real numbers.
Everything we've published on real numbers across guides, agents, hardware reviews and glossary entries — 4 entries in total.
Guides (4)
- Solo developer self-hosted AI — a year-long retrospectiveAI Agents · 2026-05-04
What it's actually like to run a self-hosted AI stack for a year as a solo developer. Real numbers on cost, ops time, downtime, regrets. What worked, what didn't, what we'd do differently.
- Raspberry Pi 5 as a self-hosted AI host — 90 days of real-world benchmarksAI Agents · 2026-05-12
What it's actually like to run a self-hosted AI agent on a Raspberry Pi 5 for 90 days. Real numbers on tokens-per-second, watt-hours, thermal throttle, SD card wear and the workloads where the Pi is genuinely good — and the workloads where it absolutely is not.
- Migrating from OpenAI Assistants to OpenClaw — six weeks of pain (and what we kept)AI Agents · 2026-05-19
A weekly diary of six weeks moving a working internal tool from OpenAI Assistants API to a self-hosted OpenClaw 2026.4 deployment. The actual mistakes, the actual cost reductions, the things that broke that we hadn't anticipated.
- GPU vs CPU for self-hosted AI inference — when each genuinely wins in 2026AI Agents · 2026-05-26
When does a GPU actually pay for itself in self-hosted AI inference, and when is a modern CPU genuinely the better answer? Real benchmarks across Mac Mini M4, Intel NUC 13, Raspberry Pi 5, and a single-GPU box. Watts per token, euros per million tokens, and the surprising places CPU wins.