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 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 readDue to recent events (Russia starting a war in Ukraine), many of our friends from Moldova and Ukraine are asking us various questions about Valencia and Spain, why we have decided to live here, what are our expenses, what is our life like, etc. I decided to write up an article that covers these topics - might be useful for others as well. If you’re a Ukrainian IT professional analyzing where to settle within the EU - consider strolling through this article.
May 29, 2022 — 16 min readHaven’t written anything since 2015, a lot has happened since then: I’ve found my love and got married, lived a digital nomad life-style, tried various projects and startups, switched jobs, relocated and settled down in a new country - to name a few. In this post I’ll cover some of these points - but I’ll mainly focus on what it meant to work remotely and how the 2020 pandemic changed this (for the good, and for the bad).
February 8, 2021 — 11 min read