The Trinity Moment: When a Local AI Model, altFINS CLI, and an M1 Max Started Working Like One Tool

There is a specific emotional jolt when a local model stops sounding clever and starts acting competent. That was the moment here. Not because the model delivered one dramatic answer, but because it could actually work: inspect a CLI, choose commands, run filters, survive a failed path, and keep the chain together. The trigger line in my terminal was simple: local model online → tool access confirmed → "I can use altFINS CLI." Three things converged on one laptop: Codex as the agent lay...