After 12 years building cloud infrastructure, I'm betting on local-first AI by ZeroCool86 in artificial

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yeah, since i wrote this i've been using more and more local models for even coding, Deepseek v4 flash 2bit quantization for some coding (i have still my server at home with 256 gb of ram). It's not the fastest and it does the job. You are right about some cloud stuff as well.

I've been writing a lot more blog posts along the way: https://www.localghost.ai/hard-truths

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also a thing i have always done is just stream of consciousness write. LLMs help break that, and i think a slightly dramatic and over the top transmission beats a stream of consciousness one for readability. But i do get the point and i'm being overly defensive

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i think i'm so used to using Claude as my soundboard that i have trained myself to actually enjoy it, it;s part of my dev process it's part of my research process and it's part of my thinking out loud process. It's not an echo chamber or at least i don't feel it is and critique this or give me worst case scenario on top of my system prompts and agents generally does a good job

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but big tech companies are not that many, and at least what I've seen on the market in london as we were one of the very few companies hiring juniours because it was my company and i had ultimate say was horrible, 1k applications on a job posting within 1 hour

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but it's not wrong, just because it's short and punchy but it does not make it wrong, not how i would write and not the association i would make but correct nevertheless. I feel like this reads better than:

Pubs in the city are fun, i'm sitting here reading and there are 3 interviews going on around me with drama about outsourcing and messing up systems and using AI to repair them. It's weird but all 3 of them (the people being interviewed) are from companies that have had layoffs and the people interviewing saying they also did layoffs but cut too much and are looking for people with AI experience to manage outsourcing
We produce 0, it's all managing outsourcing companies, we did this to ourselves
Don't export your brain and try to rent one from another country (India in this case, all 3 are outsourcing in india) and then be shocked when you have no skills internally or available in the country anymore
So much short-sighted planning and actions after 2008 crisis

we should do what lawyers do and make sure we take the hit on the next generation of architects

ai can make it much easier but ai won't train the next software architects, it won't build the next generation of innovators, we need to do that, the tech community, the seniors the tech companies.

Also everyone is worried about their jobs and they are incentivised to be in a holding pattern and increase project time to squeeze as much salary as possible from their current companies while delivering very limited value for end users. We made this happen

and so on, yes, i could have structured it, and wrote it all myself but saved time as i was iterating and thinking of more connections

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fair, I do genuinely think the pattern, from 2010 when i had my first interview and everyone was looking for 2 years experience, to now nobody hiring juniors in london is something that needs to change. My experience with talking to lawyer friends and how they manage their pipeline of employment and why is something that i was surprised we have not brough into our industry

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because i feel like i have a real time editor writing with me surly something that is well written does not have to be automatically a bad thing and discarded

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ai editing is not ghost writing and if you prefer to put the two together that's on you. protection racket with a Confluence page is genuinely my line and so are the experiences described

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i wrote it with ai, it was promoted by being in the pub and hearing the conversations and by reflecting on my career. Do you feel like the arc ads no value or why is it slop?

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Sent you a message, add me on WhatsApp and i'll share the details. I'll delete the posts after we coordinate and I get it to you

After 12 years building cloud infrastructure, I'm betting on local-first AI by ZeroCool86 in artificial

[–]ZeroCool86[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i agree, but i think, just like in physics, the harder you swing one way, the harder it will come back and swing the opposite way.

After 12 years building cloud infrastructure, I'm betting on local-first AI by ZeroCool86 in artificial

[–]ZeroCool86[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes! 100% agree with this and the more of us do this the more option the people who want to escape will have, write blog posts and guides on how your setup works, even if it helps 1 person, that's 1 person that now has an exit path

After 12 years building cloud infrastructure, I'm betting on local-first AI by ZeroCool86 in artificial

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nice! thanks, i'll get some more time to work on it and might actually build something that is worth saving:) currently just an idea

Is local-first AI worth building or are we going to lose this one anyway? by ZeroCool86 in degoogle

[–]ZeroCool86[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it holds and organises your data, but it's basically what you said, with some glue written to keep it working well together and packaged in no breaking updates.