
A mere farmer built a personal AI agent with just one Android phone — no PC, no coding experience
Who I am I grow garlic in rural South Korea. Sixteen years ago I left my job in Seoul, moved to the countryside, and never owned a personal PC again. Everything I do runs on an Android phone with Termux installed. One unexpected advantage of working on a phone: text is all you get, so you stay focused on it. Every task I do is conversation-based AI interaction, and I suspect a PC's flashy visual interface would have scattered my attention. I have never written a line of code on my own. Every piece of code was built by talking to multiple AIs through a physical-keyboard phone, copy-pasting back and forth — a clumsy method I turned into my own workflow over two years. I should say upfront: my thinking happens in Korean, and this post was translated from Korean with AI help. If some phrasing feels odd, that is why. What I built garlic-agent — a personal AI agent that runs in Termux on Android. Whether it deserves the word "agent" I am not sure, but it is my own AI assistant and I gave it
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