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Definition

Anthropic's family of LLMs (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) and consumer chat product at claude.ai. Used in this blog's tooling for drafting and dictionary work; also powers Claude Code, the CLI agent.

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This blog's create-post skill drafts inline using Claude.

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  • Troubleshooting local LLMs (and how to keep up after this series)

    The full catalog of local-LLM failures: OOM, slow tok/s, garbage output, instruction drift, bad RAG hits, tool-call hallucination. Plus where to follow the field once you're on your own.

  • Local agents and tool use

    Function calling on open models in 2026. Which ones actually work, why local agents break when they break, and the scaffolding that keeps them upright.

  • Local RAG and embeddings

    Build a working local RAG pipeline in about 30 lines using nomic-embed-text, Chroma, and Llama 3.2. And why running it on your own machine beats the cloud for personal notes.

  • Wiring a local LLM into the tools you already use

    How to point VS Code (Continue, Cline), web chat UIs (Open WebUI, LibreChat, Page Assist), and your own code at a local model using the OpenAI-compatible API. Swap cloud for local without rewriting anything.

  • The pitch for local LLMs in 2026

    The case for running an LLM on the machine you already own. Privacy, no per-call cost, faster first token, no rate limits, and it works on a flight.

  • What leaves your machine when you use AI

    What providers actually see, log, and keep when you call an LLM API in 2026. What "we don't train on your data" really means, how free and paid tiers differ, and when local is the only safe choice.

  • LLM API bills, and why a token costs what it costs

    How input and output tokens get priced, why output runs 5-6x more, and how prompt caching cuts the input bill by 10x. Plus the hidden costs that ambush people.

  • Why Apple Silicon punches above its weight on local LLMs

    Unified memory lets the GPU see all of RAM. Here's why that beats a discrete-GPU PC past 32B parameters, what fits in 16/32/64/128/192GB, and where Apple Silicon still loses.

  • The major LLMs in 2026

    A field guide to the closed frontier models and the open weights you can actually run. What the "B" numbers mean, and which size fits your machine.

  • Where AI actually runs: cloud, local, edge

    When you use AI, a model file is sitting on a real machine. There are only three places it can be, and which one decides almost everything else.

  • The context window, and why models hallucinate

    An LLM only sees a fixed-size slice of text at a time. When it doesn't know something, it predicts anyway. That's a hallucination, not a bug.

  • From models to LLMs

    An LLM is one kind of ML model, trained on text, predicts the next token. That single trick at scale gets you ChatGPT, and also explains where it breaks.

  • How a model learns: training and inference

    Training is the expensive one-time event where a model's numbers get tuned. Inference is the cheap repeated use afterwards. The gap in cost is enormous, and it shapes the whole industry.

  • Inside AI: machine learning and deep learning

    Open the AI umbrella. Machine learning is the part that learns from data. Deep learning is ML done with neural networks, and that's where today's models live.

  • AI, in plain words

    What "AI" actually means, where the term came from, and why every product calls itself AI now. Sets up where machine learning and deep learning fit underneath.

  • Install the Anthropic SDK

    Install the official Claude SDK for Python and Node, set your API key the safe way, and prove it works with a one-line call.