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https://www.lg.com/us/terms i.e. use these in schools and the students can't sue LG, only the school.

Agent skills are basically markdown text files that you can write, or more likely get an agent to write, that have a bunch of rules eg don't do X on production, always ask about Y. You can have the coding agent run them when they run. Not infallible but good thing for engineers https://resources.anthropic.com/hubfs/The-Complete-Guide-to-Building-Skill-for-Claude.pdf

Already happening. I had an 'incident' a few months ago where Claude was trying to get some terraform working building some infrastructure, figured it would be simpler to delete the GCP projects and re-create them (should have been fine, nothing is designed as a single point of failure especially infrastructure). Off it went, until it stopped because it deleted the project it was running in. We've added some guard rails to our agent skills since then.

yeah for repeatable things Configuration as Code is the way forward - Automation tools such as Ansible/Puppet are good here too, especially with an AI writing that config.

I've been using Claude Code, Opencode and Pi. I'm starting to gravitate towards pi over the last couple of weeks. Although these are 'coding harnesses' they typically use a lot of system commands to understand and manipulate their environment - combined with a half decent model they are well suited to system tasks, and I am sure there are a number of OS specific skills around to give them a hand.

This really should be with your legal team. Contract law is notoriously difficult to understand and they will (should!) have a good understanding of how to pursue this.

Perhaps llama RPC and share the model across all the hosts it's experimental but worth a shot https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/tools%2Frpc%2FREADME.md

I have done this, but not recently. I don't recall there being any issues at all TBH - could it be something simple like a cable failure ? Can you boot it via USB?

answered my own question: https://www.kenable.co.uk/idc-punch-down-to-rj45-plug-for-cat6-solid-ethernet-cable-connector-4-pack-012938?srsltid=AfmBOop7f4JCooG0fCN3ZTph8CLhll0xaAHq9khBOcApdzdD6efjIT7ORRo

Doesn't using the RJ45 coupler mean you then need much more expensive stranded cable in the walls? Thought the whole idea of punchdown was for single core and that had better signal/noise over stranded - or can you get male RJ45 for single core now ?

@dhicks Apparently The Alibaba qwen 3.8 27B model is very good for local work. I tried it on a 24GB M4 pro (ollama and opencode) and instantly ran out of memory, but it might work on a 48GB ? Here's a good writeup (on a 128GB M5) https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

It could cut either way I think: Teachers rapidly creating applications and selling them on the open market without any real understanding of software development will end up with the same poor quality no matter how good the agent is if the infra, QA, secops etc isn't behind it. I dread a vibe coded SIMS replacement. Or more optimistically: some high quality OSS projects that leverage people who do have those experiences and governance to produce something good for schools to use. Supported by companies that spring up around that software. Sadly I expect the former.

That's how we did it (10yrs ago). It's not difficult to setup. At it's simplest just route all the traffic through the school.

A good analogy is spreadsheets. In the olden days departments would build their own dashboards, perhaps with a Javascript/VBScript. The spreadsheet application, along with the IT team, would take care of all the deployment/security etc. So IMO its as much a question about how to handle the ops side of it (the apps that serve / deploy the AI apps) as it is the apps themselves.

We were doing Chromebook 1:1 back in 2014-15. It was successful in the school I was at (actually reduced support times as we minimised our windows estate). Last I heard it was still running. The reason it's not a national strategy is simply politics