Do you host your own ML / AI / LLM? What do you use, and what do you use it for?
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No, I’m not interested in that topic
Hell naw my homelab is already sucking way too much power and running too hot.
I was hosting LLM with LMStudio occasionally but can’t access it anymore due to some fuckery with CORS and http vs https in browsers.
I googled it, and it seems like you can just enable cors.
Yes you can enable cors in LMStudio. But since few months it’s blocked by all major web browsers if you aren’t using HTTPS.
Which I don’t. I had LMStudio server open to local network so I can use it on my phone or laptop via third party website.
Why would it be blocked? I can use http sites just fine, and even then you could setup a self-signed certificate.
I don’t know why. It worked half a year ago, now it doesn’t. All I know I can access server via local host on same machine, but if I try to access it over LAN it just doesn’t work no matter what I do. I might look into self signed cert but it feels like to much work for now.
I do, but I am becoming increasingly more disappointed as time goes on. Not just self hosted, llms in general. They sometimes help, but they mislead so many times and waste time that you don’t even notice. I think that’s the trap. When you succeed at a task, you become impressed but don’t notice how many times it failed doing a simple task. And as soon as you scratch the surface, you see how you would have done it differently and perhaps in a better way. Even just googling is bad. It does research for you, but it has no critical thinking and can’t decide what is better from the results it gets (other than google ranking) so it often leads you to think it did as good as you would, when it’s nowhere near as good. Every time I did the googling myself after it did, I did it much better. And I mean MUCH better. Ask it to find the app, it misses the most important ones, hallucinates a bunch, for ex. I found this to be the case with frontier models as well.
Self hosting has its benefits, but seeing how the ecosystem looks right now, concluding this is a huge bubble is inevitable. It reminds me of crypto so much. It looks rich and plentiful, but as soon as you dig a mm under the surface - nobody has tested it, it’s got a critical bug, it is overblown and there are issues with no response. No docs, no info, no nothing. For the biggest thing in technology in history, it is awfully hollow. I don’t mean it in a condescending way, in fact community is enthusiastic and very helpful, it’s just that it doesn’t live up to what most would expect.
A caveat I need to mention is I have not used it for coding - I have an irrational fear and resistance towards it, being a programmer. I just won’t touch it, even if it means the end of my career. I’m trying to be grown-up about it, but so far, I dont want to use it, for good and bad reasons.
No I don’t. Unforunetly using Claude (asking myself everyday why tf cuz I don’t do crazy shit) but trying to move on to LumoAI even meaby will buy a premium version to check this out formyself.
I’m still messing around with self hosting llm, rn ive settled on using lumo from proton if I use an llm.
When I have run llm, I used koboldcpp. Works pretty well, depends on what you are doing and what models you use. Forget which models ive been using off the top of my head
Running decencored Qwen3.6-27b and a 9b Gemma for RAG and scrapes on Ollama with a mostly vibe coded discord bot. Just got it to run tools and scrape and post news on a schedule. The first model I can run locally that’s smart enough to be useful. May give Jan a try for the back end after reading that other guys rant.
Mostly use it for stupid questions I could have googled and to brag to friends.
I host my own AI, mostly for testing and because I wanted something that was mine and mine alone. I use Ollama and run models like Llama, Mistral, and Qwen. I honestly don’t use it much, but I wanted to have my own setup just in case online services go down or become less available. It’s part of my whole “own everything I use” mantra that I’ve been on lately.
If I wanted AI for some reason, it’d be self-host or nothing.
No, I have taste.
I prefer my critical faculties completely intact and un-altered, thank you very much.
I do not require or desire a 400 watt bullshit-artist yes-man or vulnerability coder cooking my GPU.Running qwen3.6 27b through llama.cpp.
It’s about as capable as sonnet 3.5.
I use it for light scripting, but real coding is done by cloud models.
I’m also using it as the brain for my Hermes agent. It sends me digests of news, subreddits, chats that I’d like to read but don’t have time for. It does a great job researching things on the web for me, too.
That’s a great model and it’s the one I use too.
Do you mean Sonnet 4.5?
I don’t have the rig to run it at real speeds but I’ve played with it over API. Seems pretty good.
No, it needs a lot more babysitting than 4.5 does. 3.5 was on the same level of mistakes, at least on the quants I have to use.
Partially. I started with hosting my own llama3.2 + granite4 models using Ollama for my Home Assistant smart home and for general chat with OpenWebUI. I also run whisper for speech-to-text locally on my 1080 Ti GPU. I like the privacy and ownership of my self-hosted models, but I started to run into limitations with the small weights. So I built some tools that allow me to route traffic to larger models hosted on DeepInfra depending on my need. For example, to GLM/Kimi models for code reviews or for my custom harnesses or harder problems.
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I currently run Qwen3.6-27b on llama.cpp and use it via openwebui. Mostly, I use it for web research via tavily, to a lesser extent for coding and interactively learning about things that are new to me but common in training data (such as basic math or ML concepts).
