I’d do these 5 things differently if I started self-hosting LLMs today
…I stopped building a place to talk to AI and started building a system where it actually works for me. Stop being a "Model Hoarder" Drive needs a diet At first, I…
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The tools each system uses actually tell a story of the philosophy behind the design. Take Tines, for example. Its 16 batched tools cover the whole story lifecycle in one place, with validate and execute_action sitting alongside the create and update operations, along with the aforementioned scratchpad so that the model can talk to itself before doing anything. n8n's 24 tools are mostly graph editing primitives, with a handful of helpers for fetching documentation, examples, and execution logs. Both work, but Tines' set lets the AI keep its grip on the work for longer in a single context witho
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I stopped hitting Claude's message limit by building a local AI pipeline that does the heavy lifting
I stopped hitting Claude's message limit by building a local AI pipeline that does the heavy lifting