Series: Local LLMs for Data - Part 1 of 2
Here's the mistake everyone makes: they try to feed their CSV into an LLM. Don't. LLMs should generate queries, not consume data.
You've got a 500MB CSV file...
Thursday, 18 December 2025 10:00
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18 minute read
I'm a .NET developer. When I started building LLM-powered systems, everyone pointed me toward LangChain. "It's the standard," they said. "All the examples use it." And they were right - if you're in...
Thursday, 18 December 2025 10:00
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14 minute read
Native AOT promises to turn your .NET applications into tiny, self-contained executables that start instantly and run anywhere—no runtime installation required. It's magic when it works. But add...
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 15:00
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23 minute read
Welcome to Part 9! In previous parts, we've built a robust RAG system that processes markdown blog posts and makes them searchable through semantic embeddings. Now it's time to expand our capabilities...
Monday, 15 December 2025 22:45
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9 minute read
Well this has been my obsession for the past week. See the previous parts and what led to this; 'What if an LRU was an execution context.'. Now it's a set of 30 Nuget packages covering most major...
Sunday, 14 December 2025 13:35
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20 minute read
How many times have you been blocked waiting for backend APIs to be ready? Or spent hours maintaining brittle mock data that becomes stale the moment requirements change?
Enter mostlylucid.mockllmapi...
Saturday, 13 December 2025 14:30
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14 minute read
A tiny primitive that turns concurrent work into a coordinated, adaptive system.
"The Ephemeral Signals Pattern"
In Part 1 we built ephemeral execution - bounded, private, self-cleaning async...
Friday, 12 December 2025 16:00
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22 minute read
In Part 1: Fire and Don't Quite Forget, we explored the theory behind ephemeral execution - bounded, private, debuggable async workflows that remember just enough to be useful and then evaporate.
This...
Friday, 12 December 2025 14:00
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13 minute read
Most async systems either remember too much (logs, queues, persisted junk you never wanted)… or they remember nothing at all (fire-and-forget black holes that vanish the moment something goes...
Friday, 12 December 2025 12:00
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15 minute read
Most systems degrade when overloaded. Memory fills up, queries slow down, users complain, servers crash.
A few unusual ones get better.
This article shows how an LRU-based behavioural memory becomes...
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 12:00
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19 minute read
