2026

Small local AI models are pushing software back toward faster, cheaper, more private, and more focused product experiences.

After building nano-harness, I have a clearer view of AI assistants, local-first workflows, architecture, and why building the small version yourself still teaches more than reading the hype.

Context is one of the real bottlenecks in agent-native engineering, and treating it like passive memory is not enough. It needs a system that can manage and surface it properly.

Human code review is not the final barrier to autonomous software engineering. The deeper challenge is judgment, context, and the messy reality of real codebases.

After two years publishing on Dev.to and Medium, I launched my own blog and rebuilt joacod.com with Astro and AI-assisted workflows.

I see several problems in corporate environments and in how AI is being used to speed up...