This solo builder runs 24/7 local AI on his own hardware | Alex Finn

What is stacked around your office right now? I have three Mac Studio five twelve gigabytes. We got a DGX Spark, as well as a computer I just built an RTX fifty ninety. Basically, at all times of the day, each one of these computers is just burning tokens. The number one pushback I get on all this is your computers are so expensive. Isn't cloud models cheap? Isn't it $20 for a Chad GPT subscription? Well, that's not the point. The point isn't pure ROI. The point is the use cases it unlocks. You now have, because you have AI models running locally, the ability to run unlimited intelligence around the clock twenty four seven. If you were to do that with a cloud model like Chad GPT or Claude, you would be spending outrageous amounts of money. What else fun are you doing with AI? The most fun I've been having lately is building out my software factory. I have two loops in Claude code going. I have a build loop and a review loop. First, it has a build loop where it'll take all those tasks and start building out the tasks it came with over and over and over again. And then it has a review loop that takes all the tasks that were built and has another agent go in and review it. Once that's reviewed, it pings me on Slack, and I can just leave a rocket emoji. And when I leave the rocket emoji, it says merged, and my Henry loop goes and merges it. It's been a blast kinda cracking this nut of how do you build your own software factory. Welcome back to How I AI. I'm Claire Vaux, product leader and AI obsessive, here on a mission to help you build better with these new tools. Today, I have Alex Finn, and he's gonna walk us through his two Mac Studios, DGX Spark, and the NVIDIA backed computer he built for himself and demystify what it means to run local models and have ambient AI working for you twenty four hours a day. Let's get to it. This episode is brought to you by Runway, a new kind of creative platform that has everything you need to generate any image, video, or piece of content you want all in one place. With Runway, it's now possible to go from initial idea to a finished deliverable in a matter of minutes. From turning low fidelity product shots into campaign ready imagery all the way through putting together big brand films, Runway can help your team scale your creative ambitions while keeping your budgets and timelines from doing the same. Runway brings together the world's most advanced AI models, which is why enterprises like Microsoft, Robinhood, Amazon, and Adobe, along with studios like Lionsgate and Legendary, all use Runway to ship real work every day. Try it yourself at runwayml.com/howiai, promo code how I a I. Alex, welcome to How I a …