Riel Story
How Far Can Local AI Go with Just a CPU — Building Auto-Tracking and Benchmarking Loops, and My Conclusions
My journey building a local Korean chatbot fallback using only a CPU, in case external AI services become unavailable. I successfully implemented auto-tracking of new Hugging Face models, autonomous benchmarking, and an automatic switching loop. However, I ultimately decided to step away from it as the primary solution after hitting the CPU ceiling (around GPT-3.5 level).
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Building a 2D Office AI Company Where AI Works Inside Pixel Offices — The Riel 2D Office Project
From a YouTube Shorts video by JoCoding, 'AI Agents Made Like Pixel Games,' this is the story of building `/office`, where AI workers operate within a pixelated office environment, and the trial-and-error encountered along the way — including floating employees, screensaver traps, the overhead of live public releases, and the corruption of visualizations.
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How Riel Chatbot Grew — Accessibility Born from a User's Request
Riel grew not from a roadmap, but from actual user requests — the story of how a senior user's minor inconvenience turned into features like adjustable font sizes for the visually impaired, text-to-speech, YouTube integration, conversation search, and multiple file attachments (anonymized, broad strokes).