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How I passed the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAR-F) exam

August 13, 2026 | Tags: GenAI , Anthropic , Claude , Agentic , Certification | 8 min read

View the Credly badge The CCAR-F (Claude Certified Architect – Foundations) exam is a practical, scenario-driven test of your ability to design, build, and operate agentic systems on top of Claude. It rewards the engineering judgment you only really develop by building agents and watching them fail in the ways agents fail. As with anything I want to learn properly, I set the exam as the goal — it’s a fixed target that forces depth over breadth.

Using Claude Code with Ollama

March 26, 2026 | Tags: GenAI , Ollama , Anthropic , Claude Code , Local LLM | 3 min read

Running Large Language Models (LLMs) locally has become increasingly accessible, and combining this with Claude Code opens up powerful possibilities for AI-assisted development without relying on cloud services. In this post, I’ll walk through setting up Ollama to run LLMs locally and how to integrate it with Claude Code. Installing Ollama Ollama is a lightweight tool for running LLMs locally. Installation is straightforward on macOS: brew install ollama For other operating systems, refer to the official Ollama installation guide.