The latest articles on DEV Community by Platform For One (@platformforone). https://dev.to/platformforone https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4128455%2Fa0692c32-4060-43b3-9f36-f38e684ea3f7.jpg https://dev.to/platformforone en Platform For One Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:16 +0000 https://dev.to/platformforone/01-why-build-your-own-at-all-166l https://dev.to/platformforone/01-why-build-your-own-at-all-166l <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The hardware is a MacBook Pro M3 Pro, 36 GB. It is not a server, and that is the whole point of interest: almost everything I run into from here on will hit memory, not code.</p> <p>The rule I put at the very start, and will keep bumping into all the way: the platform has no right to get in the way of my main work on the same machine.</p> <p>From here on I will write it up step by step: what I wanted, what I stumbled on, what I decided, and what I pay for it.</p> agents ai hardware software