AI
Everything we publish on AI: the models we run on our own machines, what the tools send home, the benchmarks we measure ourselves and the claims we check against the code. Start with the investigations, then the guides.
OpinionOwn your AI stack instead of renting it
Own vs rent: forget the AI bill for a moment. Renting your stack also rents your uptime, your data access,…
OpinionRun Local AI Without a GPU: Start on Your Laptop
Run local AI without a GPU: the hardware wall is mostly imaginary. A normal laptop runs useful models today, and…
OpinionInvisible AI: the most useful AI is the kind you don’t notice
The AI worth having is rarely the one you open a tab to talk to. It is the quiet kind:…
OpinionLocal AI is good enough now: what we run daily
The question is no longer whether it runs. Local AI as a daily driver is good enough for most work,…
OpinionStop paying monthly for AI: run it locally instead
Count your AI subscriptions, then count what the same work costs on hardware you own. Stop paying for AI monthly:…
Case StudiesSelf-Hosted AI: A Studio Case Study in Leaving Subscriptions
A self-hosted AI case study: not which tool replaced which, but why we left our subscriptions, the order we migrated…
Behind-the-scenesCoding With a Local AI Agent: A Week With No Cloud
A week of coding with a local AI agent: OpenCode pointed at Ollama, no cloud and no fallback. What worked,…
Builds & ToolsThe Cheapest Mac That Runs Serious Local AI
We are asked which is the cheapest Mac for local AI more than anything else. The honest answer is not…
Builds & ToolsDemucs and WhisperX: A Local Audio Cleanup Pipeline
A build log for the studio interview chain: Demucs isolates a voice from a noisy field recording, WhisperX transcribes it…
Builds & ToolsComfyUI Workflow: A Fully Local Image Pipeline
A ComfyUI workflow that runs entirely on one Mac: a node graph instead of a prompt box, models kept on…