TOPIC COLLECTION

Local AI

Locally operated models, retrieval systems, and privacy-aware AI workflows.

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Curated: topic collection

Technical guide

Aug 20, 20258 min read

Local AI Assistants and Agents: A Secure, Reproducible Deployment Guide

A practical path from a local Ollama assistant to retrieval and controlled tool use, with explicit privacy, security, versioning, and deployment boundaries.

Technical guide

Jan 11, 20247 min read

Local LLMs: A Reproducible Guide to Running, Fine-Tuning, and Serving Models

A maintainable workflow for choosing a local model, testing it with Ollama, planning parameter-efficient fine-tuning, evaluating results, and exposing a service safely.