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Michael Brewer
Solutions engineer by day, self-hosted AI systems by night: agents, RAG, LLM guardrails on my own hardware. Reliability over hype. When it breaks, I'm the one responsible.
Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Joined on Sep 8, 2026
https://michaelbrewer.me
Education
Self-taught; homelab since 2016
Work
Client Solutions Engineer at Ministry Brands
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SQL (all day, every day), C#, Python (LLM-assisted AI tooling), llama.cpp, Qdrant, Docker, MCP servers, self-hosted infrastructure
Currently learning
Model routing and evals: getting small open-weight models to do specialist work reliably.
Currently hacking on
A self-hosted inference platform: 12 llama.cpp model stacks on a $2,000 EPYC server behind a custom routing proxy, with quality gates and fail-closed agent guardrails.
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Prompts Are Requests. Hooks Are Law.
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Prompts Are Requests. Hooks Are Law.
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Done Is a Claim
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Done Is a Claim
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Four Builds in Seven Days
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Four Builds in Seven Days
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Case study: a household of agents
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Case study: a household of agents
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Case study: smart-proxy
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Case study: smart-proxy
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Shock and Awe Is a Business Model
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Sep 8
Shock and Awe Is a Business Model
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The Genealogy Book Nobody Had Time to Read
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The Genealogy Book Nobody Had Time to Read
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The Right Models in the Right Seats
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The Right Models in the Right Seats
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Measure the Binary You Run
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Measure the Binary You Run
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The Year I Started Finishing Things
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The Year I Started Finishing Things
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Eggs, Cholesterol, and GPU Flags
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Eggs, Cholesterol, and GPU Flags
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The Gate Caught Me Cheating
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The Gate Caught Me Cheating
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Buying Speed With Architecture
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Buying Speed With Architecture
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The Template Mattered More Than the Quant
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The Template Mattered More Than the Quant
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When the Reason Changes, the Flag Flips
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When the Reason Changes, the Flag Flips
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The Critical Env Var That Did Nothing
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The Critical Env Var That Did Nothing
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The Flag We Tuned Around Got Deleted
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The Flag We Tuned Around Got Deleted
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The $2,000 Inference Server: Standing Up Local AI on Ten-Year-Old Hardware
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The $2,000 Inference Server: Standing Up Local AI on Ten-Year-Old Hardware
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