In the first part of this series, I described the most important lesson I learned while building a local AI storyteller:

That sounds reassuringly architectural.

It also leaves one small question:

What exactly are we building around?

I wanted to understand what happens when you stop treating an LLM as a chatbot and start treating it as a component in a software system.

So I built a local AI storyteller using a local LLM through an OpenAI-compatible API.