I gave three AI models the same data about a project of mine and asked each, separately, why it was not growing. The consensus turned out to be the least useful part.
Posts tagged: Home Lab
Auditing a homelab after it breaks: what the documentation got wrong
After a failure I went through my own infrastructure line by line and compared it to my notes. Six things were wrong, and all six were wrong in the same direction.
Proxmox on a second-hand workstation
Why an old dual-socket workstation beats a mini PC for a home hypervisor, and the three decisions that determine whether the thing is still running in a year.
Running image and speech generation at home
What a single consumer GPU can and cannot do for image, video and voice generation, and why the licence on a model matters more than its benchmark scores.
Six lessons from automation that runs while you sleep
Unattended jobs fail differently from interactive ones: they fail quietly, and they fail identically every time. Six things that cost me real outages before I learned them.
Video as code: Remotion, and where an LLM actually helps
Describing video in React makes it reviewable, diffable and generatable — but the useful division of labour puts the model on the words and the code on the timing, not the other way round.