I gave an AI a Kill Switch. Here's what I learned about trust in local-first tooling.

There's a moment every developer hits when they're using an AI coding tool. You paste in something sensitive. A database schema. An internal API structure. A piece of logic that took three months to figure out. And then you think: where did that just go? That moment is why I built the Air-Gap mode in Rogue Studio. And building it taught me about the architecture of trust in developer tooling than anything I've built before. The problem with "local AI " Every major AI coding tool now claims to local models. And technically, they do. You can point them at Ollama. You can run Llama locally.