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A decision first. The evidence behind it.

Fit.
The workload, the intended user and the conditions under which a tool makes sense.
Costs and limits.
Pricing, hardware, operating effort, privacy and reliability, with assumptions and unknowns made clear.
A next step.
A bounded trial, what success would look like, and what would change the recommendation.

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Running Qwen at home

Memory requirements, routing limits, API economics and tests before giving a local model production authority.

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Building a local MCP workbench

Ten servers for connecting an AI workbench to browser state, development records, operations and user-owned memory, with attention to access boundaries.

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Choosing where your models run

Hosting location, retention and the controls behind a low token price.

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