A Weekend with Local LLMs

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I spent a Saturday seeing how far I could get running a language model entirely on my own hardware. No API keys, no rate limits, just my GPU and a lot of fans.

Pulling a model

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
ollama run llama3

That’s genuinely the whole setup. Within a couple of minutes I had a model answering prompts in my terminal.

Was it worth it?

For quick, offline experimentation — absolutely. For anything latency-sensitive or needing the largest frontier models, the hosted options still win. But owning the whole stack, even briefly, taught me more than a month of reading docs.