@StephenAshmore
Head of Engineering @ Ox. Building Aethas on the side
I'm the Head of Engineering at Ox. Before that, I led the ML team at SupplyPike, helped Bluebite scale from thousands to billions of objects, and spent time in PhD research at the University of Arkansas working on neural network theory, robotics, and dynamical systems.
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Jan 20 · 6 min read · When I started building Aethas, I started with a purely local-first approach. Everything would run on the user's machine: their data, their embeddings, their conversations. No cloud required. This was great for learning Tauri and iterating quickly. I...
Join discussionJan 13 · 5 min read · Aethas indexes local files like Obsidian vaults, or markdown folders for context-aware conversations. This happens at startup, when users manually trigger a re-index, and continuously via file watchers. After some use I found it annoying to guess if ...
Join discussionJan 8 · 5 min read · Aethas indexes Obsidian vaults and other sources, making that content searchable via RAG. Users can @mention files from their indexed sources. But what about that PDF someone just sent you? Or a code file from a different project? The friction: copy ...
Join discussionJan 4 · 6 min read · Back in 1996, when I was just six years old, I watched Star Trek for the first time. I can remember sitting on the floor of my father's study in front of his cathode-ray television. We watched all of the Star Trek TV shows and films that had come out...
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