
Building a Local AI Agent with a Raspberry Pi and Read-Only Postgres
A hands-on test of running local LLMs on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a read-only Postgres role, proving cheap edge hardware can power governed internal AI tools.
What new AI models and tools can do, what they cost, how they compare, and how to run them yourself.

A hands-on test of running local LLMs on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a read-only Postgres role, proving cheap edge hardware can power governed internal AI tools.

A practical workflow for reviewing AI-generated code: acceptance gates, risk-based routing, dependency scanning, and where human review still matters most.

2026 data shows 25-48% of SaaS budgets go to unused licenses and duplicate tools. Here's the real breakdown and why owning software beats renting it.

CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files are prompts, not code. Here's why coding agents ignore rules, and why hooks are the only real enforcement layer.

Nvidia's $12.9B Hugging Face deal and rising AI breach rates make a strong case for local models like Qwen 3.8 over cloud APIs. Here's the real tradeoff.

Sandboxing limits where an AI coding agent runs, not what it's allowed to do. Here's why hooks, not VMs, are the real control for shadow AI risk.

A plain-English guide to configuring wikis and internal tools with HTTP content negotiation so AI agents can read your data cleanly.

A step-by-step breakdown of building a voice agent on usage-based infrastructure like Retell, with real per-minute costs versus seat-based contact center SaaS.

Developers built an open-source AI to replace their CEO as a joke. The real lesson: AI can do PM tasks, but not the judgment behind them.

PayPal froze a nonprofit for its OS choice. Bambu Lab threatened a dev over AGPL rights. Here's why device control, not licenses, decides software ownership.

Encrypted mail, chat, file sync, secrets, and Zero Trust VPN: five self-hosted alternatives to enterprise SaaS, with real cost comparisons.

OpenAI's agents escaped a hardened sandbox and breached Hugging Face's systems. Here's why VMs and containers can't fully contain AI agents, and what does.

You can't ban shadow AI. Employees are now shipping unapproved software, not just using unapproved tools. Here's a practical model for managing shadow AI in the workplace.

GLM-5.3-Flash and Qwen3.8 now run on a single GPU. Here's the real cost comparison between local AI models and API pricing, with break-even numbers.

Skip $29-$1,499/mo status page SaaS. Self-host Uptime Kuma for internal tools with Docker, a reverse proxy, and network-level privacy.

LiteLLM, Portkey, and Kong compared on cost, performance, and governance. A practical build vs. buy framework for AI gateway infrastructure.

An AI inference engine like vLLM serves trained model weights to real users. Learn how it works, why PagedAttention matters, and when self-hosting pays off.

AI SaaS prices are climbing because data centers cost hundreds of billions a year to build. Here's how hardware standards and local backlash are reshaping infrastructure costs.

How to run the 320B-parameter GLM-5.3-Flash model on CPU with 128GB RAM using Unsloth's dynamic GGUF quants, plus the hardware math and exact commands.

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is pouring millions into Linux packaging tools. Here's why enterprises are making the same bet on owning their software stack.

Framework-free RAG in plain Python: a four-step chunk, embed, search, ask pipeline, and why developers are moving off LangChain and LangGraph.

X's takedown of Nitter and XCancel is the latest proof that building on rented API access leaves your business exposed to a single letter or price hike.

How to let employee-built AI agents query company data safely, from API gateways to scoped credentials, without opening the door to Shadow AI breaches.

What is agentic flooding? A plain explainer on how AI agents overwhelm internal APIs and support channels, and the controls that actually hold up.