Your Family's Own ChatGPT on an Old Gaming PC

Your Family's Own ChatGPT on an Old Gaming PC: Ollama, Open WebUI and the Week After Setup

A private ChatGPT for the whole house on a PC with two graphics cards from 2016. Every command, one custom model per person with their own instructions, the two house lines that fix the date and the ‘where do my questions go’ answer, the one setting that stops everyone waiting in line, and the three-day Windows default that killed ours.

September 26, 2026 · 11 min · Aillex / DIY AI
We Built a Game With an Eight-Year-Old Chief Designer (and One Prompt Made It Work)

We Built a Game With an Eight-Year-Old Chief Designer (and One Prompt Made It Work)

A weekend game-development project with my daughter as lead designer and an AI coding agent as the engineer. The whole thing hinged on one line in the very first prompt, before any code, ask clarifying questions and list your assumptions.

July 6, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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