I used to think homelabs were for hardcore sysadmins. Then I joined Tailscale. The best engineers I met all had one thing in common: relentless curiosity. The servers weren't the point. The environment was. Why I think your homelab is career insurance: open.substack.com/pub/soypetet...

Your Homelab Isn’t a Hobby. It’s Career Insurance.

I have always had side projects.

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If you haven't subbed yet, I set a goal to get 1000 subs before I can buy Lego Minas Tirith and pre order starts June 1st. So I am 🎣 for subs. Ps new ep on Friday. youtube.com/@domesticati...

Domesticating AI

Domesticating AI is a bi-weekly podcast about practical AI for developers. We help developers run useful AI systems reliably, on the hardware and budgets they actually have.

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broke my toe this week but we still shipped ep 2 😅 DGX Spark: “inference box” vs dev rig ▶️ youtu.be/0CI19dXmOws reply w/ your stack: GPU/CPU + RAM + runner + model/quant

NVIDIA DGX Spark: From “Inference Box” to Dev Rig (What It Actually Is) | Ep 2

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Last week this post was for paid subscribers. Today it’s live for free subscribers. Have You Heard of Logits? Tool calling vs grammars, and the “one character off” failure mode that turns into agent loops. open.substack.com/pub/soypetet...

Have You Heard of Logits?

I keep hearing people talk about tool calling, but I almost never hear people talk about Llogits.

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I keep hearing about tool calling. I rarely hear about logits. If you’re building agents (not chatbots), “almost valid” outputs don’t fail gracefully. They turn into retries, loops, and wasted cycles. open.substack.com/pub/soypetet...

Have You Heard of Logits?

I keep hearing people talk about tool calling, but I almost never hear people talk about Llogits.

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I wrote up the workflow I actually use with AI as a software engineer: scope by ticket, keep debugging in the same session, use tests as forcing functions, and keep guardrails in Claude.md. open.substack.com/pub/soypetet...

Claude Code overview - Claude Code Docs

Learn about Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal and helps you turn ideas into code faster than ever before.

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2025 was a wild ride—AI deep-dives, honest data modeling talks, and more community time than ever. My take: AI doesn’t replace engineering, it enables it. Check out my year-in-review thoughts and what’s coming in 2026. open.substack.com/pub/soypetet...

2025: A Year of Growth, AI, and Community at Soypete

NOTE: AI completely wrote this post.

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#GoWestConf Sharing a fantastic blog by @soypetetech.bsky.social!! 🙌 Thank you so much for mentioning my session! Even as a first-timer, I’m really happy and proud of being part of such an amazing moment with everyone. 🥰 Five Years of Go West soypetetech.substack.com/p/five-years...

Five Years of Go West

Reviewing Utah’s Go Community

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Go West Conf 2025 is LIVE 🎉 Sixth year since 2020 — 85% Utah-based, 100% community-powered. Couldn’t do it without Derrick, Annalisa, and Boston ❤️ 🎥 Watch live: twitch.tv/soypetetech 🙌 And join us next year for the best Go vibes around. #GoWest #Golang #UtahTech

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GoWestConf - 2025

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Been thinking about how most GenAI tools feel designed from the front-end in. Langfuse, LangChain, even MCP all assume the client leads. What happens when we shift toward server-side agents? I think Go has a role to play. open.substack.com/pub/soypetet... #genai #golang #aiinfra #llmops

Why GenAI Infrastructure Feels Backwards

Today’s GenAI tooling is built from the client inward—but the long-term infrastructure needs to live server-side. Here’s why I think Go will play a major role in that future.

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Just published a new post Go was built for concurrency—but should you be using it? Most modern Go services run better without it. Here’s when to lean in, and when to step back. 📖 open.substack.com/pub/soypetet... #golang #microservices #cloudnative #devtools

Concurrency is a Go Anti-Pattern

TL;DR: Go’s concurrency model is elegant, but modern cloud-native applications rarely benefit from it.

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AI just leveled up for devs. I turned a 2-day Go job into a 4-hour sprint using Claude Code. Prompt-driven AI > autocomplete. You’re still the engineer—AI just ships faster. 📝 Read: open.substack.com/pub/soypetet... #ClaudeCode #Golang #AIforDevs #LLMOps #DevTools

AI Just Leveled Up for Developers—Here’s What Changed (and Why It Matters)

Claude Code is the biggest leap in AI developer tooling since Copilot. In this post, I break down how I used it to turn a 2-day Go project into a 4-hour sprint—and why prompt-driven coding is the futu...

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I gave a talk recently about self-hosting AI models, and I’ve turned that into a new post. The post covers how I started with local-first tools like Ollama and Llama.cpp, and why I still run them Check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/soypetet... #LLMDev #SelfHost #LocalAI #Ollama #LlamaCpp

Self-Hosting Models IS for Nerds

A Practical Guide to Local AI Dev

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Finally setting up my Mac Studio on stream today. I've got a script that boots up my whole dev environment in one shot—CLI tools, AI stuff, everything. Come hang if you like clean setups, terminal life, or software tools that just work. 🔴 [twitch.tv/soypetech] #MacStudio #DevSetup #HomeLab

Small data team? Big goals? I wrote about how I’ve built practical, high-impact data platforms as a team of one—balancing AI dreams, BI demands, and real-world constraints. Read & comment: substack.com/@soypetetech... #DataEngineering #Startups #ModernDataStack #AI #BI

What to Optimize When You’re a Small Data Team

How I balance AI dreams, BI demands, and real-world constraints in data engineering

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Everyone’s building agents. But the truth? They’re just software wrapped around an LLM. If we want reliability, scale, and ROI, we need fewer frameworks and more engineering—and we can’t ignore NLP. open.substack.com/pub/soypetet... #LLM #AI #NLP #DataEngineering #Agents #LangChain #Substack

Agents Are Just Software: Why Frameworks Can’t Replace Engineering

TL;DR Agent frameworks are exploding in popularity, but most of them obscure the real engineering challenges behind LLM-powered applications.

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Can an M3 Ultra Mac really outperform an RTX 5090 PC in LLM benchmarks? This Memorial Day, I’m running a full LLaMA.cpp showdown to test it live. Will be Live on Twitch & YouTube. #LLAMAcpp #RTX5090 #M3Ultra #MacStudio #AIInfrastructure #Benchmarking #LocalLLM #OpenSourceAI

New post: Prompt Engineering Without the Bloat What I learned building and why most AI features come down to 2 questions: How do you talk to the model? How do you talk to the user? No overengineering. Just clean design. open.substack.com/pub/soypetet... #GenAI #PromptEngineering #SoftwareDesign

Prompt Engineering Without the Bloat: Lessons from Building LLM-Driven Tools

How building a Twitch chatbot taught me the real job of a software engineer working with LLMs

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gosh I love me some IAC. I dont know why, but it just is sooo cool to run terraform apply and watch a world get built

Just streamed compiling llama.cpp for GPU on my RTX 1590. Ran into: CUDA arch 12.0 not supported yet Missing curl + SSL dev libs WSL docs buried deep With Twitch chat’s help, we got it running! 👉 open.substack.com/pub/soypetet... #llamacpp #AIinfra #opensource #gpu #WSL2

Running Llama.cpp on My GPU

How I Compiled Llama.cpp for GPU on WSL (With Twitch Debugging!)Struggling to run Llama.cpp with GPU support on WSL? Here’s how I compiled it for my NVIDIA 1590 GPU, debugged missing dependencies live...

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I just posted a new video breaking down Pedro’s full 5090 upgrade: Setup, WSL, LLaMA.cpp install, and a 9x performance boost. I’m trying to hit 500 subscribers to unlock YouTube monetization—this is now my full-time gig. Drop a comment if you like the video! youtu.be/hm4_VJP4GnE

Wild analytics anomaly this week on Twitch: Jumped from 9 to 835 viewers. No raid. No follow bump. Just… poof. 800 viewers? But only 57 unique viewers. 68 live views. No other signals. Gut check matters. Don’t trust dashboards at first glance. Sanity-check your data—always. #dataengineering

Got a technical deep dive on Go? GoWest Conf 2025 wants: • Production stories • Tools & internals • Compiler tricks • Infra, performance, scale 🎤 Submit your in-person talk: 🔗 sessionize.com/gowest-conf-... 📍 Lehi, UT — Oct 24

GoWest Conf 2025: Call for Speakers

The GoWest Conference is a hybrid conference for the Rocky Mountain West communities (Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Idaho).It has two main goals:​Highlight...

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🔧 Live now! Thought I could just download a binary… turns out I need to recompile llama.cpp for GPU 😅 Today’s stream includes: - CMake & CUDA debugging - Compiling from source - Running a bigger model from Hugging Face 🔗 twitch.tv/soypetetech #llamacpp #AI #CMake #CUDA

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CMake Can’t Find CUDA and I’m Losing My Mind – Let’s Compile llama.cpp Together | !pedro !linktree

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I made a supercut of my RTX 5090 unboxing stream— featuring the MSI Infinite RS Tower w/ the Ultra 9 285K and all the fixings. If you were there live, drop a like! If not, check it out and see what’s powering Pedro now: youtu.be/ixtMcmEZtGo

MSI Infinite RS RTX 5090 + Ultra 9 285K Unboxing and Setup | New Gaming + AI Dev Tower!

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🎥 + ⚙️ Live now! Today’s stream is half content creation, half DevOps adventure: Recording the talking head segment for the PedroGPT unboxing vid Deploying the Discord bot to Kubernetes Come for the AI bot, stay for the cluster chaos. www.twitch.tv/soypetetech #Kubernetes #DevOps #LiveCoding

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Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more. There’s something for everyone on Twitch.

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Hey everyone! Today’s stream is all about refactoring Pedro’s Connector API—we're improving how the LLM connects to Twitch + Discord and pulling out the database logic to make the AI layer clean, reusable, and self-contained. 🔗 twitch.tv/soypetetech

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Making Pedro Remember: Writing Discord Messages to Postgres with Go + SQLX | !pedro

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I left my last job as part of the lay-offs. While I job hunt, I’m going all-in on building content, learning new tech, and investing in myself while I look for the next thing. Leads welcome! All links: linktr.ee/soypete_tech

🔧 Live now! We’re refactoring the Pedro Connector API to better integrate our LLM with Twitch + Discord—and removing database logic from the AI layer to make it self-contained. Cleaner code, smarter bots. 🔗 twitch.tv/soypetetech #AI #LLM #Golang #LiveCoding #TwitchDev

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Refactoring Pedro: Clean AI Layers + Connector API Upgrade! | !pedro !linktree

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🚨 Today’s Stream: PedroGPT Goes K3s! 🚨 🔗 twitch.tv/soypetetech 🔗 youtube.com/c/miriahpete... Join me and let's make Pedro cloud-native! #K3s #Kubernetes #PedroGPT #LLMs #DevOps #HomeLab #LiveCoding #SelfHosted #Tailscale #Prometheus #InfraAsCode

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Hi, I am Miriah - Google Developer Expert: Go, Community Builder (Forge Utah Foundation), Twitch streamerI stream software development. I don't play video games. In addition to steaming, I give talks,...

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