8bitbronco.com is the home of Bronco — a personal AI suite for Apple Silicon that requires zero internet.
Robert Austin founded 8bitbronco after two decades building infrastructure, security systems, and execution engines at companies including Elastic, Lab49, LivingSocial, and Endgame. His background spans heavy infrastructure, vulnerability research, and leading teams — with deep experience in system topology, deterministic constraints, and attack surfaces.
He runs a Mac Pro M5 with 128GB of unified memory and builds everything on Apple Silicon, using MLX for local inference and podman for sandboxed tool execution. Bronco is designed, built, and tested with Broncode (Robert's agentic IDE) entirely on-device.
Make powerful, private, reliable AI available to families on Apple Silicon devices — with no cloud dependency, no telemetry, no subscriptions, and no data ever leaving the device.
Bronco is built for the air-gapped reality: defense contractors, quantitative finance, healthtech, and anyone else who needs the productivity of an agentic coding assistant but cannot risk proprietary codebases hitting a third-party cloud.
Zero token fees. Zero data leaks. Full compliance.
Email: robert@8bitbronco.com
| Date | Type | Description |
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| July 3, 2026 | Publication |