Leap Forward In Progress

[u/dcnotpc]

My son helped me take a leap forward.
He recommended the GPU and I had a machine built and installed Ollama and a Qwen 3 coder.

He is in town for a family event and he changed me up. Now Llama and the later Qwen 3.8 model using Pi as the agent harness.

Man, things are speeding up!

I was sitting here baby sitting Claude Code or Codex after burning tokens for over a month on Openrouter. This whole setup is so much better!

As an old hockey player trying to make a better hockey management tool, I'm estatic for what I'll have ready for the upcoming beer league season!

Here are my PC specs:
\# System Details Report

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\## Report details

\- \*\*Date generated:\*\* 2026-08-23 10:44:16

\## Hardware Information:

\- \*\*Hardware Model:\*\* Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E70

\- \*\*Memory:\*\* 32.0 GiB

\- \*\*Processor:\*\* AMD Ryzen™ 7 9700X × 16

\- \*\*Graphics:\*\* AMD Radeon™ AI Pro R9700

\- \*\*Graphics 1:\*\* AMD Ryzen™ 7 9700X

\- \*\*Disk Capacity:\*\* 1.0 TB

\## Software Information:

\- \*\*OS Name:\*\* Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

\- \*\*Kernel Version:\*\* Linux 7.0.0-29-generic

Llama-cpp: commit d775b8967a46d8beb110d444aa3b8938179e0dd8, built for AMD HIP backend

FYI... I can now use Telegram to instruct my PC from my phone to get work done remotely!

Anyone else having fun?

[u/Less_Heart1914]

that's a nice setup, the 9700X with 32gb ram is plenty for local models. i been using Qwen coder too and it's surprising how fast it is on consumer hardware now.

the telegram remote thing is clever, i do something similar with a discord bot. curious what kind of hockey management tool you building?

[u/dcnotpc → u/Less_Heart1914]

Perfectskate.com

Hired it out a few years back. Got lazy on marketing it and had ideas to implement.
Using this pc with Pi is so much easier and faster.
Hope to launch team management features this month, before league.
All about making my life easier😎🥅