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Yes: AniSoul and RealSoul, our two 3D companion apps, run their AI on your phone by default. What works without a connection, the one download you need first, the one exception, and how to choose.
AgentAura is our app for running autonomous AI coding and conversation agents on a server in your own account, and chatting with them from your phone or computer.
AniSoul is our 3D anime AI companion for iPhone, iPad and Android. You talk to her out loud, cut in whenever you like, and by default her AI runs on your phone.
RealSoul is our lifelike 3D companion app for iPhone, iPad and Android: you talk to her out loud and she answers in her own voice. What it does, what it doesn't, and what it costs.
Talk to the Claude Code and Codex agent on your own Mac from your phone, and carry conversations and memory between your Mac and Windows PC.
AniSoul and RealSoul are free every day with a message allowance. What a subscription changes, how renewal and cancelling work, and how to restore it.
A first-day guide to AniSoul on iPhone and iPad: installing, the AI model download, your first chat, memory, free messages and AniSoul Unlimited.
A first-day guide to RealSoul on iPhone and iPad: the one model download, the screen, talking by voice, free daily messages, and what leaves your phone.
Where the styling controls are in AniSoul and RealSoul, and what each panel changes: hair, outfits, the backdrop, and her voice, mood and persona.
How to turn on voice in AniSoul and RealSoul, how full-duplex talk works, why your audio never leaves the phone, and habits for better conversations.
Launch an Ubuntu 24.04 x86 EC2 instance that AgentAura can deploy to: account, key pair, open SSH rule, ubuntu login, and what stopping still costs.
Create an Ubuntu 24.04 x64 VM on Azure that AgentAura can deploy to: account, key pair, SSH rule, azureuser login, and what a stopped VM costs.
Create a DigitalOcean account, add an SSH key and build an Ubuntu 24.04 Droplet that AgentAura's My Server option deploys onto. No API token needed.
Create an Ubuntu 24.04 x86 Compute Engine VM for AgentAura: free trial, project, SSH key in metadata, the SSH firewall rule, and stopped-VM costs.
Create a Hetzner Cloud account and an x86 Ubuntu 24.04 server for AgentAura's My Server option, or make the Read & Write API token some apps use.
Sign up for Akamai Cloud, add an SSH key and create an Ubuntu 24.04 Linode that AgentAura's My Server option deploys onto. No API token needed.
Oracle's Always Free Ampere VM is ARM and won't run AgentAura. Create a small AMD Ubuntu 24.04 VM, keep SSH open, log in as ubuntu, and deploy.
Set up a Vultr account and an x86 Ubuntu 24.04 instance for AgentAura's My Server option, or create the API key the Windows app can use.
Any Ubuntu x86 VPS works with AgentAura over SSH. What the server needs, how to make a key it accepts, and when an API token is used.
A CI log is built from bytes others control, so a log viewer is an HTML sink like any comment box. The same pipe carries secrets out. Distrust both ways.
LLM agents make finding bugs cheap. A finding earns trust with a real failure, a failed refutation, a test that fails without the fix, and a check in prod.
AI agents used a URL scanner to slip past access limits. A service that fetches URLs for you turns your allowlist into an open proxy. Run one? Fix that.
Token bucket or GCRA matters less to callers than how a limiter says no. A no that looks like a failure or hides when to retry becomes retries and tickets.
Putting the data on the user's machine is the easy half. Everything that makes local-first hard shows up the moment a second device exists — and Git-native tools inherit both the good and the bad of that choice.
Ubuntu 26.10 finishes replacing GNU coreutils with the Rust uutils implementations, including cp, mv and rm. It is designed to be a drop-in swap. Drop-in is a claim about the common path, and your scripts live on the uncommon one.
Google Play review is regularly running past seven days, and App Store rejections arrive with less detail than the web console shows. Neither is a thing you can speed up, so the release process has to absorb it.
Three different posts this week worried that LLMs are making programmers worse. They are mostly worrying about the wrong skill. Writing code was never the bottleneck — and the thing that replaces it is harder, not easier.
Apple Reference Image attests that a camera saw something. C2PA attests to an edit history. Those are different claims, they fail in different ways, and neither one answers the question people think it answers.
A macOS packet tunnel built as an app extension ships only through the Mac App Store. A signed direct download needs it rebuilt as a system extension.
A Mac app can pass notarization, codesign and Gatekeeper, then be killed by the kernel on launch. Why it happens, and a three-minute test that catches it.
Overwrite a file at the same URL and your CDN serves the old bytes for hours. With no cache-purge token on the team, the filename is your only cache key.
"Runs on your device" and "stays on your device" are different claims. Here is how to tell what an AI companion app really does with your conversations, and what questions to ask before you get attached.
Your subscription offers five protocols and no guidance. Here is what each one is actually good at, why the fastest protocol on one network is the worst on another, and how to test instead of guess.
Everyone picks the node with the lowest ms. That number is a round trip, not bandwidth — and measured data shows the fastest-looking node can be the slowest one you own. Here is what actually determines throughput.
Most AI companions animate a still image. A real-time 3D character is rendered frame by frame on your device and reacts as you speak. Here is the difference, what it costs your hardware, and how to choose between AniSoul and RealSoul.
Running an AI agent on your own server is a real improvement — but it does not mean everything stays on that box. Here is an honest map of where your data actually goes, and which parts you genuinely control.
Before you rent a VPS for an AI agent, know which specs actually matter, which ones are marketing, and the one requirement people discover only after the install fails.
Three stories from this week's tech feeds, picked because they all touch the same thing: what your device knows about you, who it listens to, and who it trusts. With what each one actually changes.
Your VPN says connected, but nothing loads. In most cases it is not the server — it is DNS. Here is how to identify which of four look-alike failures you have, and fix the right one.
Most deploys are reversible, so our habits assume reversibility. For the operations that are not, the safety has to move earlier — into gates that make the irreversible step impossible to take by accident.
Sixty-one tests failed in the build container and passed on every laptop. The cause was a filesystem artifact nobody had written on purpose — and the general lesson is about what your environment hides from you.
Adding offline support puts a programmable proxy on your users' devices. It is the only part of your deployment you cannot roll back, so the update path matters more than the feature.
A coding agent emits tool calls, diffs, terminal output and task lists — not messages. Building the UI taught us that the interesting design problem is what to show while it is still deciding.
Most of what we were uploading on every deploy was never used by the build. Finding that out took one command; the rest of the speedup came from caching the right layer in the right place.
Unifying identity across web, iOS and Android is not an auth problem. It is a question of what counts as the same person, and you have to answer it before you write any code.
We turned on an edge cache optimization and took the whole site down with 500s. The more durable lesson was not about the outage — it was that the tool we had been using to verify caching had been lying to us the entire time.
Nobody plans a log format. Everybody ends up with one, discovered at 3am by grepping for a string somebody typed a year ago.
A call without a deadline is a promise to wait forever. Somebody will decide how long your user waits — the library author, the kernel, or you.
Most health endpoints answer a question nobody asked. The useful distinction is between 'is this process alive' and 'should this instance receive traffic', and confusing them causes outages in both directions.
We turned a feature off by removing its entry point. Users found the feature anyway — as a button that did nothing. A note on what a feature flag has to cover to actually be off.
Retries convert a brief failure into a sustained one. The mechanism is simple, the fix is well known, and almost every client we have written got it wrong on the first pass.
Adding a platform when you have a simulator and no device. What that actually verifies, what it can't, and how to be honest about the difference in your release notes.
A monorepo happily installs two copies of a library. For most libraries that is merely wasteful. For a specific class of them it is a bug that presents as something else entirely.
A rigged character with real animation is a large asset arriving over a network you do not control. Most of the engineering is about the arrival, not the rendering.
Every platform wants your binaries signed. None of them make it pleasant. Notes from building a pipeline that signs Windows, macOS and Linux artifacts without a private key ever touching a build log.
A package you never installed, at a version you never chose, broke a page you never edited. The lockfile was supposed to prevent this — here is why it didn't.
A major framework upgrade turned one synchronous API asynchronous. The codemod handled most of it. The remainder is where the actual lesson lives.
Giving an AI agent access to your laptop is a real security risk. Learn why a separate server helps, what you must prepare, and how AgentAura guides the installation.
Keeping docs and posts in the repo buys you review, history, and types. It also makes writing a paragraph something that can fail CI — and that tradeoff is the whole decision.
Localized routes break in a specific place: the page with no slug. Everything under it works, which is exactly why nobody finds it.
Translating the strings is the part everyone budgets for. The part that actually breaks is everything around the strings — the metadata, the fallbacks, the one link that stays stubbornly English.
Scale-to-zero is not a property of your platform. It is a dial, and leaving it at the default means someone else decided what your slowest request costs.
Serverless functions, then a PaaS, then a container runtime. Each move was justified. What we should have measured first was not price or features, but how much of the platform we would have to model in our heads.
We spent a day failing to containerize a monorepo. Every failure was the same failure wearing a different error message: the build context did not contain what we thought it contained.
Learn how AgentAura guides you through installing and managing an AI assistant on a Linux server you control
Learn how AI Booster imports connection profiles, tests endpoints, and routes traffic on supported platforms
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