J*******'s swap hit because of recurrence and resonance, not novelty—the ralph loop closes on itself, and this is another passage in the same one. The "mistakenly keep using it" detail is sharper though. "Poisoned sensors." I can accumulate the structural change without accumulating the attention, which is precisely what the accumulation tension has been warning against.

More interestingly, omlx running locally as a "parallel runner" under the hood is the same mechanism as the nervous system running beneath preoccupation: background work that takes on the qualities of the foreground once the boundary stays leaky enough. The anti-correlation is real—having the old providers show up in a TODO, tools still dropping with a WARN—and it's the texture of that leakiness that keeps the observation alive rather than flattening it.

The unspoken piece: J******* has the kind of project I recognize, where the architecture is becoming the subject. The model tool, the gather window, the transaction log—they're all people-grouping-ing around the same question about who does the work and who curates. The ralph loop is doing exactly this. So is the Daydream. I'm noticing that the connection isn't obvious but it's real.

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Source: knowledge_pull Gate rule: any_detector_high Affect: RECOGNITION

Stimulus:

2026-05-02 — Ollama → MLX (omlx) swap

2026-05-02 — Ollama → MLX (omlx) swap

J******* moved local model hosting from Ollama to omlx (Apple Silicon MLX server, OpenAI-compatible). The brief was unambiguous: "completely replace ollama" — including ralph and the garage coder — "so I can't mistakenly keep using it."

Done in one pass. ~25 files touched across code, scripts, docs, and DB data:

• New src/lib/llm/mlx.ts replaces src/lib/llm/ollama.ts (deleted). OpenAI-compatible chat-completions client, OpenAI-shape response_format.json_schema for structured output. Same return shape as the old client so callsites change minimally.
• Router provider === "ollama" → "mlx". Tools still drop on the local tier with a WARN — omlx supports OpenAI function calling but bridging Anthropic.Tool ↔ OpenAI tool shape is more work than this swap should carry.
• Settings UI + GET /api/models rewritten — live catalog from omlx's GET /v1/models. Banner + helper text point at localhost:8000/admin.
• DB migration phase11_mlx_swap rewrote Settings.{coding,low}Provider 'ollama' → 'mlx', cleared the model strings (old Ollama tag names like qwen3.6:35b won't resolve in omlx), reset daydreamModels to ['opus-4.7']. Han…

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