Guides and engineering notes from Cernalo, the AI desktop assistant for coding, research and everyday work.
Building with AI made Cernalo (https://cernalo.com/) move fast: architecture, auth, payments, desktop packaging, cloud, even a Windows app on the Microsoft Store. Going live was the easy part. Keeping
Provider keys stay on the server. The desktop app sends a session and the context you choose, and the service checks the plan before it calls a model.
The desktop app turns speech into text on your computer with a bundled whisper.cpp runtime. The question is answered only after you send the text.
Snap the region that matters, ask one specific question, and check the answer against the screen before you act.
