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Open source, local LLMs, and what it takes to ship AI inside regulated fintech.

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I put the UAE Dirham symbol on the web before the browsers caught up
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.
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When to run a local LLM instead of calling an API
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.
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Spec-driven development keeps AI agents from shipping the wrong thing
Why I gate every phase of agentic development behind a human approval, and how SpecForge runs that loop for Claude Code.
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