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zpusmani

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About zpusmani

Principal engineer. 15+ years in silicon, edge AI and Physical AI infrastructure. Building local-first tools for sovereign compute.

Made: Context Protocol, DeckBuilder, LocalSheets, LocalPlan. GitHub: https://github.com/zohaibus LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zohaib-usmani

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    When an agent and a human disagree on priority, who wins... is there an override, a queue or some kind of arbitration?

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    Show HN: Context Protocol, a sovereign-first workflow for thinking with LLMs

    I shared DeckBuilder (my local-first slide editor) here last month ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365332 ). While using it with LLMs, I kept hitting a bigger problem: con…

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    I built this because I got tired of the LLM-to-PowerPoint friction. The workflow: Ask Claude/GPT to generate slides in HTML -> Paste into DeckBuilder -> Drag/drop to fix layout -> …

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    Ah makes sense, using Typst under the hood for strict layout control compared to CSS. Thanks for the link to the override guide and I'll check it out.

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    I really love tools that treat documents as code. I have been trying to move my workflows away from binary formats (like PPT & Word) to text based ones I can more easily version co…