Brady Dibble
Brady Dibble is Director of Product at CIQ, where he works on enterprise Linux, security, compliance, and HPC/AI infrastructure. He enjoys tinkering with his homelab and has set up a self-hosted inference cluster, stitched together from an increasingly eclectic mixture of hardware. He tests most things himself before he believes them, which often enough is justified.
Session
AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT are powerful, convenient, and a trap. The cost, in addition to the price itself, is that your data and your code are being handed off to a corporation and who knows who else. Breaking your dependency on cloud AI takes effort and sacrifices convenience, but the gap between local LLMs and frontier models is narrowing every day. The hidden challenge is the harness, everything that wraps around the LLM to make it useful. This talk shows how to run an agentic AI stack using open source tools and whatever hardware you have to make useful tools without giving up your privacy and your sovereignty.