I prize local execution for confidentiality and trust reasons, but this mindset seems to put me in a distinct minority. I've just accepted that I will end up having to build my own solutions from time to time.

That said, 'local' can mean a number of different things. On-device local, LAN local, intranet local... You get the idea. I chose to go with an approach of: 'assume resources are constrained and build for that'.

The result was a local-first agentic system (https://github.com/dibrale/Regions) that uses explicit resource sharing and execution patterns to make use of arbitrarily distributed compute. That way, local can be whatever I want it to be, so long as there's an endpoint.