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Dev Guides

Practical tutorials for local AI on the hardware you already own.

Every guide is written from hands-on experience, tested on the actual hardware it targets, and captures the traps that documentation never mentions. No theoretical walkthroughs — just what worked (and what didn’t).

Why these guides exist

Because someone had to try it on the old GPU

The best AI tutorials assume you have an RTX 4090 or a cloud budget. Most people don’t. These guides are for the GTX 1070s, the M1 MacBooks, the GPU-less servers, the hand-me-down hardware that’s still perfectly capable.

Every guide includes the debugging that went into getting it working — the wrong flags, the silent crashes, the impossible-to-Google error messages. You shouldn’t have to repeat them.