I Automated My Dev Blog With Local AI Agents. Here's the Honest Breakdown.

I used to publish once a month. If I was lucky.

Not because I had nothing to say — I have opinions on everything from Ollama routing to why GPT-4o is overpriced for refactoring. But writing takes time. Editing takes time. Finding the right tags, the right tone, the right moment to hit publish — it all adds up.

So I built a system that writes and posts for me. It runs on a Mac Mini M4 in my living room. It costs $0 per month in API fees. And it publishes an article every two days.

Here's exactly how it works — and where it falls apart.