Teaching an AI to know itself: Building a local LLM agent in D
Teaching an AI to Know Itself: Building a Local LLM Agent in D Jun 7, 2026 • Danny Arends • #Community, #Guest Posts, #Project Highlights, #Tutorials, #Code, #Machine Learning I’ve been writing D for a long time. DaNode, my self-contained web server, has been running in production for over 12 years. DImGui is a full SDL + Vulkan renderer that supports skeletal animations via the Open Asset Import Library, HDR lighting, and compute shaders, written entirely in D calling into external libraries via ImportC.
- ▪Teaching an AI to Know Itself: Building a Local LLM Agent in D Jun 7, 2026 • Danny Arends • #Community, #Guest Posts, #Project Highlights, #Tutorials, #Code, #Machine Learning I’ve been writing D for a long time.
- ▪DaNode, my self-contained web server, has been running in production for over 12 years.
- ▪DImGui is a full SDL + Vulkan renderer that supports skeletal animations via the Open Asset Import Library, HDR lighting, and compute shaders, written entirely in D calling into external libraries via ImportC.
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| Original publisher | Dlang |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.dlang.org/2026/06/07/teaching-an-ai-to-know-itself-building-a-local-llm-agent-in-d/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:36:31 +0000 |
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Teaching an AI to Know Itself: Building a Local LLM Agent in D Jun 7, 2026 • Danny Arends • #Community, #Guest Posts, #Project Highlights, #Tutorials, #Code, #Machine Learning I’ve been writing D for a long time. DaNode, my self-contained web server, has been running in production for over 12 years. DImGui is a full SDL + Vulkan renderer that supports skeletal animations via the Open Asset Import Library, HDR lighting, and compute shaders, written entirely in D calling into external libraries via ImportC. So when I decided to build a local agentic large language model (LLM) (DLLM) from scratch, I’d sooner write it in Brainfuck than reach for Python. To be fair, the Python LLM ecosystem is enormous.
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