I'm Ali Khoramshahi

TL;DR Claude Code can route to other models (OpenAI, local Ollama), but it shines most with Anthropic as intended. Local LLMs struggle: agentic tool use plus large context windows demand huge VRAM; even a top-tier consumer GPU (RTX 5090) isn’t enough for complex tasks. OpenAI…

Like many AI enthusiasts over the past few years, I’ve been experimenting with LLMs, RAG workflows, and comparing various models—including top-tier open-weight models. In this post, I’ll share my experience setting up a local development environment versus a fast-prototyping cloud deployment using infrastructure-as-code. I began…