After a year of self-hosting LLMs, I realized the real bottleneck isn’t the GPU
…the real bottleneck in a local AI setup isn’t the GPU, it’s everything around it. Once I changed how my setup worked , the AI started becoming a part of how…
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I asked Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT to build a customer landing page, and only one nailed the brief
…Claude OS Windows, macOS Individual pricing Free plan available; $17/month Pro plan Claude is an AI assistant and LLM developed by Anthropic. See at Claude
These metal washers are replacing smart home sensors, and they work without a single wire or battery
…Related I made my smart home even smarter with a couple of Home Assistant add-ons I now have a local AI chatbot that I can speak to. The CR2032 nightmare No…
Plugins made Claude Code feel less like a chat window and more like a command center
…Sign in to your XDA account Claude Code was already useful when I treated it as a smarter terminal assistant. I could ask it to explain a script, clean up a config…
Zigbee solved the smart-home battery problem years ago, and Matter still hasn't
Jasmine Mannan Jun 7, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
The engineer behind NotebookLM's best features showed me his exact setup, and it changes everything
…07 / 8 Claude In what year was Claude, the AI assistant developed by Anthropic, first made publicly available? A 2020 B 2021 C 2023 D 2025 Correct! Anthropic launched Claude to the…
I let Claude Code Routines babysit my home lab while I slept, and it caught what my monitoring missed
…For a home lab, that changes the role of AI from occasional helper to overnight reviewer , and that’s much more interesting than another dashboard widget. Related Claude Code works best when…
My local LLM and Claude are helping me make my dream game, one day at a time
…I'm certainly not building the next Disco Elysium overnight, but it's becoming increasingly realistic that this humble text adventure could eventually evolve into a proper AI-assisted visual novel. Related…
I built an app with both Codex and Claude Code, and only one made me want to keep using it
…You simply need to know what you want to build and how to describe it clearly enough for an AI to comprehend. So, the question has quickly shifted from "can you code…
Codex CLI felt safer than Claude Code, but it cost me my flow
…Claude OS Windows, macOS Individual pricing Free plan available; $17/month Pro plan Claude is an AI assistant and LLM developed by Anthropic. See at Claude