The home of the Algorist

I’ve been a member of the Ollama discord for a while now, and I’ve noticed that when people talk about Ollama Cloud they frequently compare it against OpenCode Go. As the Ollama free tier allowance has constrained over time (and my free tier GitHub Copilot went the same way), I finally bit the bullet and paid for AI using OpenCode’s subscription product for only $5 in the first month ($10 afterwards).

This post continues from AI llama-server on a phone with a detailed walkthrough of every step needed to flash LineageOS, set up Termux, build llama.cpp, and serve a small language model over your local network.

Yesterday I made an AI server run on my broken 6 year old phone. In the same week as GitHub moved to usage based pricing and a week after we learnt that a company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude AI in one month alone, I dug out a discard piece of technology to host an LLM.

Python recipe scraper exposed as an MCP tool

After several years away, this blog is back online with an updated Hugo theme. More articles coming soon.