Phase 1 of 8: Comfortable running local models. Week 1 of 32.
I've used AI through APIs to ship features: POST a prompt, get tokens back,
move on. I have never once deployed a model myself. No PyTorch, no GPU memory
math, no idea what actually happens between my HTTP request and the text that
comes back. This series is me closing that gap on purpose, one week at a time,







