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Playing with AI

So we have gone on an AI bandwagon. Turns out AI in agent mode can be tremendous help in generating code and documentation. Prompt AI is good only for handling small problems but agent can integrate with IDEs and increase productivity by a few times. The next frontier is locally running AI and so this way one is free from AI provider plans and the only cost is for electricity and hardware. Now a good AI system needing a bunch of AI chips is still costly. But the control could be worth it. For an experiment I started on my now 10 year old Blue Lenovo laptop with Pentium B950. This processor is so old that it does not support AVX2 and so can not really do anything. I can still use this for coding. Actually the bootup was way slow at about 2 mins. But with generous help from chatgpt I was able to bring it down to a minute which is quite good. I also removed a bunch of unneeded things thus making it quite faster to work too. So my goal is to use my new laptop with windows to...