Failing at Using a Local LLM for Vinyl Record Color Extraction

As the title suggests, I tried to switch a project from the OpenAI API to a local LLM running in Ollama, but wasn’t able to make it work due to slowness. It was a fun exercise though. This is what I tried and what I learned. Discogs is where I track my record collection. Wax is a nice UI for it that I’ve been noodling on for years. I built a small ETL for it. It uses the OpenAI API to extract…