Writing by Pooya Golchian https://pooya.blog/writing/ Field notes on open source, local LLMs, and shipping AI inside regulated fintech. en Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:20:08 GMT I put the UAE Dirham symbol on the web before the browsers caught up https://pooya.blog/writing/gulf-currency-symbols/ https://pooya.blog/writing/gulf-currency-symbols/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT How and why I shipped the dirham and riyal npm packages, and what a currency symbol has to do with shipping AI inside regulated fintech. open-sourcefintechunicodedirhamriyal When to run a local LLM instead of calling an API https://pooya.blog/writing/local-llm-vs-hosted-api/ https://pooya.blog/writing/local-llm-vs-hosted-api/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A decision guide for engineers in regulated fintech. When a private LLM on your own infrastructure beats a hosted API, and the React hooks I built to make it simple. local-llmprivate-aifintechreactrag Spec-driven development keeps AI agents from shipping the wrong thing https://pooya.blog/writing/spec-driven-development/ https://pooya.blog/writing/spec-driven-development/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why I gate every phase of agentic development behind a human approval, and how SpecForge runs that loop for Claude Code. ai-agentsclaude-codespec-drivenspecforge