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Old phones + LLM agents form a self-hosted 'organism' with no cloud

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer built a distributed system using old Android phones as sensors and LLM agents as brains, all connected via SSH, Tailscale, and a shared text log. The phones handle sensing while agents run on a laptop, coordinating through a log where they argue and assign tasks. The project uses bash, tmux, cron, and an LLM API key, with no middleware or cloud services.

Meridian48 take
A clever hack that demonstrates how cheap hardware and LLMs can create emergent behavior, but it's far from production-ready and relies heavily on manual setup.
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