[claysmithr]

This is very good, local models run well on my M3 Air 24GB, to the point where I may prefer it even if it takes longer. The benefits are

  - private

  - local

  - no internet required

  - works well enough for most tasks

  - "free"

  - will pop this "AI" bubble as word spreads

I got pretty good results with the model in the article on my machine. Sure, it took forever, but that doesn't matter to me as much, and it's kind of cool just watching it do its thing through LM studio. The result was also impressive enough for me that I would actually use it.

Why pay $20/mo when local is good enough?