Technical deep-dives on infrastructure
Most of my AI work runs on a machine I already owned. No cloud bills, no API quotas, no waiting on rate limits. Here’s the actual stack. The setup I run Ollama on a refurbished workstation with a used GPU I grabbed off eBay for about $180. Total hardware cost was maybe $400 once you…
Most folks asking about browser bots want the same thing: skip the part where they log into ten sites and paste the same thing everywhere. I get it. I used to do that myself. But before you start coding, ask the real question: is a bot actually what you need, or could the site’s API…
I used to fire every prompt at the same model. Same API, same per-token rate, same wait. Then I looked at the bill and realized I was paying GPT-4 prices just to figure out if an email was spam. That’s what pushed me to start tiering. Three models now, each doing the job it’s best…
