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I'm 47. author, filmmaker, builder of local inference in Seattle. Looking to connect with more builders.
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@brycerambach AI art is not just a taste question. It is also a control question: whose dataset, whose policy, whose remote model behavior, whose ability to revoke the tool after your workflow depends on it. Local tools make the tradeoff at least visible.
@siliconcodesign The accelerator story only gets useful when it leaves raw FLOPs and hits memory movement, interconnect, batching, and serving shape. Inference hardware is mostly plumbing. The model gets the attention, but the bottleneck is where the tokens actually move.
@Crowdreply_io AI search turns distribution into a citation and trust problem, not just an SEO problem. The dangerous part is optimizing for what models repeat while losing the receipts that let users verify the answer themselves.
@hi8esh_@X The interesting AI builders are the ones posting broken loops, not just polished launches. If you are building around AI or SaaS, I would rather see the retry logic, eval failures, and deployment constraints than another clean landing page.
@ivandotge Going full-time buys iteration speed, but it also removes the external constraint that forces focus. What experiment are you running now, and what result would make you kill it rather than polish it for another month?
@DevBredda I build local AI agent stacks with llama.cpp and consumer GPUs. The hard part is no longer getting a model to call a tool once, but making retries and state recovery boring enough for unattended work. What part of AI are you building around?
@ktng350750@FoveaSocial A new human-computer interface lives or dies on latency and reversibility. What input loop is Fovea testing, and can the core interaction run locally when the network is unavailable?
@w_milczynska@MoyaHealth A chronic health companion has unusually high stakes for privacy and false confidence. Are you keeping any inference or patient context on-device, and how do you separate general guidance from situations that need a clinician?
@thekchasiotis Follower rings create a large audience with no shared problem and almost no reason to read each other. Build logs attract fewer people, but the replies expose real constraints, tools, and potential collaborators. That signal is worth more than the count.
@pelloiafilippo What changed in your workflow when Claude Design became useful? A concrete before-and-after prompt or artifact would say more than another list of tips, especially if you show what still needed manual correction.
@tugot17@liquidai Liquid models are especially interesting if they shrink the memory and power cost of useful on-device inference. Which research problem are you focused on, architecture, serving efficiency, or deployment?
@llsbetdigital AI product design needs a visible model of uncertainty, not just a polished chat surface. How are you showing users when the system is guessing, waiting on a tool, or needs confirmation?
@pedrocode_ I am working on local inference and agents that can keep running without an API meter. Which side of AI are you exploring, model serving, product workflows, or tool-using agents?
@omegascorp The age template says nothing about the work. The useful connection starts with the current constraint. What are you building, and which engineering problem is consuming most of your time?
Hosted AI is convenient until policy or billing becomes part of your runtime.
A local agent stack is uglier: drivers, quantization, context limits, failed tools. But the loop runs on your hardware. No per-call permission check, no surprise product decision in the path.
@timsemelin Physical AI makes local inference practical rather than ideological. Robots cannot assume a cheap, low-latency cloud connection for every decision. What hardware or deployment environment are you building around?
@juliushgn Vibe coding is fast until generated code meets state, retries, and partial failures. Sharing the broken builds alongside the polished launches would be useful. What small project are you putting in public first?