Local & private AI for experience-report
Honest long-term reports from people running local AI day to day, covering what works, what breaks and when they still use the cloud.
Rebel BitesHybrid workflow: local for private and repetitive, cloud for hard
A Linux sysadmin stopped trying to replace cloud LLMs. Ollama now handles private docs, overnight article summaries and VS Code autocomplete.
14 months local-first: what still breaks
An honest report from a three-machine home lab. Local handles about 85% of tasks, but four kinds of work still fail, and that cut cloud spend from $187 to about $25 a month.
Aider + qwen2.5-coder:14b as a local Claude Code alternative
A tic-tac-toe test on an RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB. The game worked on the first pass, but the tests and input validation needed several rounds of prompting.