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My First Local AI Model Was an Autocomplete Server. Its Last Customer Was an AI Agent.

My First Local AI Model Was an Autocomplete Server. Its Last Customer Was an AI Agent.

I evicted my self-hosted autocomplete model to make room for Cloudflare's Clef, a local Jev alternative, and found its only remaining user was an AI agent.AISelf HostingDeveloper WorkflowAI Agents
I Benchmarked Nine Models to Spec a Four-GPU Node. Every Single Number Crowned the Wrong Winner.

I Benchmarked Nine Models to Spec a Four-GPU Node. Every Single Number Crowned the Wrong Winner.

I have to spec a two-to-four card inference node, so one Blackwell went on the bench first. Every throughput test picked one winner. Then a benchmark that actually compiles the code scored it 28.9% against 64.4%.AISelf Hosting
I Gave an AI Agent the Keys to Navisworks, and Five Trades of Takeoff Took Four Days

I Gave an AI Agent the Keys to Navisworks, and Five Trades of Takeoff Took Four Days

Automated BIM takeoff platforms assume your model followed the rules. Real models never do. So an AI agent drove Navisworks headless.. and five trades of takeoff took four days.AIAgentsConstructionBIM
I Built a Bot Army to Attack My Own Game Server, and 45 of Them Took It Down

I Built a Bot Army to Attack My Own Game Server, and 45 of Them Took It Down

My movement bots said the server could hold hundreds. Then I taught them to swing a sword and the whole thing fell over at 45.. which is how I ended up shopping for CPUs instead of RAM.Game DevelopmentSelf Hosting
I Billed Myself for 6.7 Billion Tokens and the Total Came Out to $35.85

I Billed Myself for 6.7 Billion Tokens and the Total Came Out to $35.85

My friends said the new model on my rig was drunk. Root-causing that from LiteLLM request logs turned into pricing every token my GPUs have ever produced.. and a $961 cloud comparison.AISelf Hosting
I Run AI Agents Around the Clock and My Best Productivity Tool This Year Has No Battery

I Run AI Agents Around the Clock and My Best Productivity Tool This Year Has No Battery

I built a homelab full of AI agents to run my life, then got actually organized with a pen, an A5 notebook, and a bullet journal key I bent to fit my markdown brain.ProductivityJournaling
I Chased Four Benchmark Points and Almost Missed the Model That's Twice as Fast

I Chased Four Benchmark Points and Almost Missed the Model That's Twice as Fast

I finally got Qwen3.6 running locally, ran the dense flagship against the sparse MoE, and learned that four benchmark points are worth a lot less than 5x prefill.AISelf Hosting
On an EPC Job, 'Sure, No Problem' Is the Most Expensive Sentence Onsite. An Agent Would Have Checked the Contract First.

On an EPC Job, 'Sure, No Problem' Is the Most Expensive Sentence Onsite. An Agent Would Have Checked the Contract First.

A client asks your superintendent for a small favor. He says yes. Months later it's a claim nobody can reconstruct. The case for AI agents on EPC jobs.AIAgentsConstructionEPCProject Controls
I Spent a Saturday Trying to Replace My Local AI to Save on Tokens. The Server Voted No.

I Spent a Saturday Trying to Replace My Local AI to Save on Tokens. The Server Voted No.

Six hours, five models, one IPMI reboot, zero upgrades -- a field report on why the bleeding edge of local LLM hosting is mostly bleeding.AISelf Hosting
I Spent $5K on GPUs Just to Learn That One GPU Was Enough

I Spent $5K on GPUs Just to Learn That One GPU Was Enough

Four RTX 3090s, an EPYC server, and a 122B parameter model -- the journey from underwhelming to overkill and back to surprisingly elegant.AISelf Hosting
I Spent 22 Years Programming Just to Fail at Making a Skeleton Swing a Sword

I Spent 22 Years Programming Just to Fail at Making a Skeleton Swing a Sword

REST APIs to roguelikes: How I'm using a smaller game to learn the fundamentals before building my dream MMORPG. A honest indie gamedev journey.Game DevelopmentNuxt
Build First - Learn Later

Build First - Learn Later

Building an AI app with zero knowledge of AI, hitting deployment walls, and evolving architecture to meet real-world needs.AIWeb DevelopmentSide ProjectsNuxt
Building a Roguelike Game with Amazon Q

Building a Roguelike Game with Amazon Q

Using Amazon's AI coding assistant, Q, to build a browser-based roguelike with Nuxt.js — the potential and the limits of AI-assisted development.AIGame DevelopmentNuxt