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suheilaaita

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About suheilaaita

Finance professional (CPA, Big Four, capital markets) who started building with AI. Creator of NumbyAI — local AI for personal finance. https://numbyai.com | https://github.com/RoXsaita

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    Show HN: NumbyAI – Self-hosted personal finance app powered by a local LLM

    Hey HN, I built NumbyAI because I wanted an easy way to track my finances and spending without handing my financial data to a cloud service. It's a self-hosted personal finance too…

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    Comment #47376379

    I Agree on the customer empowerment point. I'd push back slightly on the production grade point. The models aren't the ceiling, the user's mental model of software is, depending on…

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    Comment #47376198

    It's true. We're also at the point where the models and the orchestration around them are so good that any beginner to those tools who knows how to use a computer can build working…

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    Comment #47375580

    They all do, true. But some are better than the others in how they retrieve, digest and present you with the information. Boils down to personal preferences and experimenting.

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    Comment #47375383

    I think it will give you a good "starter model". But then, it ultimately depends on what you want to do with the model exactly and your computer's specs. For example, I needed a lo…

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    Comment #47375337

    I'm from an accounting/finance background and spent about 10 years in Big4. I was always into tech, but never software development because writing code (as I thought) takes years t…

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    Comment #47374851

    The simplest way to really start, use anything like claude code, vs code, cursor, antigratvity, (or any other IDE) ask them to install ollama and pull the latest solid local model …

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    Comment #47374831

    This blew my mind the first i saw this. Another leap in AI that just swooshes by. In a couple of months, every model will be the same. Can't wait for IDEs like cursor and vs code t…