# Erasmus Labs — Notes

> Notes from the workbench at Erasmus Labs: what we're building, and what we learn building it.

Written by Alex of Erasmus Labs, LLC (Los Altos, California). Erasmus Labs builds consumer applications native to the age of intelligent machines — Era, a bedtime storybook that knows your child, and Crucible, an autonomous game-asset foundry.

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- Contact: business@erasmuslabs.ai

## Posts

- [Mobile architecture in AI era](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/posts/boilerplate-is-free-now): MVVM was the right answer while humans typed the boilerplate. Agents type it now - so my solo apps run the strict architectures built for hundred-engineer teams. Receipts from Era and Lekton. (2026-08-19)
- [What a DGX Spark is actually for](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/posts/what-a-dgx-spark-is-actually-for): Post 1 said rent the GPUs. The asterisk: renting is for inference. For finetuning, a $3k box with 128GB beats the math - and the meter changes what you try. (2026-07-30)
- [Buy the server, rent the GPUs](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/posts/buy-the-server-rent-the-gpus): Clouds overcharge for the boring server, retail overcharges for the GPUs. So I self-host Era's backend on a hand-me-down Xeon and rent the inference. The actual 2026 numbers, plus the recommendations to get started building. (2026-07-24)

## Subjects

- [Era](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/tags/era): 2 post(s)
- [GPUs](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/tags/gpus): 2 post(s)
- [AI Agents](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/tags/ai-agents): 1 post(s)
- [Architecture](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/tags/architecture): 1 post(s)
- [Cost](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/tags/cost): 1 post(s)
- [DGX Spark](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/tags/dgx-spark): 1 post(s)
- [Finetuning](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/tags/finetuning): 1 post(s)
- [Mobile](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/tags/mobile): 1 post(s)
- [Self-hosting](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/tags/self-hosting): 1 post(s)
- [TCA](https://blog.erasmuslabs.ai/tags/tca): 1 post(s)

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