Is learning/practicing with AI prompts still feasible for a broke person?
Posted by superide@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 7 comments
I am an experienced programmer but a noob with AI workflows. Never used it at work, as it was too far back when it really became places in a lot of places.
I'm now unemployed. And so broke now I had to cut my home internet service, so applying what I read would be harder. Can you still make progress this way? I might have to go spend free tokens at the local library or a coffee shop ordering the cheapest thing available. Reading articles on how to get started would be the minimum for me now.
There are side projects I can work at home without internet (still have my phone connected) but having to learn how to use an agentic approach is going to be the curve ball in me keeping up on technical skills.
Any-Pie1615@reddit
https://github.com/s4ndm4n33-spec/sovereign-shards
I seriously suggest checking out this repo. It's still in beta but the potential for it is phenomenal. grab a usb. the bigger the better. the architecture is built for fat32 file systems but if you're crafty and want to work around that you can. the executable is live and pending an update of the current form. the goal is a totally offline portable dev agent. it's at home on windows right now but we're working on it every day. Your agent. Your data. Your pocket. AND it's totally free minus the hardware. i'm running it on an old 16 gb I found laying around. it has a python runtime and a llama.cpp server with ollama backend for larger models. It's also set up for using host models that are larger tiers. play around with it. let me know what you think. I'm currently looking for live use cases.
superide@reddit (OP)
That's interesting, will have to check it out sometime and I have spare USB storage (wonder if it could also manage on a SD card with a USB stick adapter). Think it can do all right on a machine with 8GB of ram?
Any-Pie1615@reddit
8 gb is extra tight you would need a much smaller model. but it's not impossible. truth be told the llm isn't in charge of a lot that goes down on the shard so it's definitely doable.
rocketbunny77@reddit
Got any semi decent hardware at home? You could play around with some Local LLMs
superide@reddit (OP)
Nah sorry I sold my home PC for money. Just have a 10 year old laptop now with 8 gigs of ram
Hot-Schedule5032@reddit
No
M01120893474R@reddit
What are you trying to learn or practice? Any reason you need an ‘agentic’ approach?