# cloud vm (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover cloud vm. Page: Feed: --- ## [Stop paying for every LLM: My $0 AI toolkit](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/claude-code-ran-out-mid-refactor) _2026-07-30 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ From local LM Studio to cloud-based Hermes: How I keep building when Claude Code credits run out. ## [Get Hermes + Telegram on Your $0 Cloud VM (Part 2)](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/set-up-hermes-telegram-on-your-0) _2026-07-23 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ Step-by-step guide on setting up Hermes + Telegram on your cloud VM from part 1. ## [Set Up a $0 Cloud VM to Run Your Hermes Agent (Part 1)](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/set-up-a-0-cloud-vm-to-run-your-hermes) _2026-07-16 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ How to get a free-tier cloud VM you can SSH into and leave running 24/7. ## [I Built a $0 Hermes Agent I Text From Telegram](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/i-built-a-0-hermes-agent-i-text-from) _2026-07-09 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ Honest look at my always-on Hermes on a $0 cloud virtual machine + NVIDIA API free tier ## [My $0 Hermes Agent Setup](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/my-0-hermes-agent-setup) _2026-07-02 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ I wanted to try Hermes without paying for Portal, so I pointed the agent at NVIDIA's free API tier instead. ## [Prompt vs RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Which Fix Do You Need?](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/prompt-vs-rag-vs-fine-tuning-which) _2026-06-25 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ Diagnose knowledge vs behavior failures, then choose prompting, retrieval, or training ## [How I Fine-tuned Qwen3-4B on a Single GPU in 5 Steps](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/how-i-fine-tuned-qwen3-4b-on-a-single) _2026-06-18 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ 0% → 83% correctly classified banking support messages: fine-tune a small LLM to classify customer intent. ## [Glossary of Fine-Tuning Methods Explained](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/glossary-of-fine-tuning-methods-explained) _2026-06-11 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO, RLHF & GRPO: what each acronym means and how to pick the right fine-tuning method from the labels you already have. ## [Fine-Tuning LLMs: When to Do It and When Not To](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/fine-tuning-llms-when-to-do-it-and) _2026-06-04 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ When LLM fine-tuning beats prompting and RAG and when to skip it ## [When Your Coding Agent Says Done (And Isn’t)](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/when-your-coding-agent-says-done) _2026-05-28 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ Session fixes for false progress, doom loops, and instruction drift in Claude Code and Cursor (after re-prompting made my stuck sessions worse). ## [AI News Summaries & Audio (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Rw5fEmQKLDvm) _2026-05-28 · **Sponsored**_ Tap an article for an AI summary and an audio briefing. ## [How Coding Agents Actually Work Under the Hood (and Why They Go Wrong)](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/how-coding-agents-actually-work-and) _2026-05-21 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ When the agent says it made a fix but your app still breaks: a clear read on Cursor, Claude Code, and what the session is really doing. ## [6 LLM Prompting Techniques for Data Scientists and Engineers in 2026](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/6-llm-prompting-techniques-for-data) _2026-05-14 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ Six techniques matched to six failure modes, including inconsistent output formats, shallow reasoning, instruction drift, and more. ## [Should You Run an LLM on Your Phone?](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/should-you-run-an-llm-on-your-phone) _2026-05-07 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ What works today with Google AI Edge Gallery, what breaks first on real devices, and how to pick a model your phone can actually handle ## [Before You Upgrade Embeddings, Check Your Query Logs](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/before-you-upgrade-embeddings-check) _2026-04-30 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ What I learned at PyCon and from my own RAG failures ## [How to Learn AI by Building Real Projects (Not Tutorials)](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/how-to-ship-ai-projects-in-48-hours) _2026-04-16 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ A practical system: ship a live MVP, iterate from user feedback, and learn only what blocks you ## [From Indexing to Answering: A RAG Pipeline You Can Click Through](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/from-indexing-to-answering-a-rag) _2026-04-09 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ Interactive explainer on the query loop, ingestion vs retrieval, configs, deploy for my AI assistant I'm presenting at PyCon Austria. ## [Claude Code Keeps Forgetting Your Stack. These 5 Files Fix That.](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/claude-code-keeps-forgetting-your) _2026-04-02 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ Paste-ready CLAUDE.md template, settings.json deny list with reasoning, path-scoped UI rules, two custom /project: commands ## [8 Ways Vibe-Coded Apps Leak Data](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/3-security-failure-modes-in-vibe) _2026-03-30 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ Common AI-generated code failure modes (authorization, CSRF, prompt injection) and the paste-ready agent rules to guard against all of them. ## [16 Claude Code Commands That Actually Changed My Workflow](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/16-claude-code-commands-that-actually) _2026-03-26 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ Sixteen Claude Code slash commands for the model context window, planning, diffs, and spend ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/q18zZLt6s8wd) _2026-03-26 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [How to Pick Your Next AI Project (Before You Waste a Weekend)](https://aiweekender.substack.com/p/how-to-pick-your-next-ai-project) _2026-03-19 · Claudia Ng · AI Weekender_ I've built 10+ AI projects. Only 2 are still running. Here's what I'd do differently.