29 April 2026
Foundry Local reaching GA raised hopes for a real Ollama replacement on Intel GPU — but both tested OpenVINO models hard-capped responses at 199 tokens regardless of the configured max_tokens, a blocker for agentic coding workflows like Aider.
17 January 2026
The full write-up (and code) for the Semantic Kernel multi-agent Hangman game, promised as a follow-up to the earlier 'finally got it working' milestone post.
15 January 2026
The first real working milestone for the Semantic Kernel Hangman game: switching to a bigger qwen2.5:32b-instruct model via IPEX-LLM Ollama and simplifying down to 2 agents (no host agent) finally got a full game to completion.