Ai Tools — 8 Articles on SpecPicks

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• Local Image Generation AI in 2026: AMD Hardware Performance & Setup Guide — Discover how AMD's 2026 GPUs power local AI image generation. Optimize your setup with hardware benchmarks and rig recommendations. 2026-04-25 · 7 min read
• Stable Diffusion vs Flux — which open image model wins in 2026? — Stable Diffusion has the ecosystem; Flux has the quality. Here's which model wins for which workflow in 2026, with VRAM budgets and… 2026-04-22 · 12 min read
• Self-hosting a Claude proxy — cache, rate-limit, and audit every request — Building a production proxy in front of Anthropic's Claude API: where to cache, how to rate-limit, what to log, and the three ways teams… 2026-04-22 · 9 min read
• AI coding assistants ranked — Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Aider — Anthropic's CLI agent. Runs in your terminal, sees your whole repo, makes multi-file edits, runs commands, asks clarifying questions. Best… 2026-04-21 · 2 min read
• Self-hosting an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway with LiteLLM — One API shape in your code. model="gpt-4o" vs model="claude-opus-4" vs model="ollama/qwen3:32b" — same client library, same request… 2026-04-21 · 2 min read
• Open WebUI — self-hosted ChatGPT for your local models — Multi-user auth with RBAC — kids get one account, adults another, admin gets model management RAG pipeline built in — drop a PDF, ask… 2026-04-21 · 5 min read
• ComfyUI for local image generation — the 2026 setup guide — Memory efficiency: ComfyUI lazy-loads model components. On a 12GB card you can run full Flux.1 workflows that crash A1111. Workflow reuse… 2026-04-21 · 7 min read
• Ollama vs llama.cpp vs vLLM — which local LLM runtime wins in 2026? — Ollama for setup simplicity, llama.cpp for low-level control, vLLM for production throughput. Real tok/s numbers, memory footprints, and… 2026-04-21 · 10 min read