Weekly AI Builder Notes: April 22, 2026

# Weekly AI Builder Notes: April 22, 2026

This note points to the deck I used for the April 22 AI builder meetup. The source was a presentation slice set, so this article stays intentionally small and keeps the replayable deck attached.

The deck covered self-hosted productivity stacks for agents, Kimi K2.6, the GPT-6 watch, Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Design, Qwen 3.6, RunPod economics, and a set of weekly AI stories. The useful connective tissue was ownership: what should run locally, what should run on a rented GPU, what should stay as an API call, and what should be organized as infrastructure rather than one more chat session.

The evergreen point is that builders need a mixed stack. Local small models, budget APIs, on-demand GPU sessions, and frontier systems are different instruments. The weekly briefing format helps keep those instruments from collapsing into one vague AI bucket.