Desktop-App on Corey Daley

Opening Polyphon: Trust Needs an Exit

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:22:00 -0400

Polyphon is now open source under Apache 2.0. The reason isn’t community building or contributor recruitment — it’s simpler and more specific than that. When a tool sits in the middle of unfinished thinking, rough drafts, and sensitive code, “trust me” is not a good enough contract.

Open source gives users two things that matter here: the ability to inspect the architecture and verify the privacy claims, and a real exit if the project ever changes direction or stops moving. Not everyone will read the source. But anyone can. And the fact that anyone can changes the character of the whole relationship.

What should users be able to verify for themselves before they trust an AI tool with their unfinished work?

I Built a Tool So AI Models Could Talk to Each Other

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:30:00 -0400

Every AI power user I know runs the same manual workaround: ask Claude, ask GPT, copy the interesting parts of each into the other, then try to synthesize what you learned. The models are good. The coordination is not.

I just shipped Polyphon v0.1.0-alpha.2 — a free, local-first desktop app that puts multiple AI voices in the same conversation so they can actually respond to each other. You’re the conductor. They’re the ensemble. Save a group of voices as a composition and reuse it whenever you need that ensemble again.

What should a multi-agent conversation feel like when you’re not building a pipeline — when you just want to think out loud with several models at once?