
I Vibe Coded a Local AI-Powered Promo Generator
Every Monday, I publish a blog post. Then I write five slightly different versions of “hey, I wrote a thing” for LinkedIn, Twitter, Bluesky, and Mastodon. Each platform has different character limits, different audiences, and different best practices. It’s tedious. I wanted to automate it. Not with a frontier model, but with a small local one running on my laptop. Something like phi or llama, through Ollama. I didn’t need a polished production app. I needed a quick prototype to test my theory. My theory was that a small local model can handle a real, recurring task. …and it can do it well enough to be useful. ...