Description

For purely studying purposes, I'd like to find out if I could teach an LLM some of my own accumulated knowledge, to use it as a sort of extended brain.

I might use qwen3-coder or something similar as a starting point.

Everything would be done 100% offline without network available to the container, since I prefer to see when network is needed, and make it so it's never needed (other than initial downloads).

Goals

  1. Learn something about RAG, LLM, AI.
  2. Find out if everything works offline as intended.
  3. As an end result have a new way to access my own existing know-how, but so that I can query the wisdom in them.
  4. Be flexible to pivot in any direction, as long as there are new things learned.

Resources

To be found on the fly.

Timeline

Day 1 (of 4)

  • Tried out a RAG demo, expanded on feeding it my own data
  • Experimented with qwen3-coder to add a persistent chat functionality, and keeping vectors in a pickle file
  • Optimizations to keep everything within context window
  • Learn and add a bit of PyTest

Day 2

  • More experimenting and more data
  • Study ChromaDB
  • Add a Web UI that works from another computer even though the container sees network is down

Day 3

  • The above RAG is working well enough for demonstration purposes.
  • Pivot to trying out OpenCode, configuring local Ollama qwen3-coder there, to analyze the RAG demo.
  • Figured out how to configure Ollama template to be usable under OpenCode. OpenCode locally is super slow to just running qwen3-coder alone.

Day 4 (final day)

  • Battle with OpenCode that was both slow and kept on piling up broken things.
  • Call it success as after all the agentic AI was working locally.
  • Clean up the mess left behind a bit.

Blog Post

Summarized the findings at blog post.

Looking for hackers with the skills:

ai llm offline study

This project is part of:

Hack Week 25

Activity

  • about 1 month ago: tjyrinki_suse started this project.
  • about 1 month ago: frantisek.simorda liked this project.
  • about 2 months ago: tjyrinki_suse liked this project.
  • about 2 months ago: tjyrinki_suse added keyword "ai" to this project.
  • about 2 months ago: tjyrinki_suse added keyword "llm" to this project.
  • about 2 months ago: tjyrinki_suse added keyword "offline" to this project.
  • about 2 months ago: tjyrinki_suse added keyword "study" to this project.
  • about 2 months ago: tjyrinki_suse originated this project.

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