Ollama vs RisingWave Agent Skills

“The Docker of LLMs. Pull a model, run it, use the API. Privacy, no cloud costs, works offline. Essential tool for any developer experimenting with local AI.”

“AI coding assistants hallucinate streaming SQL constantly — CDC ingestion patterns, windowed aggregations, and materialized view semantics are all places where generic training data fails hard. An installable skill package that auto-detects your agents and patches in correct context is exactly the right fix. Worth adding if you're building on RisingWave.”

“Local models still lag behind cloud models in quality. But for development, testing, and privacy-sensitive use cases, Ollama is the obvious choice. Free is hard to beat.”

“This only matters if you're already using RisingWave, which is a niche streaming SQL database with a much smaller user base than Postgres or Kafka. Four stars on GitHub suggests the audience is narrow. The agentskills.io spec is interesting as a standard but it's vapor if no one else adopts it.”

“Local AI is the future for privacy and cost. As models get smaller and hardware gets better, Ollama becomes the default way to run AI. They are building the runtime layer.”

“Every database, framework, and specialized API is going to need its own skill package for AI coding agents. RisingWave is just the first mover on an inevitable pattern. The open spec is the actually important thing here — it could become how the entire ecosystem teaches agents about domain-specific tools.”

“Not really in my wheelhouse — streaming SQL and data pipelines are developer infrastructure. But the 'teach your AI assistant the local dialect' concept is one I'd love to see applied to design systems, component libraries, and brand guidelines. Someone should build this for Figma.”