical chain, fixed it with one kernel parameter, and cut userspace boot from 1m38s to 5.3s. Then I set up Claude Code to explain every command before it runs, so I stop copying commands I don't understand and start learning Black Hat Python the right way.