For a long time, I imagined inventions as moments of sudden brilliance. Someone thinks deeply, connects a few ideas, and suddenly has a breakthrough. The more I learn and build, the less I think innovation works that way. I’m starting to believe ...

Lately I’ve been juggling a few practical challenges while experimenting with offline AI models, and it’s been more insightful than I expected. 1. System-level friction I ran into issues with symlinks breaking unexpectedly and model transfers bet...

I had this idea to run AI locally on my own laptop. Just to see if I could. Ended up going with Ollama. At first it was brutal — all CPU, no GPU, super slow. But I messed around, tweaked some stuff, and finally got it to actually run okay. Not fast,...

I had this idea to run AI locally on my own laptop. Just to see if I could. Ended up going with Ollama. At first it was brutal — all CPU, no GPU, super slow. But I messed around, tweaked some stuff, and finally got it to actually run okay. Not fast,...

I had this idea to run AI locally on my own laptop. Just to see if I could. Ended up going with Ollama. At first it was brutal — all CPU, no GPU, super slow. But I messed around, tweaked some stuff, and finally got it to actually run okay. Not fast,...

I had this idea to run AI locally on my own laptop. Just to see if I could. Ended up going with Ollama. At first it was brutal — all CPU, no GPU, super slow. But I messed around, tweaked some stuff, and finally got it to actually run okay. Not fast,...

I had this idea to run AI locally on my own laptop. Just to see if I could. Ended up going with Ollama. At first it was brutal — all CPU, no GPU, super slow. But I messed around, tweaked some stuff, and finally got it to actually run okay. Not fast,...

I had this idea to run AI locally on my own laptop. Just to see if I could. Ended up going with Ollama. At first it was brutal — all CPU, no GPU, super slow. But I messed around, tweaked some stuff, and finally got it to actually run okay. Not fast,...

I had this idea to run AI locally on my own laptop. Just to see if I could. Ended up going with Ollama. At first it was brutal — all CPU, no GPU, super slow. But I messed around, tweaked some stuff, and finally got it to actually run okay. Not fast,...