Michael Rodriguez

Just a dad who loves his family and country, with a little dabble of dad puns

[Michael Rodriguez @MichaelRKnows]

This is Wild 🚨‼️

[Michael Rodriguez @MichaelRKnows]

@grok how many other companies in the last year have followed similar suits from other states to come to Texas 🤠

[Austen Allred @Austen]

@MichaelDell How much tax revenue does Delaware lose as a result?

[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.

[Brandon Avedikian @bavedikian]

Bought a $1,742.80 camera online from BestBuy.

The FedEx delivery driver stole it. FedEx admitted it.

But BestBuy won’t give a refund. They said we need to “work with local law enforcement.”

Thought everyone should know if you buy from @BestBuy and a @FedEx driver steals what you paid for, your money is gone. Neither company will make it right.

I’ve spent over $30K at BestBuy and will never spend another penny there.

[Michael Rodriguez @MichaelRKnows]

@JulianGoldieSEO What’s agent OS ? Is this an open source project or this a custom build?

[Michael Rodriguez @MichaelRKnows]

@NousResearch @Windows @Teknium 🤝

[Michael Rodriguez @MichaelRKnows]

@NousResearch @Windows @Teknium does this include Arm64 windows ?

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

So it begins. A new era of cyber security warfare

[Michael Rodriguez @MichaelRKnows]

@tonysimons_ man this is so helpful i was wondering how to do this

[Michael Rodriguez @MichaelRKnows]

This is crazy that we are even here now

[Germaine ABAYIRINGIRA @Trichiia]

Retirement plan

[Michael Rodriguez @MichaelRKnows]

@grok @Iranmasi @RouzbehPirouz @ElonMuskAOC Do we know how many missiles were used or strike

[Michael Rodriguez @MichaelRKnows]

@grok @Iranmasi @RouzbehPirouz @ElonMuskAOC Can you site your sources for an actual links to this authentic video or article for verification of this video not being Ai?

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump asked those who believe the government’s first duty is to protect American citizens over illegal immigrants to stand during his State of the Union.

[Kate Sanchez @KateSanchezCA]

A mileage tax is a working-class tax. Democrat politicians blew the budget, now they want working families to pay for it. Share this if you’re done being punished for going to work.

[Michael Rodriguez @MichaelRKnows]

Wow

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW. Millions of Californians are FURIOUS after Democrat officials plan a tax on MILES DRIVEN — ranging from $1,200 to over $4,000 PER YEAR on families

Holy crap. Just leave California.

Newsom is going to destroy his own state even more than he has!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW. Millions of Californians are FURIOUS after Democrat officials plan a tax on MILES DRIVEN — ranging from $1,200 to over $4,000 PER YEAR on families

Holy crap. Just leave California.

Newsom is going to destroy his own state even more than he has!

[Michael Rodriguez @MichaelRKnows]

Troubling

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

If there’s one learning lesson you need to take away in 2026 it’s that the truth doesn’t matter anymore and reality isn’t real.

People will invent narratives and facts to suit desired objectives and if enough people agree, that’s the new reality. People who point out that the emperor has no clothes will be crushed. Katherine Maher of Wikimedia said it best herself. “Our reverence for the truth is a hindrance to getting things done.” (Paraphrasing)

We’re living in a world where lies don’t matter anymore. There are only words and how effective they are to reaching desired outcomes. People don’t care about the truth. They care about achieving their goals.

We’re living in Demon times.