It's becoming more clear that for big enterprises to really adopt AI, they need to use open models. Especially if they want to own their own intelligence, which they should.
I spent the last 2 days building basic AI agents to automate some mundane supply chain workflows for a large company. Those seemingly boring workflows had bank statements, supplier IDs and other sensitive information.
For me it was all alarm bells, there is no way they can afford to give closed models access to this data. I was compelled to figure out an open model based solution for them, which made me realize that this is probably the only way for enterprises going forward.
good question! i was able to build the agents by using Opencode and used a combo of locally hosted models. Specifically Kimi and Deepseek.
but didnt deploy an agent anywhere. instead we wrote all the code, system prompts, harness, etc locally and just shared those files with the customer.
all the customer had to do is deploy what we provided them on their locally hosted models, essentially just had to add inference. and boom, started working on their systems!
Zaraif13 · · focus · HN ↗
I spent the last 2 days building basic AI agents to automate some mundane supply chain workflows for a large company. Those seemingly boring workflows had bank statements, supplier IDs and other sensitive information.
For me it was all alarm bells, there is no way they can afford to give closed models access to this data. I was compelled to figure out an open model based solution for them, which made me realize that this is probably the only way for enterprises going forward.
ThePestoParagon · · focus · HN ↗
Zaraif13 · · focus · HN ↗
but didnt deploy an agent anywhere. instead we wrote all the code, system prompts, harness, etc locally and just shared those files with the customer.
all the customer had to do is deploy what we provided them on their locally hosted models, essentially just had to add inference. and boom, started working on their systems!