[mingus88]

I’m sorry but that’s just dumb. An LLM is a tool. Your brain is not a substitute for an LLM in the same way your fingers are not a substitute for a wrench.

The year is 2026 and if you are using your brain on chore work like one-off scripts, refactoring, boilerplate test code, then you are wasting time and money and I don’t want to work with you.

Local models are fine for this and can do it in a fraction of the time your brain will take to even get bootstrapped

[adithyassekhar]

The year is 2026 the average RAM for the most common type of developer’s (web) machine is 16GB. 8 will be the lower end. Tell me which model can one run on this machine locally?

[porridgeraisin]

You can use free models on opencode. Minimax whatever is just free. It's more than enough for these tasks.