Ilia's Corner

Build entire AI workflows in plain English—no code, no $200/mo bills

HKUDS/AutoAgent turns a one-sentence prompt into a multi-step LLM agent. Describe what you need (“scrape the top 20 GitHub repos, rank by growth, email me the CSV every Monday”) and the framework writes its own Python, chains the calls, retries on failure, and deploys to the cloud—no Cursor, no LangChain glue, no seat licenses. Perfect for weekend prototypes, internal dashboards, or handing non-dev teammates their own “automation button.”

github_trending · 3 min read

Turn a $500 lawn bot into a golf-course-grade autonomous mower

OpenMower hacks cheap hardware with RTK-GPS and open-source brains so it mows in perfect rows—no perimeter wire, no $5k upgrade kit, no vendor lock-in. Map your yard once, schedule from your phone, and watch the neighbors ask why your lawn looks like a stadium.

reddit · 4 min read

Copy-paste your way off expensive SaaS with Vercel’s 200+ ready-to-deploy examples

Need auth, payments, edge functions, or a full SaaS starter? Vercel’s repo hands you complete Next.js/Svelte projects that replace half your stack. One git clone, one deploy button, and you skip weeks of wiring up Stripe, Supabase, or Redis.

hackernews · 2 min read

Your Node app probably downloaded malware last month

The npm chalk and debug packages—used by 95 % of the ecosystem—were hijacked to drop browser-stealing code. If you built or deployed between Sept 5-20, lock your dependencies now and run npm audit fix --force.

hackernews · 3 min read

Run a 49-billion-parameter reasoning model on one old AMD card

The llama.cpp-gfx906 fork shoehorns Valkyrie-49B-v2 onto an eBay MI50 GPU and still hits 30-token/s. You get chain-of-thought visibility (think tags) without OpenAI bills or Nvidia shortages—perfect for private coding assistants or on-prem support bots.

reddit · 5 min read

Immich

Drop-in replacement for Google Photos that you host yourself. AI face recognition, mobile auto-backup, and raw video support—no 9.99 €/mo, no data mining, unlimited storage.

Personal cloud photo library for privacy-loving devs

TypeScript · 173 stars

Ryzen AI + ROCm workstation in one command

Strix Halo laptops can now run Unsloth, bitsandbytes, and llama.cpp under ROCm 7 nightly—no cloud credits, no Nvidia card. Train or fine-tune a 7 B model on your lap on the plane.

Portable ML rig for AMD fans

Shell · 9 stars

TableMind

Throw it any ugly spreadsheet and it writes, runs, and debugs Python until it gets the insight you asked for—like having a data intern who never sleeps.

Ad-hoc data analysis without Stack Overflow dives

Python

DeepSeek V3.1 exposes its own reasoning budget

Native tool-calling in llama.cpp lets you dial the think tokens from 0 to full philosopher. Turn it down for cheap chat, crank it up for math proofs—one binary, zero vendor lock-in.

Model Efficiency · ggml-org · 2 min read

LLMs can already pick the best home retrofit for 93 % of houses

Feed an off-the-shelf model basic house stats and it narrows thousands of energy-efficiency options to the top five that human experts would choose—no building physics SDK required. Cheap path to green-tech SaaS.

Green AI · U. Michigan & CMU · 4 min read

REER: teach small models to “think” without RL budgets

Reverse-Engineered Reasoning distills chain-of-thought from a teacher model using only supervised data—8 B-param models gain o1-style reflective writing at a fraction of the compute cost.

Training Tricks · Tsinghua & MSRA · 3 min read