I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1366 - My AI-Agent Education Continues to Deepen, with Confusion, Setbacks, and New Successes - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, April 24, 2026

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 7 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As those of you who have read my posts for a while are likely well aware, when I get fascinated and focused on a particular area of interest, that I tend to talk about it in these posts for fairly long stretches of time. The many other topics which I mention still interest me of course, it's just that I become enthralled by the assorted possibilities and potential of each domain that I explore. As of late I've been talking about FOSS (Free and Open Source) AI models and agents, and the various frameworks and platforms that fascilitate implementing and using them for various proposes locally in my Arch/Artix Linux systems, so this post will be a continuation of that line of exploration.

It seems that every day now I'm making huge strides in terms of learning, understanding, and clarity, with my mind being almost constantly very well fried. I walk away, take breaks, and change focus, quite often, especially when things aren't going as smoothly as hoped, always returning shortly afterward, to dive back into researching, exploring, experimenting, and testing.

Although I'm not progressing quite as quickly as I'd like, given how short a time it's been since I began this endeavor of figuring out how to set up my own local FOSS orchestrator/supervisor multi-agent system, in reality I've been moving forward very rapidly indeed. I'm learning how to use AI models and agents to help me build larger and more capable AI-agent systems. I'm just now dipping my toes into making this happen in practical terms.

This morning, via Podman/Podman Desktop, I used an AI-Lab coding recipe to set up an AI Agent as a chatbot, using an AI model (granite-8b-code-instruct-GGUF) that is specifically made for coding, software development, and Linux-system maintenance, and after one failed attempt, I finally succeeded in getting it up and running correctly. So just before beginning on this post, I was discussing various aspects of implementing my coordinated multi-agent workflow system in my Arch/Artix installations, with my new local AI coding agent, via a web-chat interface. That's pretty cool, and also quite wild, I've got to say.

Even though it doesn't have the capability to access new information via web searches or files on my Arch/Artix Linux systems, its onboard knowledge base is astoundingly good. While it definitely has some notable limitations, it's still fascinating, and quite useful. To be truly useful for my purposes, however, it would need to be able to do web searches and synthesis, and to have memory of conversation threads and continuity of context. Learning how to implement function calls, which would provide tools that allow for online and local resources to be accessed, edited, created, and deleted, is what I'm working now, one little step at a time.

Yesterday, Friday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by just after 1PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session started a bit late, it went well, and we wrapped it up by just after 5:15PM, after which I headed to Wabisabi to heat myself up some food that I had in the fridge, and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, I made my way back to the Flow House to do more AI-agent research, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by around 10:30PM, and after some asset management, and more AI-agent research, I went to bed, way too late, by just before 1PM. I work up around 7:15AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more AI research, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to do even more AI research, and to write this post. It's now just before 1:45PM, so it's a marvelous time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's manifestation of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2026 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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