Category: Opensource (FOSS)
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I Built an Autonomous Trading Bot in Four Hours for Twenty Bucks. Here’s the Honest Ledger.
My AI agent team shipped a crypto trading bot yesterday. Four hours from green light to a live soak on Binance's testnet. Total model spend: about twenty US dollars. Let me tell you what actually happened, because the gap between the press release version of "AI agents build software" and the reality is where all…
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Brief the Contractor: How to Get an AI Agent to Build You a Skill
Getting an AI agent to build a reusable skill is like briefing a contractor: vague brief, afternoon of whack-a-mole. Two real case studies, the five-part brief, and the rules that keep your keys where they belong.
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The 11.8 Gigabyte 27B
A 27-billion-parameter model in an 11.8 gigabyte file, scoring the same as the 54-gigabyte original. Which size fits your card, how to run it, and why the method itself is the bigger story.
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How to Configure OpenWork for Local AI
Here’s how you’d do this entirely through the OpenWork UI — two approaches: Method 1: Settings UI (Recommended for most users expected on Cloud App versions) Step 1 — Open AI Provider Settings In the OpenWork Cloud app (yes – the CLOUD App – we need to distinguish this early, OpenWork has two versions: a…
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Local Doesn’t Mean Locked
Security firm Cyera found 10 vulnerabilities in llama.cpp — the engine behind Ollama, LM Studio and most local AI. Five were still unpatched at their June 2026 re-check. Here’s what they are in plain English, and what to do if you run local AI at home or in the office.
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From Chatting to Delegating: Why Professionals Should Learn OpenWork
21st Aug 2026 Let’s be honest about where most professional AI use actually lives. You’ve got ChatGPT or Claude open in a tab, you type a prompt, it hands you back text. You draft the email, it summarises the doc, you brainstorm, it throws out an idea. Useful. But it’s still a chatbot. It talks…
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OpenWork: The Claude Cowork Alternative
Aug 18th, 2026 I Pointed an AI at My Homelab. Setup Was One Line. It Still Hasn’t Broken Anything. Every AI app is an island. You connect your Google account in one, teach it a skill in another, and the moment you switch apps, you’re back to square one. For most people that’s an annoyance.…
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The Truth About Open-Source Chinese AI Models
Are They Secretly “Calling Home”? I had to write this out to get it off my chest right now, just because most recently in the midst of a conversation, a client declared that all Chinese AI models have ‘backdoors’ for the China government to access, a notion picked up from his ‘social networking’ with local…
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The Great AI Showdown: Why Ditch Google’s “Flash” for Qwen as your Local Agent
Jul 24th, 2026 Let’s be honest: I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Google’s new AI Mode. On one hand, it’s free. On the other hand, it’s a black box. I use it constantly for those “hey, how does this tech thing work?” questions that don’t involve my bank password or my pet’s…
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The Private Local AI Server Install
Completed my operational setup of a private Local AI Chat that can process audio, video, images, text file, PDFs and can even hook up with MCP servers. And my choice of AI model? I chose the Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B UD Q4_K_M MTP model finetuned by unsloth studio. The 35B-A3B Architecture is an MoE (Mixture of…