[HDBaseT]

At least in my experience, local models are very far away from models like Opus 4.7 or ChatGPT 5.5 in coding and problem solving areas.

I find them useful in basic research and learning and question asking tasks. Although at the same time, a Wikipedia page read or a few Google searches likely could accomplish the same and has been able to for decades.

[darkstar_16]

I think you're doing it wrong. Use the frontier moddels for the research, planning etc and once you have a plan give it to a local model for implementation.