Guides
Safe file access for a coding agent
An agent that edits files and runs commands is useful and, handled carelessly, risky. How we set its permissions.
10 minAI
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.
Business
Leaving paid AI tools, one tool at a time
What each one costs per person a month, and the open-source step that replaces it.
11 min
Guides
A deep research engine that never leaves your machine
A model on Ollama plus a self-hosted search index that searches, reads and writes a cited report.
12 min
Guides
How much RAM does a local model need?
The commonest mistake is pulling a model your machine cannot hold. Sizing a model to the memory you have.
10 min
Guides
ComfyUI for beginners
It looks intimidating because it shows every step of image generation as a node. That is also where its power is.
11 min
Guides
Chat with your documents, locally
AnythingLLM: drag in a PDF, ask a question, get an answer with citations, on your own machine.
11 min
Guides
WhisperX tells you who said what
Whisper turns audio into text; WhisperX adds speakers and timestamps, offline.
11 min
Guides
Aider edits your code from the terminal
With a local model it reads the repo, proposes diffs, runs commands and commits with clean messages.
11 min
Guides
Copilot on your own laptop, with Continue.dev
Local autocomplete in VS Code through Ollama: you pick the model and no line of code leaves the room.
10 min
Guides
A private ChatGPT in ten minutes
Open WebUI wired to Ollama: a chat app that looks like ChatGPT, answered by a model on your machine.
10 min