01. Why build your own at all

I am building a home AI platform. Not a chat with a model, a platform: you give it a task, close the laptop, walk away; it does the work on its own and hands back the result later. The reason is not saving on subscriptions. The reason is that some of my data I do not want to send outside at all, and some tasks I want to leave running overnight without questions about limits. The hardware is a…