I tested 3 local LLMs on my actual work — and each model won at something different
… The long context Q&A is where things fell apart a bit though, and honestly that's less the model's fault and more my hardware’s. …
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I finally found a local LLM I want to use every day (and it's not for coding)
… The responses were more structured, more detailed, and I wasn't re-prompting nearly as much, which honestly matters more than anything when you're going back and forth for longer sessions. …
I went back to IPS after years on OLED, and it exposed OLED's biggest flaws
… For regular desktop use, full-screen brightness matters more, and honestly, I could immediately tell the difference the moment I opened the web browser on my LG 27GN950. …
Claude Code with a local LLM running offline is the hybrid setup I didn't know I needed
… Anthropic developed Constitutional AI CAI , a technique that trains Claude using a set of principles — a 'constitution' — to guide its responses toward being helpful, harmless, and honest. …
My local LLM rewrote my resume better than ChatGPT, and it's not even close
… ChatGPT may have given me its response in under a minute, while Gemma 4 took its sweet time and crossed the five-minute mark, but for something as career-critical as a resume, waiting an extra few minutes for deeper, more tailored, and more introspective feedback honestly feels like an incredibly f… …
I stopped chasing GPU upgrades once I realized DLSS was doing more for my framerate than the silicon
… For now, I'm honestly more excited about DLSS 5 than the idea of replacing my GPU altogether, which is something I probably wouldn't have said two years ago. Related Nvidia's DLSS 5 uses AI to "enhance" games with photorealistic lighting and more character detail AI-enhanced visuals are here.
I replaced the expensive Claude Pro subscription with these local models, and my productivity didn’t drop a bit
… Anthropic developed Constitutional AI CAI , a technique that trains Claude using a set of principles — a 'constitution' — to guide its responses toward being helpful, harmless, and honest. …
I made Claude slower and it completely changed how I use it
… I started questioning the process more. In one test, the response was around 300 words, and it took more than 2 minutes. Normally, I’d read it in 80–90 seconds, so this was noticeably slower than my natural reading pace. Yet I engaged more. I wasn’t skimming anymore; I was following. …
I ditched Claude Pro for free tools for a week — and one of them had no right being this good
… Anthropic developed Constitutional AI CAI , a technique that trains Claude using a set of principles — a 'constitution' — to guide its responses toward being helpful, harmless, and honest. …
Claude Code finally remembers why I made those choices, and my workflow is faster because of it
… A tool that remembers more also creates more responsibility. The privacy concern isn’t theoretical. Development sessions can include tokens, local paths, API responses, private project names, and other details that were never meant to become durable notes. …