I finally stopped forcing local LLMs and switched back to cloud AI
…Plus, with local LLMs, you also lose the entire ecosystem you get with cloud-based AI providers. Related My local LLM can call Claude when it's stuck, and it changed everything…
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I replaced Google Home with Home Assistant and a local LLM, and I'm not looking back
4d agoI ran local LLMs on Intel's cheapest iGPU, and the results were surprisingly decent
1w agoI replaced cloud LLMs with local models running off a Proxmox LXC, and the performance trade-off was worth it
1w agoI replaced NotebookLM with this free tool that uses my local LLMs
1w agoMy local LLM rewrote my resume better than ChatGPT, and it's not even close
…Related 5 self-hosted LLMs I use for specific tasks My customized, self-hosted AI workflow The same resume, with the same prompt A single local LLM going up against OpenAI's…
After a year of self-hosting LLMs, I realized the real bottleneck isn’t the GPU
…Sign in to your XDA account For the past year, I’ve been running my own local LLM setup, hoping it would make my work faster and more efficient. And in many…
I ran a full LLM on my phone with no internet, and it's more useful than I expected
…Sign in to your XDA account We, at XDA, absolutely love local LLMs . That "we" didn't really include me for the longest time because I was perfectly happy letting cloud-based…
Home Assistant finally replaced Google Home when I stopped trusting the cloud with my smart home
…Replacing Google Assistant with a local LLM A private voice assistant that works locally With the help of a local LLM and Home Assistant’s voice pipeline, I built a private voice…
I thought I needed a GPU for local LLMs until I tried this lean model
…Sign in to your XDA account When it comes to local LLMs, we have been told that if you aren’t packing a high-end GPU with a massive pool of VRAM…
Local LLMs are actually good now, and I wasted months not realizing it
…Related 7 things I wish I knew when I started self-hosting LLMs I've been self-hosting LLMs for quite a while now, and these are all of the things I…
I replaced my entire workflow with Claude Code, and I'm not even a developer
…Code, but that's mostly because I'm no developer. Yes, I took some computer science modules at university (in pre-LLM AI, no less!), but those were focused on C+, and…
I asked Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to build a packing app, and saw who actually understood me
…Here's the full prompt I gave to each LLM without changing. I approached Claude the same way I'd brief an actual developer. I started by defining what I wanted, my…
My local LLM is the best productivity tool I've installed in years, and it costs nothing to run
…Sign in to your XDA account I primarily set up my local LLM just to see what the hype was about. I’d been reading a lot about it, and since I…