Erik Hermansen ⁽¹¹⁾

As a developer that writes code that calls LLMs, I start thinking I need to use LLMs for things that really don't need them. If I use a fast, cloud-based LLM to do everything, it tends to hide the places where I could get better…

Overview As of version 2.3 of the create-decent-app (CDA) tool, the CDA-generated source will allow developers to configure their apps to support more than one LLM. And there are some nice features that allow the app user to choose their preferred model as well as…

Why Choose Local LLMs over Cloud? Every engineer with at least five years of experience stops expressing their technology decisions as the "best". We don't say "Linux is the best operating system" or "PostgreSQL is the best database" or "Rust is the best programming language".

I Can Crash an O/S from the Browser I was trying to write a useful web app that learns how much video memory is available on a device. This seemed pretty important, since Decent Apps that use LLMs are unlikely to be successful loading the…

Everybody Gets Their Own Key Fred Brooks said in the Mythical Man-Month, "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time." I don't think…