How I Built a Completely Free Local AI Stack — Inspired by a 60-Second YouTube Short (opens in new tab)

How I Built a Completely Free Local AI Stack — Inspired by a 60-Second YouTube Short By Pranaychandra Ravi It started with a YouTube Short. Someone on my feed casually demonstrated connecting a local AI model to Claude Code and I stopped mid-scroll. No API key. No subscription. No code leaving their machine. I had to know how it worked. What followed was a deep dive into local AI — Ollama, Gemma4, Docker, Open WebUI, vector databases, context windows, and a Python script that made my local mo...