“docker run open-webui:ollama” is a simple way to start.

Don’t expect much for coding. But it’s great for general knowledge, rubber ducking, image classification…

I figure it might be quite a competent general coding teacher for more, er, consumer programming languages, for want of a better word — python, PHP, JS. Seems to be pretty solid on WP knowledge too.

And I find it curiously interesting when talking about photography. I've been finding it intriguing to ask it about my own photos and make suggestions about other images to research. I just showed it three of my own photos, and asked it to analyse them and recommend photographers I should research. It recommended someone amazing I have never heard of before. But it also recommended a 19th century British photographer who happens to be my lifelong photographic hero — someone whose broad characteristics inform what I do without me slavishly copying them. Bit of a jaw-dropping moment for it to have picked up their influence in subject matter that they would never have approached.

I'm still suggesting it more to people for them to see what the small-model future might look like, because it's so much more capable than one might expect.