I’m an idiot who is unable to project itself in situations I’ve never experienced before.

So, I always thought local LLMs were toys not worth pursuing.

Only once have I tried something decent like Gemma 4 31B and Qwen 3.6 27B did I realize how incredibly useful they are.

You stop fearing you are sharing sensitive information.

You stop fearing you will run out of tokens.

You stop fearing about the availability of the remote AI.

Local LLMs are extremely valuable.

*for many tasks