[chipsrafferty]

This is mostly for one of 4 reasons:

1. Sovereignty over data, your outputs can't be stolen or trained on

2. Just for fun / learning / experiment on

3. Avoid detection that you're using AI

4. No Internet connection, in the woods at your cabin or something

[biker142541]

Agreed. It’s definitely been fun playing locally, learning, fine tuning, etc, but these models just don’t quite cut it for serious development tasks (yet, and assuming none of the above considerations apply). I haven’t found better than Gemini 2.5 for my work so far.

[marcalc]

This is my key points too. I love the power of having search engine on my laptop.