Kimchi's terminal UI on first launch in the brew-buddy repo — the opening prompt reads 'hi kimchi welcome to my homelab. My name is Janos and i'd like to try you'

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.

n8n workflow canvas

🍵 I A/B-Tested Cloud vs Local LLMs in One n8n Agent. The Local One Faked It.

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.