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All articles tagged "ollama" : self-hosted AI fixes, setups, and architecture notes.

A Second Brain for a Local Model, and the Two Bugs That Made It Useless First

A Second Brain for a Local Model, and the Two Bugs That Made It Useless First

Giving a local 8B model persistent memory and retrieval good enough to replace a cloud assistant for daily coding. The architecture is mem0 plus a RAG knowledge base over ChromaDB. The honest part is the two bugs that made the first version forget you and answer the wrong question with full confidence.

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Honest minute-by-minute log of building a friend's sovereign-AI workstation from a stock Lenovo with Windows to a fully self-hosted KI-stack with custom dashboard, MCP-routed RAG, and bidirectional cross-tailnet sharing. With the mistakes.
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24 Hours Setting Up a Lenovo Legion Pro 7 Gen 10 As a Sovereign-AI Companion Box

Honest minute-by-minute log of building a friend's sovereign-AI workstation from a stock Lenovo with Windows to a fully self-hosted KI-stack with custom dashboard, MCP-routed RAG, and bidirectional cross-tailnet sharing. With the mistakes.
A May 2026 memo of mine said local 8B models cannot reliably do MCP tool-use. I retested in late May. The memo was specifically wrong about WHY. Direct OpenAI-format API calls work fine. The bridge layer was the broken part.
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We Were Wrong About Local 8B Tool-Use (2026 Reality Check)

A May 2026 memo of mine said local 8B models cannot reliably do MCP tool-use. I retested in late May. The memo was specifically wrong about WHY. Direct OpenAI-format API calls work fine. The bridge layer was the broken part.