AI Home Lab for Beginners: The Deep Dive
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Running frontier-class AI locally is now real, and the key is understanding three components: hardware, model, and harness. Most beginners only focus on the model, but the harness, the software layer managing tools, memory, and workflows, determines actual usefulness. Choosing hardware requires balancing memory size, speed, and cost since you can only optimize two of the three.
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