A large pile of model files with a small number of them selected and moved to a separate protected shelf

People Are Panic Downloading Models Before It Is Too Late. Here Is What Actually Deserves the Disk.

Someone asked this morning which models to back up now that NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face. We told people to keep local copies a week ago, and four days ago we wrote about our own disk filling up and breaking our publishing. Both of those are true at once, so here is the version that reconciles them.

September 10, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
A drive filling with model files while a small unrelated component fails somewhere else in the system

Someone Deleted 3.2 TB of AI Models Today. Last Week Our Disk Filled Up and Broke Everything.

Everyone plans their VRAM. Almost nobody plans their storage, and it fails in ways that do not look like storage. A note on the hidden running cost of local AI, including the 591 GB folder we did not know we had and the broken login it caused.

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