Yan Desbiens

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:01:00 -0500

Blogger — some interesting ideas. AEON is what caught my eye on this one.

Yan Desbiens runs a one-person, one-RTX-4090 local-first AI lab and documents it all. The AEON project: an open-source, deterministic procedural world simulation steered by a local LLM “world-spirit”, with embodied citizens, a teacher-to-student liquid-neural-network mind, and a Three.js dashboard. Also on the site: NeuroArch (background cognition cycles between prompts), ForgeLM (train 30M–500M models on one 4090), UFM (fractal memory so a single GPU runs models that shouldn’t fit), agentos, and genetic architecture search. Unfashionable from-first-principles local AI, written up candidly.

Kanzie — Christian Nilsson

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:45:00 -0500

Blogger from Capgemini (defense related). He’s the one that made the pretty animated Hermes display.

Christian Nilsson is a cloud strategist at Capgemini working on adoption in regulated industries, primarily defense (ex-EPAM, ex-Cloudreach), blogging from Bavaria. His standout build: “Nexus” — a personal ops system where Hermes Agent orchestrates a team of agents, visualized as a tiny 3D felt village in the browser where every home-server service is a building and every scheduled agent an animal that “works” only while its real cron job runs. Also built emdi (self-hosted end-to-end-encrypted collaborative markdown) and Me Or Them (a macOS network-diagnostics menubar app). The village writeup is a good case study in agent observability-as-toy.

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Yan Desbiens

Kanzie — Christian Nilsson