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Why Distributed AI Matters, for Everyone

by Ali Khoramshahi

If you are old enough to remember the early 2000s, the current AI gold rush should feel quite familiar. Back then I was a computer enthusiast teenager who was skeptical of the cloud takeover of processing and storage. Nonetheless, replacing "GPU clusters" with "server farms"…

 Does Grokipedia Really Solve Wikipedia's Bias Problem?

by Ali Khoramshahi

TL;DR Grokipedia was built to fight Wikipedia's perceived left-wing bias, but my analysis of over 10k of articles reveals a surprising finding: Grokipedia's articles on average actually lean more to the left than Wikipedia, not right. The data shows that while Grokipedia is relatively unbiased…

Claude Code in the Wild: The Good, the Bad

by 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…

LLM Rapid Prototyping: Local vs On-Cloud Deployment

by Ali Khoramshahi

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…