EARTH-90214NOIR · GREYSCALE PRESS· AI · Privacy· '26
Echo
Local-first AI. The cloud only sees blanks.
In private developmentWhy he built it
The one I would build anyway.
The problem
Every AI assistant asks for your files first. For private work, that trade is a dead end, so people skip the tools where they would help most.
The idea
Hide the private parts before they leave. Put them back after.
What he decided
- 01A guard on your machine blanks out sensitive fields before anything is sent.
- 02The cloud model works on placeholders. It never holds the real values.
- 03You can see exactly what left, so you are not taking my word for it.