Local LLM Agents - Do they work?

A few month&rsquo;s back I really enjoyed reading Thorsten Ball&rsquo;s How to Build an Agent . At the time I came across it, I had been trying to understand how tool calling works in Ollama . His wink if you want me to use this tool explanation clicked. But I&rsquo;m not interested in depending on a private model hosted by someone else. So, I set out to follow along with Thorsten&rsquo;s…