ME:: I want my own personal atmospheric cloud running my own software including 'AI'. It doesn't have to be on my own hardware, could be in a trusted cloud provider(s) ; Paul Frazee:: Atmospheric Computing ¦ Paul's Dev Notes

Discovered: Jan 6, 2026 18:44 (UTC) ME:: I want my own personal atmospheric cloud running my own software including ‘AI’. It doesn’t have to be on my own hardware, could be in a trusted cloud provider(s) ; Paul Frazee:: Atmospheric Computing ¦ Paul’s Dev Notes

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Atmospheric computing is about building an interoperable world. A cloud in that world can be big or small. It doesn’t matter. A bigger cloud will do bigger things, and a smaller clouds will do smaller things. But they’ll still talk.

We need a collectivist answer to Big Tech. I’m not just interested in the battles of yesterday; if now is the time of AI, I want a personal AI running on my personal cloud. There is zero reason for us to all become subservient clients to American corporations. The model can change.

The path to a sovereign tech stack is via commodification. The AT Protocol stack is akin to Backend-as-a-Service; it standardizes identity, oauth flows, permissioning, data flows, and more. We are now working with the IETF to form a Working Group [4] and I believe a standard cloud platform is emerging in these specs.