I gave my local LLM access to my files, and it quietly exposed a bigger truth about modern software: a surprising amount of paid productivity software is really just a polished interface on top of file ingestion, retrieval, and summarization. Once the indexing and embedding work move onto your...
I switched to a local LLM for these 5 tasks and the cloud version hasn’t been worth it since.
When you pay for an AI subscription every month, you expect reliability, speed, and enough value to justify the bill. But for a growing number of everyday workflows, a local large language model can...
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