#19. Weekly AI for Newsroom Round Up. Are we coming back to local first thanks to AI?

Hello, this is Sergei.

I’ve been thinking about a trend that might become very real in the AI era.

What if most of the tools we use were local? Again.

With AI as a coding assistant, it’s getting easier to build small tools quickly. Not full-scale replacements for big platforms, but something good enough for a specific workflow or team. And when you build it yourself, both the software and the data are yours.

You run it locally. Your team uses it locally. All you really need is a small machine — a Mac Mini, a simple server, a Raspberry Pi.

In that scenario, we rely less on cloud SaaS and more on our own stack of tools built exactly for how we work.

CMS, CRM, project management, BI dashboards, internal personal AI assistants, communication tools — many of these could exist as small local systems.