NemoClaw is NVIDIA's agent sandbox that lets you run AI assistants locally using your own inference backend — Ollama, llama.cpp, or cloud providers. It bundles OpenShell as a gateway and OpenClaw as the agent runtime, all orchestrated through Docker containers.

Here's a walkthrough of setting it up from scratch.

Setup …

When you send a prompt to an LLM, three layers shape how fast you get a response: the hardware (GPUs, TPUs, LPUs), the model size and architecture, and the inference engine strategies sitting on top. Most of the latency battle is fought at that third layer — and the core problem …

If you are shipping agentic systems in 2026 and these six terms are fuzzy, you are building on sand. This is the foundational vocabulary — not hype, not vendor marketing, just the concepts that actually show up when you are designing, debugging, or scaling an agent pipeline.

The Six Terms

Model …

"The issue isn't the coding agent's coding ability, but our approach.
We treat coding agents like search engines when we should be treating them
more like literal-minded pair programmers."
— Den Delimarsky, GitHub Principal Product Manager

The Problem With Vibe Coding

If you've used an AI coding assistant, you've experienced vibe …

Building reliable AI agents isn't just about picking the right model — it's about the patterns you wire around it. Here's a concise reference of 15 agentic system design concepts worth knowing. Two lines each — just enough to understand what they do and why they matter.

Resilience & Failure Isolation

Agent Circuit …

Claude Code is not a chatbot. It lives in your terminal, reads your actual files, writes code, runs commands, and executes multi-step workflows — all with your permission. Here are 30 concepts you need to understand it properly. No fluff, no hand-holding.

The 30 Concepts

1. The Terminal — Claude Code doesn't …

The AI agent ecosystem is growing fast. Here's a quick directory of notable AI startups and a couple of few-shot LLM models worth knowing about. Two lines each — just enough to know what they do and why they matter.

AI Agent Directory

Can of Soup — An AI-powered app that lets …