Writing
Writing on local AI, Intel hardware and life. The older articles first appeared on Medium.

Claude Opus 5.5 agent went bananas trying to generate a blog post graphic
I asked for a one-picture banana joke. My agent spent twelve minutes on perspective math and typewriter art. My choice was a picture it had already thrown away.

Hyperfocus Bear vs. Lunar Lake: Ollama, IPEX-LLM, and OpenVINO benchmarked on Intel Arc and NPU
Finally I bought Lunar Lake.

Hyperfocus Bear Talks About AI and life.
His life mostly.

Hyperfocus Bear: The CutieB is born.
The Star was too late but older Brother never fails

Hyperfocus Bear meets AI and gets split.
We all know what slop means, I hope. During the last three years we’ve become experts at recognizing it, and we’ve started to hate it —…

Hyperfocus Bear: Dirty Spies, a Rusted Can, and a Bad Idea
You better be prepared for me Ethan..

Custom OpenVINO Server — ol’ Bear and hyperfocus honeypot. Part 3.
“Wakey, wakey, ol’ clumsy Bear — it’s me, Nicole.” I heard that in my dream, whispered in a soft voice. Shoot. I’m in trouble now. My…

Hyperfocus ol’Bear — building Tiny-B hive with Intel Arc Pro B50 16GB
Bears like honey. You can find honey inside a hive. Enough reasons for me to build one.

Custom OpenVINO Server — A Birthday Gift to Myself: How to Celebrate Your 50th Anniversary with the Best Wine — Part 2
Part 1 got some kind attention from the OpenVINO team at Intel — thank you [@Adrian Boguszewski]

Custom OpenVINO Server — A Birthday Gift to Myself: How to Celebrate Your 50th Anniversary with the Best Wine — part 1.
I had never dreamed of writing a local LLM server — not in Python, not in anything. I know some good, simple, proven existing solutions…