FIELD NOTE 01
Local AI, without the mythology
What running a 36-billion-parameter model on consumer hardware revealed about memory, GPU acceleration, agent overhead, and benchmarks that tell the wrong story.
Field notes from the local frontier
AI at the speed of your machine.
Honest experiments, practical explanations, and visual guides for people who would rather understand their hardware than repeat its marketing.
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02 articlesFIELD GUIDE 01
VRAM, RAM, and the machine your AI actually needs
A visual guide to model memory, bandwidth, discrete GPUs, unified memory, and choosing hardware for the work you will actually do.