This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 I set the agent running just before midnight, did a quick mental count of my remaining API quota, and went to sleep. I was going to wake up to a finished job. That was the plan, anyway... What I actually woke up to was a frozen terminal. The agent had stopped in the tenth minute. The remote service had gone down overnight and taken the whole job with it. The task I had given it was simple enough: scrape fifty documentation pages, cross-reference the data across sources, produce a structured summary. It had barely started before the infrastructure I had no control over just switched off. The model wasn't failing. The problem wasn't intelligence. The problem was that I was building on a foundation I didn't own: a service that could go down, a quota that could run out, and no way to know which one was waiting for me in the morning. I had always worked with local models on the side: trained them, tested them, liked them.…