Mahnoor Faisal May 18, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
…Each agent gets its own local OpenAI-compatible endpoint, its own role, and its own prompt. I defined a number of tools that each agent could use, and every turn, an agent…
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…By delivering dense, frontier-level reasoning within a modest 12-billion-parameter footprint, Google has changed the rules of on-device AI. So what are you waiting for? The future of AI…
…For a long time, I treated local AI as something interesting, but not practical for daily work. Still, curiosity pushed me to try a few models locally, just to see whether the…
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…with agentic workflows, getting the most out of Claude requires moving beyond simple Q&A. As a tech writer who lives and breathes productivity software, I have spent countless hours pushing Anthropics…
…Claude is genuinely the most AI tool I've had in my rotation - it handles my design coursework, Cowork helps me manage files and tasks on my PC, and recently I've…
…settings, you’ll realize it can become everything from a powerful AI search engine with SearXNG to an image generation agent with ComfyUI models. On top of that, it even supports MCP…
…But the longer I lean on local AI, the more I run into things LM Studio either doesn't do or makes me set up by hand. That's what pushed me…