Nate

Husband, Father, Creator, Builder of Things.

[Nate @LlamaKid]

When you’re building a rage bait game and you get so mad while testing it….. I guess it is serving its purpose?

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

The takeaway from Fable 5 being BANNED by the government: GET GOOD AT LOCAL MODELS SO YOU HAVE 100% CONTROL.

My entire weekend was going to be building my craziest ideas with Fable 5. That's now cancelled.

So instead of building with Fable this weekend, I've decided I'll go deep on local models:

1. Start with the runtime. Download Ollama or LM Studio first. This is the thing that actually runs models on your machine.

2. Match the model to your hardware. A model's size is measured in billions of parameters (7B, 32B, 70B). Bigger is smarter but needs more memory. Rule of thumb: a 7B model runs on almost any laptop, a 32B needs a good Mac with 32GB+ RAM, a 70B needs serious hardware like a DGX Spark or a maxed-out Mac Studio.

3. Know which model for which job. Qwen 3 is the best all-around choice for most tasks. DeepSeek for reasoning and coding. Gemma 4 when you need something tiny that runs on a phone. Llama when you want the biggest community and the most fine-tunes.

4. Quantization. You can shrink a model to run on weaker hardware with barely any quality loss. Look for versions labeled Q4 or Q5. This is how a model that "needs" a server runs on your laptop. Learning this one concept changes everything.

5. Connect it to your agent. Point Hermes or your agent stack at a local model.

6. Context window is your real constraint locally. Cloud models give you huge context for free. Local models make you pay for it in memory. A bigger context window eats RAM fast. Keep your sessions tight and your prompts lean or your machine chokes.

7. Learn to give local models tools. A smaller local model with web search, file access, and code execution beats a giant model with none. The capability gap closes fast when you wire up the right tools. The model is the engine but the tools are the wheels.

8. Fine-tuning is more accessible than you think. You don't need this on day one, but know it exists. You can take an open model and train it on your own data so it gets good at your specific domain.

I'll probably do a breakdown at some point on this @startupideaspod if people are into it.

The lesson from this ban is basically don't build your entire workflow on something that can disappear with a single letter. Own part of your stack. Local models are insurance.

It reminds me when people realized they don't own social media accounts. And then you saw people build email lists etc.

I remember running a startup and my biggest traffic source was organic FB. All of a sudden, algo changed, and I lost 99% of my traffic.

Same sorta moment (but bigger) for AI.

This is a wake up call.

[Nate @LlamaKid]

New game in the App Store today! Check it out.

https://t.co/uuyI3wngqU

[Thariq @trq212]

been asking others at Anthropic how they stay in the loop with Claude and fully understand the work being done

this is one of my favorites from Suzanne:

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors.

Available today at the same price.

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@ionleu https://t.co/VMkK4Xssgl

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@RyanOlunix Hey! Love connecting with new people. I am building Clearly, AI. An AI school, and AI Tools build for non technical adults, to be able to leverage AI in their every day lives.

https://t.co/VMkK4Xssgl

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@David_mduw An online AI school for nontechnical adults in plain English. Including some AI Tools as well. (Launching tonight)

https://t.co/VMkK4Xssgl

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@moonfarm_dev https://t.co/VMkK4Xssgl

No paying yet but 18 on the free tier.

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@i_mika_el Thanks!!

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@FlippedRay https://t.co/VMkK4Xssgl

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@i_mika_el Thanks!! Would love to connect. This is my first solo venture so always looking to connect! So far Facebook groups have been the best.

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@lochan_twt https://t.co/VMkK4Xssgl

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@heyblake https://t.co/VMkK4Xssgl

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

In the next version of Claude Code: run /usage to see a breakdown of which Skills, Agents, MCPs, and Plugins are using your tokens

CLI today, coming to Desktop next

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@PriyankaSaini28 https://t.co/VMkK4Xssgl

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@CiprianiRanieri Pleasure meeting you as well! I am signing up now :)

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@heyblake https://t.co/VMkK4Xssgl

[Nate @LlamaKid]

@harshsriii After working for a few different startups (and still working) I figure it is time to work on my own. :)

https://t.co/VMkK4Xssgl