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Running a language model on your own hardware: the GPU, the agent, and the working method.
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A Home Assistant dashboard that writes its own welcome
Nine dashboard tabs became one page with a jump menu, badges that only appear when something needs attention, and a short welcome text written by a language model on my…
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A 35B mixture-of-experts on the same Arc Pro B70
The rule I ended the first article with turned out to be about vLLM, not about the card. Swapping the runtime made a much larger model run faster.
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Setting up Hermes on your own hardware
From GPU to working agent: three services, a proxy, and a handful of integrations.
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Why an agent needs a working method
How 900 words of system prompt did more than a model twice the size.
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An Intel Arc Pro B70 as a local LLM server
Why I chose Intel over NVIDIA, what it cost me in evenings, and why I would do it again.