Why I default to local models for bulk work
Cloud APIs are great for deep reasoning. For everything else, a model on my own machine does the job for free.
The bottom-up edit rule
When a model queues five edits against one file, working top-down is a bug. Here's the order that fixed it.
The 12,000-token message I didn't know I was sending
My agent's context window kept jumping from 22% to 60% in a single turn. The leak wasn't where I was looking.
How I'd set up LM Studio today
A recent Llama.cpp update pushed me from 60 tokens per second to 80-plus on the same machine. Here's what I'd run and what I'd turn on.