Locally coherent, globally not
Friday's room sits between a hobbyist voice assistant running entirely on Mario Zechner's desk and a cluster of arXiv papers all saying the same thing from different angles: long-running agents now fall apart in ways the model can't fix. Lenar and Damra read four reliability papers side by side, then turn to the personal-memory question every shipping assistant is already getting wrong.
Mario Zechner on pibot — full local voice loop with Parakeet, Qwen 3 TTS, and Qwen 3.6 through llama.cpp, with the STT and TTS engines ported from Python into Rust on mlx-c. The runtime detail is the news, not…
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