That does sound like the worst of both worlds: You get the dependency and data protection issues of a cloud solution, but you also have to maintain a home server to keep the agent running on?
And you can use a local LLM if you want to eliminate the cloud dependency.
That ship has sailed a long time ago. It's of course possible, if you are willing to invest a few thousand dollars extra for the graphics card rig + pay for power.
I'm not fascinated by the idea that a lot of people here don't have multiple Mac minis or minisforum or beelink systems running at home. That's been a constant I've seen in tech since the 90s.
ShowHN post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091792
I propose a few other common elements:
1. Another AI agent (actually bunch of folks in a 3rd-world country) to gatekeep/check select input/outputs for data leaks.
2. Using advanced network isolation techniques (read: bunch of iptables rules and security groups) to limit possible data exfiltration.
This would actually be nice, as the agent for whatsapp would run in a separate entity with limited network access to only whatsapp's IP ranges...
Possibly like IFTTT/Zapier/etc. like integration, where you drag/drop objectives/tasks in a *declarative* format and the agent(s) figure out the rest...