
I gave Kimchi my kombucha app
Same builder model, same task, two harness modes — a real feature on my homelab, and why the architecture, not a smarter model, decided every outcome that mattered.

Same builder model, same task, two harness modes — a real feature on my homelab, and why the architecture, not a smarter model, decided every outcome that mattered.

I built an AI agent in self-hosted n8n over my kombucha-tracking app, then gave it two brains — NVIDIA’s 70B and a local Phi-3.5 — sharing the same tools. The cloud model called the tools and answered from real data. The local one couldn’t, so it made things up.