2026-10-03 · 9 min
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33 posts tagged “fundamentals”
2026-10-03 · 7 min
How Much VRAM Do You Actually Need? The VRAM-to-Model Lookup
2026-10-03 · 9 min
The Open-Source Model Tracker: What's Worth Running Right Now (October 2026)
2026-10-03 · 12 min
The Private AI Stack for Small Teams: What to Actually Buy
2026-10-03 · 10 min
Two Cheap Boxes vs One Big Box: Clustering for Local AI
2026-10-03 · 8 min
What to Expect Running Local LLMs: Speed and Quality by Model, Quant, and Hardware
2026-09-18 · 11 min
Agentic coding on local models: which models survive the loop
2026-09-18 · 10 min
Buy now or wait: a decision framework for local AI hardware
2026-09-18 · 11 min
Fine-tuning on Consumer GPUs: The Honest Math
2026-09-18 · 10 min
Local AI on a laptop: what actually runs, and the NPU reality check
2026-09-18 · 10 min
Mac vs mini-PC vs DGX Spark vs DIY: the local-AI platform decision, measured where possible
2026-09-18 · 11 min
Ollama vs LM Studio vs llama.cpp vs OpenWebUI: the 2026 local AI stack, picked apart
2026-09-18 · 12 min
Your Local LLM Isn't as Dumb as It Feels: The Six Config Traps, Measured
2026-07-31 · 9 min
Best local TTS models in 2026
2026-07-31 · 11 min
How much does a local AI setup cost per month?
2026-07-31 · 9 min
How much VRAM do I need for local AI?
2026-07-31 · 8 min
Is local AI actually private? An honest threat model
2026-07-31 · 9 min
Learn local AI: the complete roadmap
2026-07-31 · 10 min
Local vs cloud AI: the full comparison
2026-07-31 · 8 min
Why local AI is better for privacy
2026-07-24 · 14 min
Best local LLMs in 2026: measured, not summarized
2026-07-24 · 16 min
How to run AI models locally in 2026: the complete setup
2026-07-23 · 9 min
Quantization in 2026: Q4_K_M is no longer the compromise
2026-07-22 · 9 min
The MoE shift: why every new local model is a Mixture-of-Experts
2026-07-19 · 12 min
Best GPUs for local AI in 2026: measured cross-vendor
2026-07-19 · 13 min
CUDA vs ROCm vs Vulkan vs OpenVINO: measured
2026-07-19 · 12 min
Home AI server: a working four-node fleet
2026-07-19 · 9 min
Local vs cloud AI generation: the honest decision for image and video workloads
2026-07-19 · 11 min
Ollama vs llama.cpp on the same hardware: measured
2026-07-19 · 11 min
Single vs dual GPU for local LLMs: when the second card stops idling
2026-07-19 · 12 min
Speculative decoding on consumer GPUs: MTP measured 2.07×
2026-07-19 · 10 min
What a quantization tier costs in watts: measured
2026-07-18 · 8 min