Most people don’t realize that you can run powerful AI tools right on your own computer or smartphone—completely offline and entirely private. With local AI, your conversations never leave your device, making it ideal for confidential work, travel, or simply peace of mind. It’s now incredibly easy to set up, and everyone should have one local model ready to go. Here’s how to get started.
Part 2: How I Escaped the AI Productivity Trap
This is Part 2 of my AI coding journey. In Part 1, I got into a fight with my AI coding assistant—stuck at 90% complete for weeks, frustrated and defeated. Here’s what I learned from losing: I was fighting the wrong opponent. The enemy wasn’t my AI assistant. It was my approach. The Moment of […]
Vibe Coding’s Hidden Risk: Security Holes You Can’t See
78% of AI deployments lack proper security protocols. I read that in JPMorgan Chase’s recent open letter and thought: yeah, that tracks. I keep seeing the same story play out: excited vibe coder builds a SaaS with AI, launches successfully, then gets hacked. The pattern is so predictable it’s painful. I’ve caught my AI coding […]
Part 1: Got into a Fight with my AI Coding Assistant and Lost
It’s 8pm. Kids are in bed. I’m determined to get this working tonight. It is so close. It is 2am, I ran out of tokens, spent another $50 to top it up, each prompt feels like THE one that will finally work… It doesn’t work. I resort to threatening my assistant’s grandmother if it does […]
Local, Personal, and Private Cover Letter Assistant with RecurseChat
customize a model for a specific task and have it use your private information securely and locally on your Mac. The information never leaves your computer.
Is OpenAI o1 All Hype? What is Strawberry Test?
OpenAI’s o1 model might be innovative, but it’s not mind blowing. Chain of thought is nothing new.
Getting Started with a Custom GPT
One of the underrated features of creating a Custom GPT in ChatGPT is the creator tool. There are a lot of solutions out there for building AI agents, but OpenAI has simplest and easiest.
Next Gen User Experiences – Vercel Ship 2024
Next Gen User Experiences with Vercel AI SDK
AI and Sensitive Data: A Guide to Protect your Data
AI and Sensitive Data: Levels of Protection
Learn how to protect your data and leverage AI without compromising on security. I cover levels of security from temporary chats to running local AI models in a Faraday Cage.
GPTs that have clearly received a lot of love
GPTs that have clearly received a lot of love
Grimoire for coding projects; Consensus, which synthesizes information from academic papers; and Universal Primer for in-depth learning on concepts with simplified explanations and examples.