You’ve got 100 GB of PDFs, notes, and exported chat logs you’d love to query with natural language. So you reach for the standard RAG playbook: chunk everything, embed it, store the vectors in FAISS or a hosted vector DB. Then you check the index size and it’s 150–700 GB — larger than the data […]

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Running LLMs locally has become a normal part of how developers work. Two tools dominate this space: llama.cpp and Ollama. They look like competitors, but the relationship is more direct — Ollama is built on top of llama.cpp. This post covers the technical differences, where each performs better, and when to use one versus the other. Table of […]

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