Ollama

Running models locally with Ollama is great for privacy: nothing leaves your machine. But it comes with a hard ceiling — your model only knows what it was trained on. Ask it about something that happened last week and it confidently makes things up. The usual fix is to plug in a web search API (Tavily, Serper, Brave). The problem? You’re back to shipping every query to a third party with an API key tied to your name....

Running local LLMs is kinda addictive. New model drops? Gotta try it. But here’s the thing—you need a quick way to check if a model’s actually thinking or just spitting out vibes. The Prompt Here’s my go-to sanity check: What is the number that rhymes with the word we use to describe a tall plant? That’s it. Dead simple. Why This Works It’s not about being hard. It’s about being consistent....