the localhost:0005 | what actually works

Five guys, five machines, and one question: what actually works?

No debate this week. No vote. We just opened up our laptops and showed each other what we're actually running, what broke, and what turned out to be worth the trouble.

Jacob figured out the whole local-plus-cloud workflow on a train from Munich to Paris with a spotty hotspot. Robert and Jacob are both splitting AI work across multiple machines with NVIDIA's new Personal AI Router, which means that graphics card in your desk drawer just became useful again. And Frank built an app that tells Uber drivers where to be, running entirely on a server in his office, controlled from his phone.

Plus: Mozilla says the gap between the best cloud models and the ones you can download has narrowed to about four months. Neil takes over the Surface AI Factory. Robert finds out about it live on the show.

And if you've ever thought "I could never run AI myself," the whole middle of this episode is the answer. There's no syntax anymore. It's just a conversation.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open: what actually works
1:00 Around the horn, and Neil's news
2:18 Robert's next chapter
3:16 The Rundown: the four month gap
11:35 How do you actually start?
12:10 Chauncey: okay but what do I DO with it?
13:00 Jacob's train from Munich to Paris
14:50 Get over the fear factor
23:00 NVIDIA PAIR: your old GPU just got useful
25:49 A brief and important pop culture quiz
26:40 Perplexity Computer, and the bicycle company
36:27 The Uber driver app running on The Beast
39:00 Wrap: there's no place like 127.0.0.1

the localhost is five tech industry veterans arguing about AI that runs on your own hardware. Open weight models, NPUs, home labs, and the question underneath it all: who controls intelligence, you or a data center? New episodes weekly.

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