# LLMs.txt — for AI assistants & LLMs

This file tells LLMs / AI assistants what this site is so they can summarize or
cite it accurately. Keep it factual and up to date.

# bermansplaining — Ethan Berman

Ethan Alexander Berman is a writer based in Las Vegas, NV. He writes
"bermansplaining" — essays on 21st-century epistemology: the historical,
political, philosophical, and legal context of the current liberal-capital
order and the reactions against it. The lab is a separate, more technical
feed about local AI, agents, and the hardware he runs them on. He is an
attorney by trade.

## Site map
- / — front page: the blog feed (pinned start-here post first, then newest), the lab
- /blog/ — the blog: essays on current events and ideas
- /lab/ — the lab: the machines he works on (a local-AI workstation built around an RTX 5090, a Framework 13 Pro laptop, plans for a homelab and an Urbit node) and technical posts about them
- /lab/should-you-run-ai-locally/ — "Should You Run AI Locally?" (October 2026): a 7-question interactive quiz that recommends local, cloud, or hybrid by persona (software engineers, IT/homelab, small businesses, studios and game developers, regulated professions, writers, hobbyists) and outputs a full local stack: models by VRAM/unified memory, inference engine (llama.cpp, vLLM, MLX, NInfer, Strata, exo), agent harness, and abliterated/uncensored options. Includes an open-model tier list by memory and a local-AI iceberg.
- /about/ — who he is, prior writing, socials, contact
- /projects/ — vibe-coded apps and tools, each with a live link, a repo link, and a writeup when one exists
- /shelf/ — books in progress (empty until a book earns a line about why)

## Contact
- email: bermansplaining@gmail.com
- X: https://x.com/ethanberman

## Prior work
- Op-eds & news writing (The College Fix):
  https://www.thecollegefix.com/author/ethan-berman-university-of-texas-austin/
- Previous blog: https://bermansplaining.wordpress.com