Monday, June 8, 2026

Choosing a Direction with AI


 Recently I feel blocked.  There is so much that can be done with AI that I don't know where to start.  I am playing with a local image model currently (https://github.com/ideogram-oss/ideogram4), but it is really slow on my computer.  It is fun, but there isn't much to explore there as far as coding.  I have seen some things recently where people took old hardware, an mp3 player in one example, and had AI write new firmware for it.  I have had some interest in trying to write a basic operating system for a computer.  Maybe I could get AI to help me with that.  I think I may have tried that once already, but AI wasn't quite good enough yet.  It probably is now if I use a paid model.  I need to decide what to do there also.  I'm not really making any money on any side projects that I have worked on, so I don't know how many AI accounts I can pay for.  I'm currently paying for Github copilot, but they just changed the billing, so I don't know if it is worth it anymore.  I might switch to something else.

I have run some local coding models using opencode and had decent results. I've also been playing with paperclip AI.  It doesn't seem to work very well with local models, but it works really well with Anthropic models.  I have built a few different projects.  None of them are production ready yet, but I think I could get them there using that interface.

The image at the top was generated with edeogram4 on my laptop.

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Choosing a Direction with AI

 Recently I feel blocked.  There is so much that can be done with AI that I don't know where to start.  I am playing with a local image ...