Real-world
Business automation
Concrete workflows, including the tradeoffs and limitations reported by their authors.
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Coaching elite athletes with a 2x DGX Spark cluster
A cycling and running coach runs client-facing coaching assistance on a small DGX Spark cluster, good enough for national-champion-level clients — at a cost the coach openly questions.
Running a small e-commerce business on Qwen 3.8 27B
A cloned five-store e-commerce operation — cart, mailings, WhatsApp login, payment gateways — runs day to day on a single 7900XT, turning a real monthly profit.
PR review and support triage on two budget RTX 3060s
Two 12GB 3060s handle both code review and customer-support lookups, reasoning read-only over live account data and internal docs.
Company email automation kept off the cloud for legal reasons
This company believes uploading user data to a cloud model would be illegal for their use case, so email and user-text automation runs on a Gemma 4 build on a single Radeon Pro AI R9700.
Cancelling every cloud subscription after building a wiki anti-rot layer
A custom middleware layer that keeps an LLM-maintained wiki from decaying replaced this person's Google NotebookLM RAG setup entirely — and every cloud subscription along with it.
Great for transcribing calls, still not close enough for coding
Local transcription and summarization save real money at work, but this person draws a firm line at using local models for coding — even the newest ones.