My RTX 5070 sits idle while integrated graphics handle my everyday AI work
…I now look at my local AI setup as a combination of hardware, model, and software that needs to work well together. The model is my starting point. Once I know what…
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Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini get all the hype, but the most interesting AI models are coming from elsewhere
…Benchmarks are fun to talk about, but running the thing is always a better test. There are two models that I'd put in front of anyone who wants a local AI…
Stop guessing which local AI models fit your hardware — this free tool does it for you
…Related I ran local AI models on a six-year-old laptop with no GPU, and they actually worked Your old laptop is powerful enough for local AI... if you temper expectations…
My 7-year-old GPU runs local AI perfectly, and I don't need my cloud subscriptions anymore
…Before committing one-hundred-percent to a local AI stack, the single most important thing to do is researching your specific workflow rather than chasing model benchmark rankings. Not all models that…
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I ditched Ollama as my default runtime, and the replacement starts models in a fraction of the time
5d agoI'm running a 284-billion-parameter model across two machines, and it finally matches the cloud
1w agoI trusted Antigravity and a local LLM with the same office tasks, and only one respected my files
1w agoI gave Claude Code, Antigravity, and my local LLM the same coding project, and only one of them understood the assignment
1w agoI switched my local LLM setup to Ollama's new MLX engine, and my Mac suddenly feels twice as fast
…I have made to my local AI setup. Ollama Ollama is a platform to download and run various open-source large language models (LLM) on your local computer. See at Ollama Related…
Instead of Claude and Anthropic models, I use my local LLMs for coding (and not vibe-coding, mind you)
…no point in relying on AI tools when my local LLMs can handle everything Compared to Claude’s cloud models, anything spat out by my local models will be sloppy code But…
I thought I needed a GPU for local LLMs until I tried this lean model
…The fact that this model supports RAG and native vision so seamlessly is mind-blowing. If you are struggling with the larger models, don’t give up on local AI – just try…
Local AI has a hardware accessibility problem, and the answer to it isn't RTX Spark
…local AI has rarely been about scale alone. A model running on hardware most users already own costs nothing to query, and that accessibility has driven adoption far more than benchmarks against…
I replaced my ChatGPT subscription with a local AI coding tool and haven't looked back
…If you tend to use AI for a lot more than just coding, it may behoove you to keep the subscription. You could always download a more general local model, but those…
I used three local coding models for a week of real work, and the smallest one won
…It's no surprise that the local AI landscape is advancing fast, and we're almost spoilt for choice on capable open-weight models these days. That abundance, though, is what put…