My own setup
The homelab is the hobby itself: hardware chosen for the workload, inference tuned until it feels fast, and everything documented well enough to rebuild from scratch.
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Miroslav Kubík
AI that runs on hardware I actually own.
I build, tune, and maintain private AI systems that run entirely on my own machines — and I help other people do the same. This page is my quiet corner of the internet where all of that lives.
01 — About me
A bit about me
I like machines I understand. That preference led me to local AI: running models privately, on hardware I own and configure myself, instead of renting someone else's intelligence by the token.
Most of my time goes into the parts nobody demos — sizing GPUs, tuning drivers, quantizing models until they are fast without being dumb, watching thermals and token throughput. Unglamorous work, but it is the difference between a local AI you actually use and one that quietly died in a forgotten notebook.
People still ask whether local AI is a compromise. It isn't anymore — the models are good, the tooling has matured, and privacy turns out to be a feature nobody can take away. Friends, colleagues, and the occasional stranger who lands here get the same treatment: I build the thing, then I write it down so someone else can too.
02 — Interests
Where the time goes
Less a service menu, more a list of things I genuinely enjoy figuring out — and usually end up helping someone else with anyway.
Models that earn their size
Quantization, context strategy, honest benchmarks. A model that answers in a second beats one with a better score that keeps you waiting — and I like finding where that line is.
Private workflows
Notes, documents, and automation running against local models. Search that never leaves the house. This is the part that convinced me the whole thing isn't a fad.
Helping others go local
Friends, colleagues, and whoever asks get the same thing: hardware advice, a clean install, sensible defaults, and notes written for whoever inherits it next.
Keeping things alive
Systems drift — drivers break, models update, disks fill up. I maintain what I build, quietly and on purpose. Uptime is underrated and rarely interesting, which is exactly the point.
03 — Contact
Say hello
If you want to talk about local AI — a project, a stubborn benchmark, or which GPU makes sense this year — write to me. I read everything, and I reply to most.