I’d do these 5 things differently if I started self-hosting LLMs today
…What started as a quest for privacy and local control quickly turned into a deep dive into the mechanics of AI infrastructure. Along the way, I’ve built a robust local lab…
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I stopped trusting cloud AI with my personal files, and switched to this local setup instead
…Sign in to your XDA account I use AI tools for a big portion of my productivity and creativity tasks now, so uploading files to them has become second nature at this…
I stopped forcing every coding job through Claude and started using this instead
…I have a clear winner for you The search for the perfect coding assistant Aider gets the fundamentals right You can choose the AI model you want Aider is an open-source…
I tried replacing VS Code with Cursor, Antigravity, and Windsurf for a month and one clearly dominated
…t wait to see how the search giant improves it with advanced Gemini models and fixes annoying performance issues. Google Antigravity Google Antigravity is an AI-powered IDE that rivals VS Code…
This self-hosted Office 365 alternative is fine, but here's how I turned it into my private cloud setup
…Between its auto-backup, AI-aided smart search, robust tagging, and face recognition features, it’s simply better than Nextcloud for storing pictures and screenshots en masse. But using separate apps for…
I gave Gemini access to my entire Google Drive and it became the assistant I actually wanted
…Sign in to your XDA account I've been using AI chatbots for work since 2023, and the workflow has always been the same: copy context from a Google Doc, paste it…
I gave Matter two years to work, then ripped out every Thread node for Zigbee
Jasmine Mannan May 3, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
I spent a month with Cursor, Google Antigravity, and Windsurf – and there is a clear winner
…Sign in to your XDA account The dream of the AI-powered developer setup has always been a smarter autocomplete – a tool that could guess your next line before you typed it…
I vibe-coded a tiny CLI tool in 15 minutes, and it helped me stop subscriptions I was too lazy to cancel
…Just prompting an AI and building as you go? It sounded messy. A bit like skipping the thinking part and jumping straight to execution. I also had this bias that “ real developers…
I canceled ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot subscriptions just to go back to this powerful AI tool
…The search giant has smartly made Google AI Pro more lucrative by bundling YouTube Premium Lite, Google Health Premium, Antigravity, and Google Drive storage. Besides, while standalone chatbots require you to constantly…