Polyphon at v0.8.0: The End of the Prototype Phase

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:55:00 -0400

When I shipped Polyphon v0.1.0-alpha.2, the pitch was simple: put multiple AI voices in one conversation and let them respond to each other. That was useful. But early usefulness and long-term trust are not the same thing.

v0.8.0 is the release where Polyphon crosses that line. The features that made the difference weren’t the ones I planned at launch. Voices can now interact with actual files, with per-voice sandboxing and explicit permission categories. Conversation history is encrypted with SQLCipher whole-database AES-256, with optional password protection. FTS5 search turns the archive into working memory you can actually retrieve from. These aren’t incremental improvements — they’re the features that decide whether a tool stays an interesting experiment or earns a place near real projects.

What actually makes you trust an AI tool with real work: capability, privacy, or memory?

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?

Electron on Corey Daley

Polyphon at v0.8.0: The End of the Prototype Phase

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