AI coding assistant

Guides and notes on AI coding assistants, including setup, prompt workflows, code generation, debugging, refactoring and developer productivity.

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GitLost: How AI Agents Can Leak Your Code Through a Single GitHub Issue

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security • 7 min read

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GitLost: How AI Agents Can Leak Your Code Through a Single GitHub Issue

# GitLost: How AI Agents Can Leak Your Code Through a Single GitHub Issue A public GitHub issue should not be able to pull text out of your private repositories. With a dangerously over-permissioned GitHub Agentic Workflow, that is exactly what Noma Labs demonstrated. Their July 2026 write-up sho…

Techie Mike • 17 Jul 2026

Right to Local Intelligence: Why Running AI on Your Own Hardware Matters

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AI coding assistant • 8 min read

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Right to Local Intelligence: Why Running AI on Your Own Hardware Matters

# Right to Local Intelligence: Why Running AI on Your Own Hardware Matters A manifesto hit the front page of Hacker News last week with a title that stopped me mid-scroll: "[Right to Local Intelligence](https://righttointelligence.org/)." Around the same time, Jamesob's [guide to running SOTA LLMs…

Techie Mike • 05 Jul 2026

Self-Hosted LLMs with Docker, Ollama, and Open WebUI

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linux • 12 min read

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Self-Hosted LLMs with Docker, Ollama, and Open WebUI

# Self-Hosted LLMs with Docker, Ollama, and Open WebUI Cloud AI is convenient. Open a browser, type a prompt, get an answer. But it comes with three things that bug me: API bills that surprise you at the end of the month, rate limits that kick in when you're in the middle of something, and the know…

Techie Mike • 28 Jun 2026

Running AI Models on Old Hardware — A 10-Year-Old Xeon

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hardware • 8 min read

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Running AI Models on Old Hardware — A 10-Year-Old Xeon

A post hit the front page of [Hacker News yesterday](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353348) with a title that made a lot of people stop and stare: *"[A 10 year old Xeon is all you need.](https://point.free/blog/gemma-4-on-a-2016-xeon/)"* It racked up 685 points. The author ran **Gemma 4 (26B…

Techie Mike • 02 Jun 2026