A step-by-step Ollama setup guide for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Install in one command, pull your first model, run it from the terminal, and expose an OpenAI-compatible local API — no cloud, no API ...
Read Article →Perplexity cut Pro Deep Research to 20 queries a month in February 2026, a 900x downgrade. I rebuilt the loop on Hermes Agent, Exa, x_search, one local model...
xAI shipped x_search as part of their Agent Tools API. The price is $0.005 per query. Twenty dollars of credits covers roughly 4,000 searches. Here is what t...
If you’ve thought about switching the local LLM server on your Mac from Ollama to llama.cpp, there are two things that don’t show up in the obvious benchmark...
I built a 4-branch falsification looking for the iteration ceiling on a local 27B-class agent. The quality cliff didn’t surface. The wall-clock divergence di...
The community framing is simple: ‘Ollama is a ggml fork, llama.cpp is faster.’ I ran the same model blob through both runtimes on a Mac Studio M2 Max with th...
Hermes ships with a strong built-in memory system, but it lives inside Hermes. If you drive a second agent (in my case, Claude Code), the memory stays behind...
I packed my box for Hermes and it held almost nothing. Two weeks of OpenClaw, and the things worth carrying over fit in a single cardboard box. I spent the f...
