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First useful offline tasks
Hana had a 6-hour flight, a 7B already on disk, and a 2,400-word draft that still opened with As an AI. Use the local model to rewrite, outline, extract fields, or quiz yourself from your own file, not for live web facts, citations, current prices, or anything that must be true tomorrow.
Safety: random models on the internet
A GGUF from a random Hugging Face account is software you run on your machine. Prefer official orgs and known converters, read…
Sheets: formulas, cleanup, and explanations
Sheets plus Gemini is for explanations, cleanup plans, and validation ideas you test on a scratch tab. Part 3 of the Workspace…
One local stack end to end (Ollama-style)
Kenji had Ollama, LM Studio, and a Docker llama.cpp on three ports, then sent a prompt to the one that was off.…
Quality without benchmark theater
A Slack screenshot with a model two slots above Llama is not a quality test. Run five real tasks from your week,…
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