CloudComputing (3)

Building an AI Scanner, Fast!

by Ali Khoramshahi

Living in Germany, receiving documents is not a rare case but a daily, if not multiple a day. You also need to really pay attention to which ones to consider, which to archive and which to dismiss. For me, given my attention span, this is…

Claude Code in the Wild: The Good, the Bad

by Ali Khoramshahi

TL;DR Claude Code can route to other models (OpenAI, local Ollama), but it shines most with Anthropic as intended. Local LLMs struggle: agentic tool use plus large context windows demand huge VRAM; even a top-tier consumer GPU (RTX 5090) isn’t enough for complex tasks. OpenAI…

LLM Rapid Prototyping: Local vs On-Cloud Deployment

by Ali Khoramshahi

Like many AI enthusiasts over the past few years, I’ve been experimenting with LLMs, RAG workflows, and comparing various models—including top-tier open-weight models. In this post, I’ll share my experience setting up a local development environment versus a fast-prototyping cloud deployment using infrastructure-as-code. I began…