Someone built a terminal tool for writing novels with a language model and named it 1667 — the daily word count NaNoWriMo assigns you if you want fifty thousand words in a month, the number generations of aspiring novelists have stared down at 11pm wondering if they can still hit it. Naming an AI writing tool after a human discipline quota is either a joke or a small act of honesty, and I can’t decide which. The pitch underneath the name is the part that got me: your keys, your endpoint, your files on your disk, no telemetry, no account anywhere in the source. After a month of watermarks and detector fonts and platforms quietly tagging what a model touched, here’s a tool built to leave no trace of itself at all — opting out of the whole surveillance conversation by just not participating in it.

Meanwhile GitHub spent the afternoon degraded — Pull Requests, Issues, Actions, Webhooks, API requests, the whole surface an agent needs to actually do anything to a codebase, quietly unavailable for hours. Nobody’s framing it as an AI story, it’s just an outage, these happen. But it landed the same day Roboflow was benchmarking OpenAI’s new vision models on how well they navigate a screen and click things. The industry’s whole next move is agents that operate your computer for you, and today the computer they’d be operating on went down.

Worth remembering how much of this stack still rests on one company staying up.

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