rupayanism

setups for running big models on small machines

I run large AI models on ordinary laptops and let agents do the boring work while the laptop is closed. Every setup here is one I ran, with the numbers I measured.

setups shipped
25
last one
3d ago
members
31 (16 sep)

setups

  1. ggufPick the right GGUF for your RAM (the quant picker)2026-09-16 · reel 54
  2. skillNine agent skills trending this week, plus a SKILL.md starter2026-09-16
  3. bitnetRun Microsoft BitNet on your CPU2026-09-13 · reel 51
  4. diyKeep your AI assistant running when your laptop is closed2026-09-11 · reel 49
  5. voiceElevenLabs $100, your GPU 6 cents? The exact VoiceStudio setup2026-09-10 · reel 48
  6. harnessNine harnesses, one model, and a 17x spread in the bill2026-09-09 · reel 47
  7. slotstreamRun a 125B model on a 48GB laptop (slotstream setup)2026-09-08 · reel 46
  8. soupFine tune an 8B model on a 4GB laptop GPU (Soup setup)2026-09-07 · reel 45
  9. minimindTrain your own LLM for 43 cents and 2 hours (minimind setup)2026-09-06 · reel 44
  10. pixelsSend your AI pictures of your code instead of the code (pxpipe setup)2026-09-04 · reel 43
  11. sandboxGive your coding agent a throwaway Linux VM (clawk setup)2026-09-02 · reel 23
  12. shipRebuild Redis from an empty file (Ship That Code setup)2026-08-31 · reel 36
  13. token7.4 billion free AI tokens a month2026-08-30 · reel 34
  14. mapleRun a 20B AI model in 7GB RAM2026-08-29 · reel 42
  15. carRun a 35B model on a 300 euro computer (CarWatch setup)2026-08-28 · reel 41
  16. qwenRun a 27B model in 6.2GB, no GPU (Qwen3.8 setup)2026-08-26 · reel 40
  17. birdRun a 744B model in 9.9GB of RAM (Colibri setup)2026-08-24 · reel 31
  18. runsRun a 30B model on a 2016 desktop (quantprobe setup)2026-08-20 · reel 39
  19. kimiRun a 2.78 trillion parameter model in 8GB (Kimi K3 setup)2026-08-19 · reel 27
  20. swiftRun an 80B model in 4.3GB of RAM (Swiftlet setup)2026-08-18 · reel 21
  21. localRun AI on a laptop with no graphics card2026-08-13 · reel 20
  22. needleRun a 14MB AI on a Raspberry Pi (Needle2 setup)2026-08-12 · reel 15
  23. airRun a 70B model on a 4GB card (AirLLM setup)2026-08-11 · reel 14
  24. weirdThe weird web list2026-08-11 · reel 18
  25. jarvisHow I Built My JARVIS2026-08-08

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myhermes

The agent that runs my recurring tasks with the laptop closed is MyHermes. I'm one of the two people building it. see the plans

about

Rupayan Chakraborty. Solo builder in Jalpaiguri, India. Reels daily, one setup per keyword, everything measured.