Mac Studio M5 Ultra vs NVIDIA DGX Spark: The $5,500 Local AI Bet
Two weeks ago I priced out what it would take to run a 200B-parameter model in my apartment in Dhaka without cloud tokens. The used-GPU route kept d…
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Two weeks ago I priced out what it would take to run a 200B-parameter model in my apartment in Dhaka without cloud tokens. The used-GPU route kept d…
I Built an Agent Evaluation Harness for Local AI — Here's What Most People Get Wrong DOYR | Not financial/legal/tax advice. For educational purposes…
Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to contribute to llama.cpp’s WebGPU backend, helping push it from isolated operator support toward a…
Your AI coding agent's token data is already on your machine. You just haven't looked at it yet. Claude Code and Codex both write local logs after e…
If you call an open-weight model behind an API, whether that is your own box, a hosted endpoint, or a router, you are trusting that the thing answer…
When you download a model file for your homelab, you aren't just grabbing data; you are importing an untrusted dependency with execution privileges.…
NVIDIA RTX Spark launched on June 1, 2026, and within 72 hours the internet had already decided it was either the death of Apple Silicon or the next…
This post is part of the akm-knowledge series. Part ten introduced the improve pipeline — what each phase does and how to schedule it. This post goe…
This is part thirteen in a series about managing the growing pile of skills, scripts, and context that AI coding agents depend on. Part ten covered…
This article was originally published on runaihome.com Every "best local AI model" article skips the question that actually matters: best for what V…
This article was originally published on runaihome.com TL;DR : AnythingLLM is the fastest path to local document chat with zero terminal commands. O…
By Takeshi Yokoyama — Onecarat Labs Hi. I'm Yokoyama, and I build a local-first AI text editor as a side project, along with a few other experimenta…
I Blamed the Model for Months. The Bug Was My Sampler. 40GB In, Word Salad Out Running local LLMs on M1 Max hardware is one of those setups that loo…
Problem: I had aider running on Lubuntu, three API keys configured, a detailed architecture diagram, and a clear goal — build a modular forensic dat…
A real-world, copy-paste guide to running a personal WhatsApp AI agent entirely on-device on Apple Silicon, with zero per-token API billing . Two ag…
Qwen 3.6 enable_thinking — The MoE Pitfall That Broke My Agent JSON Parsing I lost two hours last week to a Qwen 3.6 quirk that doesn't show up in a…
Google released Gemma 4 E4B with a specific claim: native function calling. "Enhanced coding and agentic capabilities," the model card said. "Native…