[1dom]

I agree accuracy isn't maybe the best word here, I used it as it was used in the original post, mainly a as a catchall for "everything but speed", so fidelity, perplexity, etc.

I also agree that if I spent more time using cloud based LLMs, I would very much find local LLMs less capable and useful. Comparison is the thief of joy though, and I'd rather feel blissfully ignorance towards SOTA LLMs rather than a dependence on them.

Before taking a local focus approach, LLMs increasingly left me feeling a mixture of FOMO, sadness and futility towards the future of software and tech. I assume it's 100% a me problem, but it has it's benefits:)

[JKCalhoun]

No, I'm a fan of local as well. For me though, there is just such a fascination that I can have something like this sitting on my own hard drive. It's okay that it's not a "frontier model".