[scuderiaseb]

Would be cheaper in the long run maybe but heat, noise, electricity cost and the fact that the models are not as good as sonnet 4 and opus 4 are some things to consider.

[justlikereddit]

For testing always-on concepts and long-running agent experiments a local model will be superior.

For investigating concepts, can AI for this at all? Subscriptions will be a better approach.

Local models are underutilized in comparison to the promise they have. Imagine browser-agnostic universal AdBlock and that's just the surface.