Everyone's installing local LLMs. I bought a rack.

LinkedIn has calcified into two kinds of posts, and I've developed an allergy to both. First, the model people. Every day, another breathless thread about the AI breakthrough that changed everything since breakfast, written (as far as I can tell) by someone who met the word "quantization" the previous evening. There are real exceptions: Marco Pericci actually knows the field and puts out serious work. Most of the rest ran ollama pull once and started calling it a research agenda. The second genre is worse, because it's wearing a blazer: "For fifteen years we've delivered mission-critical solutions across complex, heterogeneous environments. And the data keeps telling us the same thing: the problem was never the technology; it was the people, the process, and our relationship with uncertainty. (Full article below.)" Four reactions, three of them colleagues, the fourth a bot. An lnkd.in link to the full piece. Nothing said, at length, in business casual. This post was already tired…