Local LLMs have a problem that no amount of free software can fix
www.makeuseof.com/local-llms-problem-no-free-software-fix/
- Local models are useful. That doesn’t make them a Claude replacement.
A benchmark win on your desk is still a long way from «good enough» - Memory is the paywall nobody mentions in the tutorial
A 43GB model, a 32GB GPU, and a context window that eats the rest - Quantization is clever, not magic
Compression, Flash Attention, and the slow lane of CPU offload - The GPU is just the down payment
Power supply, cooling, and DDR5 prices that sound like a typo - The software is free. Your shopping cart is not.
Smaller models still win when they fit the job