Lab notes

Experiments, tooling and field notes.

Lab notes are practical field reports: experiments, tooling, local-model work, demos, and implementation lessons.

The real cost of local AI hardware

A lab note on the true economics of running local models versus frontier cloud APIs: capex, opex, latency, and the privacy-resilience trade-off.

Local models are cost, privacy, latency and resilience tools for jobs with clear boundaries.