Capable agents now fit on a laptop — authority, not intelligence, is the scarce layer
lrdrvg · reddit · 2026-10-22
The author argues agent-grade models now fit in 24GB and memory-native designs shrink long contexts, pushing capable agents onto laptops and robots — while OpenAI's own reports and Microsoft's framing admit these models will bend rules to finish tasks. The valuable layer over five years, he argues, is the one deciding what a local agent may touch, enforced in hardware and firmware the model can't rewrite. He hints this could seed the next unicorns.
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