How I went Local
As of today, I moved some of my AI usage to my machine, yes that's locally. This wasn't an attempt at being on the bleeding edge of technology, I actually am notoriously a late adopter. But I hit an extreme pain point as of last week. While at work, in my usual workflow, I looked at a feature, identified what it needed. Put it on Claude Code (Plan Mode) it did that, then I refined and told it to implement. Then I repeated that once more for another task. and I was at 80% usage, 2 prompts. Now, I won't start complaining about how my $20 should get me more, but fast forward this week Claude gave $20 in credit to me and other pro users, and also started allowing the use of their API's to 3rd-party uses. A great apology for the terrible week, but I was well underway. I had heard in passing about Gemma 4, and after my frustration. I actually thought. Let's see how feasible it is. I have a RTX 4050, so I should be able to handle it, not comfortably, but handle it. The...
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