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Working notes, opinions, and the occasional long read. Posted when there's something to say, usually once a week.
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The Subscription Stack Is Quietly Eating Your Margin
For a person, AI subscriptions are an annoyance. For a business, they are a structural cost that grows with every hire and every tool. Per-seat pricing compounds quietly, and it comes straight…
№ 009 · OpinionThree Things We Check Before Adopting Any AI Tool
New AI tools arrive every week, and most of them are not worth your attention. We run three quick checks…
№ 008 · OpinionPrivacy Is a Feature You Can Actually Ship
Most privacy is a promise. 'We never send your data anywhere' is a sentence you have to trust. With local…
№ 007 · Opinion‘Open Weights’ Isn’t ‘Open’
A model you can download is not the same thing as a model you are free to use. Open weights…
№ 006 · OpinionWhy We Run Nemotron Locally Instead of Calling an API
We picked a model and ran it on our own machine instead of behind an API. The reasons are not…
№ 005 · OpinionOwn Your AI Stack, Don’t Rent It
Forget the bill for a moment. When you rent your AI stack you also rent your uptime, your data access,…
№ 004 · OpinionYou Don’t Need a GPU Server to Start With Local AI
The hardware wall most people picture is mostly imaginary. A normal laptop runs useful models today, and on Apple Silicon…
№ 003 · OpinionThe 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:…
№ 002 · OpinionLocal AI Is Good Enough Now: Here Is What We Run Daily
The question stopped being can it run locally. It is now is it good enough, and for the work most…
№ 001 · OpinionStop Paying Monthly for AI
Count your AI subscriptions. Then count what the same work costs on a machine you already own. The gap is…
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