I Wanted a Free Cloud GPU. I Ended Up With a Server That Encrypts 6 GB per Second.
Author(s): Marko Mihajlovic Originally published on Towards AI. My hands-on Oracle Cloud Free Tier experiment revealed the surprising potential of ARM processors, hardware AES acceleration, and free cloud infrastructure. I signed up for Oracle Cloud with a fairly specific goal: I wanted …
I Built Local AI Coding Agents on a 4GB GPU. They Could Use Tools, but Could They Actually Code?
Author(s): Marko Mihajlovic Originally published on Towards AI. Testing Gemma 4, Qwen3.5, and Qwen3 with llama.cpp and OpenCode revealed the gap between successful tool calls and reliable software development. A coding assistant that can read a file, run a command, call an …