Ollama on Greg Herlein

I Wanted the Laptop to Win (an Inference Challenge)

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:01 -0800

I have two 128 GB unified-memory machines on my desk. Day job gear, not mine. One is an ASUS Ascent GX10 — an NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell appliance half the size of a hardback book. The other is an HP ZBook Ultra G1a, a 14" mobile workstation running AMD’s Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 (“Strix Halo”). Both hold an 80B coding model entirely in memory. How do they compare for agentic coding?

How AI Coding Agents Work: First Principles

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:01 -0800

I’ve been dorking around with local AI coding agents for a while now. At some point curiosity got the better of me and I had to know: what the heck are these things actually doing under the hood?

Agent Building: Ollama Hosted Models Token per Second

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:01 -0800

There’s no way to really understand something unless you dive into first principles. This is especially true for AI coding agents. What is the editor doing under the hood? I try to peel the onion a bit.