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  • From Running AI remote to AI running on my PC

    local big GPU card running AI
    local big GPU card running AI
    • buy a GPU (not nvidia so it’s cheaper)
    • fix the GPU (broken fan, replace)
    • start working in claude code AI (amazing!)
    • focusing on daily consistent time with AI work
    • learning how to code with local AI (prompt coding)
    • use LM Studio (ai framework)
    • LM Studio sort of works, sort of doesn’t (3 different PCs to test different configurations)
    • local AI with a small card is slow and dumb
    • use claude code remote to help setup a local AI GPU
    • new ubuntu release using Apple unified memory
    • old cpu, LM Studio doesn’t like
    • use claude to get local AI working without LM Studio
    • use Ollama with AMD GPU (since it’s not nvidia, requires more work to setup, but it’s cheaper)
    • use docker to simplify connecting AI gpu to llama.cpp underneath
    • use webUi as interface for web access
    • use VS Code with extension to edit file in local PC directory
    • ask a simple ?: how long does it take for Saturn to revolve once around the sun? (It actually had enough information to calculate it based on Kepler’s planetary laws of motion–it doesn’t have access to the web yet) It took 30 seconds to tell me: 29.43 years, google takes 3 seconds to pull NASA data: 29.5 years

    It takes a lot of work to get this setup working like I want to! Every line item has hours if not days of details to go with it. Right now the AI companies (like OpenAI and Anthropic) are subsidizing AI development, but at some point in the near future, heavy AI users are going to have to start paying for actual AI runtime usage, so I figure I better have something that I can use locally for easier work tasks so I won’t be paying $hundreds of dollars per month for software development.

  • Using AI to create a webpage

    Adi Da Poetry Webpage
    Adi Da Poetry Webpage

    I was listening to an old poetry recitation (on cassette) from my teacher, Adi Da Samraj, and wanted to put it on my local computer so I told AI to create a webpage from the 20 some .mp3 files I had.

    After a couple of minutes, I actually had a nicely layed out webpage that put the poems into 3 categories: Adi Da’s poetry, Dylan Thomas’s poetry, and Others poetry.

    Adi Da Poetry Recitation
    Adi Da Poetry Recitation

    I’m quite amazed that just taking the title of an audio file such as: “In The White Giant’s Thigh.mp3” it went out to the web and figured out who the author is and when and where the poem was published: “In Country Sleep (1952); Collected Poems 1934–1952 (1952)”.

  • Vibe Coding with AI

    Adidam Perpetual Brightness Calendar
    Adidam Perpetual Brightness Calendar

    Recently I decided to vibe code a little calendar program: the task is to replicate in an app, a physical “perpetual” calendar that has an image and a quote for each day. I first created a web version of the calendar, just because I’m used to working with websites.

    Then I decided to see if I could vibe code the app in flutter, so that I can port it to windows, mac, iOS and Android. After a couple hours, I got the app actually working well. It was quite exciting to think about a feature, describe it, and then have it execute in code in a few minutes. It was fun!

    Adidam Perpetual Brightness Calendar
    Adidam Perpetual Brightness Calendar

    With the physical calendar, you just turn the page to change the date. You can flip thru many pages, but the initial version of the calendar app only had < and > buttons.

    Adidam Perpetual Brightness Calendar
    Adidam Perpetual Brightness Calendar

    So then I was thinking, what if you want to look up the picture on your birthday? That would be a pain to single step thru it to find a particular date. Why not allow for an actual calendar to pop up alongside the picture, so you can go forward and back month by month, and pick any day with your mouse click? So I prompted the program to add this functionality.

  • You’re not as smart as ChatGpt says you are

    You’re not as smart as ChatGpt says you are

    AI will make a savants of all of us — and least in our own heads.

    https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-chatbots-dunning-kruger-machines

    A recent article: “Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines” shows that people are gullible!

    Here’s another study: The more that people use AI, the more likely they are to overestimate their own abilities

    More news at 11.

  • AI is eating software

    AI is eating software

    In 2011, “Software is Eating the world” by Marc Andreesson. Now AI has a huge appetite for software. It’s likely a financial bubble, but AI is gaining momentum in the software world and it’s coming for the regular world. Here’s a quote from a power user:

    I have not had this much fun with a computer since I learned BASIC on my Apple II Plus when I was 9 years old. This opinion comes not as an endorsement but as personal experience: I voluntarily undertook this project, and I paid out of pocket for both OpenAI and Anthropic’s premium AI plans.

    –Benj Edwards, from 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents