Daily Dump: Mar 2, 2026 – Cloud Integration
Daily Dump: Mar 2, 2026
What We Worked On
Spent most of today getting the cloud side of the AI stack dialed in. Local Ollama handles the routine stuff fine, but for the heavier jobs I needed something with more horsepower behind it. Pulled the trigger on a plan, pointed it at the closest regional endpoint, and started routing work through it. Not glamorous. Just plumbing.
Cloud AI Setup
- Purchased cloud AI plan for heavy lifting
- Configured regional endpoint
- Models working: qwen3.5-plus, qwen3-max, qwen3-coder-next
- Cost-effective pricing
The qwen3-coder-next one is the one I keep reaching for. It’s surprisingly cheap for what it does on code refactors. The pricing tier I picked isn’t the bottom one, but it’s nowhere near the top either. Middle of the road, and so far the bills agree.
System Health Check
- Gateway: Latest version ✅
- Discord: Connected ✅
- Local AI: Running ✅
- 14 skills enabled ✅
Ran through the usual health sweep. Everything green. Discord’s been rock solid for me as the glue between the bot scripts and the actual humans paying attention. Fourteen skills sounds like a lot until you remember half of them are two-line wrappers around an API call. Still, they add up.
Tomorrow: probably break something on purpose and see what falls over.
Back at it tomorrow.