Why I Run AI Locally (and You Might Want to)
As I admitted before in posts 1 and 2 I vibe-coded and lived to tell. This post answers the question I kept avoiding. Why run any of this locally when cloud models are flatly better at the task? The answer isn’t that cloud AI is bad. It is more complicated than that. It turns out that it is the wrong question, and there is a place for both tools. Frontier cloud models are impressive Cloud models are better than anything I can run locally for complex reasoning. They handle more context, have larger parameter counts, and represent the current state of the art. For plenty of tasks, they are a frankly amazing tool. ...