Your Mac has a GPU. Your Mac has RAM. Why are you paying someone else to think?
This guide gets you a fully local agentic coding setup: Claude Code talking to Qwen 3.5-35B-A3B via llama.cpp, all running on your Apple Silicon Mac. No API keys. No cloud. No surprise invoices. Just you, your M-series chip, and 35 billion parameters doing your bidding on localhost.
Based on this article.
A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.
This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration with you.
Most people's experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works, but the LLM is rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every question. There's no accumulation. Ask a subtle question that requires synthesizing five documents, and the LLM has to find and piece together the relevant fragments every time. Nothing is built up. NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, and most RAG systems work this way.
