Your first local LLM in 10 minutes with Ollama
No cloud, no API key, no data leaving your machine. A genuinely beginner-proof path to running a capable model locally — plus how to know which size your hardware can actually handle.
How I actually test a new frontier model
Benchmarks are marketing. Here's the repeatable, boring, real-work gauntlet every new frontier model runs through before it earns a number on lvl30 — and why most of them land between 7 and 8.
The "explain before you touch it" refactor prompt
The single highest-leverage prompt I use. It forces the model to understand code before changing it, which kills the confident-but-wrong rewrites that waste your afternoon.
AI won't replace makers. It'll replace the boring parts.
The doom take and the hype take are both lazy. After a year of using AI elbow-deep in real projects, here's the actually-interesting middle: the tools are eating the toil, not the craft.