INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATING MODEL
Research stands on maintained infrastructure.
Compute, storage, network, displays, power, thermals, and continuity.
Environment, configuration, tests, CI, deployment, observability, and recovery.
Freshness, schemas, lineage, point-in-time correctness, storage, and serving.
Reproducible experiments, factors, backtests, portfolios, and release evidence.
Versioned policies, deterministic decisions, conditions, rejection, and halt state.
Orders, fills, reconciliation, monitoring, recovery, and controlled broker state.
PINF governs cross-system contracts and hardware/software evidence. PDAT, PRT, and PET retain independent implementation and operational authority.
REQUIREMENT-DRIVEN INFRASTRUCTURE
Profile the workload before choosing the machine.
Every request moves from a declared problem and fixed workload through baseline, profiling, benchmark, decision, rollout, and regression review. Unknown results remain UNMEASURED.
TARGET WORKSPACE / NOT CURRENT INVENTORY
Two hosts. Five stable operating surfaces.
- 01BuildIDE, terminal, testsHost A primary
- 02ApproveCommand and Human GateHost A primary
- 03ObserveRuntime and healthHost A primary
- 04ResearchPapers, docs, evidenceHost B primary
- 05CommunicatePMAIL, meetings, operationsHost B primary
Purchase remains gated on verified display ports, MacBook external-display limits, dock and cable requirements, desk ergonomics, thermals, and a tested failover path.
WHY PINF EXISTS
AI capability has a physical boundary.
PINF connects device capacity, model runtime, and workload behavior. It turns CPU, GPU, memory, storage, quantization, context, and concurrency into an explicit operating model for local AI.
COMPUTE BOUNDARY
Default local workload
Suitable for local tool use, structured extraction, document triage, RAG assistance, and low-risk Agent work.
Context and concurrency are controlled because KV cache, desktop workloads, and runtime overhead share the same device.
AI INFRA CAREER LENS
Build evidence one infrastructure layer at a time.
CONTROL DOMAINS
One normalized device snapshot
LOCAL MODEL POLICY
System disk is not model storage.
- Runtime, model weights, and temporary model files use a dedicated data volume.
- Local models are unloaded from VRAM when a task finishes.
- Cloud escalation remains available for difficult reasoning.
- Deletion, migration, and runtime shutdown require human approval.