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EARTH-90214NOIR · GREYSCALE PRESS· AI · Privacy· '26

Echo

Local-first AI. The cloud only sees blanks.

In private development
Why 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
  1. 01A guard on your machine blanks out sensitive fields before anything is sent.
  2. 02The cloud model works on placeholders. It never holds the real values.
  3. 03You can see exactly what left, so you are not taking my word for it.
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