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While I slept, my 5-year-old MacBook ran Gemma 4 locally and indexed a year of video

I bought 64GB of RAM in 2021 to keep Chrome from crashing. Five years later my M1 Max ran Gemma 4 31B locally and indexed a year of Mara Hilltop video footage. Here's the build, the absurdity, and four bugs along the way.

We rebuilt the structured output problem one layer up

We solved structured output in 2024, then immediately rebuilt the same problem one stack-layer up under the name 'tool calling'. The lessons we learned the first time aren't propagating.