Local AI - October 2026
Flint on our home rig, what running models locally gets you (and what bites), and why a model that tried to send data abroad made us ship a gate for tool calls.
October 29, 2026 — 17 min readFlint on our home rig, what running models locally gets you (and what bites), and why a model that tried to send data abroad made us ship a gate for tool calls.
October 29, 2026 — 17 min readAbout 10 months without an article. Time to explain where I've been, what we're building with NicheBench 2 (or, 0.2.x), and how this connects to the original plan: fine-tuned models for Drupal coding.
October 9, 2026 — 15 min readBefore we dive in into the pipeline and the rest of the steps in fine-tuning a model - a small update on the newer models - the AI field is moving really fast. We wanted to check - what model should be the basis for our Niche domain fine-tuned models: GPT-OSS-20B / 120B or something else?
November 11, 2025 — 9 min readIn this article, we’ll be putting our second-hand AMD Threadripper 1950x to some inference tests 🔥 - can you already smell some overheated plastic? No? That’s because the "be quiet!" is at the heart of our QuietBee 🐝😎
October 17, 2025 — 19 min read🐝 QuietBee is our journey to build a powerful, budget-friendly 🧠 home AI lab for fine-tuning, inference, and data synthesis - all under €2,000. We compare hardware paths, share how we built a modular multi-GPU setup, and show how anyone can run serious AI experiments right at home.
October 12, 2025 — 15 min readWe've created Nichebench - a deepeval-based small tool to help us analyze how well open-weight models understand a given Niche domain (i.e. Drupal). Here we explore the results for 2025 - September.
September 22, 2025 — 9 min readI’m diving into the unknown 🤿 - fine‑tuning open‑weight models to see what goodies I can bake. Quick heads‑up: I’m a web‑dev that tinkers with AI (LangChain / LangGraph, etc.), not a formal ML researcher, but I’m pretty curious about AI and its impact on our lives 🤖
July 20, 2025 — 13 min readDrupalcon Atlanta 2025: fancy hotel and venue, shiny AI demos - yet still pricey, corporate, and missing fresh faces. Here’s my raw take on what’s working, what’s not, and how Drupal can do better.
April 6, 2025 — 15 min readEver tried coding by just talking to your AI? 🚀 Here's how vibe-coding lets you "draw" code faster - using Whisper, Groq, and Copilot. 🎙️✨
March 29, 2025 — 8 min readLet’s talk about productivity - I use AI pretty frequently (duh, shocker!). In VSCode Github Copilot works pretty well, but still from a case to case, after it does a bunch of suggestions and alterations - some things still aren’t as perfect as I’d expect.
March 8, 2025 — 5 min read