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№ 012 · AnalysisThe Hidden Costs of ‘Free’ Cloud AI Tiers
A free cloud AI tier does not cost zero. It costs something other than dollars: your data, your reliability, your…
№ 011 · InsightsWhat ‘Agentic’ Actually Changed for Local AI
The word 'agentic' gets thrown around until it means nothing. Stripped down, it is one real shift: a model that…
№ 010 · InsightsLocal-First Deep Research vs the Cloud
A research engine that runs on your own machine can keep every query private and charge nothing per report. A…
№ 009 · InsightsOpen WebUI vs Jan: The Local ChatGPT, Picked
Two ways to put a private ChatGPT in front of someone. One is a feature-rich browser workspace, the other is…
№ 008 · Analysissmolagents vs OpenJarvis: Which Agent Framework, for What
Two agent frameworks, one well-tested and one still on our bench. smolagents is the antidote to framework bloat. Here is…
№ 007 · InsightsIs Local AI Good Enough to Replace the Paid Tools?
For most of what you do in a day, local AI is already enough. For the hardest problems, a frontier…
№ 006 · ResearchWhich Local LLM Should You Actually Run in 2026?
The best local model is not the biggest one. It is the one that fits your RAM with headroom and…
№ 005 · AnalysisThe True Cost: Cloud AI Subscriptions vs Running Local
Stop arguing about whether local AI is cheaper. Add up your real subscription stack, compare it to a machine you…
№ 004 · ResearchOllama vs MLX vs Jan: Running Local Models on a Mac
Three ways to run a model on Apple Silicon: the foundation, the fast one, and the friendly one. We run…
№ 003 · AnalysisAider vs Cline vs OpenCode vs OpenHands, Picked for You
Four open-source coding agents, four different answers to one question: where do you want to work? Terminal, editor, app window,…
№ 002 · AnalysisOpenCode vs Pi vs Cursor: Which Coding Agent Do You Need?
Three coding agents, three different bets on where you work and where your code goes. We have run all three.…
№ 001 · AnalysisNemotron vs DeepSeek for OpenCode: Which Local Model?
DeepSeek tends to score higher on pure coding. We still run Nemotron as the daily driver in OpenCode. The reason…