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I gave my AI a home of its own.

Self-hosting an agent on a hardened VPS. What it means to give an AI a persistent address and keep it safe.

My local AI had no idea where it lived.
I ran a 26-billion parameter model on my MacBook Air using Ollama. The model confidently insisted it was a Google cloud service.
I asked an AI to build me a website. It actually worked.
Setting up email forwarding, GitHub Pages, and a custom domain — described in plain language, executed by Claude.