[Solved] : Beginner looking for advice : should I keep digging open-LLM's or get the credit card to upgrade to a paying one?

Hey everyone,

It's been a while since I was dreaming about a personal assistant (with very basic coding knowledge). and I discovered what truly was an AI agent and understood that it's something I can use to fulfil my wish. Though I have no budget.

So I started to dig Youtube:

Self-host n8n: check
Using Ollama : check
Using Ngrok to go on the internet : check
fought with google Oauth 2 : I won

And now my machine : an old macbook pro Intel.

Ollama works and I find it already cool for conversation testing the different LLM's (Deepseek is giving me creepy vibe though with how it shows it's thought process).

I'm using Nate's template for prompts foundation and I'm now reaching some limits:

I'm managing to create events in my calendar and sometimes it's wrong in timing and duration.

Though it can't delete or update my events and it just hallucinate the answer.

My questions:

Is it a power problem because my computer is old?
Should I keep improving the prompt till It work or is there some trick by creating an agent for each calendar tool instead of giving all the tools to one agent?
Should I spend the money to get OpenAI or Anthropic solution to at least get some result and keep the motivation up and not give up on AI agent
Or buy a new computer adapted for my need?

Does anyone have experience with getting a personal assistant working an intel processor i7 2,5GHz and AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2 Go?

My thought is just get claude or chatGPT and then get yourself a VPS to get your first success with AI agent in general and go back to Open LLM's a bite later when you have power to run them

Thank you very much for your advices,

Byron

PS: I placed it in general discussion because of how broad the topic seems. Let me know if I should place it in another category!

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