https://santoshk.dev/tags/ai/Recent content in AI on Fullstack with SantoshHugo -- gohugo.ioen© 2026 Santosh KumarSun, 26 Jul 2026 23:36:54 +0530https://santoshk.dev/posts/2026/understanding-your-first-local-ai-stack-part-1-the-big-picture/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://santoshk.dev/posts/2026/understanding-your-first-local-ai-stack-part-1-the-big-picture/<div class="lead text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400 !mb-9 text-xl"> Most local AI tutorials hand you a <code>docker compose up</code> and a shrug. This one starts with the architecture, because once you can name the layers, every tutorial after this becomes readable. </div> <h2 class="relative group">The Naming Problem <div id="the-naming-problem" class="anchor"></div> <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100 select-none"> <a class="text-primary-300 dark:text-neutral-700 !no-underline" href="#the-naming-problem" aria-label="Anchor">#</a> </span> </h2> <p>Spend twenty minutes reading about local AI and you will collect a pile of nouns:</p> <p>Ollama. Qwen. Llama. Gemma. GGUF. llama.cpp. Open WebUI. LM Studio. vLLM. Hugging Face.</p>