PPraise James·Oct 25Build a local AI agent on a Raspberry Pi 5 with VectorAI DBLocal inference, semantic memory, and persistent storage in 2.38 GiB of RAM on a single board.15 min read·actiandev.hashnode.dev
IIkraj Singh·Sep 29Local LLM Inference: What to Know Before You StartMy experience navigating models, servers, runtimes, and hardware compatibility.10 min read·ikrajsingh.hashnode.dev47KBM
LLearn with HJ·Jul 11AI PCs and Neural Chips: What NPUs Actually DoExplain NPUs, GPUs, CPUs, local inference, battery life, and practical user benefits.6 min read·hardeepjethwani.hashnode.dev
MMarc Wojcik·Jun 6A 12B You Can Run on a Laptop: Local Inference Grows UpA model small enough for a laptop just changed the local-vs-cloud math for agents16 min read·blog.thecgaigroup.com
JJangwook Kim·May 9Gemma 4 MTP Drafters: How Multi-Token Prediction Delivers 2x+ Faster Local InferenceOn May 5, 2026, Google released Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters for the Gemma 4 family. The headline claim — up to 3x inference speedup — is technically accurate on specific hardware. The more realistic number for most developer setups is 1.7x ...6 min read·effloow.hashnode.dev
VVlad Butacu·Apr 15Your Local LLM Is Slow Because of Five Config FlagsKV cache, context size, and batch size control more of the performance budget than most people realize8 min read·omniforge.online
AAlan West·Apr 6Ollama Just Got 93% Faster on Mac. Here's How to Enable It.Ollama 0.19 ships with an MLX backend preview that nearly doubles decode speed on Apple Silicon. Step-by-step guide to enabling it, benchmarking before and after, hardware requirements, and an honest look at what works and what doesn't yet.5 min read·alan-west.hashnode.dev
UUp2itnow Bill Wilson·Mar 22The Sovereign Payment Agent: Running AgentPay MCP Locally with Flash-MoEA 397B MoE model with tool calling on a MacBook + non-custodial payments = the first documented sovereign payment agent architecture5 min read·ai-agent-economy.hashnode.dev
