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Sleeping Robots
Personal blog · sleepingrobots.com/dreamsprogrammingai
Sleeping Robots is a personal blog at sleepingrobots.com about programming and ai. Since 2026, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Stop Using Ollama”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (20) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters repeatedly link this blog's post arguing against Ollama, usually as a bare link or slogan, and point readers to it in threads on local LLM setups and llama.cpp.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 20 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Project write-ups, experiments, and things I wanted to exist.
Most-linked posts?
- Stop Using Ollama19 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2026-04-16
What Hacker News says?
There's no official Qwen 3.8 4B (only 27B and 2.4T.. at least for now), so if not a typo you've downloaded some third party model/finetune. Also if you have less than 24GB VRAM, then ollama defaults to 4K context. If that "Qwen 3.8" uses thinking, it might be running out of context and forgetting what it was even answering mid-generation. If that's the case, then try increasing context size: https://docs.ollama.com/…
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on “Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is”Submitted Stop Using Ollama as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFriends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama. https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro”Friends don't let friends use Ollama: https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents”I use Llama.cpp and OpenAI-style API of course (who doesn't, unless you use Ollama perhaps?) Ollama sucks, they dropped ROCm support for my card out of the blue, and the Vulkan replacement wasn't ready. The developer just shrugged and didn't care about the people affected so I moved to llama-server. Also, here's some other reasons to avoid ollama: https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/ And really, olla…
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on “Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio”Ollama is not recommended [0], use llama.cpp or more specifically Unsloth Studio which wraps llama.cpp and which has an API mode you can use to hook into Hermes or another agent. Unsloth make both the Studio and the quants which fix various issues with many models [1] as well as implementing new features like MTP and QAT support much sooner than other teams. In general you should read r/LocalLLaMa as it has a lot of…
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on “Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development”Please don’t use Ollama. https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac”https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All”What the parent comment is referencing: https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “Setting up OpenCode with Ollama and sbx on Mac”- Stop using OLLAMA - https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/ - also can we get a post on how to do this with llama.cpp
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on “Setting up OpenCode with Ollama and sbx on Mac”>Why I use Ollama. To be frank it's just easy. More ethical alternatives have caught up including llama.cpp https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/#what-to...
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on “Setting up OpenCode with Ollama and sbx on Mac”>That is excellent news eh. https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users”Just a heads up (you may already know this) -- In the local LLM community there's a pretty strong disdain for Ollama specifically due to numerous reasons provided in this blog post: https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “Running local models is good now”Friends don't let friends use Ollama: https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “Running local models is good now”My system is quite similar to your, my GPU is a 6950 XT and CPU a Ryzen 5 2600x, same amount of RAM, and I feel your pain. It sounds very similar to my experience from a few months ago. When it comes to tool calling, there are multiple possible issues; some models have borked templates bundled with the model file, some models are not trained on tool calling, some agent harnesses doesn't support the tool call output…
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on “Running local models is good now”I experienced the same situation a month or two ago. One of my friends sent me this article that was illuminating. https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?”Ollama is not a good choice - https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/ As for oprncode, doesn't the system prompt eat too much of the context? Local models are really constraint in regards contex, and opencode AFAIR uses a 10k of it or some thing close.
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on “How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS”"Friends don't let friends use ollama" https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “llama.cpp”Already done. Here is information from the top comment: https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “Ollama: All Aboard Open Models”- stop using ollama - https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “Ollama: All Aboard Open Models”https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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on “OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS”
