Feeling grateful for the past nine years and everything they carried — becoming a husband, a father, and eventually starting my own business. Learning how to be a founder has been one of the most stretching and rewarding experiences of my life. Huge thank you to the AI Automation Lab community. This group has been a place to build out loud, think clearly, and keep momentum when things get messy. The conversations, encouragement, and shared experiments here genuinely matter. Grateful for friends and mentors along the way — especially Santiago Cuevas for the Ready, Fire, Aim reminder at exactly the right moment. This desk captures a season of focused building and consistency. Edge. Zulu. Community. Locked in to finish my thirties strong and step into my forties with clarity, humility, and momentum. Onward. 🚀

What a great Saturday Builders Session. Huge thanks to @Lévis Côté Tremblay for the builder spotlight and for sharing his work on binary systems and decision architecture. Check out the video and support his community. We build better together. — AZ

Team — just wrapped my presentation at AI Tinkerers and wanted to bring it home to the community that helped shape this. This is the first public walkthrough of the ZULU Agent: A local-first, private AI that keeps your data on your device — not in someone else’s cloud. 🔥 What’s inside the demo - Real-time transcription with WhisperX - On-device LLM processing (no surveillance, no uploads) - Encrypted memory + MPC split - How Zcash fits into the future of privacy-preserving agents - Why “private AI” is the next platform shift 🎥 Watch the Demo https://youtu.be/-jVv_9WUZ6w?si=DBOCM3Z3leSLcI9G 💬 Drop your thoughts I want to know: What features should we build next? What problems do YOU want a private agent to solve? Zulu started in this community — and this is only the beginning. Let’s keep building.— AZ

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Most people know Jensen Huang as the billionaire CEO of NVIDIA. But before the GPUs, AI boom, and trillion-dollar valuation… he was a dishwasher at Denny’s. At 15 years old, he scrubbed plates, bussed tables, waited on customers — whatever it took. A few years later? He and his co-founders sat in a Denny’s booth in 1993 and sketched the idea that eventually became NVIDIA. Today: - 🧽 First job: Dishwasher → busboy → waiter - 💡 NVIDIA was literally founded in a Denny’s booth - 🔁 Huang still visits the same location to honor the journey - 🏆 Denny’s installed a plaque in that exact booth - 🍳 2025: They even launched a “NVIDIA® Breakfast Bytes” menu item based on his go-to breakfast Full-circle moments only feel impossible… until they happen. And this is why I always say: “The only job you start on top is digging a hole.” — Alula Keep building. Keep shipping. Your Denny’s booth moment is coming.