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.
21 March 2026
A streamlined Windows setup for running Aider + Ollama fully locally on an Intel GPU: zero cloud dependency, unlimited context, and a qwen2.5-coder:14b model that handles .NET refactors, new endpoints, and unit tests as a genuine local pair programmer.
25 January 2026
Fighting two broken Semantic Kernel 1.70.0-preview vector-store connectors (InMemoryVectorStore, SqliteVectorStore) while building a RAG-based word selector for Hangman — the fix was a manual raw-SQL upsert plus code-level category filtering, not the built-in abstractions.
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.
9 January 2026
Three small local models (llama3.2:3b, phi4-mini, qwen2.5:7b) and a host agent structure for the Hangman game — writing the game logic was easy, getting agents to reliably call functions and use tool output instead of hallucinating turned out to be the real challenge.