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    <title>Coder Radio - Episodes Tagged with “Local Llms”</title>
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  <title>645: Warp's Holmes &amp; Llyod</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>A rare trio episode with two of luminaries behind Warp and good old gungan Mike where they discuss all things agentic including Warp's very own Oz. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>27:06</itunes:duration>
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  <description>Warp's Oz (https://www.warp.dev/oz)
Ben on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bholmesdev/)
Zach on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachlloyd/)
Coder Radio Discord (https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp)
The Mad Botter Data Platform (https://themadbotter.com/botterkit)
Mike's Blog (https://dominickm.com) 
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  <itunes:keywords>ai, programming, nosql, linux, bigdata, bi, rust, dotnet, node, ruby, tabnine, coding, vibe coding, co-pilot, warp, agentic, agents, ai</itunes:keywords>
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    <![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.warp.dev/oz" rel="nofollow">Warp&#39;s Oz</a><br>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bholmesdev/" rel="nofollow">Ben on LinkedIn</a><br>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachlloyd/" rel="nofollow">Zach on LinkedIn</a></p>

<p><a href="https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp" rel="nofollow">Coder Radio Discord</a><br>
<a href="https://themadbotter.com/botterkit" rel="nofollow">The Mad Botter Data Platform</a><br>
<a href="https://dominickm.com" rel="nofollow">Mike&#39;s Blog</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.warp.dev/oz" rel="nofollow">Warp&#39;s Oz</a><br>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bholmesdev/" rel="nofollow">Ben on LinkedIn</a><br>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachlloyd/" rel="nofollow">Zach on LinkedIn</a></p>

<p><a href="https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp" rel="nofollow">Coder Radio Discord</a><br>
<a href="https://themadbotter.com/botterkit" rel="nofollow">The Mad Botter Data Platform</a><br>
<a href="https://dominickm.com" rel="nofollow">Mike&#39;s Blog</a></p>]]>
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  <title>636: Red Hat's James Huang</title>
  <link>https://coder.show/636</link>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
  <author>The Mad Botter</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>
In this episode of the Coder Radio (Coder.show) network, Michael Dominick sits down with James Huang, Senior Product Manager of AI and High Performance Computing at Red Hat, to discuss the intersection of enterprise-grade Linux and the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence.

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  <itunes:duration>20:53</itunes:duration>
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  <description>Links
James on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jahuang/)
Mike on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominucco/)
Mike's Blog (https://dominickm.com)
Show on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/k8e7gKUpEp)
Alice Promo (https://go.alice.dev/data-migration-offer-hands-on)
AI on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Trust and Stability: RHEL provides the mission-critical foundation needed for workloads where security and reliability cannot be compromised.
Predictive vs. Generative: Acknowledging the hype of GenAI while maintaining support for traditional machine learning algorithms.
Determinism: The challenge of bringing consistency and security to emerging AI technologies in production environments.
Rama-Llama &amp;amp; Containerization
Developer Simplicity: Rama-Llama helps developers run local LLMs easily without being "locked in" to specific engines; it supports Podman, Docker, and various inference engines like Llama.cpp and Whisper.cpp.
Production Path: The tool is designed to "fade away" after helping package the model and stack into a container that can be deployed directly to Kubernetes.
Behind the Firewall: Addressing the needs of industries (like aircraft maintenance) that require AI to stay strictly on-premises.
Enterprise AI Infrastructure
Red Hat AI: A commercial product offering tools for model customization, including pre-training, fine-tuning, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
Inference Engines: James highlights the difference between Llama.cpp (for smaller/edge hardware) and vLLM, which has become the enterprise standard for multi-GPU data center inferencing. 
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  <itunes:keywords>Artificial Intelligence &amp; Machine Learning, Open Source Software, AI, FOSS, Cloud Native &amp; Containers</itunes:keywords>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Links<br>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jahuang/" rel="nofollow">James on LinkedIn</a><br>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominucco/" rel="nofollow">Mike on LinkedIn</a><br>
<a href="https://dominickm.com" rel="nofollow">Mike&#39;s Blog</a><br>
<a href="https://discord.com/invite/k8e7gKUpEp" rel="nofollow">Show on Discord</a></p>

<p><a href="https://go.alice.dev/data-migration-offer-hands-on" rel="nofollow">Alice Promo</a></p>

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<li>AI on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)</li>
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<p>Trust and Stability: RHEL provides the mission-critical foundation needed for workloads where security and reliability cannot be compromised.</p>

<p>Predictive vs. Generative: Acknowledging the hype of GenAI while maintaining support for traditional machine learning algorithms.</p>

<p>Determinism: The challenge of bringing consistency and security to emerging AI technologies in production environments.</p>

<ol>
<li>Rama-Llama &amp; Containerization</li>
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<p>Developer Simplicity: Rama-Llama helps developers run local LLMs easily without being &quot;locked in&quot; to specific engines; it supports Podman, Docker, and various inference engines like Llama.cpp and Whisper.cpp.</p>

<p>Production Path: The tool is designed to &quot;fade away&quot; after helping package the model and stack into a container that can be deployed directly to Kubernetes.</p>

<p>Behind the Firewall: Addressing the needs of industries (like aircraft maintenance) that require AI to stay strictly on-premises.</p>

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<li>Enterprise AI Infrastructure</li>
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<p>Red Hat AI: A commercial product offering tools for model customization, including pre-training, fine-tuning, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).</p>

<p>Inference Engines: James highlights the difference between Llama.cpp (for smaller/edge hardware) and vLLM, which has become the enterprise standard for multi-GPU data center inferencing.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Links<br>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jahuang/" rel="nofollow">James on LinkedIn</a><br>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominucco/" rel="nofollow">Mike on LinkedIn</a><br>
<a href="https://dominickm.com" rel="nofollow">Mike&#39;s Blog</a><br>
<a href="https://discord.com/invite/k8e7gKUpEp" rel="nofollow">Show on Discord</a></p>

<p><a href="https://go.alice.dev/data-migration-offer-hands-on" rel="nofollow">Alice Promo</a></p>

<ol>
<li>AI on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)</li>
</ol>

<p>Trust and Stability: RHEL provides the mission-critical foundation needed for workloads where security and reliability cannot be compromised.</p>

<p>Predictive vs. Generative: Acknowledging the hype of GenAI while maintaining support for traditional machine learning algorithms.</p>

<p>Determinism: The challenge of bringing consistency and security to emerging AI technologies in production environments.</p>

<ol>
<li>Rama-Llama &amp; Containerization</li>
</ol>

<p>Developer Simplicity: Rama-Llama helps developers run local LLMs easily without being &quot;locked in&quot; to specific engines; it supports Podman, Docker, and various inference engines like Llama.cpp and Whisper.cpp.</p>

<p>Production Path: The tool is designed to &quot;fade away&quot; after helping package the model and stack into a container that can be deployed directly to Kubernetes.</p>

<p>Behind the Firewall: Addressing the needs of industries (like aircraft maintenance) that require AI to stay strictly on-premises.</p>

<ol>
<li>Enterprise AI Infrastructure</li>
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<p>Red Hat AI: A commercial product offering tools for model customization, including pre-training, fine-tuning, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).</p>

<p>Inference Engines: James highlights the difference between Llama.cpp (for smaller/edge hardware) and vLLM, which has become the enterprise standard for multi-GPU data center inferencing.</p>]]>
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  <title>563: Mike’s No Good Very Bad Rails Update</title>
  <link>https://coder.show/563</link>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
  <author>The Mad Botter</author>
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  <itunes:author>The Mad Botter</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Mike makes the case for just going vanilla, a look at Google Carbon, and then we address the expensive elephant in the room.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>57:16</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>Mike makes the case for just going vanilla, a look at Google Carbon, and then we address the expensive elephant in the room. 
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  <itunes:keywords>Coder Radio, Development Podcast, developers, Google Carbon, expensive elephant, 3 Body Problem, Netflix, Feedback,  Apple, WWDC 2024, RCS support, iPhon, Apple Developer, YouTube, text editor, Helix, Rails, Asset Pipeline, vanilla JS, importmap-rails, ESM, LM Studio, local LLMs, HuggingFace, NOSTR, Google Carbon, C++ successor, C++ interop, Github, Apple Vision Pro, XR, NVIDIA, AI, Barbara Fried, SBF, sentencing submission</itunes:keywords>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Mike makes the case for just going vanilla, a look at Google Carbon, and then we address the expensive elephant in the room.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=53334&amp;coupon=jarjar">Coder QA</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=53334&amp;coupon=jarjar">Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly</a> Promo Code: jarjar</li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike" rel="nofollow" href="https://strike.me/">💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike</a> &mdash; Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.</li><li><a title="📻 Boost with Fountain.FM" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fountain.fm/">📻 Boost with Fountain.FM</a> &mdash; Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.</li><li><a title="Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event for June 10 to 14" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/26/apple-announces-wwdc-2024/">Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event for June 10 to 14</a> &mdash; Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 10 to Friday, June 14</li><li><a title="Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone" rel="nofollow" href="https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/">Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone</a> &mdash;  The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.</li><li><a title="Helix" rel="nofollow" href="https://helix-editor.com/">Helix</a> &mdash; Multiple cursors as a core editing primitive, inspired by Kakoune. Commands manipulate selections which allows concurrent code editing. </li><li><a title="importmap-rails: Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling." rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails">importmap-rails: Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling.</a> &mdash; With this approach you'll ship many small JavaScript files instead of one big JavaScript file. </li><li><a title="LM Studio" rel="nofollow" href="https://lmstudio.ai/">LM Studio</a> &mdash; Discover, download, and run local LLMs</li><li><a title="Carbon Language&#39;s main repository" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang">Carbon Language's main repository</a> &mdash;  An experimental successor to C++</li><li><a title="Barbara Fried SBF sentencing submission - DocumentCloud" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24445015-barbara-fried-sbf-sentencing-submission">Barbara Fried SBF sentencing submission - DocumentCloud</a> &mdash; I am Sam Bankman-Fried's mother.</li><li><a title="Dad&#39;s Letter" rel="nofollow" href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940.407.3_1.pdf">Dad's Letter</a> &mdash; 2¶ØVØ^~_ ØKVØV_Ø£ªb¹·ÎbØ£Ðb©·ØiØ}\ØV`Ø£c«·cÎc©Y^c ØV`</li><li><a title="audiobookshelf" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.audiobookshelf.org/">audiobookshelf</a> &mdash; Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server</li><li><a title="GPodder Sync - Nextcloud" rel="nofollow" href="https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/gpoddersync">GPodder Sync - Nextcloud</a> &mdash; Expose GPodder API to sync podcast consumer apps like AntennaPod</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Mike makes the case for just going vanilla, a look at Google Carbon, and then we address the expensive elephant in the room.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=53334&amp;coupon=jarjar">Coder QA</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=53334&amp;coupon=jarjar">Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly</a> Promo Code: jarjar</li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike" rel="nofollow" href="https://strike.me/">💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike</a> &mdash; Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.</li><li><a title="📻 Boost with Fountain.FM" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fountain.fm/">📻 Boost with Fountain.FM</a> &mdash; Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.</li><li><a title="Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event for June 10 to 14" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/26/apple-announces-wwdc-2024/">Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event for June 10 to 14</a> &mdash; Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 10 to Friday, June 14</li><li><a title="Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone" rel="nofollow" href="https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/">Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone</a> &mdash;  The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.</li><li><a title="Helix" rel="nofollow" href="https://helix-editor.com/">Helix</a> &mdash; Multiple cursors as a core editing primitive, inspired by Kakoune. Commands manipulate selections which allows concurrent code editing. </li><li><a title="importmap-rails: Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling." rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails">importmap-rails: Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling.</a> &mdash; With this approach you'll ship many small JavaScript files instead of one big JavaScript file. </li><li><a title="LM Studio" rel="nofollow" href="https://lmstudio.ai/">LM Studio</a> &mdash; Discover, download, and run local LLMs</li><li><a title="Carbon Language&#39;s main repository" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang">Carbon Language's main repository</a> &mdash;  An experimental successor to C++</li><li><a title="Barbara Fried SBF sentencing submission - DocumentCloud" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24445015-barbara-fried-sbf-sentencing-submission">Barbara Fried SBF sentencing submission - DocumentCloud</a> &mdash; I am Sam Bankman-Fried's mother.</li><li><a title="Dad&#39;s Letter" rel="nofollow" href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940.407.3_1.pdf">Dad's Letter</a> &mdash; 2¶ØVØ^~_ ØKVØV_Ø£ªb¹·ÎbØ£Ðb©·ØiØ}\ØV`Ø£c«·cÎc©Y^c ØV`</li><li><a title="audiobookshelf" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.audiobookshelf.org/">audiobookshelf</a> &mdash; Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server</li><li><a title="GPodder Sync - Nextcloud" rel="nofollow" href="https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/gpoddersync">GPodder Sync - Nextcloud</a> &mdash; Expose GPodder API to sync podcast consumer apps like AntennaPod</li></ul>]]>
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