Michael Brewer

Solutions engineer by day, self-hosted AI systems by night: agents, RAG, LLM guardrails on my own hardware. Reliability over hype. When it breaks, I'm the one responsible.

Ephrata, Pennsylvania Joined on Sep 8, 2026 https://michaelbrewer.me

Education

Self-taught; homelab since 2016

Work

Client Solutions Engineer at Ministry Brands

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

Shock and Awe Is a Business Model

#ai #llm #opinion

4 min read

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

The Genealogy Book Nobody Had Time to Read

#ai #agents #productivity #automation

3 min read

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

The Right Models in the Right Seats

#ai #llm #architecture #opinion

4 min read

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

Measure the Binary You Run

#llm #benchmarking #devops

2 min read

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

The Year I Started Finishing Things

#career #productivity #ai

5 min read

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

Eggs, Cholesterol, and GPU Flags

#llm #benchmarking #gpu

3 min read

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

The Gate Caught Me Cheating

#ai #testing #automation

2 min read

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

Buying Speed With Architecture

#architecture #llm #performance

2 min read

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

The Template Mattered More Than the Quant

#llm #ai #programming

2 min read

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

When the Reason Changes, the Flag Flips

#llm #opensource #programming

2 min read

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

The Critical Env Var That Did Nothing

#llm #debugging #devops

2 min read

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

The Flag We Tuned Around Got Deleted

#llm #opensource #devops

3 min read

Michael Brewer

Sep 8

The $2,000 Inference Server: Standing Up Local AI on Ten-Year-Old Hardware

#ai #selfhosted #llm #homelab

5 min read

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Shock and Awe Is a Business Model

The Genealogy Book Nobody Had Time to Read

The Right Models in the Right Seats

Measure the Binary You Run

The Year I Started Finishing Things

Eggs, Cholesterol, and GPU Flags

The Gate Caught Me Cheating

Buying Speed With Architecture

The Template Mattered More Than the Quant

When the Reason Changes, the Flag Flips

The Critical Env Var That Did Nothing

The Flag We Tuned Around Got Deleted

The $2,000 Inference Server: Standing Up Local AI on Ten-Year-Old Hardware