[kingstnap]

I can and have when I was required to. It was slow and had worse results than I had hoped. Probably because I dont have enough VRAM for the big open source models so I was using 8b ones.

I left this bit out because my original comment was getting long but I think it's important to be respectful over others' privacy wishes. So I didn't use an API when it concerns other people.

[tygra]

Nice.

Of course, you need decent hardware to run LLMs locally, but you don’t need a super high-end computer to host qwen3:30b or gpt-oss:20b. You don’t even need a GPU for those models, as long as you’ve got a modern CPU. And they’re already pretty solid for writing and coding.