Claude Code hit a softlock against my self-hosted LLM: it needed to compact to keep going, but the context had grown too big to compact. Here’s how I got out of it, and what I did to prevent it from happening in the future.
I unrack and all the computers in the rack to swap sticks of memory around, upgrade my old Intel 4790K rig to an AMD 3200G, and keep you posted on whatever hockey game I happen to be watching in the moment.
Part 2 of 3 (intermediate): Just relaxing and having fun where we update the implementation of Conway’s Game of Life from part 1 to an intermediate level.
I quickly walk through the gear in my server rack, some of the technical debt I’m currently facing in my homelab, and how I plan on begin addressing my issues by pulling a broken computer out of the rack and adding an AMD Ryzen rig to run Proxmox.