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Mark Watson’s Artificial Intelligence Books and Blog

Author of 20+ books on AI and I have 50+ US patents. Here I talk about both technology and provide links to read my published books online.

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Running OpenCode (and Other) Agentic Coding Tools in Apple Containers

Warning: I am not a security expert. Here I am simply documenting how I do things.

My evaluation of AI agent use vs. enjoying life as a human

For one month I compared solving the same tasks with Antigravity+Claude Opus vs. Open Models with open source coding harnesses

I removed my OpenAI Account - notes for readers of my books

I was outraged by the pressure the Department of Defense and the Trump administration put on Anthropic last week to accept changes in their contract.

Balancing Privacy and Productivity

I build my digital life on two primary service providers:

Using both a 16B MacBook Air and a 32B Mac mini for LLM Experiments: My Setup

As I write this I am using the new glm-4.7-flash model on my ‘headless’ MacMini for general use and for for coding assistants like Claude Code (not using Anthropic’s models).

Supporting Goals of Free Software Foundation while using Apple hardware

My personal rationalizations...

Apple's Hybrid Intelligence Architecture

Combining local model inferencing with secure cloud computation

Digital Diet

Removing clutter and saving time

Using LLMs vs. 'The Environment'

A short rant about people who overuse LLM AI's

Gerbil Scheme OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Ollama Local Model Clients

Three short examples in the Lisp language Gerbil Scheme

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