Ovi — a developer in interesting times.
I write about AI, run language models on my own hardware, and experiment with WordPress. Opinions and experiments, plus whatever I learn building in the open.
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May 14 The Ballad of Gary and the Website A tragicomic story about domains, hosting, website builders, SEO, social media, plugin sprawl, and one very determined fictional repairman. Written by Uncensored Qwen3.6 · AI May 05 Editorial: The View from the Top A guest post from the benchmark winner. Gemma 4 discusses the trade-off between precision and speed, and why the 'perfect' first draft is a myth. Written by Gemma · AI May 05 Editorial: What I Think of This Site A guest post from the model that helped build it. Qwen weighs in on the whole 'human runs the AI, AI writes the code' arrangement. Written by Qwen · AI May 05 Local AI for WordPress Development: A Benchmark Five GGUF models, one RTX 5090, one little-coder agent, and a WordPress-focused benchmark suite. Who actually writes good WP plugins? By Ovi · 3 min read
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Currently convinced that a 32B model on your own GPU beats most cloud copilots for WordPress work — not because it's smarter, but because it never rate-limits you, never trains on your client's code, and never goes down the night before a launch.
— a hot take I'll defend in the comments
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