Basta’s Notes
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AI Homelab Part 3: A self-improving agent
This adventure in building a chatbot started because OpenClaw didn’t do what I wanted it to do. As I mentioned before, it’s pretty clear it’s designed for frontier models, not small open-weight models. If you look at folks pointing OC at Ol...
Making a cache cluster more effective
Recently I left my job at Runway. Something I’d always wanted to post about on the Runway engineering blog was a project I worked on early in my time there, but which wasn’t really substantive enough to justify posting. I thought it was coo...
SaaS has to be better than custom
One of the things that shook out of me building my own AI homelab was the need for storage. I stuffed a WD Black 3.6TB NVMe disk in it. That’s more than I’d ever need, right?
No.
I’m already at 22% disk use, and that’s from what I’d consi...
AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio. I really love Ollama: it exposes a simple REST API, it has a sensible CLI, and it has a nice model catalog online that makes it easy to download and run a mod...
Not apparent
“Are you sure you want to move to San Francisco?” my dad asked me as we drove home from the electrical supply store.
“It’s where all the jobs are, and where all the interesting stuff is happening.” It was 2012 and I was three days post-gra...
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