+1 to LM Studio. Helped build a lot of intuition.

Seeing and navigating all the configs helped me build intuition around what my macbook can or cannot do, how things are configured, how they work, etc...

Great way to spend an hour or two.

I also like that it ships with some cli tools, including an openai compatible server. It’s great to be able to take a model that’s loaded and open up an endpoint to it for running local scripts.

You can get a quick feel for how it works via the chat interface and then extend it programmatically.