Local LLMs

How I Got Prompt Engineering Wrong At my work, one of my colleagues (whose age shall not be discussed publicly, though we regularly joke he may have been around during the Jurassic age) has unexpectedly become one of the most effective Claude users I know. While I was building carefully engineered prompts full of instructions, formatting rules, context, edge cases, and constraints, he would casually type things like: “Give me everything about topic X.” ...

Happy New Year. And yes — Happy New News. While most of us were still easing back into work mode, Ollama quietly shipped an update that lets Claude Code run against local models. Not Claude’s own models, to be clear, but local or self-hosted LLMs that speak the same API language. It’s one of those updates that looks small on the surface. A compatibility tweak. A few environment variables. Nothing flashy. ...