I am right there with you. Mind-boggling. It's a indistinguishable from magic technology!! I tried running some basic tasks through Qwen with Opencode on a 10 year old dual Xeon server for shits and giggles. I gave it a simple task like "use ffprobe first but convert this webm to mp4" and it was able to complete the task with zero network calls outside my network. On 10 year old hardware. It took about 3 minutes to complete the task. Now you may be saying 3 minutes? pfft. But I dare you to do it yourself. You're gonna be googling the CLI switches for at least 10 minutes and setting up your command. I had it actually optimize all the switches on the fly for me based on an initial ffprobe to see what is optimal.

> 10 year old dual Xeon server...On 10 year old hardware.

Hold on, what are the specs of your rig? How much RAM?

I'm been considering getting an old refurbished 2018 Mac Mini with 64Gb of DDR4 RAM but everything I've read suggests this will be way slower than my 16Gb M1 Pro Macbook.